Today I spent a few hours at the record shop. The place was buzzing with Betty’s records, because Betty had good taste in music. As the day wore on, Betty’s orphaned records found new homes. I bought two or three. I wish Betty hadn’t written her name on the record labels, but whatever, it happened 60 years ago, and Betty was just a silly teenager at the time. Betty, thanks for sharing your records and your undelivered note with me.
Despite its purported gastro-prowess, Paris didn’t exactly wow my junior foodies. Zach and Asia did, however, love eating €1 ears of burnt corn-on-the-cob.
A grocery cart, a metal waste paper basket, some coal and a box of corn are all you need to open up a “restaurant” in Paris. My kids ate more ears of corn than crepes.
Paris had some fab buskers. Check out this ethnic action in the subway. And Mongolian throat singing? Almost worth a trip to Mongolia for more…
Music seemed to be everywhere…from a punk band playing in the local square for a midnight Bastille celebration to a dude playing a grand piano in the middle of a giant park:
Just as I prefer low end music/art to the $$$ stuff, my fashion palate delights in misguided FOBwear. In my lifetime, I don’t think I will see anything that beats this number:
Oh wow. WESTSIDE Gay Johnsons. Simple legendary. Why I didn’t pick up this masterpiece remains a mystery to me. It was only a couple of Euros. For very little effort, Ebay would have rewarded me with many dollars.
Here are my kids jumping on trampolines next to the Seine River. What would stop them from having a misstep and plunging 20 feet below into the river? Nothing. Let it be known that Paris is no place for American helicopter moms and their sheltered children.
One day I witnessed the spectacular, cringe-worthy, sometimes bloody wipe-outs of neighborhood child-gladiators risking their lives on “the ring of death”. The circular apparatus tilts 20 degrees and spins on several hundred ball bearings. Here are my kids enjoying the gizmo:
Ten kids jump on. Zach and Asia jump off. Zach continues to monitor the situation at a safe distance.
And down they go. Meanwhile Zach continues to monitor the situation.
