My Nabe -- Paris-Saint-Denis, France -- April 2010 -- My Daily Real Life!

[westside121812]

I live in a middle-class neighborhood in the South Bay of Los Angeles and I have a cousin who lives in the Seine-Saint-Denis area. Would you recommend visiting him or is it too dangerous ?

[slobomotion]

@westside121812 Oh, heavens, no, visit him or her but do not ride the RER trains! xo

[burtoncaly]

I'm French, it's nice to see American people living in France, we have lot of immigrants here but the American community is tiny.

I hope that you enjoy the life in our country.

by the way, st denis it's really popular, you don't live in the chic quarter lol...

the mentality between the French and the American is quite different, in fact France is another world if you compare with the US.

[slobomotion]

@burtoncaly The word "popluaire" translates into "working class" in English. Saint-Denis had a very bad reputation but now it is very expensive to buy there. I like it, I lived in NYC for 17 years, Saint-Denis is way more exciting and right next to Paris! No one spots me as American here, they say I speak French with an Irish accent! I have been a French citizen for 11 years now and love it here! Bises!

[burtoncaly]

@slobomotion Well, I live in Tours in the center of France it's a quite big city (300 thousands inh.) the life here is more sweet than the "région parisienne" in general the life "en province" is less stressful. personally I'm quite afraid to live there.

it's less expensive to buy a house or an apartment. with a great space and a garden in the little city of France than in "région parisienne" this, include Paris it's almost 11 million ppl it's even difficult to find a HLM there. bon courage.

[slobomotion]

@burtoncaly I was in Tours last year and loved it but only got to spend half a day there.  I went to the Museum, though. We found the city bigger than we had thought. I have a friend there but she never answered me and I would have liked to see her. We are very interested in property elsewhere. We found a great place in Selestat in March, ony 13,000 euros, and regret not buying it. We are looking in Montmorency but keeping an open mind to other cities, cheaper. xo

[ProfessorVox]

I've worked with Nick Zedd (see No Plague Like Home on youtube) and i don't believe it is proper for you to defame his accomplishments by implying that he would be willing to work for anyone else. Zedd will collaborate with anyone on worthwhile projects, but it is absurd to WRONGLY suggest that he would subborn his talents to a Hollywood hack like Peebles and accept a title as assisstant ANYTHING.

[slobomotion]

@ProfessorVox He said to me on June 2 in NY, "I'm counting on you." Peebles has had Hollywood turn their back on him time and again and has never gotten his due! Nick and Randy Russell will be associate directors on THE FRANK LETTERS with Peebles at the helm, and Nick and I seem to be getting along just fine. He is praying I will reprint BLEED PART ONE and I have his total blessing, even to go with a cover I see fit.

[ProfessorVox]

@slobomotion Once again you take small snippets of truth and twist them to fit your own delusions. ZEDD has NEVER prayed for anything in his life. He has EARNED everything he's gotten over the years thru hard work and his talent. He is far too busy to engage in silly myopic superstitions like your "prayer". I did indeed ask him about you and he rolled his eyes and immediately changed the subject. I think it's fairly clear that he doesnt appreciate you dropping his name willy nilly.

[slobomotion]

@ProfessorVox Oh, come on now, did you really think I meant praying as in down on his knees? Are you really that obtuse? I meant "hoping." Very much so. Have a good day!

[slobomotion]

@ProfessorVox Defame his accomplishments? I have worked as his ad hoc agent all year this year, and tried to place him with TASCHEN! At this point in time, he has complete trust in me. Everyone I am contacting me is nixing having anything to do with him, but I think he is a genius and I am going to fight with my last breath for him! He trusted me to review a contract for him this year! I did it for free, hours and hours of work!!!!!

[ProfessorVox]

@slobomotion Good luck reprinting BLEED. That is a brilliant epic piece of Literature that needs a wider audience.

[slobomotion]

@ProfessorVox I think so too!

[slobomotion]

@slobomotion Bless you, you are obviously for him, and so am I!  xoxoxoxoxox