Tag: flânerie
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Reading Baudelaire While Grouchy
I’ve been feeling a little grouchy lately. Perhaps it was not wise, then, to read Baudelaire. Baudelaire, the French Romantic poet, was the writer of the spleen–intellectual 19th century France’s emo. Really though. For Baudelaire, le spleen was about expressing “profound boredom and weariness about existence” (my translation from the French wikipedia entry). Etymologically, the…
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An attempt at flânerie in San Francisco: Part I, The Idea
I started the day restless and angsty: I made the mistake of going online first thing in the morning. My house in San Francisco now has wifi, so I did the standard online circuit of email, Facebook, newspaper sites and blogs before even getting out of bed. For a variety of reasons, this left me…
George Altshuler 