Alas, my alarm is set for 5:00 a.m. so I can get the train from Euston to Upnorthingham for a winner take all Halo 3 death match IT meeting. So the Paris update is as follows:

It’s still there, and still lovely.

Also: Hanging out with Michael and Linda Moorcock is a damn nifty thing to do. I taught Linda how to get streaming NPR on her laptop, and she taught me to pronounce Michael Chabon’s last name.* I got the better deal, because the contradictory pronunciations I’ve been hearing have been making me crazy-like.

*It’s SHAYbun