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.

... and... it's outta here!

Nous sommes en deuil et, en mème temps, nous allons garder des beaux souvenirs. La Smart est morte. Quelle tristesse. Quelle souffrance. Quel... 

... um... what am I talking about? She has gone to a better life. Or so we hope. :-) 

You should have been here to witness the extraction of the Little Car from the parking. It was an amazing event.  Really.

Two gentlemen arrived with their camion/remorqueur.  We descended into the cave to extract an old vehicle.  But... the poor Little Car would not demarre. Pas de tout. Elle ne veut pas faire se bouger, meme avec un strong "jump-start." 

It turns out, the key was not communicating properly with the starter system.   It was dead.  Dead. Dead as a parrot. Dead as Monty Python's very own parrot. 

So, they unloaded a BMW Mini 4x4 that they had just picked up, drove it down into the cave, put it behind the Little Car, and pushed the Little Car up and out of the parking.  

*poof* and out she debouched from le parking.

It was incredible to watch.  I'm just glad no one was on the sidewalk nor in the street in front of the garage at the time.

We did some paperwork and I took a few photos.

After the gents were gone I rearranged our new Prius in the parking to have her sit where the Little Car once was.

What a morning!!!