You asked for it ~ more Marmottes!!!

I can't help myself.  I love watching these little guys and gals from France3

 

Compilation Marmottes France 3 hiver été 2019

Other animial friends in France...

... and it's not just Marmottes.  It's all manner of interesting animals that can show up on France3.

 

Bel été sur France 3 (TV spots publicitaires)

Furry little French friends...

Each year during the tour de France bicycle race we try to tune in early.  

Why?  Marmottes!

We start by watching le tour on France3, where the special kind of fun is found.  

France2 picks up the broadcasting about half way through the stage and is a more staid affair.

While broadcasting on France3 and when they break for commercials our favorite Marmottes! show up.  They bookend commercial sequences.  One clip at the start, and another at the end of the commercial block.

They're cute, aren't they?

 

France•3 - Marmottes Été 2021

How good can fireworks actually be...?

Each year the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille with a great big fireworks show.  They can be truly spectacular.

 

Firework Paris 2021 / Feux d’artifice Paris Tour Eiffel 14/07/2021

Plonk et Replonk

Now that we've had our fill of fabulous food, let's turn our attention to a bit of relaxation and entertainment.

We first saw Plonk et Replonk at le musee de la Poste over near Montparnasse.  They had a series of videos playing as part of an exhibition and we sat and watched.  It was serious silly good fun.

We never knew where they were from, but assumed they must be French.  Alas, no.  Plonk et Replonk are Swiss.

Such a wicked sense of humor.

It's sad, but they won't allow other websites than YouTube to share their videos.  So you'll have to follow the links in this article if you want to see what I'm talking about.

But, they have an entire YouTube channel.

 

"L'Addiction s'il vous plait ?!"

Here is Chicandier's YouTube Channel.

His stuff cracks me up!

I've found it worth my time to turn on closed captions and to stop the video to read and translate and to sometimes think hard about what he says as he says it.  

Very educational stuff, this.

 

Encore! et a table!!

If you enjoyed les Gueuletons, check this out.  Chicandier is well known, too.

Turn on the closed captions and you can follow what he's saying in French.  

I find this very complex stuff pour les etrangers.  There are innuendos, redirections, and more than a few gros mots. It's hilarious.

Do you think these guys are passionate about their food, or what?

Until you've tasted these kinds of things in situ there's no way of knowing just how good it all tastes.  

There is no American reference for this level of quality and flavor.

Back to something French...

 OK.  OK.

Enough politics and hand wringing over the collapse of democracy in the US.

Let's get back to more important things, shall we?

These guys are awesome!

 

I've always said..

I've always said that if you get enough people together believing something that they will take their "beliefs" as truth.

How can democracy in the U.S. survive during times such as these when lies and distortions and beliefs are given equal, and sometimes greater voice and power than truth and reality?

Yet here we are.  Trump supporters are the very incarnation of what I'm talking about.  And the GOP refuses to raise a finger against those lies, distortions, and ill-formed beliefs.

Is there no price to be paid for working to destroy a democracy?

 

 

And if you think I'm nuts, check this out.

Can it get any worse?  I'm almost afraid to ask.