I’ve assembled tonight’s selection for those hapless readers who are currently in France (and also, but to a lesser extent, for those who have been to France, would like to go to France, or are otherwise hobbled by Francophilia).
This is my dad’s cousin John teaching the extended Xavier family assembled in 2004 to sing in the round about French cathedrals.
My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
One of the things my brother melted was a plastic fork. He carefully heated it only just enough that the tips of the tines curled neatly into little coils. We examined it and decided that surely it was no longer good for stabbing people...or food. Thus was born the original safety fork: harmless, but useless.
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July 11th, 2006 at 9:21 am
I just got back from Frenchieland, and this post cheered me immeasurably. I like how pissed off he looks when he’s holding up “Notre Dame de Paris.”
“What. You’ve never HEARD of this one? For crying out loud, it’s the most famous one! There was a Disney movie! Ugh…where’s the Cabernet?”
July 18th, 2006 at 6:43 am
How to say “bravo” in French? Now to add sound to the pictures. I hear cousin John singing the words.