What is this blog about?
The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Between 2007 and 2009, I lived in Los Angeles after living in Paris for many years. My Paris blog (before and after my Los Angeles sojourn) is Rue Rude.
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Latest celebrity sighting
- David Harbour from "Revolutionary Road" at Jerry's Diner, trying to pay
I've heard of it!
California Life
How they see U.S.
Old letters from rue Rude
- The (lack of) precision of the French language
- Non-native speakers, please stop saying F*ck
- Fear in the night
- That sinister word social
- Please believe, Madame, in the assurance of my distinguished sentiments
- Untranslatable words
- Diary vs Blog
- My favorite European signs
- The Old Concierge
- L'Ambassadrice
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Science can be weird
Fun on the web
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Today's quotation
A tourist can be recognized at first glance. It's someone dressed so that, if he were in his own country, he would turn around in the street to stare if he saw himself walk by.
--Philippe Meyer in Portraits acides et autres pensées édifiantes, quoted in Le Bouquin des citations, ed. Claude Gagnière
Un touriste se reconnaît au premier coup d'œil. C'est un individu habillé d'une manière telle que, s'il se trouvait dans son propre pays, il se retournerait dans la rue en se voyant passer.
Le petit aperçu d'Ailleurs
- In Norway, a right-wing party leader called for "organized groups" of Rom, Bulgarians, and... French to be banned from the country.
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- Charlie Pierce's Politics blog for Esquire magazine
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- We are the 53 percent
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- Rue 89
- Rue89 in English = Street89
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