i always find it interesting to find the french loan words that have been adopted by the turkish language, stemming from the language reforms of the (late) ottoman empire. the example here is gazoz= gazeuse=carbonated water. (Tk=Fr=En) i cannot find a good link. if i remember correctly it had a lot to do with the…

what, no rolls royce?

i love going into french supermarkets at the end of november and getting free glasses of beaujolais nouveau handed to me, usually along with some hors d’œuvre. always makes my day, because i always forget. :D

ah crap, they took out the anti-semetic commentator. i came back to try to puzzle out what they were trying to say, after backing out initially because of the WAY TOO CRAZY. oh well, i probably just saved myself a few brain cells. :)

what none of these articles address is why she was put under conservatorship in the first place and what possible reason would there be to continue it? i know it’s good for the clicks, but there is no context to this article. wasn’t she put under this initially because of her mental health? is it possible that her…

this should have been the song for the summer of 2020...

yeah, i am an american immigrant in france. i do sometimes get some of the hello america goods when it comes around. but a lot of the times i just have to take photos of some of the selctions because they’re a bit out there. :)

i had to go back to find that error. that one’s pretty glaring... :)

hah ha! just the other day i was commenting on the seeming parody of american food, in another takeout article, in foreign food markets. (france in my case) i mentioned that one of the ones that seemed like a parody was the popcorn cupcake. so, here’s a real american popcorn cake! it exists! :D

some horrible combination of marshmallow and rocky mountain oysters? :D

the thing is, is that it is not completely wrong. it is filtered through the media. this is how americans are percieved through the lens of what they project out to the world. it seems to be a parody but this is how they see americans. it might not make sense to americans, but it is their attempt to make sense of…

yeah, a new york hotdog is hotdog, relish, and swiss cheese?

this is like when we have “american days” in france at the frozen food store called Picard. it’s like a bizarro parody of american food. some of it is good; liked pulled pork, cinnimon rolls, and jalepeno cheese balls. others like popcorn cupcakes and cake filled with m&m like candies, start a descent into madness...…

my dad was what you could call a pure scientist, a scientist through and through. he came from a family of scientists, two of his brothers were phds in chemistry and quantum physics. he was a medical doctor that got his phd in marine zoology after he retired. being scientists, they all had this peculiar frame of mind…

in france we call them an “esquimau” (literally eskimo), and i cannot decide if it is offensive or no.

it’s spoken word, basically ritual music. my other preferred albums were mouth of the night and kondole. all back in the day when i used to do a bunch of drugs... ;)

one of my favorite PTV albums...

there are a couple of maseratis in the area, since i live near st tropez. the thing that always sets them apart from the other expensive cars that i see around here is their distinctive sound. i can always recognize a maserati sound. i wonder what they are going to do for an all electric?

i mean how much are we talking here? 200$ 500$? i have no idea. asking for a friend... :D

i have had enough food poisoning to last me a while. but e-coli seems to be the worst one that i gotten more than a few times. i got it again while i was backpacking down through central and south america, the last time was in chiapas mexico. i had to give an “excremente” sample, no easy task there. :D