I went to my around-the-corner chinese to have dinner with myself tonight.

I usually watch television there since I am very interested in Chinese shows. They’ve got super long lead in direct show that lasts for hours, presented by 5 or 6 young people, they have the most diverse guests such as gymnasts/contorsionists, chinese R&b singers, hairstylists…

I even saw a french guy (supposedly very famous in China) convincing and seducing a whole audience of chicks he could have never get if he dared to play his music somewhere in his country of origin.

Anyway, I was eating my spring rolls when I saw her : (I had to wait a few minutes for her name to appear in our alphabet) Yue Sai Kan.

She was interviewed in a luxury hotel, Mariah Carey style, nice lamps, cosy atmosphere, strike a pose.

So, during the 12 minutes my dinner lasted, I had to guess who the woman was. I understood quickly though that she was someone very important and I came back at home to google her.

This lady is/should be the most famous woman in China. She spends her life as entrepreneur, journalist, UNICEF ambassador and producing different TV shows that generally connect the eastern world with ours.

After having moved to New York, she realised Chinese women were not using any make up and created a full palette of colors and foundations that would suit the Asian type, deciding at the same time which color didn’t fit.

What I like most about her is her haircut and those pics… And the fact I can’t help thinking that Yue San might be a modern Mata Hari.

I am spending the afternoon laughing alone in front of Tobias Fünke, the Banana stand and Steve Holt.

Brilliant.

Who, as a little girl, never had at least one of Martine’s books ? Remember a few years ago, the innocent child was even hijacked by some afficionados making her either a coke addict or a lesbo. I am now spending a week in Britanny and my friends daughter has almost got all of the albums. I am now seeing some ambiguious things I wasn’t paying attention to when I was young, I wonder what the two guys were thinking sometimes. And what about Casterman, their editor, maybe they were just perfectionnists about the drawing details, maybe I’m crazy or maybe they were just pedophiles ?? Haha. What do YOU think ?

©Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye

We came back from one month in Toulouse, I feel depressed to be back in Paris today, but as we were getting back yesterday from the airport in the cab, I saw a Volkswagen Golf parked on the left side of the street. It was written “Bon Jovi” behind the windows, I remember all those “limited editions” cars we had in the eighties or nineties, some of them were perfectly “zeitgeist” like the Renault 4 “Jogging”, as for the others, I am still wondering what happened in the marketing people head at that time.

PS : just read the guys at Volkswagen didn’t think it was necessary to put a radio-cassette player in the “Bon Jovi” limited edition Golf

Sorry for getting this blog on vacation just like I am, forgive me and enjoy this extract from Lady and the tramp…