Never heard it before actually, but we like it! It is also Number 1 in France right now.
Sarkozy To Open ‘Spy School’
January 13, 2010 at 00:04 (France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Oddities and Crazy)
It seems that not a lot of work is getting done as rival intelligence chiefs can’t seem to stop spying on or fighting with each other, something they are accused of doing as much as fighting the enemies of France. President Nicolas Sarkozy in reponse has opted to create a spy school to hopefully stop French intelligence chiefs from behaving like children fighting.
President Sarkozy deeply desires to unify the French “intelligence community” and thinks the US National Security Council is a fine example. The French Security Council will be called Conseil de défense et de sécurité nationale (CDSN) with President Sarkozy as the head.
The school o’ espionage or “staff academy” will be exclusive to senior spy chiefs from 6 different intelligence and security agencies and is rumoured to be headed by a woman with no previous espionage experience. To ensure that all persons involved cooperate with one another, the school has also enlisted a 60-year-old national intelligence coordinator as the school is intended to meld and encourage “a single culture and esprit de corps” and bring forth a spirit of community. How will the 60-year-old esprit de corps anyone!
Unfortunately, James Bond tricks and toxic baguettes will not be taught.
In any case, we had heard about the French disliking other French natives depending on which region they were born in but this sounds comical and dangerous. Say the one intelligence coordinator who is 60 we might add, can’t control the hate between the rival organizations, what then? Sarkozy said that some political problems in his campaigns were rooted from companies fighting.
We guess it’s good that the new espionage academy is set to open in six months.
Wonder if there’s a spy school in the Great White North!
French filmmaker Eric Rohmer Dies At 89
January 12, 2010 at 01:06 (Rest In Peace, Filmy Fun, France)
Eric Rohmer died Monday at the age of 89.
He was part of the ”French New Wave that included filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut and, Rohmer”. He was also known for such films as My Night at Maud’s and Pauline at the Beach and Chez Maud, which earned him two Oscar nominations. He always prided himself on showing the hidden life in his characters.
Rest in peace
Musée De L’Éroticisme
January 10, 2010 at 20:44 (Artistry, France, HAHAA!, Politics)
Only in France, only in France.
Antonio Fischetti and Charb have created an exhibition that has been described as a funny lexical tour of sex. It forms one of three parts of the triple exhibition dedicated to Charlie Hebdo.
The decline of births, Mother’s Day, pills for men or terrorism act as excellent subjects for politically incorrect covers. For example,
A big man with a moustache on all fours is nude, under the title ” Naked girl that makes it sell “. An old woman sits with naked buttocks reading the headlines of a weekly magazine, titled ” Finally a newspaper without an ass! ” which were all made in the spirit of Charlie, especially this last one dedicated to Tarzan who was created by Edgar Burroughs in 1912.
The society that manages the exploitative rights of his image have signed a contract guaranteeing a good perception to be made of their heros. “He can’t be disrespectful to God neither to his powerful attributes, nor be insensitive to the sanctity of marriage, religion or encourage illicit sexual activities”.
Charlie censured this responding with a savoury and irreverent image of a crucified, ridiculed and crushed on Tarzan whether he be in the supermarket or in the sexual act.
We translated from the original site so it seems as if Charlie was a satirist famed for his depictions of controversial politically incorrect images.
40 years of Covers: the triple exposition Charlie Hebdo, Musée de l’érotisme will be presented in Paris until May 31, 2010.
What do you think?
Paris On The Body Scanner Train
January 8, 2010 at 23:19 (A Bitter Truth, Américanoland, Angleterre, Canada, Europa, France, Safety)
Très bon la France!
France follows after Canada, the Netherlands and Britain in their support for the installment of the controversial body scanners. Controversial since not many are comfortable having their privacy invaded in being seen naked. You can all thank the moron who is currently pleading not guilty.
The scanners will be introduced later this month to scan passengers and will be used on all flights leaving Charles de Gaulle airport with the intended destination of the United States.
It may not be your fault for the introduction of the personal space-invading scanners but for the moment, it seems the best thing that anyone’s come up with.
Marilyn Manson To Marry Rachel Evan Whatever
January 6, 2010 at 18:53 (France, Oddities and Crazy, Romance, Safety, True Blood)
The man must have some mouth on him or his standards are low. Who knows? The last we saw of Rachel was in True Blood in her role as the Vampire Queen. It was ok, she wasn’t as amazing or la-di-da as we assume she was meant to be.
Manson, on the other hand, talks intelligently in interviews and though certain videos of his seem to be hmmm, misogynistic towards women, perhaps it is art instead of implied terror against women?
He proposed to his lover on stage in gay old Par-ee and she agreed.
Of course she would!
It Grew On Us
January 6, 2010 at 13:57 (A Music Moment, Américanoland, Angleterre, France, Francophilia, Inspiration, Lady Power!, Musica, Self, Très Adorable)
We can’t help it. We tried to forget about it but it’s kinda fun even though it is about alcohol and partying and some random guy..big surprise.Oh and how can we forget lyrics like I’m gunna have you drunk and throwing up lol
Paradiso Girls, the artists above are also created by Robin Antin, creator of the Pussycat Dolls. The difference is they seem to have a good group dynamic, they all sing and there’s a higher representation of women with colour.
There is only one American in the group (Remember Chelsea from Search For the Next Doll?) while everyone else is British or French.
Diverse! You even get to hear a hint of a French accent when Aria sings.
Degas Painting Stolen From Museum
January 2, 2010 at 00:20 (Artistry, Canada, France, Italia, Oddities and Crazy)
Just before the Cantini museum in Marseilles, France opened yesterday, the staff reported a painting done by 19th Century impressionist Degas missing! The painting called Les Choristes or Les Figurants was 32 by 27 cm, painted in 1877 and estimated to have a worth of 800.000 euros ($1,200,000)
Les Choristes was one among twenty works of Degas featured at the Cantini museum for an exposition “De la scène au tableau” and had been borrowed from Paris’ Musée d’Orsay.
The thief or thieves sneakily unscrewed the painting from its’ base having known where weaknesses were in the security. Though prosecutor Jacques Dallest says that this theft was not done by a professional due to the seeming lack of organization.
The museum is closed for the time being while security tapes are investigated. As the exhibition ends January 3, we fear that French citizens who have not seen it already will not have the opportunity before it goes to Italy and Canada.
New Years From Around The World
December 31, 2009 at 23:36 (Angleterre, Asia, Australia, Celebrate, France)
Sydney, Australia
London, England
Paris, France
Hong Kong, China
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Russia
Dubai
Yves Rocher Has Died
December 26, 2009 at 13:44 (Cosmetics, Environment, France, Francophilia, Nicolas Sarkozy, Rest In Peace)
The beauty product industrialist Yves Rocher died in Paris this December 26th at age 79.
It was initially through small advertisements about a hemorroid ointment that the public caught wind of his now famed cosmetics brand. One of most defining aspects of his cosmetics products, founded in 1959, was the fact that he used “beauty from plants” avoiding the use synthetic products and preferring to sell to clients through correspondence.
“Green Book of Beauty” launched in 1965, translated today in more than 20 languages, opened its’ first store in 1969. After having left the reigns of his enterprise to his son Didier in 1992, he found himself having to take them back in January 1995 following Didier’s accidental death.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to Yves Rocher in a press release for “this large industrial Frenchman, inventor of a vegetable-based cosmetics line and pioneer of sales by mail order”.
Today, the Yves Rocher group is present in about thirty countries at a worth of 2 billion euros with more than 15 000 employees.
The cosmetics legend’s cause of death is unknown.
See Santa’s Travels With NORAD!
December 24, 2009 at 21:45 (Américanoland, Angleterre, Asia, Australia, Canada, Christmas Cheer, France, India, Italia)
If you wanted to track the location of Father Christmas tonight, you have only to look on NORAD’s site, accessible in 7 languages.
The tradition started in 1955 when NORAD was called the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) and a Sears advertisement printed Santa’s hotline into CONAD’s instead of Santa!
Colonel Harry Shoup, a commander, decided to have his staff find out where Santa was to so they could pass along the information to the kids.
Nowadays, volunteers help the center by taking phone calls and e-mails from kids. But if you really want to know what’s going on with Santa, all you need is a computer. Thanks to the Internet now, you can track him yourself online through NORAD’s site.
NORAD is made possible by Google Earth so have fun tracking and Merry Christmas!
Carla Bruni Interviewed for Sept à Huit
December 13, 2009 at 20:23 (Carla Bruni, Charitable Acts, France, Francophilia, Nicolas Sarkozy, TV News)
Click here to watch the interview (if you can speak French! If not, read below!)
This month’s Harry Roselmack [the caramel FOX at the beginning] interview for Sept à Huit (a show that probably takes place, just guessing now from 7 to 8) took place at the lovely First Lady of France, Carla Bruni’s Parisienne home.
It seems the French have very mixed reviews about their First Lady as according to a recent poll, 51% voted she wasn’t close enough to the people. However she defends herself by saying, ”I feel close to the French people but maybe they don’t feel close to me”. She continues, ”The French woman is a woman of tradition and elegance. They see this image as far from what I am”. This is the reason for which she had started to pay attention to her image and why the elegant, done-up woman is who we see today.
She also talks about her determination behind her world mission against AIDS. Her motivation comes not from her brother who died in 2006 she says but women and children.
Finally she gets onto to talking about the romantical life she leads with Sarkozy ”We are here most of the time (the apartment). Our personal life is very calm and very peaceful. He showed me another point of view. Today, I am better with him than without him. I never imagined that in my youth.” Ahh the real vie en rose
As for whether her husband will run in the 2012 election? ”It will be my husband’s choice. I have no influence on political choices made. If he doesn’t run, we will be peaceful, quiet [but] we don’t discuss it, it’s his business. But as a wife, in intimacy, one mandate will have been enough for me”.
We don’t understand why the French don’t like her. Tell us! We want to know!
