We French are just amazing

A few kilometers from where I live some protesters held last night (Dec. 31st) a march against 2007. It was a very lighthearted and humorous event. But, isn't is a veiled admission of our French proclivity to protesting against whatever for whichever motive. Read more here.

Johnny Halliday emigrates to Switzerland

French rock star Johnny Halliday is moving to Switzerland in order to pay less taxes. Being myself a hard-core libertarian, I can only say "Good show, Johnny"

Ministère de la Culture

The other day I saw an American guy on TV who was surprised that we French had a "Ministere de la Culture" (Department of Culture). That is another stupid heritage of the Communist influence in the French way of governing. "Department of Culture? Why not a Department of Love , too" he added...
The French government is just too big; if you lived here you would see how much interference the governement has on things that just are not his business. Did you know that we French people pay annually an "Audiovisual tax" to support government-sponsored TV channels and movies... Just unbelievable...

Tomer Sisley

Last night I went to the Champilambart to see the German-Arab-Jewish-French comedian Tomer Sisley. Tomer Sisley follows pretty much the style of the American stand-up comedians, such as Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Ray Romano and more recently Dane Cook.

Hypocras

Mme. Odile Brunet, my girlfriend Christelle's mother, invited us yesterday Nov 1, 2006 to have lunch with her at her house in La Varenne.
At the "appéritif" she delighted us with a medieval drink called Hypocras.
Read Wikipedia's entry on Hypocras here. The recipe for making Hypocras can be found here.

France 24

I have just learnt of the launching of a new News Channel called France 24. The purpose of France 24 is to challenge the Anglo-Saxon view of the world as proposed by BBC and CNN.

I am eagerly awaiting for its launching.