October 10, 2004

back home

13 Comments

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Shit. I am no lon­ger in Paris.
I am no lon­ger there and it pis­ses me off.
I had my hap­piest few days in years while I was there.
You go into the slum­miest, run down cafe you can find, and they still serve good cof­fee.
Going back in early Novem­ber. Can’t wait.

13 Responses to “back home”

  1. Frank Kelly says:
    October 10, 2004 at 11:09 pm

    Good one. Right on the facts.

  2. Ben Wharton says:
    October 11, 2004 at 3:06 am

    Great to see that Gaping Void is a hot­bed of truely well-adjusted human beings.
    Months and months of care­fully thought-out ideas about what the future might be for crea­tive thin­king, stra­ge­tic allian­ces, techo­lo­gi­cal tools etc. etc. and sud­denly this blog is redu­ced to point-scoring historically-blinkered rhe­to­ric.
    There’s nothing wrong (and everything right) about being proud of a country’s achie­ve­ments and sac­ri­fi­ces, but Hugh, if you let this stuff live on your site without com­ment, I’ll won­der about a great many things.

  3. Jack says:
    October 11, 2004 at 8:10 am

    Bring back any nice souvenirs?

  4. hugh macleod says:
    October 11, 2004 at 1:49 pm

    Heh. Ben, they were both from the same ISP address… just some troll doing his thing.
    So I dele­ted them.
    Jack– brough home a really nice bottle of wine :)

  5. G says:
    October 11, 2004 at 2:09 pm

    Wel­come back! Just in time, Joi is going to be in town and I rec­kon we should orga­nise something!

  6. G says:
    October 11, 2004 at 2:09 pm

    Wel­come back! Just in time, Joi is going to be in town and I rec­kon we should orga­nise something!

  7. G says:
    October 11, 2004 at 2:09 pm

    Wel­come back! Just in time, Joi is going to be in town and I rec­kon we should orga­nise something!

  8. bluepoppy says:
    October 11, 2004 at 8:38 pm

    Ditto. Have a plan under­way right now so that I can live there two months out of every year. For wha­te­ver rea­son (and I know them all) I am most myself and most supre­mely con­tent when I am in Paris. Que c’est bon.

  9. yara says:
    October 12, 2004 at 2:29 pm

    i am going to Paris on fri­day for the first time. where should i go to sit and absorb?

  10. hugh macleod says:
    October 13, 2004 at 8:23 pm

    Yara, I’d recom­mend either the neigh­borhoods of Mont­par­nasse or Montmartre.

  11. angeln says:
    November 10, 2004 at 10:15 pm

    Very inte­res­ting point of view fdgfdg.

  12. stadtplan says:
    November 11, 2004 at 6:37 am

    2 much spam in here :-(

  13. Angeln says:
    November 12, 2004 at 4:41 am

    2 much spam in here :-(