Peets Coffee & Tea. At five, this place was a noisy hive of caffeine addicts, shoving their way towards the front of a line that reached the door. Just three hours later, the afternoon crowd has subsided. The whining two year olds in their neon safety suits are no longer clogging the doorway. The lipstick [...]
As always, Anna managed to wrangle a beautiful welcome out of New York. Within three hours of landing at JFK, I was elbowing my way towards five figures bathed in bright blue light on a cramped little stage in downtown Brooklyn. Four of them were standing around a fifth, who was sitting in the middle, [...]
Wherein the author reveals his true nature to be that of an egomaniacal hermit who created this overfed pseudo-biographical tabloid as an incubator for his various delusions of personal celebrity. But first, France on a cool summer day. Just over two months ago I was sitting on the TGV from Bordeaux to Rennes, staring out [...]