I saw this cool image over on Facebook, taken from a French comic book, or “Bande Dessinée,” called The Parrot of Batignolles, which is the neighborhood where the Maison du Travesti tranny club is located in Paris, ironically enough on the Rue des Dames, or loosely, “Ladies Street.”
I sound like such a jet-setter here although it was the first time I’d ever been to Europe, but I have to say I did a double take when I saw it, since it’s the very same club that my friend Krystle and I visited back in May. The illustration actually just shows the street view with the very-pleasant Café Marcel on one corner (where we got more than a little tipsy a couple times), and the club itself right across the street, behind where the guy with the hat is crossing. The artist may not have known the club was actually there, since it’s very discreetly tucked away, but it’s a hoot seeing the location show up in a comic strip. And from my limited French I think the lady is saying something along the lines of, “It’s crazy all the same, you pull on a thread and it all unravels,” which just seems somehow fitting. Now if someone could just make a comic for the Oxwood Inn here in Los Angeles, although yeah, somehow Van Nuys is maybe a little less glamorous than Paris. But hey, you gotta start somewhere – maybe a whole series of comics featuring TG bars throughout the world. That’s so crazy it just might work! ;-)
That´s funny Sandra. Thank to you, I know now where is MDT located in Paris … 😄
While I’m french …
Dońt you think that the young guy in the foreground looks like Tintin ? From Hergé a famous belgium cartoon drawer.
Your translation is perfect Sandra, i couldn’t have said better than you…
And about Oxbow Inn, if it is located in L.A., I suggest a movie like Chinatown, a modern one ( not the very good film with Jack Nicholson)
Hugs …!
Thanks, Paddy, for your comment! That is funny, but the young guy does look like Tintin, I hadn’t really noticed that till you said it :-) …And yes, I loved that movie, such a classic with that perfect final line…”Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” Doesn’t get any better than that…
My first thought about the man in the black coat was the same as Paddy’s. Tintin has a small white dog that accompanies him everywhere. Of course we don’t see if the man has a dog in this picture…. perhaps in one of the next scenes.
Sandra, the beauty about European cities is that they have matured over time and developed class, that they have beautiful architecture and that they are well planned. In no European city will one find a wooden utility pole spoiling the view. Class is an alien concept in most American cities…. unfortunately.