[oui, osez !]

/back home (sweet home)/

/It's Valentine's day, come on!/

/National Condom Day in the USA today/

I received free « luxury » condoms so I guess this makes it a sponsored post! In case you did not gather from the picture, they come from www.theoriginalcondom.com & are made in Condom, France.

[Originalité] /Originality/

Graffiti culture, Paris - FKDL

/London does not really have a graffiti culture: the powers-that-be make sure of that. For a variety of reasons, Paris has developed an original graffiti culture. Arguably, Blek Le Rat created stencil graffiti at the beginning of the 1990s to create an idiosyncratic form of the graffiti culture he experienced first hand in America. Of course, Blek, and his followers, have had a tremendous influence on Banksy. Over the years, Parisian graffiti/stencil artists have learnt that tagging on a poster and putting this on the wall was highly unlikely to get them into trouble. Different forms of graffitis-on-posters can now be found in Paris, including a mix of collage and paintings. I was struck by this one when I last went to Paris - it seems to be the work of a FrancK DuvaL. See http://www.fkdl.com/ & http://www.fkdl.com/blog/...

Let me know where I can read more about Parisian graffitis-stencils-collage./

2002-2006-2010 /Who cares about Paul the Octopus when gay shop assistants can predict the result two weeks in advance?/

Soho books - [Spécial Dédicace, Zahia]

London, /phonebooths: the myth & the reality/

/Only in ultra-nationalistic Britain.../ [Imagine-t-on cela ailleurs ?]

/The Union Jack as a Unique Selling Point. I wonder what can be specifically British in a sex shop. Do Brits do sex shops better? I should imagine they are the same everywhere. Or perhaps sex shops are a particularly British phenomenon? Or perhaps this is just a call to buy specifically British whatever-it-is-people-buy-in-sex-shops - they may not seel anything foreign. I am perplexed. If you have seen sex-shops proudly displaying their nationality anywhere else in the world, let me know./

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