Ol' Chef Dan

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Work-from-home situationist. Agnetha Fältskog photo is unrelated. Return guy for Pyrrhonism. Lyon, France

Dunkirk, Adieu Philippine, 3 Penny Opera, A Star War
A pile of IGN and Michelin yellow maps
Poster for Americain Day with a rockabilly girl, Harley, '57 Chevy, and Route 66 sign.
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the fourth track on his seventeenth studio album Desire (1976). The song was written by Dylan, and produced by Don DeVito. The album version of "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" was recorded on July 30, 1975, and released on Desire in January 1976. Dylan said the song was influenced by his visit to a Romani celebration at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in France on his 34th birthday.
Michael York in Caberet after leaving the Nazi-infested beer garden.
Senator Paul Simon of Illinois
Local weather report, highs in the high thirties and low of twenty.
Well, what a life, you’d ordinarily say. But Brock coveted more. He’d caught a fatal glimpse of that level where everybody knew everybody else, where however political fortunes below might bloom and die, the same people, the Real Ones, remained year in and year out, keeping what was desirable flowing their way. Prosecutor Vond wanted a life there, only slowly coming to understand that for someone of his background there would be no route to this but self-abasement, fawning, gofering, scrambling for tips and offering other such hints of his eagerness to be brevetted on life’s battlefield to a rank higher than he would ever, by the terms of his enlistment, have deserved. Though his defects of character were many, none was quite as annoying as this naked itch to be a gentleman, kept inflamed by a stubborn denial of what everyone else knew—that no matter how much money he made, how many political offices or course credits from charm school might come his way, no one of those among whom he wished to belong would ever regard him as other than a thug whose services had been
Pandora's Box; Sherlock, Jr; One Week; Close Encounters
Cover of The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
My mom as a teen, respectfully watching the Beatles in Stockholm.
A bunch of socialists swimming in the river, Eiffel Tower in the background.
Close-up of popular European lollipop, Chupa Chups
The 74-year‑old Mr Mélenchon is a formidable campaigner with loyal support among the young, in the banlieues, and among minority-ethnic voters. But he is also one of the most divisive politicians in France; mobilising a “republican front” around him to see off the far-right threat would be problematic.
Lilian Gorfein holding up the wrong cat.
Pino in Do the Right Thing explaining how he isn't racist, despite being very racist.