Happy Winter!
One Month since I first met Mel, yesterday. We went holiday shopping and I sneakily got her holiday prezzies. I think that one of her presents for me is a rather momentous one. We gibbered back and forth in pseudo Prussian, and pretended to be German royalty.(after she found out what my last name was all about, She’s been calling me Count, and I’ve been calling her Contessa).
We laughed over Mexican food at Carlos & Pepes, and then we watched “the Swan”… morbidly fascinating study in cosmetic reconstruction.
South Florida “scared of Santa” gallery
nifty tour of an abandoned hospital
SETE, France (AFP) – Armed with a high-pressure hose and a bucket of octopi, hundreds of protestors in this Mediterranean town pelted a McDonalds restaurant due to open this week with the slimy seafood.
Between 300 and 500 people gathered on the banks of the Sete canal, across from the fast-food outlet, playing music and yelling anti-junk-food slogans across the water, as police barred them from reaching the restaurant itself.
Aiming the hose across the water, they catapulted fresh octopi — a local delicacy, known here as the “pouffre” — towards the town’s first McDonalds, which had been set to open on Saturday.
The crowd held up slogans slamming junk food, dubbed “malbouffe” in French, as well as work conditions in the fast-food industry.
Driving home their point, the protestors were serving up traditional Setois dishes — one of which is the tielle, a fragrant octopus, tomato and onion pie prized by locals and tourists alike.
The demonstration caused the opening of the restaurant, the first fast-food outlet in the port town following years of resistance by the former communist mayor, to be put off until next week.
A group led by French militant farmer Jose Bove pulled down a McDonalds outlet that was under construction in the southern town of Millau in 1999, earning Bove a jail sentence, although the restaurant was later rebuilt.
Fascinating new thing
You delight me
And I know you’re speaking of me
Fascinating new thing
Get beside me,
I want you to love me
I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re lovely and you’re perfect
And that somebody wants you
Fascinating new thing
The scene-makin’
Want a temporary savior
Fascinating new thing
Don’t betray them
By becoming familiar
I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re lovely and you’re perfect
And that somebody wants you
I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re priceless yeah, you’re precious
Even when you are not new.
I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re lovely and you’re perfect
And that somebody wants you
I’m surprised that you’ve never been told before
That you’re priceless yeah, you’re holy
Even when you are not new.
Fascinating new thing
(Fascinating new thing) x 4
alright.
1 year ago – geourl syndication, desperado with monkeys, narnia
2 years ago – surreal gourmet, amazon links, a/c dies
3 years ago – last minute shopping, blah day
4 years ago – crushing, slowness
