French: Fried

Le jour de gloire est arrive!

Paul Rudnick's Shouts and Murmurs column ("Vive La France") in the March 26 New Yorker is one of the funniest pieces I've read in a long long time.  One page.  You'll laugh out loud.  Favorite line: " . . . the ultimate French film will be a still photograph of a dead mime."  Well, it's really funny in context.

Rudnick was surely inspired by the recently released and much ballyhooed "Bringing up Bebe" by Pamela Druckerman, which touts the French approach to child rearing and family life.

The New Yorker continues to amaze me with the quality of their stuff.  A weekly, no less.  Some issues are better than others, but nonetheless it's still very impressive.