Finally, with a week delay, here's a picture with the view from the chalet, taken today around 6 PM:

We really have to watch out, otherwise this blog turns into yet another Facebook page. Anyhow: Glenn sends this picture to a few friends, ...

Our post Time for a really bad poem is an enormous success page-view wise (possibly due to the accompanying picture (reposted below)), so h...

Here's a timely post from Cathy's blog Hollywood hates me , reblogged with her permission: I wanna see the new Godzilla movie ( e...

We're on our way to Switzerland, getting gas (diesel, to be precise) at the gas station of the Geant mall in Mandelieu, and there...

Milka milk chocolate, with the milk from happy cows ---that was the slogan of a chocolate commercial during my youth in Germany. And the...

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"Those damn darn liberals"

Henri Rousseau: The dream

(Let's put it this way: we're only one year behind: this was published on May 7, 2013)  When the days are cold And the car...

We discussed this before , the Riverside Café in two of its emanations, (1) as a proper river-side café and (2) as a hill-top café in Ph...

Michael Ampersant , surfing the net for pictures for his blog (Artwork by Virtues , you can order this on Fiverr for $5)

Our title is misleading, as usual. And unfair to Warhol. Anyhow, while we are at it: somewhere around 1966, the term Pop Art made it to E...

Nordstrom on Market Street, San Francisco Michael A. to Nick Ch. (02 May 2014 07:25:14): ...just great to be in the US...so many ide...

Bob Bienpensant: Habana, Cuba

We met Maud in the street the other day, and she, normally a serene neighbor with a charmingly stand-offish approach to local gossip, she wa...

The many little Nazis of Germany tended to ask rhetorically "Wenn nur der Führer das wüsste," (if the führer (Hitler) would onl...