I Have Found the Lost City of Atlantis

It's raining in heaven. Except that heaven has turned into hell, mostly thanks to the rain that never seems to stop. I don't remember any springtime in my recent past being so intolerable. It's as if the purpose of winter going away - going back to spending some time outside in the sun, biking, having sex outdoors - was obliterated and rendered useless. As if somebody was telling us that it's no use, we'll never have nice weather again, anymore, ever.



And as much as I want my mood to stay consistent, I have to say it's pretty hard.

My healthy resolution of biking every day faces a serious challenge. And the Piknic Électronik's season opening, due on Sunday, might not happen. How do you expect me to remain calm in front of all this ?

It might be small reading - as opposed to small talk - but it's essential that we all realise we're screwed. Adios, sunburns. Bye bye, mini skirts. Hello rain. Buongiorno humidity.

Water will run down the cracks in our scalp and our brains will have to learn to swim.

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Peeps are an incredibly strange brand of marshmallow that happened to recently be featured in the "Consumed" column of the New York Times Magazine. My friend Mongola Batteries (Caron for those who really know her well) recently found some in a Pharmaprix fuck knows where and couldn't resist buying them.



We had 15 perfectly formed chicklets to play with, because as you should know, these friandises aren't manufactured as food. People use them for art projects, and scientists conduct various experiments on them. They try to make them melt, dissolve, and do various other weird things. There are numerous websites where you can see these poor Peeps being mercilessly slaughtered.

So we never did envision them as food, but I still ate them.

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TROIS JOURS CHEZ MA MERE is François Weyergans' latest, and it even won the Goncourt. Robert Lévesque, ICI's star cultural columnist, read it under a three in Parc St-Viateur and proclaimed it as genius. He may have used another word. Can't remember.



This is the book I'm reading these days. I'll soon be done and will therefore be able to give you my impressions. But right now, there's a drink in my room and I need a hot lady, so I have to run.