Probably the Bear you're looking for, but not that kind of bear. Lawyer and writer living in Paris.
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Pro: everyone at the French tax office was very nice to me and I somehow had every piece of paper they wanted (at least a mid-sized miracle); con : not sure I actually accomplished either of my goals for that appointment but at least one of them might be in process ?
Some mornings it's just really weird when I check in on you guys from European time.
I'm an abolitionist, you're not going to find any sympathy here.
I do have a belated hot take about yesterday's news which is that marrying one's rebound guy from Cleveland Heights is an excellent life choice I entirely endorse and I hope it works out as well for her as it did for me.
Turns out that a federal jury will NOT indict a ham sandwich (thrower).
I have been trying to find it but nothing on YouTube is sufficiently country. I will ask my uncle at some more appropriate time.
Today I was able to attend by livestream the funeral services for a cousin who passed away suddenly last week, and his brother gave a lovely eulogy, but what's really sticking with me is that we heard the most countrified Amazing Grace anyone has ever heard. Country AND Western. Amazing, indeed.
I assume all the good Fiddler on the Roof jokes have already been made
More ... Sub polar-y.
Bad news about the nature of the islands between you and me, babe
Maybe he had a traumatic experience involving chili ok
What, N's birthday? Allegedly his sister is baking him a cake.
American visitors to Paris are often flummoxed by the attached plastic bottle caps but having just sent a water bottle cap flying down an NYC sidewalk I really think we're on to something.
Tonight N is taking us to a concert of John Fogerty from Credence Clearwater Revival and we're not the youngest folks in the crowd, but we are definitely bringing down the average age.
Today I got to visit a very interesting place in the world, a 19thC château perched on the Basque coast built by an astronomer/explorer/linguist/etc and his silk heiress wife, and crammed full of all manner of curiosities. If you would like to see some highlights: www.instagram.com/p/DLDmVXjoyPb/
Or might wish to have in the future!
I don't actually think I could calculate the number of times in the last 20 years N and I have said to each other "we go to war with the [whatever] we have, not the [whatever] we might want or wish to have in the future." Even more versatile than "unknown unknowns" as Rumsfeld quotes go.
People in my travel forum since last week seem convinced that the soccer hooligans (a) burned down all of Paris and (b) have infinite energy to keep doing it
Remember that you always have the option of deciding to be a wild otter.
(1) I can't believe Jesus let Gary the Pit Preacher DIE, I demand a recount; (2) Gary the Hell's Angel ???? www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
Meanwhile this child's older sister disclaimed ever having heard of apricots in her life but she's chowing down on her third in a row
This child is four months older than F and he is ALSO very focused on terrorizing all the pigeons of Paris
"WAIT OMG WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH THE BAGUETTE??" - A child visitor with his priorities in order
I'm so so sorry and so so glad you got these last few years to be so close to her, and so glad we had our great adventure and will always have those wonderful memories 🩵🩵.
That lawyer (who liberally plagiarized 3rd Circuit standards for our 9th circuit case without batting an eye) has probably moved on to writing briefs with ChatGPT, I wonder how it's going for him.
Yes, I was thinking about a time that I had a long brief of ABCDEF and instead of a response that was along the lines of "Not ABCDEF" I got the legal equivalent of "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" and it was SO hard to reply.
Sending so much love 🩵🩵🩵
Iceland's my winner this year, we need the good vibes
I'm over the gimmick songs!
Also please, I read Libération, do I look like a capitalist to you
Important!!!
Love you and her, sending all our best thoughts
I knew it!!
Has anyone yet reported on whether the Pope has had dinner at Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn's house, I must know
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What!!!!
Yes because I needed a base from which to infer whether he was a White Sox or Cubs fan!
sacramental wine out, malort in
Is this rage bait for me personally
Honestly after an adjustment curve it works really well for us, our milk consumption is hugely variable depending on breakfasts, baking etc and it just does not matter, we always have it on hand
French tiktok is currently 100% taken over by Le Poisson Steve, whose primary characteristic is that he is orange (and has arms and legs).
Please let the record reflect that after a mere 6.5 years in France and six years of regular-ish attendance at franglais pub quiz I have finally correctly identified a French song on demand 🙌🏻
@pantalonesfuego.bsky.social what is her name in English please, I love her ??
Last week a Polish friend told me that in fact Fat Thursday was the original pączki day and so we had sort-of-pączki then but I could do it again today if it's necessary.
Unrelated to the index I've really narrowed down my list of things I ask visitors to bring from the US but SFPT are one of the few priority items remaining. Fyi, I guess.
Sending both of you so much love 💙
You can download most of your books in the .azw3 format, and there are tools online to convert those to epub or even pdf. You've got 1 week to do it.
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I can't believe we're going from the pure wonder of the revolutionary clitoris hat to ... Stoats. youtu.be/m3tUFN4w5Qc
All the best vibes for you and mom 💙💙💙
I rarely meet a new uppity woman of history, as I've been out here nerding it up lo these many decades, but today a friend introduced me to Esclarmonde de Foix, about whom Wikipedia has this delightful fact. Why WOULDN'T the Univ of Winnipeg have a scholarship named for a medieval French heretic?
The first time I ever went to see these in CA we got to the area after dark and pulled off to the side of the road above a beach where you just heard these incredibly unearthly sounds coming out of the dark and saw the faint shapes of van-sized animals moving on the beach. Otherworldly.
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I got in an actual physical fight because this kid who always bullied me stole my protractor.
I have to imagine that a little alarm went off in the Vatican when Vance went on Fox News and was wrong about Augustine; don't mess with this Jesuit pope and Augustine.
"this wine tastes like tobacco and dirt, yum"
I was in some sort of horrifying libertarian phase in those years, thank God for growing up
But with top notes of sticky rubberiness and plastic
Suddenly remembering that my husband chugged 2/3rds of a bottle of it the night the Cubs won the World Series and lived to tell the tale. That sure was a choice.
@pantalonesfuego.bsky.social once said that it tastes like bandaids smell and I've never heard anything more accurate
All of those facts may still be true!
It was called The Yogurt Pump and the creepy middle-aged owner only hired undergrad women
I did this recently for other reasons and was really surprised that I made 13K (total) before college graduation. That's a lot of hours at the frozen yogurt store !
You know that I have always trusted the kids!
Psshh, past unindicted conduct is of no relevance to this court. How's the salted caramel going ?
What I'm hearing is that the accused was misled into letting a third party into the house who did the crime and left the evidence, which perhaps demonstrates carelessness and misplaced trust but does not prove cake eating!!
This we know is an angel who's never done anything wrong in her life
I don't buy these accusations; I see only circumstantial evidence.
This has worked for me in any size pan or as cupcakes www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8389/...
For my purposes though he'd have to want guest bloggers! I will look.
Travelers, where do you look for information when you're planning? I have been wanting to do this project about how to explore France by public transit but I no longer want to post things on TT/IG and I'm not sure where else people would look.
this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy
This will all get refined on the way up but what a way to lose Gorsuch
“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, told the Trump DOJ attorney. “It just boggles my mind.”
Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ORDER CURTAILING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
It is not a time to be risking messy precedent but I'd love to see some habeas petitions on the grounds that apparently no one has jurisdiction over immigrant defendants.
I hope the DOJ line attorneys who signed this are fucking ashamed of themselves.
Notorious adulterers, those platypi
Happy birthday to her!! 💙💙
I loved and admired this woman. She was one I would follow into battle. A true fighter and ally in every way. God bless you Cecile Richards. Rest in Peace and Power. www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/u...
Nothing I learned in law school could have prepared me for this timeline.
Yes, though I think it's just a moment of relief at not having the Americans be the loudest (lit. / Fig.) voices in every space, for the 14 hours it lasted.
Yes they're extremely upset about microwaves
The Americans are back due to some really premature compliance, nothing matters there is no rule of law, but we're still having fun
They're very mad about American cheese products like, as a concept
On European tiktok we're apparently discussing wine and the metric system, so about what I would have expected.
Thinking of you and your family 💙
Man up or shut up, Jesus Christ
She was reelected in 2020 firmly on this platform, here's a good English recap: www.forbes.com/sites/carlto.... But she's one of the symbols of an old Socialist party that's in its death throes and not herself hugely popular - she did terribly in a short Presidential run. She just gets things done.
Impossible to overstate how much political will the mayor has put into all of these environmental initiatives but especially the #waroncars
I believe these maps are assembled from the ongoing monitoring viewable here, which is a combination of data from actual monitoring stations and input from machine learning models that get fed traffic and weather info www.airparif.fr/surveiller-l...
For some reason I was just thinking about Argo Tea the other day! I think I was wondering if the coffee situation by the law school is any less dire now.
As a child I spent a lot of moderately feral weekends at my mother's boyfriend's hunting cabin, where the primary reading materials, to which I had unsupervised access, were Playboys and Readers Digests. This probably explains some significant things about me.
AI this and AI that and they still haven't invented SmellOInternet so you can know what my apartment smells like right now
Minor dents are fine, it's bulging of any kind that's the real risk!
Yes very fair
