09-09-2025, 10:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2025, 10:10 AM by Drunk Monk.)
(09-09-2025, 05:07 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I’m getting interviewed by Les Echos (pardon my French) a daily French economic newspaper founded in 1908,
(09-09-2025, 08:51 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I got excused early for my Les Echos interview. Just freshing my tea & maybe cracking open an iced coffee right now...
I felt that went well. My interviewer, Eva, was a charming French reporter who kept asking me to pardon her English. She'd clearly done her research. I don't think I said anything incriminating or controversial. I think she was just looking for an authorative talking head to give an overview of the situation. She said her deadline is tomorrow and this will likely go live next week.
It's a video. As a backdrop, I dug up my Epee du Ceremonie de l' Enpereux Napoleon I. It's an odd wallhanger in my collection, gifted to me by my grandfather, probably something he saw advertised through Franklin mint or somewhere. It's a lovely reproduction (my grandpa also gifted me a repro of the Jim Bowie knife, which came in a glass case, and it's mediocre at best).
I used to hang the Napoleon sword by our doorway at Saint Barbarian, the haunted house Stacy & I lived in near BART on the border of SF. It's a pretty piece but I'm not sure that it's actually tempered steel. Having a sword at the doorway so is verboten in Feng Shui (it's tactically stupid too) but I did so as an invitation for a home invader to grab it and then I'd counter with a real sword, or a wooden rod like Musashi.
I figured it was appropo for a French newspaper outlet.
https://www.lesechos.fr/
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