{"id":1129,"date":"2006-10-02T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-from-paris\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T20:10:35","slug":"more-from-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-from-paris","title":{"rendered":"More from Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went to the Louvre<\/a> today, then took a walking tour of a bunch of passages<\/em>, the covered shopping areas that used to dominate before the arrival of department store. I’m sure Walter Benjamin wrote about that in the Arcades Project, but I’ll likely never get around to reading it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I posted a bunch of my pix, added to my original Paris photoset<\/a>. Amy hasn’t gone through hers to figure out which ones to post.<\/p>\n

I head out to my conference tomorrow morning, so we’ll see what sorta shenanigans she gets into while I’m up at Villepinte. Presumably, it’ll involve shopping.<\/p>\n

Bonus! Louvre joke: You thought Britney was a bad mom?<\/p>\n

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We went to the Louvre today, then took a walking tour of a bunch of passages, the covered shopping areas that used to dominate before the arrival of department store. I’m sure Walter Benjamin wrote about that in the Arcades Project, but I’ll likely never get around to reading it. Anyway, I posted a bunch … <\/p>\n

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