A Time Patrol movie Previously on San Francisco: San Francisco > San Diego > Yosemite > Disneyland. We finally drove back to San Francisco on the last leg of our California roadtrip in 1966. The streets of San Francisco in 1966. Shades of Michael Douglas and Karl Malden. The cars weren’t that different six years…
Many an explorer risked or lost his life looking for the source of the Orinoco, a mysterious, inaccesible river in South America, a distant cousin of the Amazon. Remedios Varo (1908-1963) found the source in her paintings. She used an infinity of transportation means: a Caravan. (Roulotte, 1955) Remedios making plans for the expedition. (Mimetismo,…
An African Childhood* The ventilators moved the hot air sluggishly. At ten in the morning, the heat in West Africa was still bearable. My father’s office was in the centre of Conakry, former, newly independent, French Guinea. I remember the large plaza in front of the office. There was an immense “Fromager” tree. A kapok…
Private chapel. Mexico city. About a couple blocks from the house. Olivier Rameau and Colombe Tiredaile, Brussels. Street art based on a comics series by Dany (drawing and colours) and Greg (Script). A charming and poetic work of the 60’s and 70’s. Apsaras, divine dancers, Angkor temples, Cambodia. “Wolves in the snow blanket”, by Linda…
A Time Patrol Movie: Pakistan in the ’50’s Hop on Equinoxio’s Time-Space shuttle to Pakistan in the early 50’s. See the visit of India’s Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru to Pakistan. His first visit was in 1953. After Independence in 1947 and the Partition of Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan, 15 million people were displaced, and…
Take the yellow car. School’s closed. Don’t even stop. Pass the blue house. That used to be a door. Can’t go in. Forget about the orange house. (Wot? Not orange? Don’t care. I’m colour-blind, hehe.) Cross yourself on the way. Can’t hurt. Don’t you feel blue? A simple house along the way. Don’t get distracted.…
Previously on The Senator and The Machine: The narrator is a foreign student in a Southern University. He was elected Student Senator in a deal with a mysterious campus organization called The Machine. All went well until… There I was, a Senator. Watching those young men and women practicing their future “trade”, earnestly preparing motions…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. * I was a Senator once. ‘Seems like a lifetime…
A Time Patrol movie. Previously on Time Patrol: Christmas 1966. San Francisco. Highway. Los Angeles. Highway. Los Angeles. Highway. San Diego. One warship. Two hours in SD. Parents take control of the trip. Yosemite. Wonderful. And now to Disneyland. The one and only. No Disneyworld then. “Mortimer Mouse” welcomed us with his marching band. The…
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. (Tao Te Ching 11) * We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. (Tao Te Ching 11) * We hammer wood for a house, but it is the…
A Time Patrol movie “Salaam, Memsahib Renée, Salaam. Is that your little dog? What’s its name?” “Salaam Shah. Her name is Yashmak.” “A pretty name Memsahib. Come! Come! Let’s go to the Boree Bazaar. Jaldi, jaldi.” “Maybe we take the Bara Sahib Cyril’s car? A new French car. Very different from the English cars. Mohamed…
Marseille, June 1962 “Mommy? Why is the Lady crying?” “It’s nothing, Darling. Probably a speck of dust in her eye.” * We were stranded in Marseille. Lived in West Africa at that time. Conakry, in former French Guinea, now independent. My father was the Air France manager there. We’d flown to France for the summer…
A Time Patrol movie We lived in Cambodia from 1956 to 1957. My father worked for Prince Norodom Sihanouk, running the brand new national airline, Royal Air Cambodge. During that time, he and my mother made numerous trips across South-east Asia, looking for business opportunities. One of those trips was to Bankgok, in 1956. My…
Rue des Saint-Pères, Paris. The Seine is on the left. Saint-Germain-des-prés to the right. “L’homme en blanc”, the “Man in White” is the trademark of Jérôme Mesnager (b.1961) a French street artist. He painted many of those in the neighbourhood, with the shop-owners’ agreement of course, in a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg a French singer…
“An African Childhood” Movie Previously on An African Childhood. We lived in East Africa from 1967 to 1971. One of the greatest kicks was to drive out in the Bush, on “safari”, a Swahili word that just means “trip”. We’d go to a National Park, and look for adventure and animals. On the previous movie,…
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