Posted by Loulou on Feb 8, 2016 | 9 comments

MUG SHOT Mama asked me this morning about politicians, specifically those in Congress. It seems that we are on the brink of passing the most effective law in the last decades for changing the way minor criminals are sentenced—our prison population is at a record high, and over half those residing there could easily have been given much less severe...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 7, 2016 | 8 comments

Well, I’ve been thinking about the men and women and especially, kids, who, mama says, live out on the streets here in Nice, and in nice neighborhoods, and everyone in the quarter seems to give them change or food or just tolerate their presence and walk on by and nothing can be done for they have no place to go. “The concept of family has...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 6, 2016 | 8 comments

NO, NOT SOCCER.  SOCCA!!! Well, mama is still mad about this giant pancake called socca and so she went to the source at Chez Pipo in Nice and watched the expert socca maker do his thing.  First a big copper pan, then olive oil smeared over the surface, then batter poured into the pan and tilted around to cover the surface, then the socca popped into 400C...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 5, 2016 | 6 comments

Well, mama and papa came back with photos of where they had been yesterday, a place called the Foundation Maeght, where Matisse and Bonnard and Sam Francis and Giacometti and Miró and many others’ works are displayed in a very large space among lovely pine trees.  I really loved this guy named Henk Visch who, it seems to me, sees anthros in a very...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 3, 2016 | 7 comments

Well, you can see very well here what these people do when they are out and about, and that is NOT LOULOU. Still, I don’t hold it against them if they wish to explore new surroundings and see friends they never see and try to find the MOL somewhere other than where I sleep.  The MOL being Meaning Of Life, which is a large subject around here.  Mama...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 1, 2016 | 8 comments

So sorry.  I’m taking a petit sojourn away from work but will be back demain with all sorts of photos that mama wants me to put on my blog. I needed a little hiatus today.  Whatever that is.  I think it was a trauma for me seeing the vacuum cleaner appear right next to me when I least expected it! I’ve never really gotten used to those...