Day & Age
In this day and age, “this day and age” may be an obsolete term. Things are shifting and blurring. Is it the Information Age? the WMD Age? the New Age? the Toast Age, thaks to global warming? Perhaps “these uncertain times” fits more.
On this day and page, I announce Project Paris, with my stated intention to be in Paris, France on my 60th birthday, which is 450 days from now, and (this is crucial, and the only real reason for Project Paris) in the company of my awe-inspiring Girlfriend, Denise. Paris is the gift I wish to give her.
Upcoming posts will put more flesh on the Project Paris bones. Meanwhile, here are the words to the triple acrostic:
Demonstrated decadence & scorn: Age Noriega
Dilettantes & fops & wastrels: it’s an Age of Sega
Draft The E-Shop Age & there’s no place for a Bodega
Ancient P I O N E E R S & MOVERS shook a willing leg
Artisans & kings & serfs all laid a feudal egg
Add a Renaissance or two & take us up a peg
Yarrowstalks’re meeting & conferring at The Hague
Yesteryear’s passé & yet Eternity is vague
YES to Fine/Tuned Here & Now & NO to Shock/Awe Plague
One with Clay, Image and Text 
Paris, such a great gift! Denise est très chanceuse.
In a similar vein, Diane, my sweetheart for the last 25 years, is planning to be in Paris on her fiftieth, with her friend Genevieve, and to spend a day of excess in the gallery Lafayette. It’s not decided where I will be at the time, but it’s clear I am not part of the Lafayette plan. However, I should reap benefits in the form of exotic and refined lingerie… or so I have been promised.
I’m glad to live in a relatively quiet day and age. I have no nostalgia for past glories, and prefer a boring 1000 pages trade agreement to a war any day.
Here’s hoping that that “relatively quiet”…stays that way, mon vieux! Fingers crossed that the lingerie is to your liking. 🙂