Strangely accurate, according to my delicious tags:

Less accurate, according to my blogs keywords, but how much do I love the massive PASTRY  tag?

Here’s an anonymous Valentine’s Day message I received in my inbox two years ago:

Valentine’s day is for the emotionally insecure:

Whenever i see someone smugly and ostentatiously accept a bunch of flowers in the office, I think of Saint Valentine being beaten and beheaded before being dumped unceremoniously on the Flaminian Way: Every Furtive glance around the office to confirm that they have the attention of their co-workers is a cudgel blow to St Valentine’s stupid head….

Most single people defensively maintain that to buy into St Valentine’s day is to pander to commercialism. Valentine’s day is (wrongly) believed as invented by greetings card companies in order to exploit one of our most basic desires: the need to be loved. Yet almost all of our celebrations are motivated in this way, through patterns dictated by the era of disorganised capitalism.

It’s true that i believe in God slightly less than I believe in the Easter bunny. I do, however believe in love, yet not as defined by desires similar to those which turn the wheels of assembly lines. It is in the external display of; the parading, the desperate shouting ‘I am loved!!’ in which Valentine’s day appears most vulgar.

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Of course, the anonymous writer was Mark. Of course, today being’s Valentines’ day, I want to follow up with my tradition of going to MacDonald’s for dinner. We’ll see.

I updated the about page and the homepage (after one year of not having one, good job Jess), so maybe soon I’ll update it here with a real entry. In the meantime:

Maybe, maybe it’s time to take the electronic pen and start blogging again.

This week end I will be sent to York (in Northern England) for work. The deputy editor at my job happens to know the city quite well and gave me touristy recommendations. Seeing that I have a particular affection for Gothic cathedrals, I was excited to learn that York’s Minster cathedral is the biggest one in Northern Europe. I mentioned this to the editor, who replied:

There is a great quote from Heinrich Heine saying we moderns have opinions not convictions, but it takes more than opinions to build a Gothic cathedral.

It reminds me: my friend Boris systematically refuses to enter a cathedral or church, this decision being hugely influenced by his beliefs which, being very socially liberal, contradict those of the Church endlessly. As an atheist despising the official Vatican’s stances I can certainly see where he is coming from, but we nonetheless argued about it countless times: in my view, a church is just a building to marvel at for its architecture, and to appreciate for the sense of peace and quiet one can find inside. Boris is having none of that - which is probably why he’s my best friend (that is up until he betrays us all and decide to vote centre for the upcoming French elections…You traitor!).