Discovered on TV news, today...

... I was very busy this morning - the tube draining was blocked, so I was
going to and fro with a plunger and caustic soda when, passing by the TV
in my way from the kitchen to the bathroom, I suddenly froze in front of it.

I wasn't ready to see this before my morning coffee :


The Berlusco and his fave minister in an Αρκαδία-style landscape !
(by Filippo Panseca, Art & Savonnerie exhibition - Priamar/Savona, Italy).

Be sure a little later the water was running free in the bath tube.
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Radical measures in Egypt against innocent pigs...

(Christian Fraser, BBC/UK)

... Virus' spread by people not pigs' !

The Greater Paris of the Future.

Ten projects to be seen at Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine
- Palais de Chaillot, opening tomorrow April 30th.

Below, Jean Nouvel and Roland Castro proposals...




The idea of a Paris extending beyond the boulevard Périphérique isn't new,
but serious studies about a master plan began when :

"On 17 September 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked
the inauguration of La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine by stating
his wish for an international consultation on a new comprehensive
development project for Greater Paris".

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An ordinary day in my fief...

yep, just an ordinary day in Oberkampf.
(click on post title)

Out for a little shopping, like books at
l'Imagigraphe, where I've been told that
about forty readers came and met Amin
Maalouf, on April 2nd...

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(still waiting Le Mur is cleaned up)...





... had a coffee, leafing through my new book, '100 Expressions à sauver',
(100 expressions to rescue), by Bernard Pivot...




... and, last but not least, I bought a bottle of fresh milk and said hello to Hamid.
Just an ordinary day in my fief.
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European Elections... Faites vos jeux !

Poll :

Do you think using social media
for political campaigns works ?


Challenges ahead 2009-2014.