Arriving Paris from Amsterdam, Election Season 2004

I consider this my first blog, from October 2004. It’s actually my second one. We’re going to try a project of posting an archive piece every evening at 6 pm or so. BACK IN PARIS, Monday evening, Oct. 3, 2004…Arriving at Gare du Nord from Amsterdam, the place I go to play in Europe, I waited till the crowds had passed and was one of the last people to get off the train. Striding along the platform I was stopped by a group of cops, who announced that they were with the French Customs Service.

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