Un Très Bon Week-end

First off, yes, week-end is a word in French- it seems like Franglais, but it’s not. I find this system of using shorter English words to be much easier than saying something like ‘fin de semana’ as one would in Spanish or Portuguese. Anyhow, I haven’t posted for, like, ten days OMG, [...]

Film Review: Sitcom (1998)

As some of you may already be aware, I’m a bit of a movie buff; as I now live pretty much alone on the French countryside, I’ve started watching quite a few movies in French to help me progress with the language. I’ve discovered some really great movies that way, like OSS 117: Le [...]

The Best PSA Ever?

I know we’re all thinking it, so let me be the first to say, “What the FUCK?” I noticed this in the window of a poetry café in Toulouse last week, and felt it was worth sharing. I apologize for that, of course. At first I thought this was an absolutely terrible [...]

Chickens, Cookies, Pickles, & Parentheses

The other day I was trying to make an omelet: I had four fresh eggs (and by fresh I mean, like, I’d pulled them out of chez les poulets about an hour before), some wicked Toulousian sausage, and a bit of Roquefort (which turned out to be not such a great combination, actually). All [...]

Parlez-vous Franglais?

It’s finally happening- after years as that annoying grammar Nazi, my English skillz is fading. I didn’t notice it until one of my Facebook friends pointed out that I’d used the word aubergine as if it were an English word; I spent 30 seconds trying to decide whether or not it was, and then [...]