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Paris 1999

October 14-17, 1999

  • Finkelsteins at the Communist Parade
  • The coolest street performers ever
  • Wedding Paparazzi and French Celebrities at La Madeleine
  • Bob Mendenhall and Andrew Woolley and The Big Shoe Dance
  • Chrissie gets mugged
  • Sainte Chapelle gargoyles who look like Tolkien creatures and/or who have to pee NOW!
  • Sarah Heartburn and the Café Sarah Bernhardt
  • Nescafe Chainsaw Teddy Bear and the French Teddy Bear Mafia

    October 18-20, 1999

  • "Rude Parisian" myth #1
  • Disturbing the peace at Chateau de la Malmaison
  • Chrissie as a traffic hazard -- Helen would be proud
  • "Somewhere in Oklahoma Caroline is suffering excruciating pain."
  • Champs-Élysées -- the Zay Twins
  • Topher Grace-John Craig on the metro leads to "Suddenly Susan" Doppelganger following Chrissie home
  • Riding the bus

    October 21-23

  • "Rude Parisian" myth #2
  • Amongst the skulls Chrissie misses her friends
  • Chrissie -- Dr. Sicher wannabe
  • Chrissie and Alan go on a spending spree at a Brocante market
  • Alan buys Big Ben
  • Chrissie now a bigamist in some cultures
  • Cousin It does the Can-can
  • Chrissie performs a Marilyn Monroe

    October 24-26, 1999

  • Not yet bankrupt so off to more brocante markets
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #1
  • Chinese President Jiang and French President Jacques Chirac with a view
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #2
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #3
  • Life Lesson at the Arc de Triomphe
  • Chrissie mistaken for Parisian deaf-mute?
  • Flea Markets and Flee Markets
  • Why Alan & Chrissie like the French
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #4
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #5

    October 26, 1999

  • Daniel Sheppeard bus ads
  • Esmeralda revisited
  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #6
  • God Bless the Gargoyles
  • Hey LuAnn -- People in ecstasy look like they need help!

    October 27, 1999

  • Alan doesn't know a prostitute when he sees one -- a good thing
  • "Amy Leach is our hero" or "Tourist 1 - Pickpocket 0"

    October 28 & 29, 1999

  • Chrissie's gentleman rosarian #7
  • "Rude Parisian" myth #3 & 4
  • Dan Yancy's Mr. Kolenkov at the Phantom's L'Opéra de Paris Garnier
  • Lunch at Au Printemps' Café Flo
  • Chrissie pleads insanity to Kramer in downtown Paris
  • Chrissie becomes a professional dancer
  • String Alley, Evan, Linda, Carol and Darren
  • The best ice cream in the world?
  • Chrissie makes another public spectacle of herself
  • Mariage Frères tea shop

    October 30, 1999

  • St-Denis Basilica, the jewel in our backyard
  • Gregorian Chants and organ practice at Église St-Etienne-du-Mont
  • Luxembourg Gardens and Parc Monceau
  • How to Meet a Millionaire
  • Angel Dogs

    October 31, 1999

  • 3,500-booth brocante market
  • The FourGets -- my theory on truly rude Parisians
  • The Possessed Perfume Bottle or "Somewhere Suzy is suffering excruciating pain."
  • "Do I live in a world that would let me buy a 1771 "Odes of Horace" for $3.25?"
  • Tea and Tattered Pages
  • Alan knows heroin when he sees it?
  • Passport Stamping at Shakespeare & Co., Mile Zero
  • "Gigi" or "Somewhere Drs. Woolley and Mendenhall are suffering excruciating pain."
  • Vamping at the Fontaine de l'Observatoire

    November 1-2, 1999

  • Doritos, Dr Pepper and ta-chi at the "Gigi" Fontaine de l'Observatoire
  • "Amy Leach" to the rescue or "Rude Parisian" myth #5
  • How to have a heart attack on the way home

    This writing business.  Pencils and whatnot.  Overrated, if you ask me.

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