PARTY LIKE IT’S PARIS 2014!

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Urban State of Mind

As great cities are besieged by great wealth but we can still find other voices have a clearer idea of what it is they want to say and they make themselves “heard” above the din of cashflow.  These zebras didn’t make it into town on their own.  They’ve cavorted on this odd bit of wall in Paris for a few years now.  So far they remain unmolested.  Ask them about “career path” or about getting the “right” degrees at the right Grande Ecole.  Message to world beaters of today who want the kind of success that gets you 100 square metres in this neighborhood, the Fifth:  no need to beat the world.  Just climb on and dance with these striped party animals and then go up those steps to your bike and ride off home.  What’s not to like about that?  

CITY OF LIGHT AND GPS

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The Midnight Effect

Can’t miss it, Paris has a magic night sky that simply illuminates its past.  Stated more precisely and scientifically, Parisian night darkens what’s new and leaves only the historical radiance, the peculiar light emitted by time passed.  This is the City of Light.  If by day you forget what has happened, go to a cafe, order a beer at the bar, wait for dusk, wait for dark, go forth into the city, go back and forth across the city, and all that is past is revealed.  If illumination is insufficient, GPS and a friend who drives will take you back into history.  Happy New Year, today is the day.  In a place like Paris every day is New Year, every day searches out new and re-discovers old, celebrates both.  Happy New Day every day.  Thanks for joining us to give homage to the old and new.  Come again tomorrow, we’re not done with Paris.  How could we be?