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<h2 class="c3">Kazoo Times Off</h2><img src="cafe911a.jpg"
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<p class="c4">The café of cafés, open on
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<h3 class="c5">Mama Benz In Paris</h3>
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<p>by Ric Erickson</p>
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<p class="noindent"><b>Paris:– Monday, 8. March 2004:–</b>
Regardless of whatever was predicted here last Thursday, it
felt warmer than it might have been, but with Saturday
being overcast and cool.</p> <div style="width:300px;height:250px;float:right;clear:right;margin:1em 0 1em 1em;">
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<p>The wind has switched around again and is expected to
blow from the northeast – the worst direction –
for the next two days, at about 50 or 60 kph. This will
have the effect of keeping the temperatures halfway between
ten and zero.</p>
<p>Tonight's TV–weather news does not agree with this
morning's Le Parisien. This is hardly unusual, so keep your
skepticism handy.</p><img src="cafe911e.jpg" alt="photo: pont des arts" align="right" height="175" width="235" vspace="2" hspace="5" />
<p>Le Parisien has dotted this region with little
egg–yolks from Tuesday through Thursday. TV's weather
prediction was more animated and less optimistic, with
perhaps Thursday being the sunniest day, just before the
cloudy gloom of Friday arrives.</p><i>A little rain on a
winter day in Paris looks worse than it is.</i>
<p>I am not sure the wind will be at work here. After two
days of coming from the worst direction, Thursday's breezes
are supposed to be blowing towards the northwest, at 70
kph. Be sure to be here – winds from the southeast
are pretty rare.</p>
<b>Ric's 'Day Off' Blues</b>
<p class="noindent">In a normal week this magazine's 'Ed' has a
day–off and it is usually on Tuesday. Last week there
was still a bit of the 'Scène column to do –
like maybe, half of it – so, what with the regular
things I do on this 'day–off,' it all added up to not
being a day–off at all.</p>
<p>This is the reason that Ric's weekly 'day–off'
more or less lasted all week, sabotaging any likelihood
that this would be a normal full–featured issue, with
tours, book reviews, letters from readers – where are
these? – and all the other items that commonly make
up a full, complete, fat, issue of Metropole.</p>
<p>Instead, as an exceptional substitute, here is a slight,
slim, under– researched version of:</p>
<p class="c8">Café Life</p>
<b>Kazoo Times</b>
<p class="noindent">You may recall that the musical instrument known as a
'Kazoo' was mentioned here a couple of weeks ago. Or maybe
it was late last year. Whenever it was, it struck me that
getting more Kazoos would be worthwhile, as an enhancement
for Buffalo–grass vodka parties at Uncle
Den–Den's.</p>
<p>A curiosity factor was another part of it – can
anything be found in Paris? I mean, if a Kazoo can be
found, what can't?</p>
<p>Last week's quest began in the eastern Quartier Latin,
at the Hamm music shop in the Rue Monge. Actually it is two
places a couple of doors apart, meaning that I know
this<img src="cafe911c.jpg" alt="photo: karoo, hamm muique"
align="left" height="135" width="260" vspace="3" hspace="5" /> because I tried the one with guitars and without
Kazoos first.</p><i>With the broken membrane plainly in
sight, still a magic 1€ Kazoo.</i>
<p>I was quickly sent on my short way to the second door,
where I found a lady doing accounts who said they were
fresh out of Kazoos. "Maybe next week," she said. Here I
should point out that Kazoo in French is 'Kazoo.'</p>
<p>But over by the cash counter there was a display of all
sorts of inexpensive musical instruments, mostly made of
plastic. There were two kinds of Ocarinas, a
Zampoña, various Maracas, an Apito de Samba, a
Tarka, some Clapsticks, a Guiro, a Cabassa, Clochettes, a
wooden Crécelle, a slide–Flute, Triangles, and
Castagnettes of course. Oh yes, and Tamborines. And
Guimbardes, that you play with your mouth.</p>
<p>When the cash lady got off the phone it seemed wise to
ask if maybe she had a Kazoo lying around somewhere.</p>
<p>"Mais oui!" she said, and hauled a metal one out of a
drawer. "One euro," she said, "Because it is not in its
packing. Normally they are 3€."</p>
<p>I have never bought a Kazoo so fast before. The lady on
the cash desk also offered a 129–page catalogue that
contains all of these wonderful instruments. I see in it
there are even kits – one with 18 instrument and
another with 40. The thing is an <a href="http://www.fuzeau.fr/">Ali–Baba</a> of musical
instruments anyone can play with next–to–no
training.</p>
<p>But I waited until I got home to try out my new metal
1€ Kazoo as much as I wanted to play it on the
Boulevard Saint–Germain. Oh–oh, it didn't sound
right. On closer examination I found that its membrane has
a puncture in it.</p>
<p>But unlike the plastic models, the round part screws
off, and if I look around here I can probably find a
substitute – part of a plastic shopping bag? –
and with a little glue and care, I can fix it. It might
even be a better Kazoo than before. If not, I can order a
replacement online.</p>
<p class="noindent"><b>Hamm</b> – 'La Maison de la Musique' – is
at 17 and 19. Rue Monge, Paris 5. Métro:
Cardinal–Lemoine. InfoTel.: 01 44 39 35 31.</p>
<b>The
Diner</b>
<p class="noindent">The real reason I didn't get to try out my new kazoo on
the Boulevard Saint–Germain is because I saw this
café in the Rue des Ecoles that had 'Diner' written
on its awning.</p>
<p>It was worth a photo for this word alone. After shooting
it, curiosity gripped me and I was dragged across the
street and into the place because the menu posted outside
said 'Breakfast In America.'</p>
<p>This is the place that was mentioned by Café
Metropole Club member Steve Camera–Murray some time
ago. 'Breakfast<img src="cafe911f.jpg" alt="photo: diner interior" align="right" height="180" width="230" vspace="2" hspace="5" /> In America' was created by
Craig Carlson who discovered that nobody had bothered to
plug the pancakes– for–breakfast hole in the
restaurant market. Also, an authentic 'diner' had been
completely overlooked.</p><i>Sit where you want, have a
bottomless cuppa java.</i>
<p>While I was there, sometime long after breakfast or
lunch, long before whatever comes next, Craig was trying to
taste–test a new dish he'd concocted – grilled
chicken chunks on a bed of taco chips with green stuff and
hot sauce on the side. I decided not to disturb his
concentration with idle questions.</p>
<p>After all, I have myself eaten in a diner in Queens in
the not–so–distant past, and now that I recall
it, there weren't many of them there that weren't mostly
Latino. I must admit I got really fond of the 'Cuban
sandwiches' at one of them.</p>
<p>But at the diner there is a trapezoid formica counter,
round red stools along the counter, and genuine booths
–<img src="cafe911b.jpg" alt="photo: craig carlson, breakfast in america" align="left"
height="235" width="175" vspace="2" hspace="5" /> each with
its personal toaster. The Wurlitzer jukebox was a cardboard
cutout though, unlike the one featured <a href="910cafe.html"">in this issue</a>. Otherwise, the
diner's music is probably not like a normal diner's –
but is fine all the same.</p><br /><i>Continued on <a href="/2004/910/911cafe.html?page=2" target="_self">page 2...</a></i></td>
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