Sarkozy unwraps his present in Egypt
4 Comments Published by Cedric on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 12/27/2007 05:38:00 PM.
Sarkozy (52) and his bitchy model-turned-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni (39), arrived holding hands in Luxor Tuesday.Just two months after the French president's divorce from his wife of 11 years, Cecilia, our new bling-bling Sarkozy is showing off his new flame to the press.
He already appeared with her in the public a few days ago while they were having fun in Euro Disneyland. Apparently it was a secret event (why then did a pool of 12 press photographers who were there 'by chance' follow them around snapping flash pictures of them?)
Sarkozy in Disneyland? What*s next? Ahmadinedjad in a synagogue?
Isn*t Sarkozy supposed to work?
I don*t even know where to start my rant on this spot!
Bruni has dated a range of famous men, including Mick Jagger and Donald Trump, and has also reportedly been linked to singer Eric Clapton. So why does she have to date this ridiculously dwarfed little emperor of France now? According to unnamed sources Sarkozy may already have asked for her hand.
Is this the new image of a country?
Has France become the new Italy ?
Sarko the new Berlusconi?
Labels: Nonsensical rambling, Politics, Sarkozyland
For that very extra soft Christmas feeling
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 12/26/2007 09:37:00 PM.
You can*t beat the feeling!Labels: celebrations, Nonsensical rambling
It*s a Luxembourg Winter!
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Monday, December 24, 2007 at 12/24/2007 04:33:00 PM.
Today we made dog cookies for Christmas... cookies for the dog! It*s obvious he wont eat them, because they are not at all as tasteful as the Austrian vanillekipferl or a good yummy stollen, but at least we will have something to eat at breakfast for the next 2 weeks.
And now for some more preparations. Dad was wondering in which tradition the turkey should be done in. After considering German, French, American or English ways of preparation, we opt for the Luxembourgish way. Don*t ask me what that one is, because I don*t have a clue...
At least the champagne is ready
And I got new reading glasses, finally. My last pair dated back to the mid nineties and is falling apart, so now I look sharp and snazzy once again.
Shopping for that last minute ingredient with my mom. This tradition is always fun, since she herself wonders what the hell she is actually looking for.
Christmas decorations for the house is taken painstakingly serious in Luxembourg. Just look at this marvel! A cacophony in lights...
Labels: celebrations, Luxembourg
It*s a Paris Winter!
2 Comments Published by Cedric on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 12/20/2007 10:36:00 PM.
A little photo tour of frosty iced Paris
Sauf dimanches et jours fériés
Ingres vs. Haussmann
Sauf dimanches et jours fériés
Ingres vs. Haussmann
Graffiti wall
Soon there will be a new Starbucks next to the Louvre
As soon as they finish their interiors...
The fountains contain ice
Time to wear your best Russian winter coat
And strut your stuff
Or have an ice war
At Palais Royal the Christmas trees are lining up in a big military parade
Didier Ludot put wintery white dresses in his windows
And the scene kids play in the ice
The fountain won*t hold for very long now
Let*s hope the squatting families at rue de la Banque have some heaters
In less than a day my baby will be leaving on his big adventure to Texas!
I can*t wait to see him there for a whole month, after having spent a week together in New York!
It*s all so exciting!!!
Labels: Erik stuff, travel
Hommage to the Elevator
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 12/19/2007 11:35:00 PM.
My "work in progress": documenting my passages in the elevator of my building at various moments. These pics were taken over a period of the last 7 months or so. Got older ones, but hey, I*m a busy man and can*t spend hours looking for pics (this is where you may start laughing).
Labels: Art, photography, things that can happen if you stare directly into the sun
Split-screen talking heads and flying graphics collide in a musical homage to the self-righteous rhetoric of Fox News.
A great work by Aaron Valdez, a film and video artist from Houston, Texas
A great work by Aaron Valdez, a film and video artist from Houston, Texas
Labels: and now for something completely different, Movies and worse, Talking Pictures
Pre-Xmas weirdness partying festivaganza
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 12/18/2007 11:26:00 PM.
It*s almost the time for Xmas celebrations again; and I am freezing my ass off in the streets of Paris, trying to do my shopping for those special days of consumer terror.
The last days were quite eventful (that*s the least one could say) with partying and drinking with good friends, meeting new people and learning something new every day. (Like the fact that the Jewish Pletzl in the Marais is the place to go if you wanna hear some brass band performing Christmas music...)
Model line-up?
New sunglasses dear?
party crew
Not drunk! Not drunk at all! No!
(Don*t worry Dave, a good pic of you should follow up soon)
Also I will be leaving for Luxembourg soon (Saturday) to see the family and the animals. And to hopefully celebrate a white Christmas for once. The last few days were extremely cold here in Paris, and every day I wake up and hope for a whitened street when I step outside. But nothing yet... you rather find other weird stuff in the streets of Paris these days.
Looking for last minute Christmas presents?
Then take a look at what comes for free on the average Paris street corner:
Oh if you want to refurnish your entire apartment, there is a complete interior waiting for you in rue Vieille du Temple! Hurry up!
A door! What a great Xmas Present that would make!
Who has never dreamed of assembling his own kitchen? This 200 piece puzzle comes completely free! DIY!
Otherwise if you really really have to go spend your hard earned money for Xmas gifts, I hardly recommend you to wait till the very last moment, and, for example, go shop this coming saturday afternoon at the Galleries Lafayette! Just to experience the joy of being stuck in people:
In the middle of this
sooo much fun!
The last days were quite eventful (that*s the least one could say) with partying and drinking with good friends, meeting new people and learning something new every day. (Like the fact that the Jewish Pletzl in the Marais is the place to go if you wanna hear some brass band performing Christmas music...)
Looks like natural hair? Dead animal?
Model line-up?
New sunglasses dear?
party crew
Not drunk! Not drunk at all! No!(Don*t worry Dave, a good pic of you should follow up soon)
Also I will be leaving for Luxembourg soon (Saturday) to see the family and the animals. And to hopefully celebrate a white Christmas for once. The last few days were extremely cold here in Paris, and every day I wake up and hope for a whitened street when I step outside. But nothing yet... you rather find other weird stuff in the streets of Paris these days.
Looking for last minute Christmas presents?
Then take a look at what comes for free on the average Paris street corner:
This doll scared me soo much on my way back home! It looked at me in a dark empty corner of rue Quincampoix. I had to take a pic for dearest Elodie!
Oh if you want to refurnish your entire apartment, there is a complete interior waiting for you in rue Vieille du Temple! Hurry up!
A door! What a great Xmas Present that would make!
Who has never dreamed of assembling his own kitchen? This 200 piece puzzle comes completely free! DIY!
Otherwise if you really really have to go spend your hard earned money for Xmas gifts, I hardly recommend you to wait till the very last moment, and, for example, go shop this coming saturday afternoon at the Galleries Lafayette! Just to experience the joy of being stuck in people:
This could be you:
In the middle of this
sooo much fun!
Labels: and now for something completely different, celebrations, Nonsensical rambling, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), party, people, shopping
Kadhafi at the Louvre
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 12/14/2007 02:27:00 PM.
Yesterday Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi visited the Louvre. The director of the museum served as personal tour guide, and the galleries were visited in a very fast pace. The whole visit only lasted 30 minutes...
Kadhafi was surrounded by his female bodyguards, referred to as the "Amazones"
Labels: Louvre, Politics, Sarkozyland
On Luxembourg
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 12/11/2007 08:40:00 PM.
Foreign correspondent Elodie hiding away her face as usualLabels: Luxembourg, travel
On Sunday, I joined Elodie and Delphine for a shopping walk through the Pletzl at the Marais. The smell of yummy food was everywhere and young boys were trying to sell us a "Hanukkah kit". But all we needed was some falafel mixture. So we ventured through the narrow Rue des Rosiers on the hunt for the magic powder mix.
I remember the tensions in this specific street some time a go, when the decision was taken to renovate the street and make it into a pedestrian zone. For many of the area's longtime merchants, it was considered the beginning of a conspiracy to rob the neighborhood of its heritage and its soul, to make it a ''Jewish Disneyland.''
Mmmh pizza
"The light is there"? huh?
"The light is there"? huh?
Oh, this one is a Paris landmark. Or better "was" a Paris Landmark. Sadly, Jo Goldenberg Pletzl is no more. It was the nirvana for food according to some.
I wanted to do a post on this place long time before; so here it goes:
The brothers who kept this restaurant lost both their parents and all their sisters in Auschwitz, but they survived the Nazi occupation of Paris.
The deli was the victim of a murderous terrorist attack on August 9, 1982, shortly after Israel ousted Arafat from Lebanon. Abu Nidal, a terrorist, had struck again against innocent Jews. A grenade tossed on the ground exploded and five men using machine-guns attacked diners and pedestrians at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant leaving six persons dead and 22 wounded. In less than 3 minutes, the restaurant, symbol of the Parisian Jewish Community life, became the symbol of international anti-Semitism
terrorism.After the attack the restaurant became a gathering place for Holocaust survivors and resistance heroes, the bombing regularly commemorated with flowers, music and prayers.
The front windows still bear the bullet holes and articles about the shooting are pasted in the windows. A plaque on the front of the restaurant recalls the victims of August 9, 1982.
BAR- mizvah?
Oh I love this little shop
You can get all you want, from celebrities collector mugs...
..to the "soft shabbat set"...
...to plastic dreidels.
The Florence Finkelsztajn deli store, where I regularly get my beloved bagels...
mmmh beigels!
The nearby synagogue
Elodie doesn*t want me to show this picture, so I censored her face :)
We finally found our food at Benchetrit alimentation casher, a kosher supermarket that unfortunately may also close very soon...
oh they sell Papy Yehouda kosher wine? My favorite!
Labels: celebrations, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), people, shopping
