Simon
@simoninparis.bsky.social
In favour of pleasure, mostly.
Pictures. Paris. Pictures of Paris.
https://www.instagram.com/mr_s_wilder/
https://zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com
Pictures. Paris. Pictures of Paris.
https://www.instagram.com/mr_s_wilder/
https://zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com
Jardin du Palais Royal
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jardin du Palais Royal
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New today ! Philippe spent the weekend translating Ruskin into French, but otherwise it's unclear what my friends do: literary salons, ouija parties, I couldn't say.
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The English patience
For too short a moment of self-reflection I understood why I’m the Bad Simon.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New today ! Philippe spent the weekend translating Ruskin into French, but otherwise it's unclear what my friends do: literary salons, ouija parties, I couldn't say.
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
New today ! Philippe spent the weekend translating Ruskin into French, but otherwise it's unclear what my friends do: literary salons, ouija parties, I couldn't say.
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
The English patience
For too short a moment of self-reflection I understood why I’m the Bad Simon.
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New today ! Philippe spent the weekend translating Ruskin into French, but otherwise it's unclear what my friends do: literary salons, ouija parties, I couldn't say.
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
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I don't really know what this photo is about, but I like it
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I don't really know what this photo is about, but I like it
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Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
Paris badlands
On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
Paris badlands
On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
Changed the title to Paris Badlands. Better.
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Paris badlands
On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Changed the title to Paris Badlands. Better.
zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
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Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
Violent clashes
On the metro a man punched Marie in the neck. Any man foolish enough to take her on deserves everything he gets…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Philippe's glasses flew across the terrace, it seemed in slow motion, like the thigh bone thrown in the air in 2001, (the film, not the year). Scenes! zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/v...
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The Booker gets hardly any attention these days. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award
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November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Booker gets hardly any attention these days. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
The security guard at the Monoprix just stopped me to check I hadn't stolen anything, and to say that he admired my style. Perhaps I'd stolen his heart.
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The security guard at the Monoprix just stopped me to check I hadn't stolen anything, and to say that he admired my style. Perhaps I'd stolen his heart.
Oh la la, just remembered that today is the ninth anniversary of leavingLondon for Tel Aviv, the eighth anniversary of leaving there for a year for a vagabond life, and seven years since I arrive with my bags in Paris. Time flies. Oh man 🎈
November 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Oh la la, just remembered that today is the ninth anniversary of leavingLondon for Tel Aviv, the eighth anniversary of leaving there for a year for a vagabond life, and seven years since I arrive with my bags in Paris. Time flies. Oh man 🎈
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Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...
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In seconds their mouths have docked, their tongues down each others' throats. It's a three-act drama, over in seconds: desire, deed, despair, the human condition in a nutshell, like Shakespeare, or something zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...
Animal crackers
Don’t break my heart, my eggy brekkie heart…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In seconds their mouths have docked, their tongues down each others' throats. It's a three-act drama, over in seconds: desire, deed, despair, the human condition in a nutshell, like Shakespeare, or something zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...
Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Crikey, I sent today's Zoubisou to my friend in Brazil, and he said... zoubisoudotblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/a...