More on food
NPR “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats”
La la la
And if I’m going to post videos of French women musicians, might as well give in to my new obsession with Yael Naïm. You might recognize the song from the Macbook Air ad.
Tous les garçons et les filles
Françoise Hardy laments being young and single. The song is cute, and apparently classic or nostalgic or something.
Quelqu’un m’a dit
I don’t blog for days on end, and then I post everything I have collected at once. I should probably work on that. Anyway, here are some French music videos I have enjoyed in the past few days. I’ll put them in separate posts.
This one is a young Carla Bruni, now Sarkozy’s lady friend. […]
On meat
I am so glad to see my views on meat stated intelligently in the New York Times, backed up by so much research.
Living in a country where “salade” is often best translated “pile of lardons on a bed of lettuce,” I feel challenged as a vegetarian. A lot of French people are bewildered by […]
Weekend in the Jura
We have returned from our lovely weekend in the Jura, and I am tired and a little bit sore. Despite this, Joe and I have both already uploaded our photos.
We took two nice hikes–one to see the Château de Joux, and one to a viewpoint close to the Franco-Swiss border called Le Grand Taureau […]
Études supérieures.
I got into graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If all goes well, I’ll have a master’s and a doctorate in French literature in about seven years
Sorry I didn’t say the name of the school sooner–I was being superstitious. But anyway, now I am happy.
No word about funding yet–they don’t decide until April–so keep your […]
Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sounds like a really smart guy in this article, and I applaud him for choosing to criticize the Republicans instead of Hillary Clinton.
Flight of the Conchords
He’s gonna wake up in a smoothie.
Photo
The Tetons and the Snake River