The media circus that passes for journalism these days had a whopper of a story this week. The death of a famous, handsome and successful young Hollywood actor whose female conquests (Heather Graham, Naomi Watts, Lindsay Lohan, Mary Kate Olsen, Helena Christensen among them) probably outnumbered his movie roles. The fact that Heath Ledger was [...]
Entries from January 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A Banged-Up Knee And An (Almost) Busted Engagement
Skiing in the Alps is exactly like you see, hear, read about.
It’s breathtakingly beautiful and surprisingly easy to learn. I took lessons with Francois, who was a pro snowboarder (and skier, of course)—typically gruff, French and a lot of fun to learn from.
Here’s my “prof” and me:
In three days, I went from “doin’ the duck” [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Alpine Skiing, Here I Come!
Dman and I are heading to the French Alps for a ski weekend. Exciting!
To preface all this, I’ve only gone skiing once in my life when I was fourteen. In the Poconos. Right after a growth spurt. So me being all gangly arms and legs with no sense of balance… I came back with both [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
My Nouvel Amour
It had to happen sometime. I knew I’d fall in love again. After countless trans-Atlantic flights, I was tired of my rather heavy constant companion—my 17″ monster of a PowerBook. It’s not that I didn’t appreciate its gorgeous widescreen that was bigger than the TV I had in my NYC apt, but I (or my [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Just Marry the Damn Model, Already!
I wasn’t going to post about the whole Nicolas Sarkozy/Carla Bruni affair. After all, hasn’t it gotten enough press? But with all the “did they or didn’t they get married” hoopla and the “is she or isn’t she pregnant” debate, it seems like I’d be ignoring something huge that’s going on in France right now. [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Modesty is such a lonely word
At least it is in France. This is, after all, the land of libertines and love affairs, where former President Francois Miterrand’s mistress stood side-by-side with his wife at his funeral.
So I shouldn’t be so surprised by two things that happened this weekend:
1) I was innocently listening to the radio when a song comes on [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Pinkberry? Not Exactly
On a recent jaunt around the Marais, I stumbled upon an oasis of New York familiarity—Pinkberry! Pinkberry, of the sour frozen (non) yogurt, invented by some Korean chick in LA, and favored by that arbiter of taste, Paris Hilton. Upon closer inspection, however, I saw that it wasn’t a Pinkberry, but a Myberry. Clearly, a [...]
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Gym-bunny moi… et vous?
Like the majority of people out there, I made one of the most banal of New Year’s resolutions—to get in shape. Now were I still in New York, there would be a multitude of ways for me to attempt this: juicing, fasting, colonics-ing, boot-camping, power-plating and so on. The French, of the eat-a-bunch-of-cheese-drink-a-lot-of-wine diet, [...]
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Happy Birthday, Micha! (And here’s how the French celebrate today)
January 6th is my older sis’ birthday as well as Three Kings Day, aka the Epiphany, or the last day of the Christmas season (you know, the 12th day of Christmas like the song.) The French have a particular tradition for today, the eating of the galette des rois. It’s an almond puff pastry [...]
