Aug. 17 -- Lines

Quote of the day...
"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often." -- Mark Twain

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

Aug. 16 -- Sacré Cœur and the area

Quote of the day...
"I'm not talkin' 'bout pleasure boatin' or day sailin'. I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!" -- Quint in "Jaws"

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

Aug. 15 -- Colors

Quote of the day...
"All the rivers run into the sea but the sea is still not full." -- R.W. Emerson

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KZi-aV0VTk

Aug. 14 -- A baby and the canal

Quote of the day...
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -- Mark Twain

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8o4os6Um6g

Aug. 13 -- A tree and then Rosa Bonheur

Quote of the day..
"Patriot: The person who can can hollar the loudest without knowing what he is hollaring about." -- Mark Twain

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X46RsCxgqE

Aug. 12 -- The metro exit and a walk around Le Marais

The quote of the day...
"The tee box, the fairway, and the rough are where good and bad things happen on the golf course. The green is mostly there to make you hate yourself." -- From Slate about the game of golf.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVC1k9x2Ryw

April 11 -- Storm clouds and spray paint

Quote of the day...
"The poinancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world." -- Allen Ginsberg, 1990

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMdNcq9U-YQ

Aug. 10 -- Spray paint art and the canal

Quote of the day...
"Look at the names of the best players ever: they're all great names that you'd give a sports charachter; Michael Jordan. Magic Johnson. Jerry West. Larry Bird. Moses Malone. You'd never name the lead of a sports movie Ralph Sampson or Darko Milicic." -- Bill Simmons writing in the "The Book of Basketball."

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp1KdA-97vs&feature=related

Aug. 9 -- Jardin du Luxembourg

Quote of the day...
"Once you start trying to segment and work out what people might want to see, I think that would be a journey to some type of psychological hell." -- John Micklethwait, editor of The Economist, as quoted in the Aug. 9 edition of the I.H.T.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfd3vr6y1Hg

Aug. 8 -- Parc de la Villette

Quote of the day...
"Dissolute behavior in a coat and tie is always more amply forgiven." -- Theodore Bouloukos

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE&feature=av2e

Aug. 7 -- Brunch at Café Jacquemart-André (Clueless like Shaggy and Scooby before commercial break)

Quote of the day...
"Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and have given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work." -- from "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UJjQt3bkM

Aug. 6 -- Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood, and hopscotch

Quote of the day...
"If the enemy is within range, so are you." -- a military truism

And your song of of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrWu13Uh2Yw

August 5 -- A fountain

Quote of the day...
"Never forget to duck and never forget that it can all go to hell in a minute." -- Jimmy Buffett's strategy for life as told to Matt Luna

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiiO_41Id8

August 4 -- Looking up

Quote of the day...
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." -- Albert Einstein

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdK3YGXwDOI

August 3 -- Lunch at Hotel du Nord and Cinema en Plein Air

Quote of the day...
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." -- John Lennon

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CUHHGlQg0

August 2 -- Ben Franklin, lunch at La Gare and the Tower

Quote of the day...
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price." -- Benjamin Franklin

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMph943tsw

August 1 -- Eglise St. Laurent

Quote of the day...
"Some people give and some people take/and some people just stand around watch you break." -- Freddie Keen, a muscian from England

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw-TUO7A-HQ

July 31 -- The Beatles as Kiss, etc.

Quote of the day...
"Show me where it says, in the bible, 'Purgatory.' Show me where it says relics, monks, nuns. Show me where it says 'Pope.'" -- from "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RSuv8hroc

July 30 -- The Australian boat party

Quote of the day...
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." -- Winston Churchill

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8RSEdJAzOQ