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