Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

elections

sarko and ségo posters are all over the city. royale's posters are mostly just a picture of her with the words "Presidentielle 2007;" sarkozy's generally say "Ensemble, tout devient possible" ("Together, everything becomes possible"). i'm not a huge sarko fan, and i found this altered poster online:

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"TOGETHER
Without the poor, the foreigners, the RMI [a social program which gives money to the unemployed who are under 25], the Left, the extreme Left, the communists, the CDI [contrat à durée indéterminée, a open work contract for artisans, without a time limit to complete the work], the homosexuals, the intermittents [people who work in entertainment or art "in intermittence," alternate periods of work and unemployment, usually with a CDI], those who are HIV-positive, the handicapped, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Culture, independent journalists, the blacks, the arabs, the Noahs, the Thurams [two football players who are vocally opposed to Sarkozy], and the guy who screwed my wife [Sarkozy's wife apparently left him/had an affair before the elections and he won't talk about their relationship]...
EVERYTHING BECOMES POSSIBLE."

i showed this to my french friend marcello and he couldn't stop laughing.

also, sarkozy doesn't drink, at all, which for me is a reason in itself to be suspicious. seriously, a french person who won't have a glass of wine with dinner? what's up with that?

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

amsterdam

a few weeks ago, i took a brief trip to amsterdam. by brief, i mean: we took an all-night bus ride to arrive at 8 AM on saturday, and left for another all-night bus ride back to paris at 11 PM on sunday. intense. and oh-so-worth it.

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canals and bicycles everywhere...

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and houseboats!

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in fact, our hostel was a boat.

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a fountain filled with bubbles...

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i love street art.

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it's possible that, due to the combination of water and light, amsterdam may beat paris in terms of nighttime beauty... but i'm not placing any bets...

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heineken everywhere!

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and a sad goodbye.

soon to come: dublin and thoughts on french higher education.