July 17 -- The track and then the club

Quote of the day...
"They will habitually prefer the useful to beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful should be useful." -- Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville writing about Americans.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubrdIp_3WKQ

July 16 -- St. Paul and then a taxi ride

Quote of the day...
"Just like good times create bad habits, serious crisis leave only battle-hardened survivors." -- "The Emerging Markets Century" by Antoine Van Agtmael

And your song song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8cDaj1BLU

July 15 -- My nephews could do better than this

Quote of the day...
"The wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge (others); he lets them judge themselves and merely reads and records their own verdict." Ralph Waldo Emerson

And your song of the day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptfm9D6owo

July 14 -- Happy France Day

Quote of the day...
"There are two kinds of women in the world. Those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back." -- Rudyard Kipling, writing in "Kim"

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

July 13 -- Casandra talking on the phone and some cool street art

Quote of the day...
"I'm not carefree, no/
I'm free to care, I just never do." -- Conor Oberst

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgLI2OkECmc&feature=related

July 12 -- The Vallon train station

Quote of the day...
"In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey." -- Graham Greene "Our Man in Havana"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIcst7iSxU

July 11 -- The lake, Pete the three legged dog, and the picnic table

Quote of the day...
"Of course by daylight I felt better; it is difficult to believe in death before sunset." -- Graham Greene "Journey without maps"

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

July 10 -- Out in the country

Quote of the day...
"Brilliance without passion is nothing more than sterility." -- James Baldwin

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDpW5vpbDY

July 9 -- The Louvre in the summertime

Quote of the day...
"There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities." -- François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam6mrCCvD4&feature=related

July 8 -- The basin near Bastille, some art and a black cat

Quote of the day...
"Nothing can stand in the face of laughter -- at least not for long." -- Hunter S. Thompson

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nA18g_PwG0&feature=related

July 7 -- Homeless guys watching the World Cup and Passage Bourg L'Abbe

Quote of the day...
"When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existance in a new land; he must abandon the old ideas and the old goals, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped." -- Jack London, from "In a far country"

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

July 6 -- 'X' marks the sky

Quote of the day...
"Do not slink down to the safety which, in any case, will destroy you; trust, drown in the treachery of the howling infinite." -- Herman Melville, writing in "Moby Dick"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvLOm9Ewuh8

July 5 -- A river of red lights

Quote of the day...
"Only make moves if your heart's in it." -- Notorious B.I.G

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDeFS8KZPs

July 4 -- Bar-B-Q

Quote of the day...
"The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps." -- Dashiell Hammett in "The Dain Curse"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Jv7mRxyuA

July 3 -- The Main Square festival in Arras, France

The quote of the day...
"They call this progress. But they don't say where it's going; also there are some of who would like the chance to say whether or not we want the ride." -- William Faulkner in a letter to the Oxford Eagle, 1947

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

July 2 -- A concert and some street art

Quote of the day...
"Everyone wants to go heaven but no one wants to die." -- A PR expert talking to the Financial Times about how companies don't prepare for bad events and how to react to them.

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

July 1 -- A concert in the 3e and Place Baudoyer

The quote of the day..
"Men who succeed at an enterprise at a great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth." by Neil Sheehan in "A Bright Shining Lie"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc_RHbXjE2A

June 30 -- School's out for summer -- time to jump in the canal

Quote of the day...
"In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." -- Mark Twain in "The Innocents Abroad"

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