Aug 11
Take the Metro #12 to the Abbesses station. Climb an endless circular staircase until you begin to see daylight. Only a few more flights from there. When you emerge, you may, as I did, hear church bells.
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My friend and colleague Dawn now works out of the Times’s Seoul bureau so I don’t get to see her has as much as I used to. Sad for all of us who work at 620. (That’s shorthand for the Times’s headquarters in NY which is at 620 8th Ave.)
Read moreNot to be deterred by the torn hamstring that Jeremy got on the track in Tokyo, or by my advancing age, I decided I would take to the lovely lavender track at Stade de France. Check your local listings for the evening highlights.
Read moreJames Hill, British accent, speaker of five languages, Oxford educated, tall, handsome, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his war photography, lives in a chateau a couple of hours outside Paris. So, you know, average dude.
Read moreAt the risk of boring the masses with a photo dump from my iPhone, I’ll try for some deft curating. It will only be the most important content, like where to get the best salad in Porte de Versailles, how to keep all the gear straight and where to find paprika Cheetos!
Read moreAt gymnastics now, setting up for another night of twists and tumbles. Some even by the gymnasts. Here are some links to pieces we’ve published so far. Apologies to those without a subscription. I have gift links I can send to some of you but those are limited. First come, first serve. Feel free to ask in the comments with your name. I promise not to out you to the NYT subscription machine!
Read moreWhen it comes to crème brulée, I had never not finished one. To me, they are all rated somewhere between a 7 and a 10, with most of them crowded in the 9-plus range.
Read moreTeam gymnastics final is tonight, Americans are favored, as usual these days. You’ll be seeing a lot of moves go by in a blur, so in February we went to St. Paul to visit Suni Lee so we could shoot high-speed footage of a new and risky move she’s been working on. It’s so risky she may not do it tonight in the team competition. She may hold off until the individual competition or the apparatus final so the only risk is to herself. I you get a chance, check it out.
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