Category: France

  • E72 post 07

    It’s fun listening to these things in such a way that I can’t note times or what have you. I retain a lot less information, but maybe I enjoy the music more than I would if I were taking notes. 4/29/72 con’t I really liked the Dark Star > Sugar Mag > Caution – what’s…

  • Best no. 47 (June 1972)

  • Ségo v. Sarko

    Not terribly surprising. It was definitely the safest bet, though of course “safe” is not a word one generally uses in connection with predicting French election outcomes. The FT characterizes this as a return to the classic Left-Right confrontation, which is hard to disagree with. But my sense is that things are more concentrated around…

  • GD 19710621 Chateau d’Hérouville

    edited 20110903 In January 2007, Hanno Bunjes made a post at his now defunct blog at yurk.net describing the joy of discovering some almost-unseen video footage of the Grateful Dead playing at Chateau d’Hérouville near Paris, France, on June 21, 1971, from the French government’s archival copy (Vive la bureaucracie!). I had a link to…

  • Plaidoyer pour la France

    Thank you, Rob.