Aug. 31 -- Arches and a lightpost

Quote of the day...
"I'd rather say nothing and be thought an idiot than open my mouth and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4JrQpzno5Y

Aug. 30 -- In La Patche

Quote of the day...
"He who has not tasted it has lived in vain." -- A judge in Kentucky talking about Mint Juleps.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSW67ySCio

Aug. 29 -- Rock en Seine (the sequel) and brunch at Le Fumoir

Quote of the day...
"Even if you win the rat race you're still a rat." -- Lily Tomlin

And you're song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZx7RZEoLg&feature=related

Aug. 28 -- Back stage and on stage at Rock en Seine

Quote of the day...
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4

Aug. 27 -- Beer

Quote of the day...
"I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that it is a splendid desert — a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race." -- Mark Twain writing about New York City

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hsC0nRvZM

Aug. 26 -- Up north

Quote of the day...
"The earth, it loves blood." -- A Russian proverb. (This explains quite a bit. -- ed.)

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ7TIa9Y5I&feature=related

Aug. 25 -- A jazz musician, street art and sweets for Ramadan

Quote of the day...
"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have the right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level." -- George Orwell writing in "Down and Out in Paris and London"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMHGyR_i8g

Aug. 24 -- Clock, tower

Quote of the day...
"When nations or individuals get strong they are often truculent and bullying, but when they are weak they become better-mannered. But this is the reverse of what is healthy and wise." -- Winston Churchill

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWruiIjBmo

Aug. 23 -- The Left Bank of Paris

Quote of the day...
"Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear." -- Holden Rinehart

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRNjtFImA4Q&feature=related

Aug. 22 -- The last night of Cinéma de Plein Air à la Villette :-(

Quote of the day...
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one." -- The historian Charles Mackay.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvhtf09V4g&feature=related

Aug. 21 -- The canal and dessert

Quote of the day...
"The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit." -- George Orwell, "Down and Out in Paris and London"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-cBiZbTzc

Aug. 20 -- Finished in 1889

The quote of the day...
“I liked the sensation of immersion in a foreign element, as if floating in a summer sea, only my face out of water, and a pleasant buzzing in my ears. I was often alone, but seldom lonely.” -- A.J. Liebling writing about his time in Paris

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpSsAoH74UE

Aug. 19 -- The lights are going out and Notre Dame

Quote of the day...
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZzH1L6nKU

Aug. 18 -- Blue and Place de la Republique

Quote of the day...
"It's one thing to call the glass half empty, but these days we deny the existence of tableware." -- From an article in the Wall Street Journal about modern negativity

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8HHQIgRi8