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Paris badlands On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…

Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...

Paris badlands On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…

Changed the title to Paris Badlands. Better.
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Violent clashes On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…

Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...

Violent clashes On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…

N E W !
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David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award

The Booker gets hardly any attention these days. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Violent clashes On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…

N E W !
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Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

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The security guard at the Monoprix just stopped me to check I hadn't stolen anything, and to say that he admired my style. Perhaps I'd stolen his heart.

Champagne and go go boys for everyone !

Red, orange, yellow

Oh la la, just remembered that today is the ninth anniversary of leavingLondon for Tel Aviv, the eighth anniversary of leaving there for a year for a vagabond life, and seven years since I arrive with my bags in Paris. Time flies. Oh man 🎈

Table tennis

Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...

The French can be discrete

Animal crackers Don’t break my heart, my eggy brekkie heart…

In seconds their mouths have docked, their tongues down each others' throats. It's a three-act drama, over in seconds: desire, deed, despair, the human condition in a nutshell, like Shakespeare, or something zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...

Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...

They're professionals!

Animal crackers Don’t break my heart, my eggy brekkie heart…

In seconds their mouths have docked, their tongues down each others' throats. It's a three-act drama, over in seconds: desire, deed, despair, the human condition in a nutshell, like Shakespeare, or something zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...

Animal crackers Don’t break my heart, my eggy brekkie heart…

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Animal crackers Don’t break my heart, my eggy brekkie heart…

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Musée Carnavalet

Bubble fun

Protea

Oh! I know

Err... why not ban the ones causing the violence?

Postcards to Paradise What I most want is a big, strong man to put his arm around my shoulders and tell me that everything is going to be alright.

I don't know that I know how to pray, but I sent my thoughts into the universe, hoping for unspecific things... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/p...

So do I. And thank you

Postcards to Paradise What I most want is a big, strong man to put his arm around my shoulders and tell me that everything is going to be alright.

N E W ! What I most want is a big, strong man to put his arm around my shoulders and tell me that everything is going to be alright.
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Ah, just seen it. I'll do it today. Thanks