Marseille scares me. It’s not the people, it’s the buildings. Buildings that look as if they’re about to crumble and fall on you. And it’s not just the buildings, it’s the never-ending work going on around the city, for the tramway, and for the train station. Bulldozers, everywhere. Men in hard hats and steel-toed boots,...
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It’s just another wish you wished in a very long list
Days like these – gray, October, rainy, windy – magnify facts I’d like to ignore. The fact that I’m bumming again. How my art is ebbing away. How behind I am in everything. Or how much of who I am has already disappeared. How useless I feel. I fight off panic attacks. I hold up...
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3 brothers
Yesterday afternoon the phone rang, and a man with a funny, trembling voice/accent asked for me. Immediately thinking it was a call regarding one of the millions of jobs I posted to, I put on my best voice and confirmed that this was indeed the person they were looking for. A pregnant silence, then the...
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Coldplay tickets for Sale!
To anyone living in the South of France, or to anyone who’s mad enough over Coldplay to come to Marseille to watch them live : I’m selling two Coldplay tickets for the 17th Nov at Marseille’s Le Dome. If you want to go (and you know you want to!), or know anyone who wants to...
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Subterranean homesick blues
A whirlwind trip downtown with Julien at 6 in the evening, both of us shivering in the cold, holding hands while stepping over dog poo and spilt ice cream cones, dodging the mad crowd of Saturday shoppers, making faces at babies in carriages and running away before the babies started telling on their parents. This...
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Land of Taxes
It’s amazing, how much tax one has to pay for the land of the apartment you’re renting! and if ever we owned a television set, apparently we’d be taxed for that, too! boo!
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