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Issue No. 31, April 2, 2008
Creative laziness. Lazy creativity. Compilation. Montage. Jumping the shark. Call it what you want, Hobo done gone and did it. It's a (mostly) clip show. That's right folks, for our 31st-week anniversary special, we're giving you back the columns you loved reading in the first place. Why? Because we care about you. That and our computer caught a nasty bug over the weekend and won't reboot. Who knew that expensive computers made such good footstools? Lesson learned? Well, backing up the hard-drive comes to mind. A bit too late for that now, though. So, here are some oldies and goodies. Oh, and if you like James Baldwin or if you're a jazz lover, you better get your tickets to see Sonny's Blues and Marcus Shelby (live and in person) at the American Library in Paris next weekend.
| Treading Perrier |
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After meeting the realtor and getting the keys, I spent several hours with him and with the husband and wife duo that owns my new apartment, listening to the three of them ramble on in unimaginable detail. Their native French was filtered through my non-native ear, rolling out in phrases that were 90% comprehensible, where the remaining 10% was t...
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| French Tease |
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French Tease
By Mollie Coyne
Sonny's
Blues.
I
got an email from a friend in San Francisco this week telling me about a play
she saw that she said was "excellent".
Why was she telling me? Because
that same theatre troupe is flying over to France to perform the play. So while normally for a French Tease column
a...
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| 21st Century Dharma Bum |
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Folk Singing with the French Kids. At Lorelei's kindergarten, it is the first parent-teacher meeting after La Rentrée – the end of the long summer vacation in France. “Does anyone speaks English, or play an instrument, or know any children's songs?” asks Marie-Claire, my daughter's institutrice. My hand goes up all thre...
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| France vs. Catalina |
 | The mystery of “sas'ratou”: the phobias of being an expat. We all have phobias; there is no use denying it. We are born with some and we develop others from all of our experiences in life. We are afraid of spiders, pigeons, darkness, loneliness, etc. As a foreigner here in France, my biggest phobia is not making myself understoo...
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| The Grub Hub |
 | In my continuing quest to find real French food at a restaurant in Paris where I am the only non-French person, I think I have finally succeeded. And so now I will ruin my secret eating place by sharing it with my fellow francophile hoboes. It's a restaurant that is smack dab in the middle of everything, it's even in a building geared towa...
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| Shadow on the City of Light |
 | Shadow on the City of Light by Martin P. Lowe Harticulated A meeting with Zöé de Rochambault, Vice President of SCOF, a Paris-based association that represents the interests of French contemporary artists in the world. In 1995, the SCOF was founded by an elite group of anonymous collectors who have since been known to be active lobbying the French ...
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