Groovin' at the Opéra.

Thursday, 28 November 2002

I know you're all wondering whether I get to stay in France for a while and the answer is: Yes, for a while. If that seems vague, you, too, can be a wily and perceptive journalist.

More on that later. In the interim, here is some updated contact information:

There is this thing at the International Herald Tribune called The Pouch. It's like a diplomatic pouch, and it's not a pouch, it's a cardboard carton, or several, depending on how many people needed their Amazon fix that month.

It works like this: You, one of my loyal U.S. correspondents, mail a touching, erotic and/or valuable gift to me care of the International Herald Tribune's office in New York City. An IHT droid combines my mail with that for all the other expats in Paris and sends it off in The Pouch. The Pouch is whisked across the Atlantic by aeroplane, arriving at the IHT much more cheaply and often more quickly than a dispatch sent par avion. What a great service. Why they didn't tell me about it until I was here a month is ... standard operating procedure, apparently.

On the home front, and with much assistance, I snagged high-speed Internet access. This means that my earthlink.net address, which I've been phasing out for years, will be going away for good in the near future. Be a good human and use only m.mcgarry@sff.net.

Finally, thanks to the folks at Lonely Planet, I actually have voicemail in the United States. Do not use it except to leave me long phone-sex narratives. I will not check for a message unless you notify me through some other channel that it's there. I wouldn't have the voicemail box at all except it comes with Lonely Planet's Ekno phonecard service. Which I would recommend even if it didn't provide the means to leave long phone-sex narratives.

So here's the skinny:

U.S. address:

Mark J. McGarry
c/o IHT Paris Pouch
850 Third Ave
New York NY 10022

To leave a long phone-sex narrative:

Dial 1-800-706-1333
Press * 2
Enter my account number, 1010961702

And start breathin' heavy.

© copyright 2003 Mark J. McGarry