More Culture For Me

This is some artist's idea of art. I don't know who he or she is that made this, but my guess is that it was a guy. The Pompidou Center was full of modern and post-modern art like this. Much of it was great, but much was also crap. This is the general idea of recent art - throw crap on the wall and see if people like it. Amazingly, I actually liked some of it. Of course, they had many a master there too: Picaso, Matisse, Rouault, Giacometti, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Then we went to see the grave place with all the famous people buried there. We couldn't find The Lizard King, or Mozart but that is okay. I still made "decomposing" jokes. There were also lots of "dead end" and "crossing over" puns. Samuel Beckett would have approved. Well, probably not.

Then on the last night there, Saturday, a few of us went to the Tour Eiffel.

I tried to avoid it so as not to be the Total Tourist, but that is like avoiding the elephants crapping on your front lawn. Anyway, it was stupendous. At a mere 10,70 Euro to go to the top we tallied ho. Seeing the Paris skyline at night with the street lights eeking up through the blocks of decorated buildings was like looking at really well drawn map. With twinkling lights. And Parisians loitering about. And French whores.