Ordinary Paris

I spoke too soon. The Olympic nightmare continues. There’s yet another Major Media Event planned for this weekend. The entire area around th...

The Olympic farce has mercifully ended. Parisians who were prohibited from walking the streets of their own town have now regained some free...

Only two posts a year; I guess I’m not the most prolific blogger around. But nobody reads the blog anyway. Last night was New Year’s Eve...

Inflation is rampant this year, and my fixed subsistence income is not keeping pace, despite occasional cost-of-living increases. Electric...

This year, France is vying for the red badge of courage by banning the use of disposable packaging for fast food consumed on the premises. T...

Lighting in Paris has been reduced to save electricity. France has long had plenty of electricity, thanks to extensive investment in nuclear...

I haven’t been to the Foire des Tuileries , and now it looks like I won’t be able to go this year, as the Reich has now transformed all unva...

The iron hand has loosened its grip a bit, at least until the government finds a new excuse to trample civil liberties. More and more places...

Tomorrow the Reich has promised to again respect a handful of rights that it had lately treated as forbidden privileges, such as being able ...

Well, the government has lately been mumbling about restoring the freedoms that they illegitimately canceled more than a year ago, and about...