Gay Paree 2024 part 3

coffee and croissants time

we got such a leisurely start this 3rd day that we could have crepes in Butte aux Cailles at noon and honestly i think these crepes have always been just ok.

Musee D'Orsay

SO crowded

Georges Seurat The Circus premliminary study

Mont Martre on the left, the tuilleries and the olympic balloon in the middle and the louvre on the right, seen out the D'orsay museum window

bob hates this painting by Maurice Denis called Green Christ (not to be confused with Guigan's green christ painting which simpleton bobby would be able to better grasp).

I told them about this epic painting before and now here we are at it. ‘The Knight of the Flowers’ (1894) by Georges Rochegrosse. Oil on canvas. 230 x 370 cm

Georges de Feure

idk if this guy was taking a photo of the cafe and i happened to be standing there or he thought i was super cool

after hours of absorbing fine art and having art done at us we are zoning out. It's also raining. But we have espressos and wines and rally. It also helped that we scored one of the corner awning spots and could watch all the people leaving the D'orsay in the rain while we sat there in comfort

waddled down to Sennelier famed french art brand.

approaching the Louvre (which we'd not have time to go to on this trip) on our way to the series of covered passages, passages couverts

we got a reservation at Frenchie Bar a Vins and had probably the best food of the trip. There are other places where the ambiance and food combined to be better dinner experiences but this was technically the best food and sadly it was not really french food. Pictured here this smoked ricotta was amazing and surprisingly the bacon scones were the best thing I ate on the whole trip??!!!

around the corner was a craft beer bar called Hoppy Corner to satisfy our having drunk nothing but wine for 3 days. they had a little widget on the tv that showed that beer app untapped on the tv screen so u could see if an untapped user entered a beer they drank there and this guy Christian was entering stuff and had his little photo pop up on the screen sometimes and Ryan talked to him and he ended up being german.

We all were tired and were like is doing karaoke a good idea and we said f it lets go for it so we drank Ricard pastis at some random place until our reservation for karaoke mecca was ready. Karafun, the app that has taken over karoke in america and apparently france at least has a dedicated karaoke building in the 10th and honestly it is on par or even better than in Japan! you have control over the lighting, smoke machine, selfie cameras, and its france so wine is cheap and good and there were lyrics screens everywhere. I guess what's missing from most western karaoke are the crazy and random and mismatched videos.

made it to mecca

gettin turnt on wine in a karaoke is a new thing cuz in america its cost prohibitive

the men's room

the night ended with us taking a taxi back to a kabob shop that stays open late and ordering "tacos" which aren't tacos they're just a new way to package kabob stuff in something like panini bread which i find inferior to what it used to be which was doner kabobs or gyros or "grecs" or "libanais" Bob who's been eating them all summer, says we were ordring them wrong and i'm like no man