Scott is apparently alive and bumming around the west coast of Mexico to see if having a degree in electrical engineering really improves your surfing skills.
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Category: Life of a Starving Genius
La Fête de la Musique
Yesterday was a special holyday in France… Actually more a kind of make-believe holiday like “grandmother day”, “secretary day”, “sauerkraut day” etc.
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Dining Outdoors in Paris
Harold and Sarah live in le Marais, a district of Paris packed with all kind of cafes and eateries, catering to the diverse crowds traditionally inhabiting this neighbourhood: gay and lesbians on one side, orthodox jews on the other…
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Another David’s Blog
Since I now host an install of MT on my own servers, I offered my friend David R., a Frenchman who lives in SF, to set him up with his own blog (link removed: blog taken offline), knowing he would certainly have interesting things to say.
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Tokyo Terrorist Cells
Met up with a few fellow frenchmen yesterday… went to a small bar in shibuya for a few beers.
Nordine’s new shaved head look was quite reminiscent of a Palestinian militant on the run. Of course, the pose he took for the pictures did not help either…
Anyway, here are the pics (touched up a bit in Photoshop) and I’ve got his address in tokyo, just in case the Mossad is interested.
Met Mie @ Sputnik
Eventually managed to hook up with Cheu’s friend, Mie, who lives in Tokyo but has also been living in SF for a while…
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A few pix
taken with my lovely little digital camera (impossible to whip it out without prompting a strident kawaiiiiii-ne! from every single female in a 10 feet radius)…
Anyway, these are from some small dinner parties at the house last week and a recent outing to some izakaya in Kamata. Elena going back to Brazil, the discovery of a pretty damn good bottle of California red, and the fact we just felt like it, were respectively deemed sufficient reasons for these bouts of partying.
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Burning Man Inc.
Looking for an old friend’s address, I stumbled upon BM’s website… been a long time.
Trying to stay clear of I-told-you-so‘s and it-s-not-what-it-used-to-be‘s, it is still hard to ignore how crassly commercial Burning Man has become…
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Dazed and Confused
because every once in a while, I dip in my rather, ahem, eclectic collection of music and put whatever I get my hands on first (sometimes it can be atmospheric d’n’b, other times chopin), I was listening to some old Led Zeppelin stuff and through a brief association of thoughts, ended up reminiscing about a rather random party snapshot from a few years back…
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been cooking…
Ok, thanks to a conjunction of events, such as: no special plans to go out, no work tomorrow morning, some leftover brown substance donated by a friend and a mood for cooking…
I decided to make magic brownies…
Yes, I sound like I have a bit too much time on my hands…
But of course, I also cooked a large batch of regular brownies, to share with a few people. They both had a lot of success.
Quite baked right now…
Well anyway, the combination of brownies and Apocalypse Now redux was quite a success…
right now, I’m the litterary equivalent of the drunk frat-boy sticking his head out of the prom limo to yell at the passerbys. So I’ll stop here…