A Frenchman had an interesting theory that it's because of the Protestant values that seeped into culinary traditions. Good thing with this is it really keeps food spending in check.

Looks like recycled diarrhea.

Healthy food because it makes you leave the hospital and go home ASAP.

"France is beautiful, it has four kinds of nature, amazing beaches, great food.. nothing to complain about at all" "Except French, it's a bit too much" "You've to lose some to win some"

"You need to learn some basic French to eat well in the country, otherwise you'll be stuck with mediocre food" "It's okay, I speak good German and still end up with mediocre food so I'm used to it"

Multi-cunnilingual

Can get used to everything but the French greeting kisses. It's a small misstep away from a full blown kiss.

Being totally alien to a language and being stuck at a party has its advantages. Stick to the food table and stuff your mouth at all moments and make incomprehensible "ooh ahh" sounds to pass off as socially compatible.

Islamophobia in France is wild. Had quite a few people come up to me and say really vile stuff to my face.

8/16 The most difficult part was finding an aged actress for the role of Indir Thakrun. His newspaper advertisements didn't yield much result. Then, one of the actresses in his film unit suggested the name of Chunibala Devi. She was around eighty, a stage artist in her younger

Saw a bunch of Spanish kids from a kita lounge by the sea eating their lunch and then indulding in the screams and play of childhood for an hour in the sun. The seeds for the Spanish hours of rest are sown very young.

Who is Taylor Swift?

Need a psytrance national anthem to groove to.

Thinking of this piece the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote before he died, on how he perceived smartphone use as essentially a neurological catastrophe. He’s advocating for something like the opposite of mindfulness — instead, the problem is that we’re too stuck in the moment.

Berlin weather report: Zig zag clouds, fluffy clouds, splotchy clouds, dust bunny clouds all kinds of clouds, the KitKat of clouds on a blue sky. Beautiful day to breathe in.

Caught Stealing lands but missed Clint Mansell scoring for it. A Guy Ritchie joint reimagined as a Darren Aaronofaky surgical.

Never watched a Lokesh Kanagaraj film before Coolie and it blew my mind away and I worked my way backwards on his filmography and I get the hype. Also Anirudh's Soundtrack is on an endless loop.

Ate a doner in Italy, don't recommend.