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Confidential'/><category term='Aphorisme'/><category term='Printemps'/><category term='rock'/><category term='Earthly Powers'/><category term='Dédé à travers les brumes'/><category term='squirrel'/><category term='fur balls'/><category term='David Cameron'/><category term='Kathleen Battle'/><category term='Misto'/><category term='Hallelujah'/><category term='Manchester Literature Festival'/><category term='bédés'/><category term='Theresa Schwegel'/><category term='Sophie Durocher'/><category term='Irish rovers'/><category term='Tuesday&apos;s Dead'/><category term='Wales'/><category term='Saint John the Baptist'/><category term='Stonehenge'/><category term='Mardi Gras'/><category term='short story'/><category term='Passe-Careau'/><category term='Japan'/><category term='real ales'/><category term='Chicoutimi'/><category term='nouvel an'/><category term='samedi'/><category term='Satan'/><category term='coulée'/><category term='Father&apos;s Day'/><category term='été indien'/><category term='Krapp&apos;s Last Tape'/><category term='heatwave'/><category term='fish and chips'/><category term='taxidermie'/><category term='William Walter'/><category term='Halloween: Sorcières lutins fantômes et autres croquemitaines'/><category term='Alphonse Daudet'/><category term='araignée'/><category term='mint sauce'/><category term='Cicely Berry'/><category term='winter'/><category term='Bladud'/><category term='Magog'/><category term='crime fiction'/><category term='USA'/><category term='Bernard Blier'/><category term='Chez Georges'/><category term='monastery'/><category term='Stabat Mater'/><category term='Big Brother'/><category term='Alain Dubuc'/><category term='Suisse'/><category term='Claude Chabrol'/><category term='Carmina Burana'/><category term='Cyclops'/><category term='forest'/><category term='surrealism'/><category term='The Sound of Silence'/><category term='The Sound of Music'/><category term='Venus'/><category term='St-Hubert'/><category term='Islam'/><category term='Olivieri'/><category term='Mourir pour des idées'/><category term='caterpillar'/><category term='Avent'/><category term='thé'/><category term='Lorenzo da Ponte'/><category term='watermill'/><category term='Morgan'/><category term='Laura Secord'/><category term='bêtes noires'/><category term='Murder on the Orient Epress'/><category term='cupcakes'/><category term='werewolf'/><category term='Dispatches: In God&apos;s Name'/><category term='Christmas tree'/><category term='François Pérusse'/><category term='été'/><category term='Gummy bear'/><category term='rats'/><category term='organised crime'/><category term='moose'/><category term='kouign amann'/><category term='Joanna Lumley'/><category term='religion'/><category term='Félibrée'/><category term='La Dernière Cène'/><category term='fish pie'/><category term='Penrith Castle'/><category term='One Hand Clapping'/><title type='text'>Vraie fiction</title><subtitle type='html'>Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2226</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2477632524985175853</id><published>2012-02-01T23:58:00.043Z</published><updated>2012-02-02T02:33:09.320Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeux de société'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clothes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vêtements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cluedo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='board games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peeking through an open window'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enfance'/><title type='text'>Versatile Blog Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bn5M2nDPxNI/TyjM-O6VpJI/AAAAAAAABSo/wQ0R7QwA0BA/s1600/Blogaward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bn5M2nDPxNI/TyjM-O6VpJI/AAAAAAAABSo/wQ0R7QwA0BA/s320/Blogaward.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I have been tagged and received a Blog Award from &lt;a href="http://taoowl.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tao Owl&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://taoowl.blogspot.com/2012/01/versatile-blogger-award.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. So first I wish to thank Tao.Owl for thinking about me and be generous enough to think that 1)there are 7 interesting random facts about me worthy of knowing and 2)I know 15 bloggers to send this award to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Below are the rules of the award: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) Thank the person that nominated you, and give a shout out on your blog to them with a link to theirs.&lt;br /&gt;2.) Share 7 random facts about yourself.&lt;br /&gt;3.) Send the blog award to 15 other bloggers who's blog you love and appreciate, and let them know they won the award.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's get started with the seven random facts about me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)For some unknown reason, I have some ginger hair in my beard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)I prefer to wear black coats. My Kanuk coat is black, my summer coat is black and so is &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/walk-in-drizzling-rain-and-coat.html"&gt;my Berghaus&lt;/a&gt;. My Liverpool coat to and my old Timberland one. I had coats of other colours, but I prefer black and find them more comfortable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3)Talking about clothes, I always wear the same set of clothes when I travel.Well, two sets really, one for warm/hot weather and one for cold one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4)I prefer to play the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cluedo_characters#Colonel_Mustard"&gt;Colonel Mustard&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo"&gt;Clue/Cluedo&lt;/a&gt;.In fact I prefer to use yellow pieces in board games. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5)As a child with my brothers, I used to "extend" some board games, such as Cluedo &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/01/scotland-yard.html"&gt;and Scotland Yard&lt;/a&gt;, into make belief. "live action" games. We improvised murder parties too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6)I have an accent from Saguenay, which is very distinctive, even among Quebeckers It may not sound like much, but after years away and abroad, it feels great when someone tells me. A friend told me last Monday, just after I said a few words. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7)I am naturally a shy person, which I compensate by opening my mouth a bit too often and too loudly for my own good sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now here are the 15 (fifteen!) bloggers/blogs I give this award to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)&lt;a href="http://gwenbuchanan.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gwen Buchanan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)&lt;a href="http://mozartsgirl.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mozart's Girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3)&lt;a href="http://thehalloweentree.blogspot.com/"&gt;Wendy the (Very Good) Witch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4)&lt;a href="http://thegill-man.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Gill-Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5)&lt;a href="http://strangelittlegirlblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Frog Queen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6)&lt;a href="http://spiritofhalloween.blogspot.com/"&gt;Halloween Spirit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7)&lt;a href="http://voodoo-ghoul.blogspot.com/"&gt;Voodoo Ghoul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8)&lt;a href="http://onxclutpas.blogspot.com/"&gt;Loulou&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9)&lt;a href="http://www.boeingbleudemer.com/"&gt;Cynthia&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10)&lt;a href="http://myfrenchcuisine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Estelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11)&lt;a href="http://profsolitaire.blogspot.com/"&gt;Prof Solitaire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12)&lt;a href="http://octoberfarm.blogspot.com/"&gt;October Farm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13)&lt;a href="http://bleuetfjord.blogspot.com/"&gt;PJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14)&lt;a href="http://ineptiescategoriques.blogspot.com/"&gt;Devadar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15)&lt;a href="http://haphazardlife.wordpress.com/"&gt;Jazz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot wait to read about your seven random facts. Especially since I swept tears and blood to write this post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2477632524985175853?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2477632524985175853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2477632524985175853&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2477632524985175853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2477632524985175853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/versatile-blog-award.html' title='Versatile Blog Award'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bn5M2nDPxNI/TyjM-O6VpJI/AAAAAAAABSo/wQ0R7QwA0BA/s72-c/Blogaward.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-9174462444400382427</id><published>2012-02-01T23:37:00.018Z</published><updated>2012-02-02T00:44:12.708Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samuel Archibald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bookstore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='librairie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='famille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arvida'/><title type='text'>Une heure aux Bouquinistes</title><content type='html'>Petit arrêt obligé lorsque je viens à Chicoutimi: je passe au moins une petite heure à la librairie &lt;a href="http://lesbouquinistes1.blogspot.com/"&gt;Les Bouquinistes&lt;/a&gt;. J'en ai déjà parlé &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/05/page-de-nostalgie-chicoutimienne.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/page-de-nostalgie-chicoutimienne.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. C'est un de mes commerces préférés à Chicoutimi. J'ai expliqué dans mes deux billets de nostalgie chicoutimienne pourquoi je m'en ennuyais. J'y ai notamment acheté &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/09/arvida-la-ville-le-livre-la-famille.html"&gt;Arvida&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Je demanderai au cousin une dédicace lorsque je serai de retour à Montréal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puisque j'étais ma mère, on sait maintenant aux Bouquinistes que je suis le fils de celle-ci et le cousin de l'auteur du bestseller. C'est un peu étrange: j'ai été un client anonyme pendant des décennies, de mon enfance à l'âge adulte. Maintenant je suis presque un notable.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-9174462444400382427?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/9174462444400382427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=9174462444400382427&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/9174462444400382427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/9174462444400382427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/une-heure-aux-bouquinistes.html' title='Une heure aux Bouquinistes'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4308526718054618392</id><published>2012-02-01T19:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-02-01T20:02:18.178Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ours'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ours noir'/><title type='text'>A walk in the snow</title><content type='html'>I had my very first proper walk in the snow today. Just a few minutes in the morning, but still. When I was walking in the drizzling English rain &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/walk-in-drizzling-rain-and-coat.html"&gt;I looked like an otter&lt;/a&gt;, today with my black Kanuk coat I looked like a black bear in the snow. It was a short but nice experience: the smell of the snow and cold air, that gets on the clothes, the slight cracking of the snow underneath my feet, the immaculate white coat all around me. Proper snow and proper winter time. This is one good thing about going &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-water-is-deep.html"&gt;where the water is deep&lt;/a&gt;: Montreal is mainly icy, but Chicoutimi has a real winter.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4308526718054618392?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4308526718054618392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4308526718054618392&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4308526718054618392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4308526718054618392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/walk-in-snow.html' title='A walk in the snow'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5868620560802149038</id><published>2012-02-01T15:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-02-01T15:45:46.675Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home sweet home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (104)</title><content type='html'>Une question existentielle directement inspirée &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/ici-leau-est-profonde.html"&gt;de ce billet&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Est-ce qu'un expatrié ne devient pas de facto un étranger en son pays?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5868620560802149038?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5868620560802149038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5868620560802149038&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5868620560802149038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5868620560802149038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/question-existentielle-104.html' title='Question existentielle (104)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5668600807149802127</id><published>2012-02-01T01:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-02-01T01:49:40.217Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Larry Tremblay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='théâtre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quotation'/><title type='text'>Where the water is deep</title><content type='html'>"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicoutimi is an Amerindian word&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;it means up to where the water is deep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this word refers to the Saguenay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a big a beautiful a splendid river&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;but Chicoutimi as a town is ugly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as every American town&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and this ugliness is very interesting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;but fortunately nature surrounds every town&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in this country&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and nature cannot be ugly&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&amp;amp;Params=A1ARTA0010368"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Larry Tremblay&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=The%20Dragonfly%20of%20Chicoutimi"&gt;The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have quoted Larry Tremblay before, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicoutimi-in-nutshell.html"&gt;this very quote&lt;/a&gt; in fact, but it fits the topic of this post. I am in Chicoutimi, where I grew up, where indeed I spent the first 20 years of my life or so. I had a glimpse of the&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Saguenay, this beautiful, splendid river, and a lot of the ugliness of the town. It didn't change much. I can say that Chicoutimi is ugly without being considered a traitor, I hope, as this ugliness has now been immortalised in a major play. And because ugliness can be interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always come back here with an uneasy feeling. Chicoutimi, as I mentioned &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/ici-leau-est-profonde.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;in French, has a fitting name: it is deep, far away from everywhere, surrounded by forest and nature, the Saguenay river with its deep, deep water, and it affected our psyche: we are as insular as English people, if not more. I wonder if being an expat does not mean, also, becoming a foreigner. I will come back to it in the next days.&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5668600807149802127?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5668600807149802127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5668600807149802127&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5668600807149802127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5668600807149802127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/where-water-is-deep.html' title='Where the water is deep'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6409248452683436303</id><published>2012-02-01T01:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-02-01T01:33:00.444Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay'/><title type='text'>Ici l'eau est profonde</title><content type='html'>Je suis de retour à Chicoutimi depuis aujourd'hui/hier. Je dis aujourd'hui/hier parce que mon blogue fonctionne à l'heure anglaise. Donc, me voici là où l'eau est profonde, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/02/le-bout-du-monde.html"&gt;comme le dit la chanson&lt;/a&gt;.Je me sens vraiment là où l'eau est profonde, même si j'ai à peine vu le Saguenay depuis mon retour.Mais c'est très profond de bien des façons, Chicoutimi. Hier/avant-hier, un ami avec qui j'ai pris un verre (au &lt;a href="http://www.montrealplus.ca/montreal/venues/boudoir-cafe-bar-fr"&gt;Boudoir&lt;/a&gt;) m'a dit que j'avais gardé mon accent saguenéen, en fait qu'il était très prononcé, ce qui m'a bien fait plaisir. C'était plaisant. Cela dit, je me demande si je suis capable de passer pour un "local". Un expatrié ne devient-il pas un peu étranger en son pays, de facto? J'en ai discuté avec mon ami, d'ailleurs. J'en ferai peut-être une question existentielle.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6409248452683436303?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6409248452683436303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6409248452683436303&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6409248452683436303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6409248452683436303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/02/ici-leau-est-profonde.html' title='Ici l&apos;eau est profonde'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5615375716026958870</id><published>2012-01-30T22:56:00.011Z</published><updated>2012-01-31T00:05:29.647Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Folie en Vrac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Pellegrino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Sandwich treats from Montreal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q8_dHtpdXD0/Tycbua8ibBI/AAAAAAAABSg/XgaQrD3iDuc/s1600/IMG_0565.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q8_dHtpdXD0/Tycbua8ibBI/AAAAAAAABSg/XgaQrD3iDuc/s320/IMG_0565.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It's not because I am home that I stop having &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/friday-treats-sandwich-and-others.html"&gt;my sandwich treats&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, no matter how I like the sandwich shop close to work, there is nothing I love more than the wraps I buy here at &lt;a href="http://www.mont-royal.net/articles/26/folie-en-vrac-du-maroc-au-plateau-_0594.html"&gt;Folie en Vrac&lt;/a&gt; (sorry I couldn't find anything in English). It is a fancy food shop , with strong Mediterranean/North African influcences. They sell olives, dry fruits, nuts, pasta, biological crisps, olive oil, baklavas, what have you. And they also have a sandwich bar, or whatever you call it, where they serve wraps. Today and eysterday, I had a wrap for lunch: végé pâté, with spinach sauce and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzatziki"&gt;tzatziki &lt;/a&gt;sauce (yesterday) and spinach sauce and some kind of yogurt sauce (today). Lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, green olives, a drizzle of olive oil, some herbs and spices (curry and coriander I think).And a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pellegrino"&gt;San Pellegrino&lt;/a&gt; to drink (aranciatta rossa). Quite a feast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5615375716026958870?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5615375716026958870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5615375716026958870&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5615375716026958870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5615375716026958870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/sandwich-treats-from-montreal.html' title='Sandwich treats from Montreal'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q8_dHtpdXD0/Tycbua8ibBI/AAAAAAAABSg/XgaQrD3iDuc/s72-c/IMG_0565.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2848982433326304485</id><published>2012-01-30T13:38:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-30T13:42:22.157Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saisons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seasons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><title type='text'>Couleur locale montréalaise</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-dxlNwMdXk/TyaYWBTyT8I/AAAAAAAABSQ/I4sAtDU8Lfc/s1600/IMG_0559.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-dxlNwMdXk/TyaYWBTyT8I/AAAAAAAABSQ/I4sAtDU8Lfc/s320/IMG_0559.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Une photo prise hier. C,est typique de Montréal en hiver: un peu de neige et beaucoup de glace. Marcher sur la glace c'est comme la bicyclette, ça ne se perd pas, cela dit c'est toujours un peu déstabilisant lorsqu'on s'y remet. Il faut vraiment avoir été absent longtemps pour s'en ennuyer. Cet aspect -là de l'hiver, en général, me laisse de glace (ouch!), mais marcher dans Montréal, même quand ça glisse, c'est une activité qui m'a longtemps manqué. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai donné comme titre du billet "&lt;i&gt;couleur locale montréalais&lt;/i&gt;e". Ce qui veut dire, en hiver: gris, blanc, brun. Mes prochaines vacances ici, je vais essayer de les prendre en automne.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2848982433326304485?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2848982433326304485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2848982433326304485&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2848982433326304485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2848982433326304485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/couleur-locale-montrealaise.html' title='Couleur locale montréalaise'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-dxlNwMdXk/TyaYWBTyT8I/AAAAAAAABSQ/I4sAtDU8Lfc/s72-c/IMG_0559.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6993226762566711019</id><published>2012-01-29T16:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-29T16:16:56.444Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home sweet home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><title type='text'>Live from Montreal</title><content type='html'>I am typing this on my &lt;a href="http://ineptiescategoriques.blogspot.com/"&gt;brother&lt;/a&gt;'s computer (I will hand it back shortly) at the family's station in Montreal.I am on holiday, jetlagged for now but enjoying being here again.So this will be a short post, merely a reminder that I am not dead (although I feel slightly zombie) and sitll blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say I have not much to say so far (but stay tuned), however the journey here already gave me a great unknown line. As I was buying my bus ticket to go to Heathrow, the bus driver gave me the price for a long journey return and then asked: "&lt;i&gt;Is that okay with you sir?&lt;/i&gt;" And I replied: "&lt;i&gt;Well, you tell me&lt;/i&gt;." Did he expect me to bargain for it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6993226762566711019?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6993226762566711019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6993226762566711019&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6993226762566711019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6993226762566711019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/live-from-montreal.html' title='Live from Montreal'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2067691626884995311</id><published>2012-01-29T16:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-29T16:07:58.588Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beurre d&apos;arachide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='breakfast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plateau Mont-Royal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kraft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peanut butter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Koka Loka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restaurants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home sweet home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Déjeuner'/><title type='text'>En direct de Montréal</title><content type='html'>Je suis de retour au pays natal depuis hier. Je suis en plein décalage-horaire et je me sens tout cotonneux. Quelques observations éparses sur mon retour au bercail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Les douaniers me considèrent maintenant un peu comme un étranger. &lt;br /&gt;-Je sens curieusement sentimental lorsque j'entends un accent québécois.&lt;br /&gt;-Les lumières de Noël restent accrochées trop longtemps sur le Plateau).&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;-Le 940, avenue du Mont-Royal Est est &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/le-mystere-du-940-avenue-mont-royal-est.html"&gt;sans doute bien maudi&lt;/a&gt;t: Koka Loka est fermé.&lt;br /&gt;-C'est comme si je n'avais jamais cessé de manger du beurre d'arachide pour le déjeuner.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2067691626884995311?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2067691626884995311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2067691626884995311&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2067691626884995311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2067691626884995311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/en-direct-de-montreal.html' title='En direct de Montréal'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-257421383962585568</id><published>2012-01-27T23:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-27T23:54:49.796Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><title type='text'>Waiting at the train station</title><content type='html'>I was waiting by the train station tonight, on my way home. It was cold, not freezing but still cold, it had rained a lot by the end of the afternoon so it felt quite wet. Like &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/walk-in-drizzling-rain-and-coat.html"&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, I enjoyed this quiet moment after a hard day. I didn't see&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/three-cats-on-railway.html"&gt; the cats&lt;/a&gt;, sadly. If it hadn't been so cold, I would have felt like in a spaghetti western (&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;). It is not even far fetched: I saw a few days ago a woman wearing cowboy hat and coat, she looked like Clint Eastwood (or Clint Eastwood's female wannabe). She was eccentric, but I thought the clothes were appropriate for the journey. I associate train travels &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/06/orient-express.html"&gt;with adventure and mystery&lt;/a&gt;, and the small, middle of nowhere train station I was in felt very much like a great setting for the beginning of such story. This reminded me why the train is maybe my favourite mode of transport.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-257421383962585568?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/257421383962585568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=257421383962585568&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/257421383962585568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/257421383962585568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/waiting-at-train-station.html' title='Waiting at the train station'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6145123117310499695</id><published>2012-01-27T21:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-27T21:55:01.343Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sweden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique québécoise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='En pleine face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Suède'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='song'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chanson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Harmonium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><title type='text'>Musique pour la route</title><content type='html'>Je pars en voyage bientôt, je retourne au bercail pour deux semaines. Je me demandais comment souligner ça. Et puis j'ai pensé à Harmonium. Dans une autre vie (mon adolescence), j'ai déjà écouté &lt;i&gt;Les Cinq saisons&lt;/i&gt; sur la route en... Suède. On se rendait Moment interculturel postmoderne particulièrement unique. Maintenant, ça n'a rien de spécial, les frontières sont devenues tellement poreuses, mais à l'époque (je parle de l'été 1994) c'était surréaliste. Alors voilà, j'ai décidé de mettre la chanson ici.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QE5zljL03qM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6145123117310499695?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6145123117310499695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6145123117310499695&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6145123117310499695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6145123117310499695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/musique-pour-la-route.html' title='Musique pour la route'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/QE5zljL03qM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2417884592479299047</id><published>2012-01-26T22:33:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-26T22:36:31.524Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loutre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pluie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clothes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vêtements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otter'/><title type='text'>A walk in the drizzling rain (and a coat)</title><content type='html'>This is another post about those little nothings that make life (I do them &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/06/little-nothings-that-make-life.html"&gt;sometimes&lt;/a&gt;). I hadn't made my lunch yesterday so had to go to my favourite place to buy a sandwich. It was rainy, but nothing Apocalyptic, just a small drizzle. And I really enjoyed it. I do enjoy walks in the rain &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-can-be-beautiful.html"&gt;sometimes&lt;/a&gt;. It is not a walk in the snow, but it is enjoyable nevertheless. And I will have my walks in the snow soon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That might sound silly, but after a monotonous yet exhausting month, it was a nice, calming moment. And I also have a good coat that keeps me warm and that is so very nicely waterproof. For those looking for one and who are not shocked by this shameless publicity bit, it's a &lt;a href="http://www.berghaus.com/en/homepage.html"&gt;Berghaus&lt;/a&gt;. Back in Liverpool, I bought a cheap winter coat in an open market, I thought it was warm and waterproof, it ended up being neither. I still like it, I wonder why. With my new one, I look like an otter when I put the hood up and it rains. I feel like one too. Rain is enjoyable if you can stay dry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2417884592479299047?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2417884592479299047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2417884592479299047&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2417884592479299047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2417884592479299047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/walk-in-drizzling-rain-and-coat.html' title='A walk in the drizzling rain (and a coat)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1149100094650612438</id><published>2012-01-26T19:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-26T19:30:42.797Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (103)</title><content type='html'>Une question qui est d'une certaine importance pour moi, étant donné que je pars en voyage bientôt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Que faire dans un aéroport pour passer le temps avant son vol?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai déjà certaines réponses, mais je suis curieux d'avoir les vôtres.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1149100094650612438?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1149100094650612438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1149100094650612438&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1149100094650612438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1149100094650612438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-103.html' title='Question existentielle (103)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6454774306308067074</id><published>2012-01-25T21:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-25T21:58:36.103Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Dillahunty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alligators'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maximum Bob'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elmore Leonard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocodiles'/><title type='text'>Of cats and crocs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MDDMhuVLrYg/TyBxXg9l2VI/AAAAAAAABSI/ORFGZFIxh3M/s1600/Feline.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MDDMhuVLrYg/TyBxXg9l2VI/AAAAAAAABSI/ORFGZFIxh3M/s320/Feline.JPG" width="283" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sometimes there are news that make me despair of the human race, yet there are others that make me marvel about the animal kingdom. And when I learn about cats, it is to marvel at their intelligence, beauty, resilience, and overall superiority. Cats are &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/07/cats-are-superior-creatures.html"&gt;superior creatures&lt;/a&gt; and I am convinced that one day, when mankind will have disappeared due to its own stupidity, the feline race will take over and this planet will be in good hands. Or paws. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, yesterday &lt;a href="http://www.atheist-experience.com/people/matt_dillahunty/"&gt;Matt Dillahunty&lt;/a&gt; linked on Facebook an article about a sicko who had &lt;a href="http://www.fortytwotimes.com/346/someone-kills-a-democratic-campaign-managers-cat-writes-liberal-on-the-body/"&gt;murdered a cat of a Democratic Campaign Manager&lt;/a&gt;. It had got me very upset and gave me bad dreams. Wanton cruelty over animals, especially animals I love, always makes me upset. I learnt today in the &lt;a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/home/"&gt;Metro&lt;/a&gt; (your reference for pointless news when you are tired) that&lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4085368/Alligator-loses-cat-fight.html"&gt; a cat had won a fight against an alligator&lt;/a&gt; over some chicken. It scared the alligator off! Somebody filmed it and it got viral on Youtube. Okay, this is pure trashy news. And after watching the video I am honestly not very proud of the human species I mean somebody should have worried about the cat. I didn't like the cheap laugh, the amused comments, the whole &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Funniest_Home_Videos"&gt;&lt;i&gt;America's Funniest Home Videos&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; feel and look, nothing in fact but the fearless, in your face attitude of the feline.It is the attitude that got the better of the saurian, not the cat's size, not its claws or fangs, but its stare, its fearlessness, its character. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know exactly why, but I make an association with both stories. In &lt;a href="http://www.elmoreleonard.com/"&gt;Elmore Leonard&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maximum-Bob-Elmore-Leonard/dp/0753822393"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maximum Bob&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, an ex-convict, pathetic criminal is compared to an alligator: stupid, mean, but dangerous. The sick guy who killed a cat is also a mean, stupid, cold blooded, cold heart saurian. He should be locked away for good. But hey there are cats. Smart creatures that can hold their ground. It does not mean they are soft: anyone who has seen a cat hunting can witness how merciless they can be. But there is no real meanness to it: cats do it out of hunger and for self preservation. And unlike crocodiles, alligators and other saurians (who eat their own offspring) they are capable of tenderness and empathy. And they get the better of alligators sometimes. I hesitated to upload the video here, but decided to do it anyway. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DiyWXQyAJ44" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6454774306308067074?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6454774306308067074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6454774306308067074&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6454774306308067074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6454774306308067074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/of-cats-and-crocs.html' title='Of cats and crocs'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MDDMhuVLrYg/TyBxXg9l2VI/AAAAAAAABSI/ORFGZFIxh3M/s72-c/Feline.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8194758733180218264</id><published>2012-01-25T21:10:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-25T21:59:38.844Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plateau Mont-Royal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Koka Loka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restaurants'/><title type='text'>Le mystère du 940, avenue Mont-Royal Est</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gridskipper.com/assets/resources/2007/09/le%20940%20montreal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://gridskipper.com/assets/resources/2007/09/le%20940%20montreal.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Je bloguais &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/ce-qui-aura-change-montreal.html"&gt;hier &lt;/a&gt;sur ce que je retrouverai et ce qui a disparu à Montréal et surtout sur le Plateau. Il y a une chose en particulier que je veux vérifier, un détail qui me taraude, parce que c'est la manifestation d'un phénomène que je crois être le seul à avoir remarqué: y aura-t-il un restaurant au &lt;a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=940+avenue+mont-royal+est&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla:fr:official&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=940+Avenue+Du+Mont-Royal+Est,+Montr%C3%A9al,+QC&amp;amp;gl=ca&amp;amp;ei=kavIS_SqFYS8lQf46OHpCQ&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;amp;ct=title&amp;amp;resnum=1&amp;amp;ved=0CAcQ8gEwAA"&gt;940, avenue du Mont-Royal Est&lt;/a&gt;? J'ai déjà blogué sur la (possible) &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/04/la-malediction-du-940.html"&gt;malédiction du 940&lt;/a&gt;. L'adresse a été tour à tour le Green Stop, ouvert en grandes pompes à l'automne 1997 (mon frère et moi n'avions pu profiter du repas hot dog et frites gratuits parce que c'était bondé), pour mourir quelques années plus tard (j'y ai finalement mangé une fois, les frites étaient dégeulasses), pour ensuite devenir le 940 simplement et ensuite le Koka Loka, un truc mexicain sans vraiment de personnalité, ou plutôt voulant si désespérément en avoir une qu'il en était quétaine (côté expérience culinaire c'était correct). Je ne me rappelle plus s'il y a eu d'autres aventures dans la restauration au 940 entre ces trois restaurants. Aux dernières nouvelles, &lt;a href="http://kokaloka.ca/"&gt;le site&lt;/a&gt; du Koka Loka semble fermé. Pas que ça ait été une expérience gastronomique transcendante, mais s'il est fermé, je pense que l'adresse est bien maudite et j'en ai des frissons dans le dos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parce que c'est quand même étrange, que la guigne s'abatte ainsi sur un commerce situé sur un coin de rue, en plein coeur du Plateau. Je sais, je sais, c'est pas comme s'il n'y avait pas des millions de restaurants dans le coin. Et je sais aussi que c'est un milieu coupe-gorge. Mais il y en avait au moins un qui avait toutes les chances de succès: le 940 était un bon bistro beau-bon-pas cher, où on pouvait se bourrer la fraise et boire généreusement (de la Boréale rousse je crois, c'est toujours la Boréale qu'ils semblent offrir dans les restaurants à Montréal) pour deux et ça ne coûtait pas 40$. Il faut dire que c'était il y a déjà quelques années. Et c'est peut-être parce que c'était abordable dans un coin où la concurrence était féroce, rempli de restaurants bien établis (juste à côté de l'Avenue, c'est peut-être même suicidaire), que le 940 est mort. Maintenant, ce n'est plus qu'un souvenir: j'ai trouvé la photographie téléchargée sur ce billet &lt;a href="http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/062/62382.php"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. Un souvenir qui a l'esprit de la fatalité. Il reste une autre image du 940, en fait: allez sur Google Map et faites street view, vous le verrez alors qu'il était fermé.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8194758733180218264?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8194758733180218264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8194758733180218264&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8194758733180218264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8194758733180218264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/le-mystere-du-940-avenue-mont-royal-est.html' title='Le mystère du 940, avenue Mont-Royal Est'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4417970938076654539</id><published>2012-01-24T23:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-24T23:15:24.391Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mafia Inc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='André Cédilot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littérature policière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='André Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maffia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><title type='text'>Crime reads in my city</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.indiebound.com/403/360/9780307360403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://images.indiebound.com/403/360/9780307360403.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I am going back to Montreal on holidays soon. After nearly two years of absence, it is about time. I don't know exactly what I will do on my first day in the city to get over the jetlag, many friends want to see me already, but I know I will visit a few of my old places, among them the &lt;a href="http://www.bouquinerieduplateau.com/accueil-contacter-un-libraire/"&gt;Bouquinerie du Plateau&lt;/a&gt;, where I will very likely buy a second hand &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9rie_noire"&gt;Série Noire&lt;/a&gt;. On holidays, I read crime fiction a lot, I mean even more than usual. And on top of that I read real crime books, such as &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Mafia-Inc-Bloody-Canadas-Sicilian/dp/0307360407"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mafia Inc&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (albeit I read it &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/comme-un-roman-policier.html"&gt;in French&lt;/a&gt;), a brilliant history of the mafia in Montreal. It has been on my bookshelves for ages, I savour it like little by little.I am tempted to bring the book with me, just to read it &lt;i&gt;there&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more I read crime fiction and real crime history, the more I think that Montreal is such an ideal setting for crime fiction. It has been criminally (ha, ha, ha! the pun!) neglected as a genre. I mean yes, we made one really good&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/05/omert-qubec-version.html"&gt; TV series&lt;/a&gt; (or two), but the literary genre is not really developed. And yet, there is so much to work on, to start with our messy crime history. Kevin Burton Smith (fellow Montrealer) summed it up &lt;a href="http://www.thrillingdetective.com/mtl.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. We have everything: a history of violence, a history of corruption, aa history of tensions between various communities, of tensions between the various police forces, the geography, at the gate of America yet with a port that leads to the Old World. It is just such a great setting, with atmosphere and character(s).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4417970938076654539?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4417970938076654539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4417970938076654539&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4417970938076654539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4417970938076654539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/crime-reads-in-my-city.html' title='Crime reads in my city'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7108381190333188849</id><published>2012-01-24T20:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-24T20:53:55.942Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plateau Mont-Royal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><title type='text'>Ce qui aura changé à Montréal</title><content type='html'>Je vais bientôt revenir à Montréal (dans un grand Boeing bleu de mer, la la lère). Et à chaque fois je me demande avec une certaine angoisse ce qui aura changé, surtout sur le Plateau. Quels commerces sont demeurés ouverts, lesquels ont fermés, etc. Parfois, j'ai l'impression que tout a changé, d'autres fois il me suffit de faire un saut J'ai écrit deux billets sur ce Montréal d'hier que j'ai surtout connu: &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/04/page-de-nostalgie-montrealaise.html"&gt;ici &lt;/a&gt;et &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/05/page-de-nostalgie-montrealaise-2.html"&gt;là&lt;/a&gt;. Il y a des arrêts obligés là où je sais rien n'aura changé: les bouquineries, les fruiteries, certains commerces. Mais je me demande quelle apparence aura, disons, l'Avenue Mont-Royal, depuis deux ans d'exil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7108381190333188849?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7108381190333188849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7108381190333188849&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7108381190333188849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7108381190333188849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/ce-qui-aura-change-montreal.html' title='Ce qui aura changé à Montréal'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6407363300997404968</id><published>2012-01-23T22:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-23T22:59:12.649Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='football'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tennis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Angleterre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><title type='text'>A new (old) great unknown line</title><content type='html'>I am not inspired much tonight. Maybe it's Monday, well, it obviously is Monday, but I mean maybe it is because it is Monday. but stay tuned, I will soon have some interesting things to say. I hope. But now, I decided to blog a great unknown line I heard recently. I was waiting for a night without inspiration to write it on the blog. And I need to warn my readerships now: I know &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/friday-treats-sandwich-and-others.html"&gt;I often blog about sandwiches&lt;/a&gt;, but this is a great unknown line that was triggered because of sandwiches.Great unknown lines are often about food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I was at my desk at work a few weeks ago and a colleague came back from Waitrose or Sainsbury's with her lunch, there was some cheap sandwich and she was mentioning how poor quality were the sandwiches you buy in supermarkets. My manager said: "you should trust the English to make good sandwiches, we invented them." Which is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich"&gt;true&lt;/a&gt;. And then another colleague (Welsh), said the great unknown line: "&lt;i&gt;The English invented football and tennis, it doesn't mean they are good at it.&lt;/i&gt;" The whole room started laughing. I don't follow either football or tennis, but even I can appreciate it. And like &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/11/winter-snow-and-great-unknown-line.html"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, it can work for every nation, you just need to change the invention.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6407363300997404968?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6407363300997404968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6407363300997404968&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6407363300997404968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6407363300997404968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-old-great-unknown-line.html' title='A new (old) great unknown line'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-383637528802115063</id><published>2012-01-23T21:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-23T21:32:06.005Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atocas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Série Noire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kraft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saint-Viateur Bagel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canneberges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bagels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cranberries'/><title type='text'>La liste de l'expatrié</title><content type='html'>Je suis sur le point de revenir au Québec, après près de deux ans d'absence. Sans blague. Deux ans. Bon, ce sont des vacances, mais quand même. Alors comme tout bon expatrié qui se respecte, je vais me stocker (quand je peux en transporter dans mes valises) et me goinfrer (quand je ne peux pas) en denrées inexistentes ici. Ce qui veut dire:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Des bagels &lt;a href="http://www.stviateurbagel.com/main/"&gt;de Saint-Viateur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;-Du beurre d'arachide Kraft. &lt;br /&gt;-Du jus d'atocas 100% pur chaque matin dans mon jus d'orange (photo &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/01/je-mennuie-des-djeuners-montralais.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;-De la bière québécoise. Pas qu'il manque de la bière de qualité ici, mais je m'ennuie quand même de celle de chez nous. Et NON, je ne veux pas dire la Molson ou la Labatt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Pour les petits gâteaux Vachon, j'hésite encore. Son insignifiance &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/06/maxime-bernier-pathtique.html"&gt;Maxime Bernier&lt;/a&gt; aime, alors moi j'aime moins.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et ainfin de montrer que ce n'est pas seulement une question de bouffe, il y a autre chose aussi que je vais me procurer au Québec, dans une bouquinerie sans doute: &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/serie-noire.html"&gt;un titre de Série Noire&lt;/a&gt;. Et je ne sais pas encore lequel, c'est le plaisir de bouquiner... Mais enfin bref, lorsque vous revenez au pays, qu'est-ce que vous achetez/mangez? Qu'est-ce qui vous a manqué le plus?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-383637528802115063?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/383637528802115063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=383637528802115063&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/383637528802115063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/383637528802115063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-liste-de-lexpatrie.html' title='La liste de l&apos;expatrié'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8887787422338761503</id><published>2012-01-22T21:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-22T21:36:39.592Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Natalie Dessay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opéra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zaide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restaurants'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozart'/><title type='text'>Dinner and opera?</title><content type='html'>I live in a posh town, with many, many restaurants, sometimes I think there are more restaurants than there are people. And this is not counting the pubs. Some are chains, some are family places, others are fancy places. And this is not counting pubs. There is a relatively new restaurant, a year old at the most, a posh restaurant with expensive meals. It looks like a nice enough place, on a first floor that gives a view to the main street, the menu if expensive seems nice enough (that said I enjoy any place with a good choice of fish) but I find the way they branded the restaurant a bit... pretentious? I am just not so sure about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And recently, I discovered that they are having special evenings, among them opera nights. Basically, it's an evening three courses meal with a soprano singing famour opera arias. At £35 all in all (I guess it is without counting the drinks). I am of two minds about it. Seriously. I mean the concept is interesting, it mixes two pleasures in life and if the food and the music are good, well it could be a winner. But my problem is that it could be an excuse for snobbery. The danger with art, any art, is that sometimes the crowd and being part of the crowd is more important than the art itself. Interesting fact that kind of bugs me: on the restaurant's website, I can see the menu for the Opera Night, but not the programme. I know what I would eat, from starter to dessert (fish, fish and then chocolate), but I have no idea what I would listen to. And it keeps bugging me. For much cheaper I can make dinner fior a few friends myself, I can get a CD or two, I can invite a few friends and I can have my own Opera Night. After a few glasses I might sing a bit myself. It will not be as professional, but I can guarantee it will not be half bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot blog about opera without uploading here an aria. So I decided to put here something from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaide"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zaide&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, an unfinished work of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart"&gt;Mozart&lt;/a&gt;. Interpreted by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Dessay"&gt;Natalie Dessay&lt;/a&gt;. Someone I doubt we can have in a local restaurant, unfortunately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oFQA11j39EI" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8887787422338761503?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8887787422338761503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8887787422338761503&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8887787422338761503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8887787422338761503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/dinner-and-opera.html' title='Dinner and opera?'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/oFQA11j39EI/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6408347516209734259</id><published>2012-01-22T19:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-22T19:56:02.684Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SPVM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organised crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patrick Lagacé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime organisé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littérature policière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Boisvert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maffia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='police'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><title type='text'>Tragédie policière moderne</title><content type='html'>Je suis avec intérêt l'actualité policière québécoise. Récemment, je suis plutôt servi côté vrai drame policier. Il y a eu la condamnation de Tony Conte &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-realite-qui-rejoint-la-fiction.html"&gt;dont j'ai parlé vendredi&lt;/a&gt;. Mais l'Affaire Davidson, sur la taupe du SPVM qui a tenté de vendre une liste d'agents doubles à la maffia, est plus troublante et plus rocambolesque. La chronique de Patrick Lagacé sur le sujet &lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/chroniqueurs/patrick-lagace/201201/20/01-4488012-laffaire-davidson.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B13b_patrick-lagace_3269_section_POS1"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. Il y aurait là la matière d'un roman policier, mais dans le genre profondément tragique: un officier de police respecté de son entourage, un membre de l'élite même, qui trahit les siens, qui est ensuite en danger de mort et qui a peut-être été poussé au suicide par ses anciens collègues. Cette histoire-là, je l'ai lue à plusieurs reprises, vue aussi. Yves Boisvert mentionne &lt;i&gt;Le Parrain II &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/boisvert/2012/01/19/ballade-pour-un-traitre/"&gt;sur son blogue&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Je pourrais en nommer d'autres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais là, on parle de la réalité, pire, de l'actualité policière. La tragédie s'est jouée, se joue, dans notre époque, dans notre Québec. Les flics qui manquent de loyauté,&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-loyaute-dun-flic.html"&gt; je les méprise profondément&lt;/a&gt;. La faute d'Ian Davidson était plus grave, mais ses motivations sont jusqu'ici&lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/justice-et-faits-divers/201201/21/01-4488085-pour-quelles-raisons-devient-on-une-taupe.php"&gt; tellement nébuleuses&lt;/a&gt; que je suis plus troublé qu'en colère. Et peut-être aussi qu'à cause du suicide je ne peux pas le mépriser autant que je le ferais.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6408347516209734259?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6408347516209734259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6408347516209734259&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6408347516209734259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6408347516209734259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/tragedie-policiere-moderne.html' title='Tragédie policière moderne'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8479501593892387917</id><published>2012-01-22T13:17:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-22T13:17:43.752Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melancholia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fin de semaine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dimanche'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wind'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mélancolie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weekend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><title type='text'>Wind and state of mind</title><content type='html'>As it is Sunday and the weekend is quickly going away, I am feeling my usual melancholic self today. I also feel little inspiration to blog. Today there is a furious wind outside, so strong that the window frames shake a bit and I saw a cedar tree bend down. I was surprised it didn't snap altogether. I get impressed &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/primitive-but-gloomy-happiness.html"&gt;by these details&lt;/a&gt;: strong blowing wind, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/cedar-branch.html"&gt;broken down branches&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; or trees. The weather of this country is supposed to be moderate, temperate, average, but there is nothing average about the weather.The strenght of the wind never cease to amaze me and I find it quite a show. It breaks the monotony of this Sunday, chases it away. I hope it brings me some inspiration for later. I sound like a lousy poet, but weather do influence my state of mind. As a child, I could spend ages walking around the garden on a windy day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8479501593892387917?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8479501593892387917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8479501593892387917&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8479501593892387917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8479501593892387917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/wind-and-state-of-mind.html' title='Wind and state of mind'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3298718154834233837</id><published>2012-01-22T12:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-22T12:27:21.206Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='squirrel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melancholia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fin de semaine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dimanche'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='écureuil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décorations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mélancolie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weekend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><title type='text'>Un dimanche d'oisiveté (et un écureuil)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F_WwtYVR4JY/Txv5x9DI_dI/AAAAAAAABSA/-BRI2gi_2UA/s1600/IMG_0541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F_WwtYVR4JY/Txv5x9DI_dI/AAAAAAAABSA/-BRI2gi_2UA/s320/IMG_0541.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Le dimanche est souvent un jour de ménage ici, ce que j'ai fait un peu depuis le début de la journée. Cela dit, à part faire le ménage, je n'ai pas fait grand-chose. Je m'ennuie souvent le dimanche, c'est une journée par définition mélancolique. &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/moment-de-nostalgie-dominicale.html"&gt;À Montréal&lt;/a&gt;, ce serait (&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/je-reviendrai-officiellement-montreal.html"&gt;sera&lt;/a&gt;) différent. Le dimanche, ce n'est pas tant faire quelque chose qui est difficile, c'est trouver intérêt dans ce que l'on fait. J'associe encore la journée à &lt;i&gt;La Semaine Sainte&lt;/i&gt;, émission de Radio-Canada qui je crois n'existe plus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et j'ai décidé de mettre ici une photo d'une décoration un peu quétaine d'un écureuil. C'est un truc en plastique qu'on colle aux fenêtres, je l'ai achetée à moitié prix. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, je l'aime bien (j'ai même songé à utiliser cette image &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pinte-de-biere-bulles.html"&gt;pour la photo du mois&lt;/a&gt;). Il y a deux raisons pour laquelle j'ai téléchargé cette photo ici: 1)Observer les écureuils était souvent une activité dominicale de l'oisif que je suis, même lorsqu'ils étaient gris et gros et un peu moches comme à Montréal. Je les préfère roux. 2)J'associe également le dimanche à &lt;a href="http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_semaine_verte/2011-2012/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Semaine Verte&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, émission qui existe toujours. La musique du générique est pour moi l'incarnation même de la mélancolie dominicale. Ah oui, et ça parle de nature, d'où l'écureuil.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3298718154834233837?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3298718154834233837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3298718154834233837&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3298718154834233837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3298718154834233837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-dimanche-doisivete-et-un-ecureuil.html' title='Un dimanche d&apos;oisiveté (et un écureuil)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F_WwtYVR4JY/Txv5x9DI_dI/AAAAAAAABSA/-BRI2gi_2UA/s72-c/IMG_0541.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-9011616009748747264</id><published>2012-01-21T19:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-21T19:33:34.101Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog Love Therapy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><title type='text'>Giving Vraie Fiction some exposure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bloglovetherapy.blogspot.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="BlogLoveTherapy" height="129" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xVXeeAuYXyQ/TwpxyB0p9EI/AAAAAAAAAE0/zgtVvXgvyuE/s1600/BlogLoveTherapyButton.jpg" width="129" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As my readership knows, I am trying to widen my readership. Not that I don't think the readers I have are unworthy or anything, but I just want to have &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;more &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;readers. So I suscribed to &lt;a href="http://bloglovetherapy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blog Love Therapy&lt;/a&gt; recently, a blog directory that &lt;a href="http://tao.owl/"&gt;Tao.Owl&lt;/a&gt; made me discover. Vraie Fiction is in the Personal Blogs section. It is in many ways a personal blog, in spite of its title. Let's see if it brings me more readers. It is the first blog directory I have ever suscribed to. I wonder if among the DIY, cooking and fashion blogs I saw there mine will stand out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-9011616009748747264?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/9011616009748747264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=9011616009748747264&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/9011616009748747264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/9011616009748747264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/giving-vraie-fiction-some-exposure.html' title='Giving Vraie Fiction some exposure'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xVXeeAuYXyQ/TwpxyB0p9EI/AAAAAAAAAE0/zgtVvXgvyuE/s72-c/BlogLoveTherapyButton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1463991588336300818</id><published>2012-01-21T18:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-21T18:50:30.190Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (102)</title><content type='html'>Une question existentielle pratique, pour faire changement:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-À partir de quand devrait-on commencer à faire ses valises quand on part en voyage?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1463991588336300818?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1463991588336300818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1463991588336300818&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1463991588336300818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1463991588336300818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-102.html' title='Question existentielle (102)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5047010181763754217</id><published>2012-01-20T23:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-20T23:07:25.263Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cashew'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saumon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolat chaud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hot chocolate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cachou'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coca Cola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muffins'/><title type='text'>Friday treats (sandwich and others)</title><content type='html'>After the disappointment of &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/sandwich-treat-lukewarm-results.html"&gt;last Friday's sandwich treat&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to play it safe today: it was a simple smoked salmon baguette, with red onions, Philadelphia cheese, tomatoes, lemon, salt and pepper. Maybe&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/sandwich-friday-treat.html"&gt; my favourite &lt;/a&gt;so far. With Coca Cola and cashew nuts, as usual. And in the morning I had for breakfast a totally decadent chocolate muffin with a hot chocolate, courtesy of &lt;a href="http://cafe2u.com/uk/"&gt;Café2U&lt;/a&gt;. I could &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/italian-language-and-food-again.html"&gt;exercise my Italian&lt;/a&gt; too. Not much, but it was a nice moment all the same.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5047010181763754217?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5047010181763754217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5047010181763754217&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5047010181763754217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5047010181763754217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/friday-treats-sandwich-and-others.html' title='Friday treats (sandwich and others)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-784986408125419698</id><published>2012-01-20T22:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-20T22:25:32.518Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organised crime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime organisé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='actors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Omertà: la Loi du Silence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tony Conte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acteur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Omertà'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maffia'/><title type='text'>La réalité qui rejoint la fiction</title><content type='html'>Je suis l'actualité criminelle montréalaise et québécoise avec beaucoup d'intérêt. Je suis aussi un grand amateur de littérature et de séries policières. La réalité qui rejoint la fiction est peut-être un cliché, mais ça n'empêche pas de m'étonner à chaque fois que ça se produit, comme aujourd'hui: &lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/justice-et-faits-divers/201201/20/01-4487796-tony-conte-reconnu-coupable.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B4_manchettes_231_accueil_POS2"&gt;Tony Conte reconnu coupable de trafic de stupéfiant&lt;/a&gt;. J'avais surtout apprécié Conte dans &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/05/verra-t-on-omert-nouveau-au-qubec.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Omertà&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, où il jouait bien sûr le rôle d'un maffieux. Dans la série, il s'était aussi fait prendre dans une opération d'importation de drogue. Cela dit, son personnage n'avait pas survécu et s'était fait abattre par Pierre Gauthier. Je ne sais pas qui a eu la meilleure fin: le mafioso qui a meurt comme il a vécu, ou l'acteur déchu qui sera bientôt derrière les barreaux, ayant voulu jouer dans la vie un rôle qui n'était pas le sien.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-784986408125419698?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/784986408125419698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=784986408125419698&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/784986408125419698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/784986408125419698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-realite-qui-rejoint-la-fiction.html' title='La réalité qui rejoint la fiction'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8123939361830733487</id><published>2012-01-19T22:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-19T22:04:21.509Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='actors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pubs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dragon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acteur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saint George'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><title type='text'>Actors in a pub (characters and setting)</title><content type='html'>I am getting back, if I may, to this evening &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/evening-of-social-life-and-nostalgia.html"&gt;I spent in a pub with my fellow thespians&lt;/a&gt;. It was very nice, even though on a Wednesday I am more tired and I tend not to go out for a drink. I only had a pint and a half, but I felt them strongly. Unlike my previous evening out with fellow actors &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/dinnertime-conversations.html"&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;, they were not from the same generation. And we were a small number: my teacher and four students all in all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would all like to act again, in one capacity or another. In my case I really miss the stage. I mean I really loved &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-something-to-do-between-8.html"&gt;the radio play&lt;/a&gt;, but the stage is my natural element, I think, although I haven't tried the screen yet. In any case, it felt good to give and receive news to/from people with shared interest. As I mentioned before, art creates a special bond. I am not a very social person in general, but this is the kind of society I actually enjoy to spend with, it is the community I feel I belong to. I may never be a great actor (by this read: an accomplished/professional one), my career took a radically different path, but I feel more natural as an actor as I am as a anything else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I couldn't help observing the small crowd around us and its surroundings. The pub is I guess a natural place for an actor (&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/weekend-actor.html"&gt;to rehearse&lt;/a&gt; or to booze). But it is also a gathering place for teenagers who are not quite old enough to drink (or don't look like it), employees of a &lt;a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/"&gt;M&amp;amp;S&lt;/a&gt; and well, middle of the week drinkers, all either younger or older than me. The pub had the lovely if common name of George &amp;amp; Dragon, but it is a bland one, part of a chain, everything looks all creamy beige and it smells of fried chicken. It used to look quite nice before it was bought, now it looks like. Well a chain. I was lucky to be in good company, I also had &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/10/official-beer-of-halloween.html"&gt;my favourite beer&lt;/a&gt; to drink, so I enjoyed my time regardless of the characterless surroundings. And it was quiet enough so we could hear our conversations. Still, what a waste of a beautiful name. I might suggest another pub next time, a place with character.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8123939361830733487?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8123939361830733487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8123939361830733487&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8123939361830733487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8123939361830733487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/actors-in-pub-characters-and-setting.html' title='Actors in a pub (characters and setting)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4952232324550152415</id><published>2012-01-19T20:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-19T20:30:43.006Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oiseaux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Une nouvelle (ancienne) photo hivernale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tTO20OC6MMc/Txh7HX6Hf7I/AAAAAAAABR4/p3SNwwDqV-M/s1600/DSC_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tTO20OC6MMc/Txh7HX6Hf7I/AAAAAAAABR4/p3SNwwDqV-M/s320/DSC_0004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Je dis nouvelle et ancienne, parce que bien que je ne l'aie pas publiée ici (enfin je ne crois pas), elle date d'un peu moins d'un an, mon père me l'a envoyée en mars 2011. Je constate que je n'ai pas publié de photo &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pinte-de-biere-bulles.html"&gt;depuis la photo du mois&lt;/a&gt; et que j'ai très peu publié de photos en janvier. Alors j'ai pensé mettre celle-ci, pour une série de raisons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tout d'abord, c'est une photo bien hivernale, avec neige immaculément blanche, alors que l'hiver ici est plutôt pluvieux et morne. Ensuite parce que c'est une photo qui me rappelle que je vais voir cela bientôt, quand &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/je-reviendrai-officiellement-montreal.html"&gt;je vais retourner au bercail&lt;/a&gt;. Ca me rappelle &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/les-gros-becs-errants.html"&gt;aussi des souvenirs&lt;/a&gt;. Finalement, j'aime le contraste tête/gorge rougeâtre de l'oiseau (je sais pas quelle sorte, c'est dire à quel point je suis devenu inculte en ornithologie) et le blanc de la neige. Il n'y a pas à dire, la nature sauvage est parfois bien poétique.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4952232324550152415?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4952232324550152415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4952232324550152415&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4952232324550152415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4952232324550152415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-nouvelle-ancienne-photo-hivernale.html' title='Une nouvelle (ancienne) photo hivernale'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tTO20OC6MMc/Txh7HX6Hf7I/AAAAAAAABR4/p3SNwwDqV-M/s72-c/DSC_0004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7384272985154349847</id><published>2012-01-17T21:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-17T21:45:01.102Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='actors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acteur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mercredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wednesday'/><title type='text'>An evening of social life (and nostalgia)</title><content type='html'>I don't have much of a social life here, sometimes I avoid people even. I don't like spending time with my colleagues outside of work and I love to spend my evenings in. Most of the time that is. I do feel the need to see people, as long as they are like-minded. So I was happy to learn that at last, I was going to see again my fellow actors/acting students, those who did &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-something-to-do-between-8.html"&gt;the radio plays&lt;/a&gt;. We are going to take a pint (or two) in a nearby pub, the same one we went to &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/04/after-acting-night.html"&gt;after we recorded the plays&lt;/a&gt;. That is a nice way to cut the week in half and to end a Wednesday. I am not sure how numerous we are going to be, so far I counted five or six people including me, which isn't that many. But it will be nice to see them again, all the same. Here, it is the closest thing I have to &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/02/circle-of-friends.html"&gt;a circle of friends&lt;/a&gt;, even though they are little more than acquaintances. We do share the same interests, which counts for something. And the bond that is created when one practice an art together is always quite strong, no matter how little we meet. Maybe not as strong as intense. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will also be a time of nostalgia. I say nostalgia and the class ended less than a year ago. But again, it was very intense. And it is something I miss and I am sure I am not the only one. When one gets into acting, it is a hook: he might stop for a while for various reasons (rarely good ones), but the longing stays in him/her. The good thing is that one can start acting again. I don't know when I will do it, but I know I will.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7384272985154349847?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7384272985154349847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7384272985154349847&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7384272985154349847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7384272985154349847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/evening-of-social-life-and-nostalgia.html' title='An evening of social life (and nostalgia)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7198785095482989474</id><published>2012-01-17T21:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-17T21:19:46.412Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique québécoise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Les Trois Accords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hawaii'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><title type='text'>Hawaïenne (parce qu'y fait frette dehors)</title><content type='html'>C'est une chanson particulièrement bête, voire même stupide, mais j'aime bien &lt;a href="http://www.lestroisaccords.com/"&gt;Les Trois Accords&lt;/a&gt; justement pour leur bêtise assumée. Bien des groupes québécois maintenant font des sermons larmoyants plutôt que des chansons. Alors voilà, pour remonter le moral de mon lectorat (et le mien) une soirée grise et froide de janvier, j'ai mis ici &lt;a href="http://www.lyricskeeper.com/les_trois_accords-lyrics/203932-hawaienne-lyrics.htm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hawaïenne&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Il n'y a rien de plus authentiquement québécois que de rêver des tropiques au beau milieu de l'hiver, alors au moins c'est une chanson qui dépeint sincèrement un certain trait psychologique collectif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mtToc5EmSho" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7198785095482989474?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7198785095482989474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7198785095482989474&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7198785095482989474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7198785095482989474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/hawaienne-parce-quy-fait-frette-dehors.html' title='Hawaïenne (parce qu&apos;y fait frette dehors)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/mtToc5EmSho/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-314737847289166491</id><published>2012-01-16T21:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-16T21:25:59.336Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lundi'/><title type='text'>I survived Blue Monday again</title><content type='html'>It was Blue Monday today, which&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-survived-blue-monday.html"&gt; I blogged about before&lt;/a&gt;. I know it is a whole lot of rubbish, I can understand why some &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jan/16/blue-monday-depressing-day-pseudoscience"&gt;are irritated by it&lt;/a&gt;. But even as a modern superstition, I can understand the appeal of it: January as a month sure sucks. Monday as a day often does. For me, it is more about surviving &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/blue-wednesday-and-early-post-christmas.html"&gt;the-post Christmas blues&lt;/a&gt;. And my Mondays are always a bit blue. Today was cold, icy even, it felt like a nasty Monday, but it was uneventful at work. I was just tired. It was just a Monday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-314737847289166491?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/314737847289166491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=314737847289166491&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/314737847289166491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/314737847289166491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-survived-blue-monday-again.html' title='I survived Blue Monday again'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5352653380377513955</id><published>2012-01-16T21:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-16T21:01:48.526Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La photo du mois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Grandeurs et misères de la blogosphère</title><content type='html'>Ma &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pinte-de-biere-bulles.html"&gt;photo du mois de janvier&lt;/a&gt;, bien qu'assez peu originale (une pinte de bière, dans un pub, fallait pas chercher bien loin), m'a valu pas mal de commentaires jusqu'ici. On est loin du succès &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/le-bout-du-monde_15.html"&gt;du mois de novembre&lt;/a&gt;, mais c'est quand même jusqu'ici fort honorable. Surtout que comme sujet d'inspiration, on ne peut guère battre le bout du monde. Bref, je suis satisfait de ma trouvaille.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce que je suis incapable de faire et qui m'embarrasse un peu, c'est de commenter régulièrement sur les autres blogues: je n'y arrive pas. Je ne les visite pas tous même si j'essaie, souvent je n'ai rien à dire sauf: "j'aime" ou "c'est joli". Je me sens à la fois asocial et insignifiant. Et je demande pardon à mes confrères bloguers francophone si je les visite à un rythme d'escargot.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5352653380377513955?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5352653380377513955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5352653380377513955&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5352653380377513955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5352653380377513955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/grandeurs-et-miseres-de-la-blogosphere.html' title='Grandeurs et misères de la blogosphère'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8144327617819604388</id><published>2012-01-15T20:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-15T20:30:59.389Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pubs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saisons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seasons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Is winter (almost) back?</title><content type='html'>After a rather warm Christmas season, heck, since the beginning of what has been the warmest winter in a long time (on record?), it is cold again in England. I can barely believe it. Well, yes I can: January is in general a cold month, wherever you are on the Northern emisphere. Where I come from, it is when you have the nastiest temperatures. But I went out yesterday and today and twice I was struck on how stingy the cold air is. Cold as it should have been a month ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another anecdote of some interest: it still looks like Christmas in some places. In the pub where &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pinte-de-biere-bulles.html"&gt;I had my pint&lt;/a&gt;, where I drank my usual seasonal beer, they were serving mulled wine, mulled cider and winter Pimm's (!). Christmas lights and a Christmas wreath were on display. This late after the season, I do find it out of time. I could understand the warm drinks, especially since it is cold. But the decorations, not so much.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8144327617819604388?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8144327617819604388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8144327617819604388&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8144327617819604388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8144327617819604388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-winter-almost-back.html' title='Is winter (almost) back?'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-713820128857425981</id><published>2012-01-15T16:49:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-15T16:50:09.229Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rebellion Beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='real ales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La photo du mois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roasted Nuts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='microbrewery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='microbrasserie'/><title type='text'>Une pinte de bière (bulles)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKl_0i3eK30/TxLk47kILAI/AAAAAAAABRw/-Ws6DnM87WM/s1600/IMG_0543.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKl_0i3eK30/TxLk47kILAI/AAAAAAAABRw/-Ws6DnM87WM/s400/IMG_0543.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Bon, finalement j'ai réussi à télécharger les photos (je craignais &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/trahisons-technologiques.html"&gt;le pire&lt;/a&gt;). Je n'ai pas été très original: essayez de trouver des bulles en Angleterre. Dans leurs breuvages je veux dire. Alors voilà: une pinte de &lt;a href="http://www.rebellionbeer.co.uk/beers.htm"&gt;Roasted Nuts&lt;/a&gt; de &lt;a href="http://www.rebellionbeer.co.uk/"&gt;Rebellion Beer&lt;/a&gt;. Une microrbasserie locale et une bière saisonnière que j'aime particulièrement (disponible ce mois-ci encore). Étant un amateur de bières, une photo d'une pinte anglaise dans un pub anglais s'imposait. Et il y a des bulles. Si, si, même s'il y en a peu, il y en a: regardez le chapeau de mousse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour voir quelles bulles les autres ont trouvées:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.viviane-voyages.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Viviane&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://annie-expat-au-val-dajol.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;La Madame&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://www.grenoblequebec.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;A&amp;amp;G&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://florianmontreal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;florianL&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://aurelieyannick.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;A&amp;amp;Y&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://troispetitssuisses.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;4 petits suisses dans un bol de riz&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://doremi.bleublog.lematin.ch/" target="_blank"&gt;Doremi&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://filamots.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Filamots&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://dunepommealautre.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Clara&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://jenetdam.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;jen et dam&lt;/a&gt; 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Une question ? &lt;a href="mailto:olivier.canada@gmail.com"&gt;Contactez Olivier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-713820128857425981?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/713820128857425981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=713820128857425981&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/713820128857425981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/713820128857425981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/une-pinte-de-biere-bulles.html' title='Une pinte de bière (bulles)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UKl_0i3eK30/TxLk47kILAI/AAAAAAAABRw/-Ws6DnM87WM/s72-c/IMG_0543.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4882019624242894189</id><published>2012-01-15T13:05:00.002Z</published><updated>2012-01-22T14:08:22.859Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sunday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fin de semaine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dimanche'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clothes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vêtements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weekend'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saturday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='samedi'/><title type='text'>Unshaved weekends</title><content type='html'>There was my employer's big "new year"&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-great-unknown-line-of-2012.html"&gt; party yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, a big black tie event/dinner. I didn't go. I didn't want to go, I like to have my weekends as far away from work, physically and mentally, as I can. I need this psychological distance. So I am as scruffy and asocial as I can look like now, borderline hippy. Well, I haven't shaved for three days and I am wearing clothes that had better days. Not shaving and wearing old clothes is for me the equivalent of a blissful weekend. Society and mundane life is so overrated.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4882019624242894189?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4882019624242894189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4882019624242894189&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4882019624242894189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4882019624242894189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/unshaved-weekends.html' title='Unshaved weekends'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3837706043197670461</id><published>2012-01-15T12:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:45:49.550Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La photo du mois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><title type='text'>Trahisons technologiques</title><content type='html'>Bon, j'ai finalement &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/je-cherche-des-bulles.html"&gt;ma photo du mois&lt;/a&gt;, en fait j'en ai pris quelques unes pour être certain d'en avoir une bonne, mais je n'arrive pas à télécharger mes photos de la caméra à l'ordinateur. Je ne sais pas exactement ce qui empêche le téléchargement, la caméra ou l'ordi, mais la photo du mois est dangeureusement compromise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3837706043197670461?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3837706043197670461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3837706043197670461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3837706043197670461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3837706043197670461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/trahisons-technologiques.html' title='Trahisons technologiques'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6091824224318812769</id><published>2012-01-14T23:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-14T23:42:20.258Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Don McLean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Pie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saturday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='samedi'/><title type='text'>What to listen to on a Saturday night</title><content type='html'>I guess I have little inspiration to blog these days, so I write little&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-fear-reaper.html"&gt; and share music&lt;/a&gt; that is in my head. Well, gets stuck in my head really. I downed a pint before dinner tonight (Chinese take away from a nearby pub). Why downing a pint quickly before meal? Well, you'll see tomorrow (and understand if you read French, ha ha, ha). And there was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28song%29"&gt;&lt;i&gt;American Pie&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; playing in the background. I couldn't help but sing it a bit. It is the kind of song you listen to when you have a drink in the stomach. And on a Saturday evening. This is the kind of music I was listening to with my Italian friends when we were drinking in instead of going out. This or another one. But it is &lt;i&gt;American Pie&lt;/i&gt; that was stuck in my head tonight. Although I cannot even pretend I know all the lyrics. Heck, I know zilch about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean"&gt;Don McLean&lt;/a&gt; now. And the song is about a time I never lived, a youth that was never mine. Yet like any good song it appeals to all young people, or all people who were young. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tr-BYVeCv6U" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6091824224318812769?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6091824224318812769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6091824224318812769&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6091824224318812769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6091824224318812769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-to-listen-to-on-saturday-night.html' title='What to listen to on a Saturday night'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/tr-BYVeCv6U/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-208188501834196894</id><published>2012-01-14T23:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-14T23:25:11.670Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='école'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='langue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anglais'/><title type='text'>Le ou et le u</title><content type='html'>Hier, alors que j'attendais le train, j'ai vu un petit groupe d'étudiants adolescents qui parlaient de leur journée, dont de leur cours de français. Avec dérision &lt;i&gt;of course&lt;/i&gt;. Bien sûr, ils ont dit quelques mots. L'une des étudiantes a mentionné "&lt;i&gt;merci beaucoup&lt;/i&gt;". Mais les Anglais prononcent le ou comme un u, ce qui donne "&lt;i&gt;merci beau cul&lt;/i&gt;". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans mon ancienne vie, quand j'enseignais le français comme langue seconde, c'est une distinction que je m'évertuais à faire comprendre: la différence entre u et ou. Justement à cause de ce problème potentiel lorsqu'on prononce "beaucoup". Je ne l'expliquais pas toujours, cela dépendait de l'âge de mes élèves. Mais je ne manquais jamais de me payer gentiment leur gueule.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-208188501834196894?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/208188501834196894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=208188501834196894&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/208188501834196894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/208188501834196894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/le-ou-et-le-u.html' title='Le ou et le u'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4386614800528541164</id><published>2012-01-13T22:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-13T22:41:39.938Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cashew'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='horseradish sauce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday 13th'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coca Cola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cachou'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vendredi 13'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><title type='text'>The Sandwich treat (lukewarm results)</title><content type='html'>Maybe it was because of Friday the 13th, maybe simply because I was tired or because I tried to be creative/different too much, but &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-fridays-sandwich-treat.html"&gt;my sandwich treat&lt;/a&gt; today for lunch was uninspired: a hot sausages baguette with ketchup (I thought it was HP sauce) and horseradish sauce. With salad. I mean, really, salad. Obviously I had in mind the hot dogs of &lt;a href="http://www.williamjwalter.com/"&gt;William Walter&lt;/a&gt; in Montreal. I forgot that you cannot recreate it here (real, quality sausage, Dijon mustard, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut"&gt;sauerkraut&lt;/a&gt;, sliced gherkins). I mean I ate it all right, I was hungry, but it was lacking. I downed it with Coke Zero (bad idea), because I could have a pint of the thing for the price of a can (50% free). At least I had cashew nuts. Oh well, I wanted to try their sort of hot dogs. I cannot get it right all the time. I was also served by one of the less inspired members of the staff. My favourite employee, the most enthusiastic who gets it right all the time as if he knew my stomach, was busy with a lady client, incidentally a coworker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;What else to say about the experience? Well, I am called alternatively "sir" and "mate". They are always friendly with me, at least. But next time I go with a safe choice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4386614800528541164?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4386614800528541164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4386614800528541164&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4386614800528541164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4386614800528541164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/sandwich-treat-lukewarm-results.html' title='The Sandwich treat (lukewarm results)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4496072852707810445</id><published>2012-01-13T22:24:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-13T22:25:37.024Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday 13th'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vendredi 13'/><title type='text'>C'est vendredi 13 (pour quelques heures encore)</title><content type='html'>Comment est/a été votre journée? Je n'en ferai pas une question existentielle, c'est juste une curiosité passagère/épisodique. Parfois, la journée semble vraiment&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/11/deluge-dun-vendredi-13.html"&gt; être remplie de guigne&lt;/a&gt;. Parfois elle est ordinaire, parfois elle est même plutôt bien. Le nombre n'est qu'un nombre. Aujourd'hui, à part une fatigue généralisée, c'était un vendredi comme les autres: matin pénible (se réveiller le vendredi matin est toujours douloureux) et la journée s'améliore peu à peu. Je crois que si le numéro 13 a des connotations préjoratives, le vendredi en soi est un jour potentiellement plus douloureux que les autres: en 2008 c'est un vendredi à la fin de janvier que j'ai appris que je risquais de perdre ma job (ce qui est arrivé le mercredi d'après), c'est souvent le vendredi qu'arrivent les problèmes au travail. Ou alors je me trompe complètement et je dis n'importe quoi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4496072852707810445?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4496072852707810445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4496072852707810445&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4496072852707810445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4496072852707810445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/cest-vendredi-13-pour-quelques-heures.html' title='C&apos;est vendredi 13 (pour quelques heures encore)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5487133288232945147</id><published>2012-01-13T13:13:00.010Z</published><updated>2012-01-13T13:13:02.112Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday 13th'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vendredi 13'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><title type='text'>13:13</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;English below....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il est 13:13 et c'est le vendredi 13. Je suis présentement au travail, mais j'ai pensé écrire ce billet la veille, parce que... Enfin, parce que. Vous trouverez un sens à ce billet.&lt;br /&gt;----------------&lt;br /&gt;It is 13:13 and it is Friday the 13th. I am at work now and I wrote this post the night before. I just thought I would publish it because. Well, just because.You try to find a meaning to this post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5487133288232945147?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5487133288232945147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5487133288232945147&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5487133288232945147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5487133288232945147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/1313.html' title='13:13'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2870443891514171207</id><published>2012-01-12T22:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-12T22:22:00.757Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='insomnie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='insomnia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hibou'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='owl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chouette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='insomniac'/><title type='text'>The evening of a night owl</title><content type='html'>I blog about it again, sorry if I repeat myself. So yes, as a foreword, for those who don't know it already (in case I had new readers, you never know): &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_owl_%28person%29"&gt;I am a night owl&lt;/a&gt;. I do not live like one anymore, except on &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/weekend-night-owl.html"&gt;weekends&lt;/a&gt; and holidays, but I am at heart and by nature. It is in my biological clock, in my temperament, my psychology, what have you. But I wake up early every morning and I work hard all day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am still not used to it. I mean really not. I stay awake and everything, but often feel zombies and out of place, or rather out of time. I came back from work today with a strange feeling: I was ready to collapse and fall asleep. If I hadn't been so hungry I would have had. But I ate, my head almost in my plate. Okay I am exagerating, I was not so ready to collapse. But I was sore and tired. I am sore and tired. Yet as I am writing this I am not in bed yet, I have indeed been postponing it. There are just so many things left to do, and I often have the feeling that night time is the only time one has to do them, and appreciate them. Reading, writing, blogging, it's just easier to do at night. No matter how tired I am, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/curse-of-night-owl.html"&gt;I am not eager to go to bed&lt;/a&gt;. On the plus side, I do not have much insomnia anymore. When I lie down, I sleep.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2870443891514171207?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2870443891514171207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2870443891514171207&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2870443891514171207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2870443891514171207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/evening-of-night-owl.html' title='The evening of a night owl'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1348860177665065507</id><published>2012-01-12T19:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-12T19:21:33.514Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (101)</title><content type='html'>Cette question existentielle vient d'une réponse (la seule jusqu'ici) &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-100.html"&gt;de la question 100&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Pourquoi se pose-t-on des questions existentielles? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1348860177665065507?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1348860177665065507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1348860177665065507&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1348860177665065507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1348860177665065507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-101.html' title='Question existentielle (101)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-680494119524766688</id><published>2012-01-11T23:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:06:25.124Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday 13th'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clothes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vêtements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='90s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vendredi 13'/><title type='text'>A 90s party?</title><content type='html'>This Friday (on Friday the 13th, of all days!), there will be a bit of anniversary celebration at work because the company is now twenty years old. And since it was founded in the early nineties, it the theme is... the nineties. Which I am a bit dubious about. I mean, it makes sense, but it just doesn't feel so long ago, and the nineties don't have the same nostalgic imprint as, say, the seventies or the sixties. I blogged about the nineties myself, a bit less than three years ago, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/03/musing-on-nineties.html"&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; that got unnoticed. I spent my teenage and early adulthood in the nineties, yet for me it was already then a time of nostalgia, a decade built on nostalgia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I might muse a bit more about it on Friday. For me it will most likely be a Friday like any other. I rarely join in office celebrations, I participate very little. One cannot accuse me of laziness. It will be a 90s themed celebration, with videogames and clothes from the time, but I wonder what was really typical of the nineties in any aspect. I remember living them, but the feeling of the time period, of something specific to it, is all muddled up: I still have my sideburns which I grew then (1995 I think), I listen to the same music (which dates from way before) and my clothes are little or no different than the ones I used to wear then. Actually, I think I probably have some of the same clothes I wore then!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-680494119524766688?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/680494119524766688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=680494119524766688&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/680494119524766688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/680494119524766688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/90s-party.html' title='A 90s party?'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1694883566248674981</id><published>2012-01-11T22:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-11T22:45:43.062Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samuel Archibald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='langue'/><title type='text'>L'accent saguenéen</title><content type='html'>Le &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/09/arvida-la-ville-le-livre-la-famille.html"&gt;cousin Archibald&lt;/a&gt; sera dans un émission de télé (&lt;i&gt;VOIR.TV&lt;/i&gt;, connais pas) dont le premier épisode de 2012 est consacré au Saguenay. J'en ai vu un extrait aujourd'hui, avec Michel Barrette et Michel Côté, que vous pouvez voir &lt;a href="http://voir.ca/tv/2012/01/06/extrait-de-lepisode-du-11-janvier/"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. J'ai trouvé le court extrait fort intéressant, parce que c'est un peu vrai. J'angoisse souvent quant à savoir si &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/08/encore-laccent.html"&gt;j'ai encore l'accent&lt;/a&gt;. À les entendre et à m'écouter parler (ça arrive), je constate que: 1)j'ai bien l'accent saguenéen. Enfin du moins il en reste un peu. 2)j'appartiens à la première catégorie, celle qui ne transforme pas les g en r. Et 3)je crois bien que j'ai, en fin de compte, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/09/laccent-chantant.html"&gt;l'accent chantant&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour les Québécois qui ne sont pas saguenéens, dites-moi, est-ce que notre accent est aussi distinct que ça?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1694883566248674981?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1694883566248674981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1694883566248674981&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1694883566248674981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1694883566248674981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/laccent-sagueneen.html' title='L&apos;accent saguenéen'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3684938635690066719</id><published>2012-01-10T22:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-10T22:15:38.151Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Don&apos;t Fear the Reaper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blue Oyster Cult'/><title type='text'>(Don't Fear) The Reaper</title><content type='html'>I know close to nothing about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult"&gt;Blue Oyster Cult&lt;/a&gt;, apart from their name and&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_cowbell"&gt; this hilarious parody&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;i&gt;Saturday Night Life&lt;/i&gt; (watch it &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzds1HHkas"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). This is where I noticed (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28Don%27t_Fear%29_The_Reaper"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Don't Fear) the Reaper&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, discovering later on that it was also in &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Halloween&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Laurie and Annie are driving to their babysitting places, smoking pot and being tailed by Michael Myers. Ominous. Anyway, my mind is blank tonight, but from this song in my head, so I decided to upload it here. It might not be very cheerful, but one cannot be every day: it's Tuesday of a grey January month, after all. It would work well for a Halloween song, obviously, but it also fits the time here. And I love good old rock, songs that last more than two minutes and changes of beat. If you find it too depressing so early in the week, watch the SNL sketch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bWBWQs63F1o" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3684938635690066719?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3684938635690066719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3684938635690066719&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3684938635690066719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3684938635690066719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-fear-reaper.html' title='(Don&apos;t Fear) The Reaper'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/bWBWQs63F1o/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-996946084104087148</id><published>2012-01-10T20:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-10T20:27:16.568Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monarchie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vincent Marissal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monarchy'/><title type='text'>Républicanisme Canadian?</title><content type='html'>Je suis tombé en bas de ma chaise en lisant&lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/chroniqueurs/vincent-marissal/201201/08/01-4483912-les-liberaux-se-cherchent-une-ame.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B40_chroniqueurs_373561_accueil_POS2"&gt; la chronique de Vincent Marissal&lt;/a&gt; hier sur l'heure: les jeunes libéraux du PLC (du PLC bordel!) ont déposé une résolution proposant... l'abolition de la monarchie au Canada! D'accord, elle fera l'objet de débats et de ne sera peut-être pas adoptée, elle est déposée dans un contexte précis, celui d'un parti autrefois national maintenant marginalisé, ce qui veut dire que ça tient un peu beaucoup du désespoir, mais quand même, elle a été déposée. C'est déjà tout un choc en soi. Moi qui pensait que le républicanisme, au Canada, était d'abord et surtout le fait de méchants séparatistes incroyants humanistes comme moi. Et là il semblerait qu'alors que l'idée d'une république du Québec devient dangereusement (tragiquement) moribonde, celle d'une république du Canada fait son petit bonhomme de chemin. On se console comme on peut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;L'autre chose qui m'étonne, c'est que je suis parfaitement d'accord avec les principes qui sous-tendent la proposition. La position sociale devrait être évaluée au mérite et non à la naissance, le chef d'État de quelque pays que ce soit devrait être citoyen de ce pays et non pas un étranger, il devrait également être choisi au terme d'un processus démocratique (élu au suffrage universel ou nommé par les élus). J'ai été toute ma vie en désaccord avec à peu près tout ce que les Libéraux disaient, faisaient, défendaient. À lire ça, je me demande s'ils ne sont pas aussi, un peu, maintenant, en désaccord avec leur passé.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-996946084104087148?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/996946084104087148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=996946084104087148&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/996946084104087148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/996946084104087148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/republicanisme-canadian.html' title='Républicanisme Canadian?'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2643332384863337756</id><published>2012-01-09T21:52:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-09T22:45:10.052Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='catharsis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lundi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><title type='text'>This Monday's great unknown line</title><content type='html'>I don't know why I don't put "Facebook" in my labels, as I get lots of blogging inspiration from it. Anyway, I don't like Mondays. I mean I find Mondays very grey, dull, tiredsome, sometimes even depressing. So today was like this. Then a friend of mine (who lives somewhat nearby but I haven't seen in nearly a decade), wrote this on her Wall: "&lt;i&gt;is having a happy Monday!&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I don't want to spoil anybody's fun, I am not a cruel person, or an envious one, but I found it borderline masochistic. So I commented: "&lt;i&gt;Is there such a thing?&lt;/i&gt;" It is pessimistic, grouchy even, but in the same time it was cathartic. It takes nothing away from her happiness, just allows me to share the Monday feeling. And forget about it until next week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2643332384863337756?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2643332384863337756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2643332384863337756&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2643332384863337756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2643332384863337756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-mondays-great-unknown-line.html' title='This Monday&apos;s great unknown line'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4123216818135068496</id><published>2012-01-09T20:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-09T20:56:32.594Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sofa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='François Pérusse'/><title type='text'>L'achat de divan par François Pérusse</title><content type='html'>Bon, c'est un peu déprimant ces temps-ci parce qu'on est après les Fêtes, alors j'ai pensé remonter le moral et faire exercer les gencives de mon lectorat en mettant ici du &lt;a href="http://www.zeromusic.com/"&gt;François Pérusse&lt;/a&gt;, que l'on retrouve dans &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.ca/LAlbum-pirate-Fran%C3%A7ois-P%C3%A9russe/dp/B00007H08C"&gt;&lt;i&gt;L'Album Pirate&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Il met en scène le gars qui magasine, lequel magasine un sofa. Entreprise &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/divan-viril-laid-et-confortable.html"&gt;hasardeuse&lt;/a&gt;, surtout pour quelqu'un de difficile et vindicatif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xADNRTwxDPE" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4123216818135068496?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4123216818135068496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4123216818135068496&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4123216818135068496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4123216818135068496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/lachat-de-divan-par-francois-perusse.html' title='L&apos;achat de divan par François Pérusse'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/xADNRTwxDPE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3799553845120356905</id><published>2012-01-08T19:21:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:22:13.271Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pulp magazines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archetypes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littérature policière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='détective privé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damsels in distress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='detective tales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='private eye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='femmes fatales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Pulp violence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/d/detective_tales_193901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/d/detective_tales_193901.jpg" width="218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Following the blog's tradition of uploading a front cover of a pulp magazine and commenting on it &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/dramatic-pulp-fiction-cover.html"&gt;every month&lt;/a&gt;, I have uploaded here the cover of &lt;a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/detective_tales.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detective Tales&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from January 1939. And what a cover! You cannot go much further in melodrama, sadism and violence. I love it particularly as it mixes elements of pulp hardboiled crime fiction and ghotic horror. Wrapped up in a sadism that even a modern gore movie would appreciate. The blonde damsel in distress is even bleeding! From a torture device made from the mechanism of/hidden in an old-fashioned clock. And there is a man disguised in a knight's armour, not chivalrous at all, about to hit the brunette with what appears to be a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_star_%28weapon%29"&gt;morning star&lt;/a&gt;. How more Freudian can you get? And the hero&amp;nbsp; is shooting at some unknown enemy. If the focus is on the blonde damsel in distress and the instrument of torture (and execution) that is literally drilling her head, the hero is also an interesting character: he is squared jaw and athletic, every bit the hardboiled private eye he probably is, but there is also the elegant tuxedo, usually worn by the villain (see other entries). It's just such a fascinating, powerful image. And no, I cannot even think of a story going with it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3799553845120356905?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3799553845120356905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3799553845120356905&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3799553845120356905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3799553845120356905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/pulp-violence.html' title='Pulp violence'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8383410321080748286</id><published>2012-01-08T18:31:00.002Z</published><updated>2012-01-08T18:31:37.862Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La photo du mois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Je cherche des bulles</title><content type='html'>Le thème de la photo du mois est "bulles". C'est assez facile de trouver des bulles de toutes sortes, mais je me demande quoi faire pour être original. On dirait par ailleurs que le 15 du mois arrive de plus en plus vite, ou alors je suis de plus en plus occupé: je n'ai même pas terminé ma tournée &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/un-banc-public-photo-du-mois.html"&gt;des photos du mois dernier&lt;/a&gt;. En fait, j'ai fait une longue, longue pause durant les Fêtes. Il faudra que je m'y remette d'ici au 15 janvier...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8383410321080748286?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8383410321080748286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8383410321080748286&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8383410321080748286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8383410321080748286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/je-cherche-des-bulles.html' title='Je cherche des bulles'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1662672658864670945</id><published>2012-01-07T21:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T21:37:34.660Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italien'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bergamo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italie'/><title type='text'>I have an Italian name</title><content type='html'>I was thinking about it when I heard the local radio making a massacre of my name&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-something-to-do-between-8.html"&gt; after the radio play&lt;/a&gt;: I actually have an Italian name. Maybe I should have it as my artist's name. It was given by &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/01/italian-commemoration.html"&gt;my Italian friends&lt;/a&gt; from my first yeat at uni here, as they couldn't pronounce my name either, not my first or my second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Italian name is Guglielmo Bergamo. Guglielmo because it is the Italian version of Guillaume, Bergamo because of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo"&gt;the town&lt;/a&gt;. It is where &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/image-of-bergamo.html"&gt;one of my closest friends&lt;/a&gt; come from, it is the Italian place I know best (albeit I went there after I received its name), it also has a nice ring to it, so it is fitting. I love it anyway, although I seldom used it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1662672658864670945?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1662672658864670945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1662672658864670945&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1662672658864670945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1662672658864670945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-have-italian-name.html' title='I have an Italian name'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7071042418594070992</id><published>2012-01-07T21:04:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T21:04:41.252Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pâtes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saumon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mayonnaise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pasta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Perles de sagesse gastronomique</title><content type='html'>Je sais que je cuisine peu et que je suis à bien des égards un Philistin en ce qui concerne la cuisine, mais j'ai appris une chose ou deux que j'aimerais partager avec mon lectorat:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-La &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip"&gt;Miracle Whip&lt;/a&gt; est une abomination sans nom.&lt;br /&gt;-La mayonnaise a aussi&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/11/acting-and-mayonnaise.html"&gt; une nature esthétique et artistique&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;-La viande rouge, c'est meilleur pas trop cuit et avec du vin rouge (duh!).&lt;br /&gt;-La bière et les saucisses, c'est un mariage parfait, quand la bière est bonne et les saucisses aussi (duh!).&lt;br /&gt;-Le saumon est la "viande" la plus santé qui existe. C'est certainement aussi délicieux que c'est sain.&lt;br /&gt;-Les pâtes vont peut-être sauver le monde de la famine. Elles m'ont certainement empêché de mourir de faim plus d'une fois.&lt;br /&gt;-Le vin rouge donne mal à la tête.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelles sont les vôtres?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7071042418594070992?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7071042418594070992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7071042418594070992&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7071042418594070992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7071042418594070992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/perles-de-sagesse-gastronomique.html' title='Perles de sagesse gastronomique'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7514482217375924371</id><published>2012-01-07T10:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T11:07:09.942Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='famille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Descartes'/><title type='text'>The second great unknown line of 2012</title><content type='html'>From my &lt;a href="http://ineptiescategoriques.blogspot.com/"&gt;brother&lt;/a&gt;, on his Facebook Wall. People like me who sometimes don't like exercising and never liked &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes"&gt;Descartes&lt;/a&gt; much should appreciate:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;i&gt;I wish Descartes had been right. My body needs too much maintenance&lt;/i&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since people must start thinking about dieting, exercising, sobering up and so on to repair the excesses of the Christmas season, I think many among you probably feel like this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7514482217375924371?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7514482217375924371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7514482217375924371&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7514482217375924371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7514482217375924371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/second-great-unknown-line-of-2012.html' title='The second great unknown line of 2012'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8396224744635861682</id><published>2012-01-07T10:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T10:41:59.380Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvel an'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epiphanie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Epiphany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><title type='text'>C'était hier l'Épiphanie</title><content type='html'>Je m'en suis vaguement rendu compte. Quelqu'un d'autre dans mon lectorat l'a remarqué? Et qui l'a fêtée? Sérieusement? Qui? On est aujourd'hui le 7 janvier, comme dans&lt;a href="http://en.lyrics-copy.com/beau-dommage/23-decembre.htm"&gt; la chanson&lt;/a&gt; ça voudrait dire le retour à la normale, la fin des Fêtes, etc. Mais en fait, la normale revient dès le Jour de l'An ou à peu près. Enfin, c'est le cas de nos jours. Je me rappelle avoir fêté les Rois quand j'étais enfant. ca fait déjà un bail. À Montréal, j'achetais une galette des Rois avec couronne juste pour les souligner, mais sans plus. J'en ferai peut-être une question existentielle l'année prochaine (en passant&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-100.html"&gt; la numéro 100&lt;/a&gt; n'a pas encore été répondue), mais je je demande sérieusement si comme la Toussaint, l'Épiphanie n'est pas un peu une fête moribonde.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8396224744635861682?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8396224744635861682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8396224744635861682&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8396224744635861682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8396224744635861682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/cetait-hier-lepiphanie.html' title='C&apos;était hier l&apos;Épiphanie'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6584033644710613486</id><published>2012-01-06T20:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-06T20:50:13.163Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='horseradish sauce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saumon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coca Cola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vendredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Another Friday's sandwich treat</title><content type='html'>I don't know if I bore my readers with it, but I know some will enjoy this post, so here it is, for those who are interested, the weekly post about &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-fridays-sandwich-treat.html"&gt;my usual Friday's sandwich treat&lt;/a&gt;. I was worried I couldn't get there before closing time because I was stuck on the phone at the last minute. But I managed to get there in time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this time I had a salmon baguette sandwich, but with a twist: one half was with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseradish#Horseradish_sauce"&gt;horseradish sauce&lt;/a&gt;, the other one with cream cheese. Both sides had salt, pepper, tomatoes, lettuce, red onions and lemon juice. On the side: cashew nuts. To drink: Coca Cola. I went for a safe choice, maybe because it was the first Friday's sandwich treat of the week. Next Friday I will be more daring. You'll see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One last observation: they don't call me "&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/being-called-sir.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;sir&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" anymore. Now it's "&lt;i&gt;man&lt;/i&gt;", "&lt;i&gt;mate&lt;/i&gt;" and "&lt;i&gt;my friend&lt;/i&gt;". I think it is because I am now a regular...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6584033644710613486?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6584033644710613486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6584033644710613486&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6584033644710613486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6584033644710613486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-fridays-sandwich-treat.html' title='Another Friday&apos;s sandwich treat'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4375674757190219662</id><published>2012-01-06T20:36:00.002Z</published><updated>2012-01-19T22:15:00.858Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montréal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robert Charlebois'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home sweet home'/><title type='text'>Je reviendrai (officiellement) à Montréal</title><content type='html'>C'est maintenant officiel: mes vacances ont été approuvées! Je vais donc me rendre à Montréal en février. Je ne sais pas s'il y aura de la neige (&lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/201201/05/01-4483245-montreal-sort-les-canons-a-neige.php"&gt;on dirait que non&lt;/a&gt;), mais bon, je serai à Montréal, ce qui est déjà ça de pris. Tant qu'à passer un hiver sans neige, autant en passer une partie dans mon village. Je ne mettrai pas une nouvelle fois la chanson de Charlebois sur ce billet, pour ceux qui ne savent pas à quoi mon titre fait allusion peuvent jeter un coup d'oeil et tendre une oreille &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/12/je-reviendrai-montral.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;. Surtout tendre une oreille. C'est la chanson du Montréalais expatrié.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4375674757190219662?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4375674757190219662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4375674757190219662&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4375674757190219662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4375674757190219662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/je-reviendrai-officiellement-montreal.html' title='Je reviendrai (officiellement) à Montréal'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2133505507673113847</id><published>2012-01-05T19:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-05T19:14:09.821Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvel an'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><title type='text'>First great unknown line of 2012</title><content type='html'>As the title says, this is officially my first great unknown line of the year. I am glad I found one today as I thought this blog lacked wit recently. Anyway, at my workplace, we havce a Christmas party... in January. Well, it is more a New Year party really, but since we do not have a proper Christmas party apart from a quick lunch around the 20 something, everybody calls it the Christmas party. Which is absurd. I didn't go&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/being-bear.html"&gt; last year&lt;/a&gt; and I have no intention to go this year. Too early/late to celebrate, I am tired, I feel slightly antisocial, whatever reason I will not go. But today a colleague asked me: "&lt;i&gt;So are you going to the Christmas party?&lt;/i&gt;" So I answered: "&lt;i&gt;Christmas 2012? It's too early for me to tell.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There you go. First great unknown line of 2012.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2133505507673113847?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2133505507673113847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2133505507673113847&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2133505507673113847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2133505507673113847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-great-unknown-line-of-2012.html' title='First great unknown line of 2012'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4461270856865080440</id><published>2012-01-05T18:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-05T18:54:03.252Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (100)</title><content type='html'>C'est ma centième question existentielle! Cela fait presque deux ans que j'en pose.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/02/question-existentielle-1.html"&gt;La première&lt;/a&gt; est passée complètement inaperçue. Les autres ont eu en général beaucoup plus de succès. Enfin, celle-ci est un peu une mise en abyme et une célébration de ce thème qui m'a fait passer au travers de bien des périodes sans inspiration. La voici:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Quelles prochaines questions existentielles devrais-je poser? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prière de consulter les questions précédentes si vous voulez vous mettre à jour. Vous pouvez aussi répondre à celles d'avant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4461270856865080440?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4461270856865080440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4461270856865080440&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4461270856865080440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4461270856865080440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-100.html' title='Question existentielle (100)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7361877631943392929</id><published>2012-01-04T20:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-04T22:04:41.087Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pluie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wind'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><title type='text'>The cedar branch</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I feel like my life is a long, monotonous &lt;i&gt;déjà vu&lt;/i&gt;. (A note to my English readers: it is pronounced "&lt;i&gt;déjà veuuuu&lt;/i&gt;", not "&lt;i&gt;déjà view&lt;/i&gt;"). Yet there is something striking in repetitive phenomenons. I am taking about a cedar branch that is lying down on my way to and from the train station. There was one&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/sign-of-doomsday.html"&gt; last December &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/05/broken-cedar-branch.html"&gt;earlier in May&lt;/a&gt;, at the exact same place. I am wondering sometimes if someone didn't try to patch the cedar branch on its tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a very good reason for the branch to be torn down from the tree: yesterday was windy like, it poured with rain, overall it looked like a wet, windy Doomsday. It is actually amazing there weren't more branches around, even whole trees, down on the street. Maybe I am feeling gloomy, it looks like I am almost hoping for a mini English Apocalypse (well, to be honest &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/hoping-for-doomsday.html"&gt;I do sometimes&lt;/a&gt;). But even if I don't, I find this cedar branch fascinating, even though I am not sure why.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7361877631943392929?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7361877631943392929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7361877631943392929&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7361877631943392929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7361877631943392929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/cedar-branch.html' title='The cedar branch'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2860749747180765528</id><published>2012-01-04T19:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-04T19:53:18.683Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melancholia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mélancolie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Petites misères de janvier</title><content type='html'>J'ai déjà posé la question: &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/question-existentielle-31.html"&gt;quoi faire en janvier&lt;/a&gt;? Il y a une raison pour cela: janvier est un mois particulièrement déprimant, surtout ici. Il ne fait même pas froid pour la peine, au lieu de cela on a&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/cest-vert-en-janvier.html"&gt; un hiver gris/beige/brun&lt;/a&gt;. C'est monotone, janvier. Le travail recommence, les Fêtes sont terminées alors les lumières de Noël sont maintenant anachroniques si jamais elles sont encore allumées. Et les décorations, donc... Je me plains souvent de janvier, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/attendre-les-grands-jours.html"&gt;je le faisais aussi l'année dernière&lt;/a&gt;. C'est parce que je n'aime pas ce mois. Pas du tout. L'année dernière, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/chronique-dune-fin-de-mois.html"&gt;je me suis réconcilié avec novembre&lt;/a&gt;. Je crois que je vais devoir faire la même chose avec janvier, mais je ne sais trop comment faire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2860749747180765528?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2860749747180765528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2860749747180765528&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2860749747180765528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2860749747180765528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/petites-miseres-de-janvier.html' title='Petites misères de janvier'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7658370189126405627</id><published>2012-01-03T20:26:00.018Z</published><updated>2012-01-03T20:42:41.241Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atocas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mardi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tuesday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canneberges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cranberries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fromage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Homemade sandwich treat (and Christmas leftovers)</title><content type='html'>I was back to work today, and while it is a Tuesday and therefore the week will be shorter, I thought I would treat myself to make me forget that I had pretty lousy half-baked, half done holidays. I need to fight the post-Christmas blues, and all that. Sandwich treats are a great way to improve a gloomy mood, they are a great way to make a good day even better and &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-fridays-sandwich-treat.html"&gt;they don't have to be on Friday&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I made myself a sandwich, made with leftovers from Christmas, which is very fitting. On a ciabatta (the only bit that I purchased new), I put some Brie cheese and cranberry sauce. The cranberry sauce had been made by myself for Christmas. A bit too sweet (I put a little bit more sugar than needed), but still very good. The first day back at work officially after those lousy, half-baked was fittingly gloomy and miserable, so eating my sandwich today really cheered me up. Because it was delicious. And there is something cheerful about the cultural origins of all its composites: French Brie, Italian ciabatta and North American cranberry sauce, from a family (albeit simplistic) recipe. Maybe I am reading too much into it. It was just a sandwich after all. But it was a good one when I needed it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7658370189126405627?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7658370189126405627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7658370189126405627&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7658370189126405627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7658370189126405627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/homemade-sandwich-treat-and-christmas.html' title='Homemade sandwich treat (and Christmas leftovers)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1669787489805040293</id><published>2012-01-03T20:14:00.007Z</published><updated>2012-01-03T20:17:25.141Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La Guerre des Tuques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enfance'/><title type='text'>Un fort de neige au bout du monde</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZTX-DXtIlM/TwI3TmiA72I/AAAAAAAABRo/LOM14Grx-yY/s1600/DSC_0005a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZTX-DXtIlM/TwI3TmiA72I/AAAAAAAABRo/LOM14Grx-yY/s320/DSC_0005a.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Cette photo a été prise par mon père durant les Fêtes. Le fort a été fait au beau milieu du rond-point, au bout du monde tel que je le considérais quand j'étais petit. Je trouve rassurant que les enfants d'aujourd'hui s'amusent aux mêmes jeux que les enfants d'hier. Je me demande si ceux-ci ont été influencés par &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087373/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Guerre des Tuques&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. On faisait des forts, mais ils n'étaient pas aussi gros. En fait le rond-point formait, plus souvent qu'autrement, une grosse montagne de neige qui souvent devenait glacée. Elle devenait dans nos jeux une montagne (au sens propre), le centre d'une île volcanique, etc. Mais un fort, ça a quand même de la classe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fait, de forts, je ne crois pas en avoir fait au centre du rond-point. On les faisait sur le terrain et ils étaient modestes. Le rond-point, il était à tout le monde. Aux habitants de la rue un peu plus, quand même... Mais enfin bref, qui d'autre faisait des forts?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1669787489805040293?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1669787489805040293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1669787489805040293&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1669787489805040293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1669787489805040293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-fort-de-neige-au-bout-du-monde.html' title='Un fort de neige au bout du monde'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZTX-DXtIlM/TwI3TmiA72I/AAAAAAAABRo/LOM14Grx-yY/s72-c/DSC_0005a.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5644412990234583145</id><published>2012-01-02T13:57:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-02T13:58:08.383Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littérature policière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Philip Marlowe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orchidées'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Citation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Big Sleep'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orchids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Raymond Chandler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Farewell My Lovely'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quotation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>An orchid in the snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDM6HSeKDbU/TwGzov4Wz9I/AAAAAAAABRc/Yj_sc_PY214/s1600/DSC_0013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDM6HSeKDbU/TwGzov4Wz9I/AAAAAAAABRc/Yj_sc_PY214/s400/DSC_0013.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"&lt;b&gt;Sternwood&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider. The orchids are an excuse for the heat. Do you like orchids?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marlowe&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Not particularly.&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sternwood&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I already quoted the above &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/11/orchids-corruption-and-literature.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I had to use it again for this post. I was looking for a new picture for this month and the new year, something that would look like winter yet not too much like Christmas. So I found this one dad sent me, an orchid in the conservatory, where you cans ee the snow in the background. I thought it was an interesting contrast. And at the moment I am reading &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell,_My_Lovely"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Farewell, My Lovely&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Not the same novel, but it still from the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler"&gt;same author&lt;/a&gt; and it features &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe"&gt;Philip Marlowe&lt;/a&gt;. So to kick start my year as a reader I am reading a crime fiction classic and to kick start this year as a blogger (yesterday's &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-something-to-do-between-8.html"&gt;post &lt;/a&gt;was barely more than an announcement, but I will come back to it), I have this interesting picture. Please feel free to give me your impressions about it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5644412990234583145?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5644412990234583145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5644412990234583145&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5644412990234583145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5644412990234583145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/orchid-in-snow.html' title='An orchid in the snow'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qDM6HSeKDbU/TwGzov4Wz9I/AAAAAAAABRc/Yj_sc_PY214/s72-c/DSC_0013.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6179174631578745961</id><published>2012-01-02T13:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-02T13:23:18.446Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvel an'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (99)</title><content type='html'>Bon, on est déjà en 2012, je suis encore groggy par la fin de la période des Fêtes, alors autant donner du tonus aux billets de janvier 2012 avec une question existentielle:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Parmi les résolutions faites pour la nouvelle année, lesquelles devrait-on laisser tomber et pourquoi?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6179174631578745961?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6179174631578745961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6179174631578745961&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6179174631578745961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6179174631578745961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/question-existentielle-99.html' title='Question existentielle (99)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7268026273135879769</id><published>2012-01-01T19:02:00.001Z</published><updated>2012-01-01T19:02:53.542Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='actors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holly Powell-Jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acteur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvel an'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Reddcut Treatment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><title type='text'>Looking for something to do between 8 and 10 PM GMT?</title><content type='html'>First English post of the year, and it is a short one. First I want to wish you all a Happy New Year (with capital letters), you will forgive me not to dwell much on the New Year.&amp;nbsp; I have no idea what to do with the topic for now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-voice-on-radio.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;that I was going to be broadcast in a radio play. Well, you can listen to me tonight (or today depending of where you are), between 8 and 10PM GMT, &lt;a href="http://www.marlowfm.co.uk/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I play George in &lt;i&gt;The Reddcut Treatment&lt;/i&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.rhul.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/ourstudents/recentgraduates/hollypowell-jones.aspx"&gt;Holly Powell-Jones&lt;/a&gt;. I am very proud of the result and I hope it will show on the radio. I got the raspy voice thanks to the peanut butter, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-raspy-voice.html"&gt;as my readers may know&lt;/a&gt;. In any case, I hope can take the opportunity to listen to it and that you will enjoy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7268026273135879769?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7268026273135879769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7268026273135879769&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7268026273135879769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7268026273135879769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-for-something-to-do-between-8.html' title='Looking for something to do between 8 and 10 PM GMT?'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8665700237404682892</id><published>2012-01-01T18:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-01T18:43:41.942Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gourmandise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvel an'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='janvier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gluttony'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Jour de l'An (chronique de lendemain de veille)</title><content type='html'>Alors allons-y du préambule: bonne anéée à tous. Voilà. Je suis de retour après une fin de semaine chez de la famille de ma femme, ceci est mon premier billet de 2012 et je ne sais pas trop quel sujet aborder. Pour moi, comme je l'ai déjà mentionné, les Fêtes sont déjà terminées au Jour de l'An. Le Jour de l'An, c'est en fait en général un lendemain de vielle lorsqu'on est adulte. ce qui est le cas maintenant, même si assez peu bu: deux pintes de bière, le début d'une troisième non terminée (j'ai eu la sagesse de surtout boire des bières pâles et d'éviter le vin rouge) et deux coupes de mousseux. Alors avec les excès de bouffe (mais le trifle pudding, lequel est en fait une sorte de poudding chômeur, était délicieux!), les veilles tardives, le voyagement, ça fait que mon premier janvier est typique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enfant, je l'aimais assez peu aussi (ah, la pénitence &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/01/le-jour-de-dhier-aujourdhui.html"&gt;des fêtes familiales&lt;/a&gt;!), pour être honnête, mais au moins il y avait le gros déjeuner traditionnel &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/1er-janvier-puisquil-le-faut.html"&gt;que l'on prenait de bonne heure&lt;/a&gt;. Aujourd'hui et ce soir, on a/va manger léger. Dans un certain sens, c'est assez approprié d'être un peu lendemain de veille: je suis bien mortifié pour vraimenr recommencer à travailler. Demain est jour de congé, mais les vacances sont terminées, à toutes fins pratiques. Je range &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/reliques-quebecoises-de-noel.html"&gt;mes bouquins de Noël&lt;/a&gt; jusqu'à l'année prochaine, les décorations suivront bientôt. Espérons que janvier ne sera pas trop long.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8665700237404682892?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8665700237404682892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8665700237404682892&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8665700237404682892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8665700237404682892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/jour-de-lan-chronique-de-lendemain-de.html' title='Jour de l&apos;An (chronique de lendemain de veille)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4371553841353575942</id><published>2011-12-30T19:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-30T19:12:35.361Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><title type='text'>730</title><content type='html'>English below... (Yes, it is my first bilingual post in months.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceci est mon 730e billet cette année. Ca n'a l'air de rien, mais ça veut dire que j'aurai écrit autant de billets en anglais et en français que de jours de l'année. Cela veut dire que j'ai été très productif cette année et, j'ose espérer, créatif. Je sais, qualité n'est pas quantité. Je ne crois pas écrire à moitié autant pour l'année 2012. Mon objectif en tant que blogueur n'est plus tant de bloguer plus, mais de bloguer régulièrement et d'aggrandir mon lectorat. J'ai aussi d'autres rêves, comme par exemple de vivre (un peu) de ma plume un jour, ce qui est arrivé à certains blogueurs. On peut rêver...&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;This is my 730th blog post this year. It looks like nothing, but it means that I have written as many posts in English and French as there are days in the year. So I was very productive this year and I do think/hope that I was also inspired. Although to write a lot does not mean that I wrote quality stuff. I don't think I will write nearly as much for 2012. My aim as a blogger is not to blog more, but to blog regularly and to widen my readership.I do dream sometimes of making a bit of money with the blog, as some bloggers managed to do it, either by being paid to produce, or the blog because a gateway to more serious writing. One can dream...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4371553841353575942?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4371553841353575942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4371553841353575942&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4371553841353575942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4371553841353575942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/730.html' title='730'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4277557763667200761</id><published>2011-12-29T23:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-29T23:13:44.067Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mansarde'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grenier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pluie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wind'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Attic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='température'/><title type='text'>Primitive (but gloomy?) happiness</title><content type='html'>After re-reading &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/home-early.html"&gt;my earlier post&lt;/a&gt; in English, I was worried that my readership might think that I am feeling miserable, what with having short holidays and lousy working days and all. Well, no, not really. Not yet anyway, as I try to do things or enjoy little nothings that make life. Earlier on tonight, before and after dinner, it was very windy outside, there was rain and a bit of rain. We&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/wind-in-windows.html"&gt; feel the elements&lt;/a&gt; more in this flat, as it is an attic. You can hear the wind blowing, feel it even shaking the windows, it gives you shiver just to listen to it, even more so when the hail hits the window or the roof. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I enjoy the spectacle of a furious, or at least a temperamental, nature, especially when I am home and dry. Like Coppola said in his audio commentary of &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Godfather&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it's free special effects. As far as I am concerned, it's a free show. In a way though, enjoying such display of temperament might tell something about my state of mind. It's not like watching the sun going down on a Summer evening or watching the snow falling quietly. There was a nastiness to the weather tonight. Still, it was a nice show of sound and... shadow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4277557763667200761?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4277557763667200761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4277557763667200761&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4277557763667200761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4277557763667200761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/primitive-but-gloomy-happiness.html' title='Primitive (but gloomy?) happiness'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1653755219077179443</id><published>2011-12-29T21:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-29T21:56:37.842Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeux de société'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='board games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='famille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Il me manque un jeu de société (et une société)</title><content type='html'>Je pensais à ça ce soir: entre Noël et le Jour de l'An, quand les Fêtes deviennent creuses et que les visites familiales s'espancent, mes frères et moi jouions à un jeu de société, en général &lt;i&gt;Clue&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Monopoly &lt;/i&gt;et &lt;i&gt;Scotland Yard&lt;/i&gt;. Quand on ne pouvait pas jouer à &lt;i&gt;Donjons et Dragons&lt;/i&gt;. J'ai déjà blogué &lt;a href="http://tourtiere.comicgenesis.com/tourtiere-fl.html"&gt;là-dessus&lt;/a&gt;. Or, je n'ai pas un seul jeu de société ici. Pas un traître seul. L'appart est déjà rempli de toute façon, mais c'est quand même un signe des temps: je ne joue plus de jeux de sociétés durant les vacances de Noël. Mais pour cela il me faudrait des gens avec qui jouer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1653755219077179443?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1653755219077179443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1653755219077179443&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1653755219077179443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1653755219077179443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/il-me-manque-un-jeu-de-societe-et-une.html' title='Il me manque un jeu de société (et une société)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8044363957485114985</id><published>2011-12-29T18:01:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-29T21:56:20.055Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melancholia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mélancolie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Home early</title><content type='html'>As there was little to do at work and I did not take my lunch break while my colleagues were feasting at the pub (since there was little to do, yet I was suddenyl busy), I was allowed to go home early. Two hours early. I am glad as I was tired. I am getting used to the empty, or almost &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/deserted-trains.html"&gt;empty trains&lt;/a&gt;. Of half empty offices, not so much: I feel like I am in a morgue and I am one of the corpses. I do feel zombie, getting in and out of the place. Less work to do is not less exhausting. I do &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/blue-wednesday-and-early-post-christmas.html"&gt;feel the post-Christmas blues&lt;/a&gt; still/already and I wonder why I was not allowed to take holidays if there was so litle to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8044363957485114985?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8044363957485114985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8044363957485114985&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8044363957485114985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8044363957485114985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/home-early.html' title='Home early'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-903141999387345262</id><published>2011-12-29T17:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-29T17:47:58.248Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (98)</title><content type='html'>Puisque les vacances de Noël s'achèvent déjà, cette question existentielle s'impose:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Quand est-il temps de cesser d'écouter de la musique de Noël?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-903141999387345262?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/903141999387345262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=903141999387345262&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/903141999387345262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/903141999387345262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/question-existentielle-98.html' title='Question existentielle (98)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8458066191171119338</id><published>2011-12-28T21:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-28T21:19:53.620Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mercredi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wednesday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Blue Wednesday? (And early post-Christmas blues)</title><content type='html'>Today I was back to work, after the shortest Christmas holidays I ever had in my life. There is alledgedly such a thing as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_%28date%29"&gt;Blue Monday&lt;/a&gt;, the most dreadful day of the year, which &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-survived-blue-monday.html"&gt;I blogged about before&lt;/a&gt;. Going to work reluctantly today, I was wondering if there wasn't a Blue Wednesday. I am still not sure whether my day was good or bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was certainly exhausting. I was overworked all day in a still sleepy and half empty office. And confort food wise, it was sorely disappointing: my &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-fridays-sandwich-treat.html"&gt;favourite sandwich shop&lt;/a&gt; was still closed, so were many others, so I had to go to a convenience store to buy an overpriced but disgusting sandwich for lunch. I didn't have time to buy my morning hot chocolate at &lt;a href="http://cafe2u.com/uk/"&gt;Café2U&lt;/a&gt;. At least I had a biscotti &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/fighting-scrooge-spirit.html"&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;, which somewhat cheered me up. I think most people, heck, the whole Western world, are still running on holiday mode, so the working people like me are out of phase. The trains are still running on holiday schedule, so I arrived to work late... On the plus side, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/deserted-trains.html"&gt;like last Friday&lt;/a&gt;, the trains were almost empty. And the later train coming gave me plenty of time to read. But overall I felt that the Christmas holidays were too short. I know we have New Year soon (and then I have at least &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-voice-on-radio.html"&gt;something &lt;/a&gt;to look forward to), but for me when new year comes, Christmas, the heart of the holidays and the part that I enjoy most, is already gone. So I already feel the post-Christmas blues.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8458066191171119338?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8458066191171119338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8458066191171119338&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8458066191171119338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8458066191171119338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/blue-wednesday-and-early-post-christmas.html' title='Blue Wednesday? (And early post-Christmas blues)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5613891298628374491</id><published>2011-12-28T20:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-28T20:36:33.381Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chutney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atocas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cranberries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><title type='text'>Au moins il y a les atocas</title><content type='html'>Bon, je n'ai pas eu de Noël blanc, je n'ai pas mangé de dinde, je n'ai pas eu de réveillon non plus, la bûche de Noël n'était pas maison, mais j'ai quand même, au moins, réussi à faire des atocas cette année. Pas assez pour nourrir une armée, mais assez pour que je puisse me sustenter. C'est quand même une particularité nord-américaine, avec la dinde notre apport aux réjouissantes des Fêtes. Je dis "notre", même si c'est une invention américaine. Sauf qu'on produit des atocas au Québec, qu'on utilise ce nom, que la recette que j'utilise, vraiment simple, est la recette familiale. J'en ai mangé encore ce soir avec des papates et de du Brie. J'ai déjà vu ici des sandwiches Brie et "cranberry sauce" ici, ce qui m'a donné l'idée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parlant de mélanges inusités et d'atocas, j'ai récemment mangé un sandwich dinde, bacon et chutney d'atocas de chez Marks &amp;amp; Spencer. C'était délicieux. J,espère un jour trouver une recette de chutney d'atocas. Autre anecdote à propos des mélanges inusités: j'ai mangé des atocas comme à côté avec des restes de viande de fondue chinoise (du boeuf). Boeuf émincé, frites, mayonnaise au curry et frites. Un repas d'après Fêtes improvisé que &lt;a href="http://bleuetfjord.blogspot.com/"&gt;mon frère&lt;/a&gt; et moi avions fait un soir de semaine à Montréal. Revenu du travail aujourd'hui, je suis déjà en mode "deuil des Fêtes". Elles ont été particulièrement courtes, le choc a été brut, je me console comme je peux.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5613891298628374491?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5613891298628374491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5613891298628374491&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5613891298628374491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5613891298628374491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/au-moins-il-y-les-atocas.html' title='Au moins il y a les atocas'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1564838039602168670</id><published>2011-12-27T14:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-27T14:08:44.776Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viking mythology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mythologie viking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viking'/><title type='text'>The Holly and the Ivy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Christmas day is already technically over and my holidays will be over soon. The Twelve days of Christmas, for an employee of the private sector, is a long time gone tradition. So until I get the post Christmas blues (tomorrow morning), I thought about uploading here one Christmas carol while it is still Christmastime. I once mentioned that the imagery of Christmas reminds me &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/vikings.html"&gt;of Viking mythology&lt;/a&gt;. This particular carol especially, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holly_and_the_Ivy"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Holly and the Ivy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is maybe more than any filled with Pagan elements. Rising of the sun, running of the deer, this is pure primitivism. It is also directly linked to the story of the death of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr"&gt;Balder&lt;/a&gt;. The plants were also associated with fertility myths in Celtic cultures. Here it is interpreted by &lt;a href="http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com/"&gt;Mediaeval Babes&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe the last Christmas carol I will listen to until next year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/57l6dSbVppM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1564838039602168670?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1564838039602168670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1564838039602168670&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1564838039602168670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1564838039602168670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/holly-and-ivy.html' title='The Holly and the Ivy'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/57l6dSbVppM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5354035277139470301</id><published>2011-12-27T13:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-27T13:48:43.634Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December'/><title type='text'>Si au moins il neigeait...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NTKAAMgfPc/TvnMmBLPmuI/AAAAAAAABQU/jGJutIFGQ0k/s1600/DSC_00a25.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NTKAAMgfPc/TvnMmBLPmuI/AAAAAAAABQU/jGJutIFGQ0k/s320/DSC_00a25.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;C'est aujourd'hui ma dernière journée de vacances. Je n'ai jamais passé des vacances de Noël aussi courtes depuis que je fais partie de la population active. Non, pire, depuis le début de mon existence. C'est un aspect de mes anciens emplois dans le merveilleux monde de l'éducation dont je m'ennuie: les vacances étaient obligatoirement plus longues (en fait c'est bien la seule chose de ma carrière dans le monde de l'éducation primaire et secondaire anglaise dont je m'ennuie). Je pourrais&amp;nbsp; composer avec ces courtes vacances si au moins il neigeait. Et pour mettre du sel sur les plaies, &lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/national/201112/26/01-4480968-une-tempete-aux-portes-du-quebec.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_les-plus-populaires-title_article_ECRAN1POS5"&gt;une tempête de neige va s'abattre sur le Québec aujourd'hui&lt;/a&gt;. Il y en a qui ont toutes les chances. S'il neigeait comme ça ici, j'aurais des vacances prolongées. Et en plus ce serait beau.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5354035277139470301?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5354035277139470301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5354035277139470301&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5354035277139470301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5354035277139470301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/si-au-moins-il-neigeait.html' title='Si au moins il neigeait...'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NTKAAMgfPc/TvnMmBLPmuI/AAAAAAAABQU/jGJutIFGQ0k/s72-c/DSC_00a25.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7956830828024380750</id><published>2011-12-26T19:32:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T19:33:17.815Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irlande'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irish rovers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arbre de Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Killarney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Good King Wenceslas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas in Killarney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irish music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas tree'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxing Day'/><title type='text'>Two Christmas carols with an Irish twist</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t6ckCGxwIxo/TvjFxPvM05I/AAAAAAAABP8/buoFUcVhcrg/s1600/DSC_0021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t6ckCGxwIxo/TvjFxPvM05I/AAAAAAAABP8/buoFUcVhcrg/s320/DSC_0021.JPG" width="212" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You can see at your left the Christmas tree of my family in Chicoutimi. Believe me: it is much more impressive in real, and you have the lovely smell which I miss terribly. because we are still during the Christmas holidays, because we are on Boxing Day, which I hate and I want to exorcise it as much as I can (even though it is practically over now), I thought I would upload two Christmas carols tonight, not just one, as I could not decide between the two. The first one, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Good King Wenceslas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I already uploaded &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/12/feast-of-stephen-to-avoid-boxing-day.html"&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;. It is also St-Stephen's Day, the Feast of Stephen as the song says, so I had to reuse it. The second is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Killarney"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Christmas in Killarney&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which I discovered a long time ago as sang by Bing Crosby. But is is not nearly as good as done the Irish way. So I decided to put both carols interpreted by the &lt;a href="http://irishrovers.info/"&gt;Irish Rovers&lt;/a&gt;, who are ironically enough Canadian. I love this song as it is a nostalgic one and it appeals to the expat I am, even though I am not Irish. And I have this love for Irish culture, so I thought I would celebrate it on another day than St-Patrick's Day. The picture of a Christmas tree is a bonus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N5E8CXQwtrg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lFw87Ku_qWg" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7956830828024380750?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7956830828024380750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7956830828024380750&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7956830828024380750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7956830828024380750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/two-christmas-carols-with-irish-twist.html' title='Two Christmas carols with an Irish twist'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t6ckCGxwIxo/TvjFxPvM05I/AAAAAAAABP8/buoFUcVhcrg/s72-c/DSC_0021.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4485635183836592220</id><published>2011-12-26T18:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T18:05:24.898Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arbre de Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas tree'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (97)</title><content type='html'>Une autre question qui porte sur Noël:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Que mettre au sommet de l'arbre de Noël?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4485635183836592220?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4485635183836592220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4485635183836592220&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4485635183836592220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4485635183836592220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/question-existentielle-97.html' title='Question existentielle (97)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-7662078330195112669</id><published>2011-12-26T15:03:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T15:16:31.283Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monarchie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monarchy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Queen Elizabeth'/><title type='text'>The Christmas speech of Mrs. Claus</title><content type='html'>So Queen Elizabeth gave &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16329693"&gt;her Christmas speech&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. She mentioned her visit to Ireland (not mentioning that she didn't bother to have even &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/05/pint-of-guinness-and-epiphany.html"&gt;a sip of Guinness&lt;/a&gt;). She also spouted other clichés about Jesus and the Nativity Story. The problem with monarchs is that they think they are born and in power out of divine right, and in Christian societies it means that they think Jesus gave them power over men. I often wonder what she would have thought of this Jewish rabbi, son of carpenter of very low origins, had she met him in the flesh. Whatever her sycophants say, she never struck me as humble (if she was she would have had a sip of that Guinness). Don't get me wrong: I have no idea if the Jesus pictured in the Gospels was anything close to the real rabbi Jesus who probably preached in ancient Palestine. But I seriously doubt that the foundation of the British monarchy and the Church of England was part of his plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say she never struck me as humble, yet she is a living, breathing monument to the bling bling, vulgar, tacky, brainless rich and famous counter-culture that impress many commoners (and many&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/06/royal-family-and-its-sycophants.html"&gt; not so commoners&lt;/a&gt; who should know better). Case in point: the head the United Kingdom, indeed the head of many democratic states, including Canada, was again this year dressed like Mrs Claus. I noticed it last year in &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-own-christmas-speech-just-because.html"&gt;my own Christmas speech&lt;/a&gt;. I may be too harsh: how can you look anything else than ridiculous when you have your title because you were born? But this is still striking: she looks ridiculous, sounds ridiculous, speaks commonplaces and is revered because she is a monarch. It's symptomatic of the institution: when your head of state os crowned, you end up with Mrs Claus at Christmas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-7662078330195112669?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/7662078330195112669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=7662078330195112669&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7662078330195112669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/7662078330195112669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-speech-of-mrs-claus.html' title='The Christmas speech of Mrs. Claus'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2450647201880551951</id><published>2011-12-26T13:46:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T13:48:44.661Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicoutimi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='décorations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December'/><title type='text'>Une photo pour calmer le mal du pays</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NOeEV2naUz8/TvhcyTSPaUI/AAAAAAAABO0/qf24to6wZs8/s1600/DSC_00a18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NOeEV2naUz8/TvhcyTSPaUI/AAAAAAAABO0/qf24to6wZs8/s320/DSC_00a18.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Parce que j'en ai fait la demande, mon père m'a envoyé hier des photos du Noël de la famille à Chicoutimi. Un Noël blanc comme on n'en trouve pas ici et comme on n'en a pas eu dans le sud du Québec cette année, semblet-t-il (suis-je bien informé ou a-t-on finalement eu un Noël blanc là-bas aussi?). Alors voilà, à mes amis bloguers expatriés qui s'ennuoent de la neige, une photo d'un Noël enneigé. Vous remarquerez aussi dans le coin gauche, la couronne de Noël. Les couleurs des lumières de Noël sont plus impressionnantes lorsqu'il y a de la neige.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2450647201880551951?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2450647201880551951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2450647201880551951&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2450647201880551951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2450647201880551951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/une-photo-pour-calmer-le-mal-du-pays.html' title='Une photo pour calmer le mal du pays'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NOeEV2naUz8/TvhcyTSPaUI/AAAAAAAABO0/qf24to6wZs8/s72-c/DSC_00a18.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-535076970483439670</id><published>2011-12-26T00:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-26T00:31:42.455Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gluttony'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gastronomie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comfort food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Renewing with Christmas excesses</title><content type='html'>I just checked at the time, and it is nearly 30 minutes past midnight. Where did Christmas go? I wanted to wish Merry Christmas to my readership but didn't have time. I barely had time to do anything today and I think I numbed my blogging muse with excessive eating and drinking. Well, I didn't drink all that much: one pint of beer and two glasses of red wine, but with the heavy food, the fat, sugar and alcohol mix, my brain was numb. It is still. Renewing with excesses after weeks, or months of ascetic life is always a bit of a shock. So I apologise to my fellow bloggers for not wishing them happy Christmas on the day. But I guess you were all busy and being excessive yourself. I don't know for you, but I hope my stomach and liver (especially my liver) can take it tomorrow too. I mean today. After my night of sleep, that is. Christmas is short this year, so I do hope I can be excessive for the little time I have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-535076970483439670?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/535076970483439670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=535076970483439670&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/535076970483439670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/535076970483439670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/renewing-with-christmas-excesses.html' title='Renewing with Christmas excesses'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3615472172291593139</id><published>2011-12-25T21:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-25T21:39:45.553Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samuel Archibald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saguenay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='famille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arvida'/><title type='text'>Un conte de Noël rérional</title><content type='html'>Joyeux Noël à tous. Je suis en train de digérer&lt;a href="http://www.redwoodfoods.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;amp;flypage=flypage_images2.tpl&amp;amp;product_id=10&amp;amp;category_id=1&amp;amp;keyword=roast&amp;amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;amp;Itemid=54"&gt; mon repas de Noël végé&lt;/a&gt; et je me demandais sur quoi bloguer en ce 25 décembre 2011. Et puis ça m'a frappé: je n'ai que diriger mes lecteurs vers un conte de Noël. Ca m'arrive parfois (&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/les-trois-messes-basses.html"&gt;ici entre autres&lt;/a&gt;) Et ça concerne ma famille. Ma grand-mère pour être plus précis. Alors voilà, une courte nouvelle, un conte moderne pour être plus précis/plus exact , tiré du bouquin de mon cousin Samuel Archibald (en lire plus &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/09/arvida-la-ville-le-livre-la-famille.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;). Vous trouverez donc &lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/201112/23/01-4480643-conte-de-noel-madeleine-et-les-jezabelles.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&amp;amp;utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B4_en-manchette-arts_379_section_POS2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Madeleine et les jézabelles&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sur Cyberpresse. Croyez-le ou non, tout est absolument authentique. Vous ne me croyez pas? D'accord, Samuel a peut-être inventé un truc ou deux. Ou peut-être pas. Mais avouez que c'est savoureux.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3615472172291593139?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3615472172291593139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3615472172291593139&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3615472172291593139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3615472172291593139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/un-conte-de-noel-rerional.html' title='Un conte de Noël rérional'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-4670457100834278758</id><published>2011-12-24T22:51:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-24T22:51:49.693Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Santa Claus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pubs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coca Cola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Père Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>An empty, sleeping town</title><content type='html'>We are Christmas Eve. In less than an hour and half it will be Christmas. I did a last minute run to Sainsbury's before it closed tonight, to buy some last minutes stuff for Christmas (Coca Cola and brussel sprouts, which &lt;a href="http://ineptiescategoriques.blogspot.com/"&gt;my brother&lt;/a&gt; thought was quite funny). Something struck me: almost everything was close and so quiet. There where some people, many wearing Santa Claus' hats (!), walking to the pubs that were (are?) still open, almost empty, and the roads were empty. Usually there are a lot of cars driving until late at night, especially on a Saturday, but it was so quiet. With the snow it would have felt almost natural, but this seemed so strange here. This is not as new to me as &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/deserted-trains.html"&gt;the deserted train&lt;/a&gt;, but it was still unusual. I come from a place where people travel to see the family at this time, or go to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve"&gt;Midnight Mass&lt;/a&gt; (their only trip to church in a year), anyway you can see people outside until midnight, where Christmas starts with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Holy_Night"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Minuit Chrétiens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;i&gt;O Holy Night&lt;/i&gt;) in every church and on the radio. There is a quiet febrility before Christmas. Here it is just... Quiet. I don't dislike it, in fact I find quiet little towns quite pleasant. But I do find it unusual.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-4670457100834278758?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/4670457100834278758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=4670457100834278758&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4670457100834278758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/4670457100834278758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/empty-sleeping-town.html' title='An empty, sleeping town'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1997812613658521905</id><published>2011-12-24T22:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-24T22:18:22.603Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><title type='text'>Un Noël sans réveillon</title><content type='html'>Dans quelques minutes, je vais manger mon dernier chocolat du calendrier de l'Avent. Et puis je vais écouter de la musique de Noël (ce que je fais présentement), regarder la télé, lire un peu de&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/reliques-quebecoises-de-noel.html"&gt; lecture de circonstances&lt;/a&gt;, etc. Et puis je vais me coucher. Parce que Noël en Angleterre c'est fêté le 25. Je veux dire le 25 dans la journée/soirée. Je ne m'y fais toujours pas. Le réveillon, c'est une tradition bien catholique et française qui existe assez peu ici. Ca me manque moins que la neige, la dinde, le vrai sapin, &lt;a href="http://bleuetfjord.blogspot.com/2008/11/les-pts-la-viande-la-recette-ou-ceci.html"&gt;les pâtés à la viande&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/12/yule-log.html"&gt;la bûche de Noël&lt;/a&gt;... Cela dit, le réveillon, c'est quand même un peu ce qui tient tout ça ensemble. Se bourrer la fraise après minuit, développer les cadeaux qu'on aura le temps d'apprécier le lendemain, tout ça fait partie de la fête. Je ne vais plus à la Messe de minuit parce que j'en n'ai rien à cirer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je sais que dans bien des familles québécoises, on mange le souper de Noël le 24 au soir, lequel est souvent autre chose que de la dinde (un buffet est quant à moi une hérésie à Noël), ensuite on développe les cadeaux (avant ou après minuit), ensuite... Ensuite ça se termine? Mais dans ma famille, on est traditionalistes: Noël ça se fête après minuit. On rend visite aux voisins avant pour passer le temps, mais le coeur de la fête, c'est le réveillon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1997812613658521905?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1997812613658521905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1997812613658521905&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1997812613658521905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1997812613658521905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/un-noel-sans-reveillon.html' title='Un Noël sans réveillon'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8482833198383599378</id><published>2011-12-24T13:32:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-24T21:11:42.937Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='role playing games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeux de rôles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dungeons and Dragons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jessye Norman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Larry Elmore'/><title type='text'>Wintery atmosphere for Christmas eve</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lcrazzy1.narod.ru/image/fantasy/larry_elmore/Elmore_Larry_132_Winter_Campaign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://lcrazzy1.narod.ru/image/fantasy/larry_elmore/Elmore_Larry_132_Winter_Campaign.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I didn't know exactly what to upload here or what to blog about as I am waiting for Christmas to arrive. This post is not very original: I blogged about similar subjects &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-atmosphere-and-geeky-pastimes.html"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/geeky-confession-about-christmas-carols.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This picture by&lt;a href="http://larryelmore.com/"&gt; Larry Elmore&lt;/a&gt; is called &lt;i&gt;Winter campaign&lt;/i&gt;. I have no idea what the context is, but judging by the clothes and weapons of the characters here I think they are meant to be Eastern European (or akin to them). In any cayse, it reminds me slightly of our own &lt;a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/"&gt;Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons&lt;/a&gt; campaign: the characters travelling in the snow on horses, the raven/crow/corvid looming over them ominously (&lt;a href="http://bleuetfjord.blogspot.com/"&gt;my brother&lt;/a&gt; had the raven as the emblematic animal of the big baddies in our D&amp;amp;Dr campaign), I wonder if he is part of the party or spying on them, the giant boar accompanying them... I think they are baddies, thinking about it. I might be wrong. But aside from this, the landscape, the setting and atmosphere here, the sense of dynamism Elmore creates so well, all this reminds me of our D&amp;amp;Dr campaign when we play during Christmastime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said, before, I associate Christmas carols with D&amp;amp;Dr. I have already uploaded a song from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessye_Norman"&gt;Jessye Norman'&lt;/a&gt;s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jessye-Norman-George-Frideric-Handel/dp/B0000040YQ"&gt;Christmastide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmastide.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I have already put McKennit's version of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_come,_O_come,_Emmanuel"&gt;&lt;i&gt;O Come O Come Emmanuel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But as I mentioned before, I associate the interpretation of Jessye Norman with those moments when our characters travel in the snowy landscape, leaving their inn of their castle early in the morning, mounting their horses for a long journey. And now Christmas is coming, almost here, so this carol is fitting to all states of mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NKvoygXsRV4" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8482833198383599378?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8482833198383599378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8482833198383599378&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8482833198383599378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8482833198383599378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/wintery-atmosphere-for-christmas-eve.html' title='Wintery atmosphere for Christmas eve'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/NKvoygXsRV4/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1633648786531346962</id><published>2011-12-24T11:32:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-24T15:16:04.523Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gifts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cadeau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (96)</title><content type='html'>Une question qui ressemble aux question &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/12/question-existentielle-28.html"&gt;28 &lt;/a&gt;et &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2010/12/question-existentielle-29.html"&gt;29&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Quel est le cadeau de Noël que vous aimeriez recevoir?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ca a aussi une dimension pratique: après tout, il reste encore un peu de temps...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1633648786531346962?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1633648786531346962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1633648786531346962&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1633648786531346962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1633648786531346962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/question-existentielle-96.html' title='Question existentielle (96)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-8937140836009077526</id><published>2011-12-23T18:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-23T18:51:53.511Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Deserted trains</title><content type='html'>I was back home early from work today: I only had half a day. So I am officially on holiday now, for four days. I feel less like&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cratchit"&gt; Bob Cratchit&lt;/a&gt;. It is the very first time today in, well forever, that I was going to work on the 23, so close to Christmas. It didn't look like Christmas, what with the heavy rain and the way too warm weather, but something struck me in the morning commute and the way back: the train was almost empty. The few other people travelling seemed to be going somewhere else than their working places, in fact I was the only one leaving and waiting at my stop. I enjoyed the train journey a lot because of this: I was excited to leave work early and go home, obviously, but there is something less oppressive about deserted trains.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-8937140836009077526?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/8937140836009077526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=8937140836009077526&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8937140836009077526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/8937140836009077526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/deserted-trains.html' title='Deserted trains'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6210689737151596468</id><published>2011-12-23T16:50:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-23T19:00:40.672Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique québécoise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hugo Lapointe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beau Dommage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='23 Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December'/><title type='text'>23 Décembre</title><content type='html'>Ca doit être la troisième fois que je mets &lt;a href="http://en.lyrics-copy.com/beau-dommage/23-decembre.htm"&gt;&lt;i&gt;23 Décembre&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ici. Mais comme on est le 23 décembre et que ça me calme du mal du pays (un peu), alors je la remets ici. Elle est chantée par Hugo Lapointe (le frère de l'autre, qui a par ailleurs &lt;a href="http://www.blog.hugolapointe.com/"&gt;un blogue&lt;/a&gt;) L'interprétation ne peut pas être aussi bonne que l'originale, mais comme j'ai déjà mis l'originale deux fois ici, j'ai pensé varier un peu. J'ai trouvé l'interprétation&lt;a href="http://christmasagogo.blogspot.com/"&gt; sur un blogue consacré à Noël&lt;/a&gt;. On ne peut pas faire plus Noël québécois que la chanson de Beau Dommage, alors j'espère que vous apprécierez comme moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OApT2i74NFM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6210689737151596468?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6210689737151596468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6210689737151596468&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6210689737151596468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6210689737151596468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/23-decembre.html' title='23 Décembre'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/OApT2i74NFM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3281428252274566548</id><published>2011-12-22T23:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-22T23:29:43.745Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandwich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biscotti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biscuits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saumon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thursday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jeudi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Fighting the Scrooge spirit</title><content type='html'>I will not be home for Christmas, there will be no snow (it will even be hot), I barely have holiday to speak of, so I am tempted, for maybe the first time of my life, to feel like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Scrooge"&gt;Scrooge &lt;/a&gt;at Christmas. The one before the three ghosts show up. I guess job wise I am a bit more like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cratchit"&gt;Bob Cratchit&lt;/a&gt;, but I still feel bitter like Scrooge these days, and this bitterness can easily overcome me and make me grumpy. I am not liking this Christmas season as much as others. So I try to fight the foul mood. I listen to Christmas music, try to sing some a bit too, I made cranberry sauce,I eat clementines,&amp;nbsp; I try to do those simple things. I didn't risking making a yule log, but I bought one from a local bakery. Not to force the season on me, but to keep it alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simple things make me happy. I had my sandwich treat today instead of tomorrow... because tomorrow I &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; go home early. So instead of a Friday treat, it was a Thursday treat. I played safe this time (&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/sandwich-for-this-friday.html"&gt;unlike last week&lt;/a&gt;): a smoked salmon baguette. And I had an unexpected treat for dessert: a colleague, half Italian, had made biscotti. I cannot remember the exact Italian name, but it had nuts (hazelnuts) and some spices, I think ginger and a hint of cinnamon. It tasted like Christmas I thought, albeit I don't know much about Italian Christmases. Maybe the spice, very much like the one I taste in mulled wine and Christmas pudding, made me think that. In any case, it got me in a better mood.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3281428252274566548?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3281428252274566548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3281428252274566548&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3281428252274566548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3281428252274566548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/fighting-scrooge-spirit.html' title='Fighting the Scrooge spirit'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2881839163211077951</id><published>2011-12-22T22:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-22T22:48:20.769Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arbre de Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas tree'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Se faire une raison</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-os265GpreLM/TvOslp9_xJI/AAAAAAAABOo/12pKET_7iWA/s1600/arbredenoel2006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-os265GpreLM/TvOslp9_xJI/AAAAAAAABOo/12pKET_7iWA/s1600/arbredenoel2006.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Cette photo a été prise à Chicoutimi en décembre 2006. Il avait très peu neigé alors, mais on avait quand même (au moins!) eu un Noël blanc. L'hiver était arrivé plus tard, en janvier, juste quand je quittais le Québec pour l'Angleterre. Je n'ai pas vraiment senti Noël cette année-là. Alors voilà, puisque je ne pourrai pas être au Québec, j'essaie de me faire une raison. Je vais célébrer ici. Il y aura au moins un sapin et des cadeaux. Pas de dinde, mais il y aura un truc végé à la place qui n'est pas mauvais. Et j'ai fait les atocas.Et puis je peux regarder les photos des Noëls d'hier. Au moins je peux rendre ce blogue festif.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2881839163211077951?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2881839163211077951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2881839163211077951&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2881839163211077951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2881839163211077951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/se-faire-une-raison.html' title='Se faire une raison'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-os265GpreLM/TvOslp9_xJI/AAAAAAAABOo/12pKET_7iWA/s72-c/arbredenoel2006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-3140998568799662993</id><published>2011-12-21T23:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-21T23:00:52.619Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homesickness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saisons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I&apos;m dreaming of home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seasons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='song'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mal du pays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bing Crosby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chanson'/><title type='text'>I'm dreaming of...</title><content type='html'>...well, home really, first and foremost, and I guess&lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/im-dreaming-of-home.html"&gt; this song&lt;/a&gt; would be more appropriate to my state of mind now (and I swear it will bring a tear to the eyes of every homesick reader). But I am, I must confess, dreaming of a white Christmas, like in the famous &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby"&gt;Bing Crosby&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_%28song%29"&gt;song&lt;/a&gt;. Even though it is alledgedly the most popular Christmas song of all times, it is not my favourite Christmas song (I do, strangely enough, prefer the religious Christmas carols to the profane ones), but I do feel like it now. I miss the snow (which is not everywhere in Québec this year), it saddens me greatly that I will not even see one snow flake for Christmas (because there might even be record heat, boy sometimes this country sucks and at the very worst time). So I relate to the song. I do listen to it, but I sing it very often. Enough to irritate my colleagues at work. It is another strange oddity of me: I listen to religious Christmas carols, but I sing the profane ones. Anyway, here it is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GJSUT8Inl14" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-3140998568799662993?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/3140998568799662993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=3140998568799662993&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3140998568799662993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/3140998568799662993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-dreaming-of.html' title='I&apos;m dreaming of...'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/GJSUT8Inl14/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-939615343234482724</id><published>2011-12-21T21:54:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-21T21:56:06.560Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ciné-cadeau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nostalgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enfance'/><title type='text'>La cuvée 2011 de Ciné-Cadeau</title><content type='html'>Je blogue parfois sur&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/"&gt; Ciné-Cadeau&lt;/a&gt;, surtout depuis que je ne le regarde plus. Ciné-Cadeau était un moment important des Noëls mon enfance. J'y ai découvert des grands classiques et des dessins animés prodigieusement médiocres. J'ai regardé&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/episodes.aspx"&gt; la cuvée de cette année&lt;/a&gt;. Je me demande ce que mon lectorat en pense. Il y a des horreurs épouvantables (&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/episode.aspx?idCaseHoraire=102668367"&gt;celle-ci&lt;/a&gt; notamment), des classiques modernes qui n'existaient pas alors que j'étais enfant (&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/episode.aspx?idCaseHoraire=102592259"&gt;celui-ci&lt;/a&gt;) et des vieux films animés souvent médiocres qui doivent leur célébrité parce qu'ils sont des adaptations d'un classique (&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/episode.aspx?idCaseHoraire=102668470"&gt;ce genre de Tintin&lt;/a&gt;, par exemple, franchement une pâle copie du personnage d'Hergé). J'en regarderais bien un rien que pour le plaisir. J'imagine qu'il faut certains vieux titres connus, qui sont là depuis des décennies, peu importe la qualité intrinsèque du film. Mais enfin bref, que pensez-vous de Ciné-Cadeau en général et de la cuvée Noël 2011 en particulier?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-939615343234482724?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/939615343234482724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=939615343234482724&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/939615343234482724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/939615343234482724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-cuvee-2011-de-cine-cadeau.html' title='La cuvée 2011 de Ciné-Cadeau'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6200320024955773039</id><published>2011-12-20T22:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-20T22:14:30.509Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aphorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aphorisme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grandes répliques inconnues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='N&apos;importe quoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whatever'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great unknown lines'/><title type='text'>A brand new great unknown line</title><content type='html'>It is I think a first: there is no context to this great unknown line, or very little, I never said it or wrote/read it &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/any-whisky-drinkers.html"&gt;on Facebook &lt;/a&gt;, wrote it &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/05/dreadful-great-unknown-written-line.html"&gt;on a blog&lt;/a&gt; or anywhere. I just thought about it and needed to write it down for posterity. So here it is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;i&gt;I end up doing a lot more than I want but a lot less than I should.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6200320024955773039?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6200320024955773039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6200320024955773039&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6200320024955773039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6200320024955773039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/brand-new-great-unknown-line.html' title='A brand new great unknown line'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-6066948379981333315</id><published>2011-12-20T21:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-20T21:49:27.747Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (95)</title><content type='html'>J'ai eu droit à un presque party de bureau aujourd'hui, ce qui veut dire quelques minutes à manger de la pizza, des lanières de poulet pané et des patates frites de chez Pizza Hut en écoutant de la zique de Noël. Je me suis rendu compte que j'essaie d'éviter les partys de bureau en général. Ceci est un long préambule, je sais. Enfin bref, je me pose cette question existentielle:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Quel est l'intérêt des partys de bureau?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-6066948379981333315?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/6066948379981333315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=6066948379981333315&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6066948379981333315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/6066948379981333315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/question-existentielle-95.html' title='Question existentielle (95)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2195864076121461387</id><published>2011-12-19T22:39:00.007Z</published><updated>2011-12-19T22:46:59.950Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pulp magazines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archetypes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='littérature policière'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='détective privé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='detective tales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='private eye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='femmes fatales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crime fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December'/><title type='text'>A dramatic pulp fiction cover</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/d/detective_tales_193712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/d/detective_tales_193712.jpg" width="226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I am following this &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/judging-book-by-its-cover-and-why-not.html"&gt;old/new "tradition"&lt;/a&gt; of uploading a &lt;a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/detective_tales.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detective Tales&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; cover every month and commenting on it just for kicks. This cover is from December 1937 and is brilliantly dramatic. A bit more extravagant than the November image, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villain"&gt;villain &lt;/a&gt;looking much more like a stereotype. We have again the squared jaw hero, the blonde femme fatale, who is an unknowing damsel in distress.  (Are they the same characters as in the previous cover? They could be.)The danger they are facing is double: the hero is shooting away with his revolver, while the badguyis about to plunge the blade of his &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordstick"&gt;cane-sword&lt;/a&gt;. And they are trying (I think) to get the hero on a train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2008/05/femmes-fatales-damsels-in-distress.html"&gt;it is often the case&lt;/a&gt;, y favourite character here is of course the villain. With the goatee, the dark suit, he looks like the devil. He is overly elegant, but an elegance that is also old fashioned, what with the monocle and the top hat. He looks slightly ridiculous in an unsettling, troubling way. And there is the sword-cane. Why are swordsticks so popular a weapon for villains, especially from this time period? I have a few hypothesis: it is a blade, which emphasises here latent impotence, which seems even more blatant as he is ready to cooly execute a beautiful woman. The weapon is also a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_weapon"&gt;concealed weapon&lt;/a&gt;, an arm of treachery and back stab. I hope there is a story with this cover. Because whatever I can imagine cannot be half as good as what I see.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2195864076121461387?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2195864076121461387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2195864076121461387&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2195864076121461387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2195864076121461387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/dramatic-pulp-fiction-cover.html' title='A dramatic pulp fiction cover'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-1223378750857737267</id><published>2011-12-19T19:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-19T19:46:27.376Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La fin du monde est à 7 heures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='song'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chanson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Québec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marc Labrèche'/><title type='text'>Un Noël vert, c'est un Noël brun</title><content type='html'>Je viens de lire &lt;a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/201112/18/01-4479099-un-noel-blanc-peu-probable.php"&gt;ce déprimant article &lt;/a&gt;sur la très probable absence de neige à Noël au Québec, en tout cas dans le sud et à Montréal. Ici aussi, après avoir prophétisé l'Apocalypse blanc, il semblerait que l'on aura du temps On appelle ça un Noël vert, mais en fait c'est un Noël brun. C'est laid, Noël sans neige. J'ai donc décidé, pour m'en consoler et consoler mon lectorat, de mettre ici un classique de &lt;i&gt;La Fin du monde est à 7 heures&lt;/i&gt;, une chanson désopilante interprétée par Marc Labrèche. Elle est malheureusement incomplète, mais elle a de quoi nous faire dilater la rate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bVvsDIeXtv0" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-1223378750857737267?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/1223378750857737267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=1223378750857737267&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1223378750857737267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/1223378750857737267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/un-noel-vert-cest-un-noel-brun.html' title='Un Noël vert, c&apos;est un Noël brun'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/bVvsDIeXtv0/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-2374979806200158283</id><published>2011-12-18T18:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-18T18:18:59.863Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saisons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neige'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Décembre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Angleterre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='December'/><title type='text'>An English winter</title><content type='html'>Today I went out. It was cold, it was sunny, there was ice on the ground, enough for me to nearly trip over it, but there was no snow. Rain fell in the morning and later on in the afternoon. I am getting used to it, or trying to. It is not always easy, especially when one feels homesick, but I try to appreciate the kind of winter that I am having and that I will most likely have. Sure, there was no snow, but at least the light was beautiful today. I never saw lights like in English winters, they take dark orange shades when evening comes. So this is something to appreciate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-2374979806200158283?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/2374979806200158283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=2374979806200158283&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2374979806200158283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/2374979806200158283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/english-winter.html' title='An English winter'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592307094236206281.post-5038429762664308133</id><published>2011-12-18T13:02:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-12-18T13:02:01.895Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='question existentielle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='existential question'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noël'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie'/><title type='text'>Question existentielle (94)</title><content type='html'>Pour rester dans l'esprit des Fêtes: et parce que j'ai jeté un coup d'oeil&lt;a href="http://www.telequebec.tv/emissions/cinecadeau/episodes.aspx"&gt; sur la programmation de Ciné-cadeau&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;-Quel est selon vous LE film de Noël?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1592307094236206281-5038429762664308133?l=vraiefiction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/feeds/5038429762664308133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1592307094236206281&amp;postID=5038429762664308133&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5038429762664308133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1592307094236206281/posts/default/5038429762664308133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vraiefiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/question-existentielle-94.html' title='Question existentielle (94)'/><author><name>Guillaume</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
