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Hôtel Dupond-Smith, Paris
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 8 smoke-free guestrooms
- Breakfast available
- Bar/lounge
- Train station pick-up service
- In-room childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
- Multilingual staff
- Concierge services
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
What's around
- In 4th Arrondissement
- Picasso Museum (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Museum Georges Pompidou (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Place des Vosges (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Forum des Halles (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Notre Dame Cathedral (0.6 mi / 1 km)
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Hôtel Dupond-Smith, Paris
Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803from £240
- Superior Room
- Deluxe Double or Twin Room
- Suite
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- Superior Room
- Superior Double or Twin Room
- Deluxe Room
- Deluxe Room
Also popular with travellers from the UK
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 8 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed (dogs only)
- Restrictions apply *
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Train station pickup *
- No parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
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In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Room service
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2014
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
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- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Pillow menu
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Premium bedding
- In-room massage available
- Individually decorated
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Premium TV channels
- IPod docking station
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.30 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.
The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Resort fee
Optional extras
Breakfast costs between EUR 12 and EUR 35 per person (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
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Tonight when I got off work I heard on the radio that Yann Martel was in town, speaking about his new book at our Writer's Festival. My first thought was "Whaaaaaaaaat?
I love Yann Martel's books, and met him once back in 2003 when Life of Pi was all the rage. He signed my book back then, and even chatted with me.
And so tonight I was so upset, because if I had known about it I would have made plans to be there. As it is, they announced the thing was sold out.
But still, I would have gotten tickets in advance had I known of it.
So, somewhat chagrined, I went to a Starbucks and drank about three gallons of coffee.
Then I thought, "Well, at least I am going to go now and buy his new book. Like right now."
The Chapters store was just closing when I got there. I grabbed a copy of Yann's new book and went to the cashier. She took it from me and said, "Wait. Do you want a different book than this one?"
I thought she was maybe insane. A "different" book? Why would I have handed her this one?
And she literally walked away and came back with another copy she had retrieved from somewhere over yonder, behind the counter. She said, "Yann Martel walked through here today and signed a bunch of his books, would you like this one instead?"
I was like… "Do tigers live on boats? OF COURSE I want that one! Yes. Yes. Yes!"
So the night sort of redeemed itself after all.
I'm still sad that I missed Mr. Martel in person, but ended up with the next best thing.

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Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-12659480156611084982016-01-17T20:13:00.000-05:002016-01-17T20:22:58.495-05:00My Faves of 2015

Let me begin by saying -- Happy [Belated] New Year to one and all.
I have not written a blog for a real long time -- but this does not mean I have given up on books. In the year of 2015 I managed to read 58 books. For most of you, this is a small number, but for me it's pretty damn good. Because truly, I am a rather slow and methodical reader. If I was a dinosaur, I would probably be given the Latin nomenclature of Slowus Turnpageius.
But a couple of books really got me flipping the page last year. I've got to admit, it was really difficult to pick a top five, but here they are:

1. Purity, by Jonathan Franzen.
2. Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates.
3. Riven Rock, by T.C. Boyle.
4. The Book of Daniel, by E.L. Doctorow.
5. A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozecki.

All of these books just had me riveted to the page. Please forgive me for not offering an extensive review of each one, but I am currently knee-deep in another real gem, and I want to get back to it here before Monday arrives and my alarm clock [which is so obviously set by Satan himself every Sunday night] jolts me into my back-breaking reality of… reality before dawn.
Now that I think of it I have to include one more book -- Native Son, by Richard Wright.
I'm really surprised at the plethora of negative reviews with the new Franzen book.
I read it with my girlfriend on the beach this summer [pictured above] and we both thought the book was flawlessly good. Why are so many reviewers panning the thing into the sand?
Where is all the Franzen-hate coming from? I think he is, to borrow a phrase of another of my fave-authors, Martin Amis -- "simply brill".
I also read a lot of great non-fiction as well. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. Voices In The Ocean, by Susan Casey. Zealot, by Reza Aslan. How Jesus Became Christian, by Barrie Wilson. And perhaps the best, and most important of all -- Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Happy reading in 2016, to everyone!
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-71766341100271662892015-09-05T22:21:00.003-04:002015-09-05T22:51:57.740-04:00Galileo Lavitski -- A Great Mind

"If reasoning were like hauling, I should agree that several reasoners would be worth more than one, just as several horses can haul more sacks of grain than one can. But reasoning is like racing and not like hauling, and a single Arabian steed can outrun a hundred plowhorses."
-- Galileo --
In my reading tonight, I ran across the above quote from Galileo.
I think his last name was Lavitski. Not too sure about that part. You know you're famous when you only have to go by your first name. Like Madonna. Or Beyonce. But you know who I mean, right?
The 17th Century scientist who was a scientist before the word scientist was invented?
Immediately, what he said resonated with me, because I think there is a deep truth to it. Humanity [human beings] are very intelligent -- of that there is no doubt. But when it comes to scientific breakthroughs, or any other manner of intellectual innovations that lead to progress and/or advancement in technology or understanding, it's interesting to note that this never comes from the masses. It comes from the rogue mind -- the individuals that are bent towards thinking beyond the accepted norms and willing to question the validity of prevailing ideas.
Humanity in general is quite smart, but true genius will always be an anomaly.
Let's face it, most of us are plowhorses, when it comes down to it. Nothing wrong with that, after all. Somehow the field has to get plowed. Might as well be me under the yoke. Some of us still even go to church. In fact, the masses do!
But then there are the Galileos. They are still among us. Revealing what always was. Praise be!
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-19585350191995826612015-09-02T22:22:00.001-04:002015-09-02T23:14:41.019-04:00The Night Before...

First of all, my apologies to everyone who may be even slightly concerned, but I have not written a blog-posting in about three years. I blame Laziness. With a capital "L".
Laziness as an entity.
I've read such great books in the past while, some of the best ever. So, I am still reading like crazy, but just not writing. I have a second factor to blame.
Work. As in, too much of it. With a capital "W". As an entity.
Just wait until the day I am retired or win the Lottery [whichever comes first] and no normal human will be able to even read all the blogs I will write!
But tonight I just wanted to drop by and say hello while I sit out here on my balcony with my best friend in the universe beside me -- we are watching the craziest lightning storm I have ever seen -- no rain -- just the electrical portions of some kind of freak-storm.
And it's apropos.
Because TOMORROW night, I will finally see [and hear] AC/DC in concert.
So this is the night before the brain damage. No wonder the skies are on fire.
I've wanted to see AC/DC since pretty much being alive, so I'm really looking forward to tomorrow night. Finally getting to sing along with Shoot To Thrill, and whatever else they play. Whatever it is, I will know the words.
So funny, when I was just a kid and my rock band [Hellion] shook the plates off the cupboards upstairs while we would practice our songs, my mom, after she re-arranged things, [and now in the opposite place] would ask me... "But why do you boys sing that you actually want to be on the Highway to Hell?"
I still do not have a very coherent answer.
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Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-84854877496643752532015-07-12T20:18:00.002-04:002015-07-12T20:25:07.645-04:00A Revival of Saramago

Imagine my joy to be walking through a bookstore in Oshawa one day while on vacation and discovering a stack of Jose Saramago books on a table. I was convinced I had read everything that the man ever wrote. But it seems that after his death on June 18th, 2010 [a day I will never forget] -- his publishers had been holding back on a few things, and he is now being posthumously published again!
The book I found that day was called Raised From The Ground, first published in Portuguese in 1980, now freshly translated into English. I had no idea the thing existed. I promptly bought two copies.
I read it, and it was fantastic.
A bit later on, after doing a bit of research I found one called The Lives of Things, a collection of six short stories. Again I got two copies, sending one to my best friend. But there was yet one more discovery to be made, a novel called Skylight, which was Saramago's first novel, written when he was a mere 31 years old. It was rejected at the time. Being ignored by that publisher plunged the writer into a painful, indelible silence that lasted decades. Even after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, Saramago continued to keep this book Skylight a secret, refusing to have it published during his earthly existence.
But we have it now.
I encourage you to read it. In fact, if you have never read Jose Saramago, Skylight may be a good place to start, because it is written in a straightforward, grammatically correct way. Later on he adopted a style so unique that some readers may find those books hard to follow -- although I myself found them irresistible. I love what his wife, Pilar del Rio, said in the Introduction to Skylight:
Skylight is the gift that Saramago readers deserved to receive. It is not the closing of a door; on the contrary, it flings the door wide open so that we can go back inside and read or reread his other novels in the light of what he was writing as a young man. Skylight is the gateway into Saramago's work and will be a real discovery for its readers. As if a perfect circle had closed. As if death did not exist.
As if death did not exist.
Jose Saramago died 1,850 days ago. 5 years and 24 days ago. 264 weeks and 2 days ago. 44,400 hours ago. 2,664,000 minutes ago. 159,840,000 seconds.
I'm so glad he left us this last gift to open, on our way to re-reading everything else.

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What could be conceivably better than eating a massive hamburger and drinking a Guinness whille you are simultaneously scrounging a free Blue Jays game because your hotel is attached to the Skydome in Toronto? A game they won against the Baltimore Orioles.
Answer = Nothing.
***** Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-27408007699072656382015-04-14T02:38:00.002-04:002015-04-14T02:39:28.945-04:00Splash du Jour: Tuesday

Lovely, the way the sky works. The constellations and planets and moons. Enough recurrence to assure us of the probable continuation of the universe, but not so repetitive as to become boring during the limited span we have to watch it all spin around.
-- Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons --

Have a great Tuesday!
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Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-1828858794305760732015-04-05T22:15:00.002-04:002015-04-05T22:18:37.602-04:00Not Dead -- Just Reading A Lot

I'm sure that some of you who may have been following my blog in the past have concluded that I have died. But I am very much alive!
It's really strange, but somehow I have just not been blogging much this year. I'm not even sure why.
For a spell there I was saying to myself that I am just working too much. That I am too tired at the end of the day. And it's true, the past few months have been real busy at my work -- but it has subsided lately, and still -- I just do not seem to be blogging about the things I am reading, or even about my daily thoughts as I once did. It's probably just a bit of phase I am going through, almost like writer's block.
But I have been reading some really terrific books, that's for sure. In fact, the first three months of this year I have read 15 books, which is a real lot for me statistically speaking, and given the fact that I am slow reader.
Here is a list of what I have read thus far in 2015:

The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Faye
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby
Gold by Chris Cleave
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Under The Wide And Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
The Names by Don DeLillo
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
Native Son by Richard Wright
A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozecki

Just this morning I started my 16th book, Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier and I am immediately immersed in it. Such terrific writing.
And in two more weeks I am on vacation! So… more reading. Uninhibited.
And hopefully some blogging, too.
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-59477695417630108282015-03-22T22:50:00.002-04:002015-03-22T22:53:14.140-04:00My Favorite [Living] Author

T. Coraghessan Boyle, in repose.
I just finished such a great book, The Road To Wellville, by T.C. Boyle. And I loved it so much I had to immediately pick up another one by him and dig right into it. It's called Talk Talk, and deals with the phenomenon of identity theft. And the same thing is happening -- I CANNOT put the thing down!
I've read several others by this guy and seriously, he is just dynamite.
The Road To Wellville was about Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. Often Boyle will take a real historical person and create a barnburner of a novel about their life. God he is good.
He is everything I love about good writing. Clarity, substance, humor, suspense, pitch-perfect characters that you can believe in. Great dialogue. Witty, inventive.
I can't wait to get my hands on his newest novel, as yet unreleased. It's titled The Harder They Come. From what I understand, it deals with the current fad of amateur sniperism. Whatever topic Boyle handles, he always just nails it.
I mean… even with corn flakes. How can anyone make that interesting?
Boyle knows how.
Check out his awesome website -- HERE.
*****Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-24862063526356592282015-03-18T03:11:00.005-04:002015-03-18T03:11:49.571-04:00Splash du Jour: Wednesday

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun, or to be subversive or to get turned on to something. It's just like doing math at school. I mean, how often do we sit down and do trigonometry for fun, to relax. I've thought about this, the domination of the literary arts by theory over the past 25 years -- which I detest -- and it's as if you have to be a critic to mediate between the author and the reader and that's utter crap. Literature can be great in all ways, but it's just entertainment like rock'n'roll or a film. It is entertainment. If it doesn't capture you on that level, as entertainment, movement of plot, then it doesn't work. Nothing else will come out of it. The beauty of the language, the characterization, the structure, all that's irrelevant if you're not getting the reader on that level -- moving a story. If that's friendly to readers, I cop to it.
-- T.C. Boyle --

Have a great Wednesday!
*****Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-58054597452065478032015-03-17T07:23:00.003-04:002015-03-17T07:24:37.563-04:00Splash du Jour: Tuesday

Have a great Tuesday!

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Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-86195540938155425422015-03-14T23:55:00.000-04:002015-03-15T00:46:12.847-04:00A Word About Expiry Dates

Tonight for supper I ate half a roasted chicken. Yes, with baked potato slathered with half a tub of sour cream…. and watched one of my favourite shows on TV, Dateline.
I think I ate too fast, though.
Because when I sat down afterwards to begin reading The Road To Wellville by T.C. Boyle -- whoa, I was struck with Level 5 heartburn. And most people usually die at just Level 4. Oh, it was bad. And so unexpected. I quickly scanned my options, in ascending order of how much I did not want to do any one of them. They were: a) getting in my car and driving to the drugstore for a remedy, b) calling 911 for an ambulance, and c) just dying.
But then a fourth option presented itself. Several years ago I would get heartburn on a regular basis, and Gaviscon© was always the thing that knocked it right out of the park. I wondered if there was any of that stuff still in my fridge. I hobbled over and amazingly, way at the back, there it was. A lone, glorious bottle. I grabbed it and checked the expiry date. It said, "November, 2012."
2012?
This tells you a few things about me, I guess. One of which is that I do not clean out my fridge very often. For instance, the current discovery was nestled behind a jar of hot-dog relish, circa late 1990's. Anyhoo, I twisted off the crusted over lid of the out-dated Gaviscon and emptied it into my human volcano. And amazingly, five minutes later I felt like a million bucks. I almost wanted to instantly eat more chicken! Or have a beer!
So I just wanted to let you know -- at least when it comes to antacids, expiry dates are not to be taken too seriously. This ancient Gaviscon put me right back onto The Road to Wellville.
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-17215974962632999872015-02-09T03:06:00.000-05:002015-02-09T03:07:17.306-05:00Splash du Jour: Monday

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson --

Have a great Monday!
*****Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-79030550236880357032015-01-27T03:11:00.000-05:002015-01-27T03:11:28.447-05:00Splash du Jour: Tuesday

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
-- Chris Cleave, Little Bee --
Have a great Tuesday!
*****Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-63061646920173770392015-01-25T22:13:00.002-05:002015-01-25T22:14:07.276-05:00Going For Gold

I really liked the last book I read and wanted to recommend it to my readers, even though I may be one of the last people on earth to have discovered Chris Cleave's work. Which is to say, you've maybe already read Gold. Or Little Bee. Or Incendiary. His books sell like hotcakes, and he is the kind of author who enjoys a word-of-mouth cult following. There's a light, humorous way he gets his serious message across that tends to lend itself to the idea that all your friends should read the book, too.
That is at least how I felt, and feel, about Gold.
It's about Olympic-level cycling.
No it isn't.
He just uses the phenomenon of Olympic competition to tell the deeper story of how love is really the prize in life everyone strives hardest to achieve and maintain.
It just runs deeper, love does.
It's a brilliant book that makes one realize that a medal, even a gold one, is in the end, well… metal. The true desire to care for other human beings is the lifeblood that makes us who we are.
Rather than go on about it, I will include here a clip of the author himself, explaining the gist of his book. If you haven't read it yet keep your eye open for it in your travels. The book accelerates, the last half better than the first -- like a good race. And the final 75 pages will have your heart pumping as if you yourself were pushing past the wall of physical and emotional endurance in the bright lights of the velodrome.

Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-36081848405431490692015-01-22T04:10:00.006-05:002015-01-22T04:10:58.778-05:00Splash du Jour: Thursday

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.
-- Joseh Boyden, The Orenda --

Have a great Thursday!
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Have a great Tuesday!

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Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-13527655218827830842015-01-19T03:53:00.002-05:002015-01-19T03:53:46.777-05:00Splash du Jour: Monday

Other writers are like a garden diligently planted and watered, but Shakespeare a forest where the oaks and elms toss their branches to the storm, where the pine towers, where the vine bursts into blossoms at its foot. Whenever I read Shakespeare -- if it ever happens that I fail to find some new beauty, some new presentation of some wonderful truth, or another word that bursts into blossom, I shall make up my mind that my mental faculties are failing, that it is not the fault of the book.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll --

Have a great Monday!
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-79493389430084029232015-01-17T21:54:00.003-05:002015-01-17T22:06:44.909-05:00Remaindered Books

I'm quite a fan of "remaindered books". I think it goes hand in hand with the fact that I am also a fan of "not spending money". But seriously, I do love to browse those "Bargain" sections of large bookstores and see if anything new has found its way to that level of price reduction since the last time I checked… which means usually like, the day before today! Remaindered books are printed books that are no longer selling well and whose remaining unsold copies are being liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices. "Sometimes at upwards of 80% off," he said while salivating. Often they appear shortly after the initial hardcover sales of a new release have given way to the newly minted trade paperback version. While the publisher takes a loss on the sales of these books, they are able to make some money off the sale and clear out space in the warehouses. So if you are able to nab a good one, it's a win-win situation! Most will have that slash of felt-tip marker ink across the top or bottom of the book's pages, near the spine, and this is done to prevent the book from being returned and mistakingly redeemed at full value.
Anyhoo -- I just wanted to say that over the years I have found terrific books -- tons of them, really, as remainders. I once thought that their banishment to the Bargain section was synonymous with the fact that they were not a good book. And while this is sometimes the case, it is not necessarily so. Some of the best books I have ever read have been rescued by me [from a certain death by shredding, no less] and thoroughly enjoyed even though their saleability did not meet the publisher's expectations. But then again, my criteria for book buying has never been in step with what most of the world is reading. I'm an odd fish, in that respect.
So, remaindered books. Trust yourself to buy them. The fact that they're there doesn't ipso facto mean they're bad.

Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-88606090165570429212015-01-14T03:11:00.001-05:002015-01-14T03:11:56.695-05:00Splash du Jour: Wednesday

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. The creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, spoken in 1894 --

Have a great Wednesday!
*****Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-42770589767312168682015-01-13T03:11:00.001-05:002015-01-13T03:11:16.764-05:00Splash du Jour: Tuesday

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.
-- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead --

Have a great Tuesday!
*****Ciprianohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-78519079218798328012015-01-12T08:24:00.004-05:002015-01-12T08:25:01.874-05:00Splash du Jour: Monday

Have a great Monday!

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Ciprianohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-82557505503885654382015-01-09T08:22:00.002-05:002015-01-09T08:22:49.611-05:00Splash du Jour: Friday

Umm... is it just me? Or does Ellen DeGeneres look a lot like Henry David Thoreau?

Have a great Friday!

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FORMER Hamilton Accies goalkeeper set to team up with Alex Neil again despite interest from Premier League side Southampton.
THE 41-year-old left Fir Park this week and will be giving up his Northern Ireland coaching duties to become the main man at Boundary Park.
BARRIE MCKAY has been inspired by the heroics of Wales and Northern Ireland at Euro 2016 and says Gordon Strachan's young guns can fire Scotland to Russia.
THE attacker will have played non-stop for 14 months if the Dons reach the Europa League group stage.
SCOTLAND may have missed out on the big tourney in France but there's still a feast of football on the box this summer, here's where to watch every game ...
THE Dons defender praised the winger's professionalism just five days after returning from a gruelling European Championship campaign with Northern Ireland.
WE take a look at the pros and cons of the European Championships so far and ask if it's been an entertaining finals - or not.
THE legend of Will Grigg continues to grow and now fans of German side Hamburg want to sign him.
THE Northern Ireland full-back sealed a three-year deal with his former Watford youth boss to become the eighth Ibrox signing of the summer.
THE Northern Ireland international says it's "a dream come true" to be joining the Ibrox side.
THE defender is set to become the Ibrox club's eighth signing of the window after spending the summer in France with Northern Ireland.
THE Northern Ireland fans never stopped singing his song but he didn't make it off the bench at Euro 2016.
Chris Coleman's men have already lost one Battle of Britain against England but are the favourites for this one against the Northern Irish
THE service was held hours before Northern Ireland's last 16 match with Wales in Paris.
ANTHONY HAGGERTY manned the phones as Light Blues supporters urged their side to snap up Northern Ireland's Euro 2016 star.
CHRIS COLEMAN'S side are blessed with genuine world class stars in Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey and they look like they can go far in France this summer.
WE take a look at the how the knockout ties are lined up and work out who's going through.
ABERDEEN boss Derek McInnes says only a ridiculous offer will prize away The Dons' flying winger from Pittodrie.
Northern Ireland Captain Steven Davis says Manuel Neuer would have been watching in awe at Michael McGovern's stunning display
GARY RALSTON manned the phones as callers lavished praise on Michael McGovern and criticised Strachan, while the SPFL took another battering.
MARIO Gomez's first-half finish came amid a flurry of opportunities for the dominant Germans as Michael O'Neill's men kept the score down in a 1-0 defeat.
MICHAEL MCGOVERN put in a scintillating Euro 2016 performance which will no doubt put the out of contract Hamilton stopper in the shop window.
The Green and White Army are in touching distance of a place in the Euro 2016 knockout stages and will clinch qualification to the last 16
THE win over Ukraine means the Ulstermen have a massive chance to reach the next round and here's how they can do it.
THE winger has revealed he had to give up his dream of playing for Northern Ireland in France as his wife needed life-saving surgery.
THE keeper says no happens now, hell always be able to look back and say he was part of a Northern Ireland side that won a match at the European Championships.
Northern Ireland goal hero won't get a rest before returning to Pittodrie
OLD FIRM FACTS is back with another hilarious TV watch and Rio Ferdinand, Robbie Savage, Glenn Hoddle and Dean Saunders are in the firing line.
THE fan, who is in his 60s, is the second fatality of the tournament, following the death of a 24-year-old who fell from a promenade in Nice at the weekend.
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Posted by Euro_Twins
on 24 June 2016 - 08:19 PM
Love the deal. Can't see how anyone would hate it. This will be a LeftWinger approval.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 23 June 2016 - 05:05 PM
And a "thug"?
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 20 June 2016 - 04:28 PM
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 19 June 2016 - 08:47 PM
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 19 June 2016 - 04:39 AM
Lot of wishful thinking. Hope you're right about even half of them.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 18 June 2016 - 03:08 PM
Do people honestly think Stamkos will sign with Detroit? If so, what the hell for? He's basically from Toronto which, if folks take off their homer glasses, is on the rise. The Leafs have a great coach and lots of high picks in their future. Another option would be Buffalo. It's not terribly far from Toronto and is also on the rise. All Detroit can offer is similar proximity to Toronto and, aside from Larkin, a bunch of middling prospects and picks.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 09 June 2016 - 01:30 PM
This run is all based on luck and to top it all off they get to play the worst playoff team in the history of the league in the final, SJ best two centers are Couture 2nd liner and Pavelski who's just a solid two way guy with a good one timer on a team with skilled passers I'd say his stats are inflated he plays with joe friggin Thornton ovi would score 70-85 on that sharks team
The Sharks are simply too beat up they had to beat LA NASHVILLE AND the BLUES the three biggest teams in the league probably they have nothing left to give they never had a chance to keep up with this team
he hasn't utilized Stamkos skill set since he got there and it shows.. Not one fifty goal season for a guy who couldn't stop scoring before coop came yeah I'd say it's his fault, now that wouldn't have been so glaring if his team was healthy because the series likely never even would've reached a game 7.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 31 May 2016 - 04:42 AM
Also Pens getting shafted by officiating so far which used to be unheard of
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 26 May 2016 - 06:19 PM
That means we will probably never see him in a wings lineup
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 26 May 2016 - 04:30 PM
I don't think we lose anything either because we get Maple Leafs 3rd round pick next season if we don't get it this season..?
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 24 May 2016 - 04:43 PM
I actually think Fleury has been good in the playoffs other than 2 years....which were dreadful. With them going back to Murray, I wonder what that does to Fleury's confidence? Game 5 of the conference finals was a tough spot to be starting your first game in a couple months, so perhaps they discussed this and whether they stuck with it or not wasn't a big deal as he needs to shake off the rust. On the Murray side, perhaps they thought he just needed a break as he never started that many games in a row before + high pressure games. I also don't think it was just 1 bad game, he wasn't great for a few in a row.
I think they are in trouble now...obviously being down 3-2, but it's never good to have a question mark in goal at this time of year. They'd probably argue the issue is deciding between 2 very capable goalies, which is probably true, but the whole mess they've made of it can't be a confidence booster.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 13 May 2016 - 01:27 PM
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 05 May 2016 - 09:24 AM
Just put the flowerpower woodstock 4 ever .... on ignore it's not worth the time arguing or even acknowleding them :-)
I thought the joke was hilarious and laughed out loud, so keep em coming.
Anyhow not even a peition signed by 20 million people would change the name now, it's set in stone now it sucks and it doesn't honor the rich tradition of this franchise and it's players. The non lightning effect to me is even worse because this thing would have been the first arena worldwide which had something like that.
An arena with no history but tons of bill-board ideas great times.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 04 May 2016 - 04:43 PM
Its called a joke. Maybe you people, and by people I mean anyone that's offended by anything should prolly not be on the Internet.
Posted by Euro_Twins
on 04 May 2016 - 10:12 AM
I was just thinking that the other day. Where are the retards saying the Caesar guy is offensive to Italians? Like the redskins and Indians?
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