After 28,000 miles of traveling we’re back in NYC, jet-lagged and getting ready for BEA. Lucky for 24-hour dry-cleaning, or we would be sartorially doomed for the next few days.
Of course, my posting is so far behind that there are still tales of Paris to tell . . .
Around the corner from our hotel was this graveyard. It was old and pictaresque, so I took the new camera over to shoot moody graveyard shots. Like this one:
Blah, blah, blah. Very artsy-fartsy.
But suddenly, I started finding famous dead people!
That’s the Baudelaire, the dude who translated Poe into French. And he was not alone; I was in the midst of a host of defunkt French celebs!
Without hesitation, I threw aside all pretensions of art, and became a paparazzo of the dead. This turned out to be much more fun than artsy photographs.
There were even honorary French people buried there, like American Man Ray, the guy who made the world safe for Dadaism.
Another yank there was Jean Seberg, aka the cute chick from Breathless.
Check out her birth and death dates. Drugs are bad for you.
But on the positive side, beautiful actresses get more flowers than philosophers. Even philosophers in pairs . . .
Hey, here’s one of my favorite playwrites:
I directed his play The Lesson in my senior year in high school. It was all about an etymology lesson, but I changed it to a tennis lesson. (Dude, I was so Dada, it still hurts.)
Okay, I think that’s all the good Paris photos. Singapore comes next.
And by the way, I just finished the copy edits for Extras. Yay!
Tired. But. Can’t. Sleep. Or. Jet-lag. Will eat me.
May 31st, 2007 08:44
keeewl!
(hey, am i the first one to comment??!! keeewl again! XD )
May 31st, 2007 08:47
Yeeeaaaah first comment. I like the pics even if there from the graveyard your good at taking pics. OMG. You finished the copy edit for EXTRAS that is so cool.I cant wait for the Singapore pics!!!!
♥ANA♥
May 31st, 2007 08:48
that sounds so cool. cant wait to hear about singapore. finaly. Im the second person to blog. thats the best I ahave ever done!! good to have your blogging back scott:)
May 31st, 2007 08:48
corection third
May 31st, 2007 08:49
Jean Seberg’s grave is awesome. When I die I want people to love me that much. And yay Extas is one step closer to being finished. Yes, yes, yes.(pumps arm like lifting wieghts happily) YAY!
May 31st, 2007 08:50
and ya, thats so icy that you have finished the copy edits of EXTRAS. Thats so cool!!!!
ANA is right- those are sweet pics
May 31st, 2007 08:51
May I mention when I first started writing my first post there was only one comment. Looks like you’ll be getting lots of flowers when u die, Scott. Not that you’ll be dieing anytime soon…
that would be bad.
May 31st, 2007 09:05
Im sorry to post so many times but I was on YouTube and searched Scott Westerfeld. This came up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA9lN3sZ0sQ&mode=related&search=
Its like an add for an Uglies movie. It didnt make much sense at all. I don’t believe its true. Tally didn’t even look like Tally. (shivers)
May 31st, 2007 09:10
Lovely pictures. Can’t wait for Singapore.
May 31st, 2007 09:18
Wow–all those famous (dead) people were buried right next door to where you were staying? Way neat!
Singapore pics, eh? Looking forward to those (and suspecting they looking nothing like the Singapore from the beginning of “Pirates III”)
-Topaz
May 31st, 2007 09:30
Simone De Beauvoir??? I want to go there.
May 31st, 2007 09:38
haha yeah i hope they dont look like the one in Pirates 3 too. that would be bad.
if you wanted to make the pics more moody you could’ve used black and white. I took some of an old cemetary here and they were awesome. i love taking artsy-fartsy photos lol
May 31st, 2007 09:44
YAY! That means Extras is even closer to getting into our hands!!! I liked seeing all the pictures. Picture blogs are so much fun.
May 31st, 2007 10:18
Addie-Wa i think that was lost the show (i dont watch it so i dont realy no)
o and dont let jet lag eat you scott
agian dead bad
May 31st, 2007 10:45
Yay Extra’s is closer 2 being finished!!
Those were really cool pictures!! Grave yards creep me out though… I always feel like someones watching me!! Hope ur Jet lag goes away Scott!!
May 31st, 2007 11:05
Nice photos. You guys never stop moving, do you?
Rar, I wish I was going to BEA. I’ve heard the free books there are awesome and come in vast quantities. !!!! I hope it’s fun! Which it will be. 
I am off to watch the Spurs kill the Jazz now….not to jinx it or anything. 8o
May 31st, 2007 12:50
wow, that’s odd…my little cousin believes in that whole holding your breath while passing a cemetary…lol…and my friend believes if you walk over a grave, you disturb the dead or w/e…
May 31st, 2007 12:54
To be fair, Jean Seberg had a rough life, and was relentlessly stalked by the government, and died under really weird circumstances.
But that’s not why I came here! I came here to say WELCOME BACK SCOTT AND JUSTINE!
May 31st, 2007 13:15
Maureen – thats tru…he did die under V. odd circumstances
May 31st, 2007 13:16
Welcome back! Hope your jetlag goes away. I’ve never had really bad jetlag because I never go anywhere far, but some of my cousins live in Japan and whenever they visit we never get to hang out because all they want to do during the day is sleep.
May 31st, 2007 16:15
Sounds SO awesome! I wanna go to Paris. More importantly, I want to go to Paris with YOU!! gawd… so jelous…
May 31st, 2007 23:39
I’ve never had jet lag before… never even been on a plane!! We don’t go anywhere though, to busy. When we do go somewhere, we drive.
June 1st, 2007 00:34
this is my first time visting your blog but to be honest. i love your books. ok i admit, i’ve only read peeps,uglies trilogy, midnighters trilogy. but i have so yesterday and the last days on my bedside!
great pictures of paris! (: i can’t wait to see what part of singapore you would post up. to be honest, i’m a singaporean! whee! that somewhat explains my uncommon name. a singaporean chinese i am!
i’ve yet to watch pirates 3 but i doubt that it would look anything like it. (: oops, my comment is kinda long isn’t it?
June 1st, 2007 01:32
that is the reason that you sleep on the plane. are you really sleepy or can you not go to sleep. that was what happened when i went to boston they were ahead of us and i could not go to sleep because my mind was still on texas time.
June 1st, 2007 01:48
why is there no one posting?
June 1st, 2007 02:27
is every one else in school besides me or is every just alseep. i have friends who sleep until noon.
June 1st, 2007 05:50
sweet. I am in school, summer brake doesnt start till JUne 7th the officail last day of school
:)
June 1st, 2007 05:51
OO I JUST FINISHED BLUE NOON LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!!!
June 1st, 2007 05:56
wow awesome pics!!! i really want to go there… and idk graves are kool to me. omg i cant wait until Extras comes out!!!!!!!!!! im so glad the copy edits are done
hope you sleep good now!!! cant wait for the Singapore pix. 3 more weeks of skool for me 
June 1st, 2007 06:25
I was wondering why no one was posting yesterday!! But then I figured out everyone was still in school!!! Which stinks, cause I have nothing 2 do.
June 1st, 2007 06:27
that’s so exciting! france now singapore? you’re soooooo lucky. take picktures s you can show us untraveled people how fun it is and how jealous we should be.
June 1st, 2007 07:20
Oooh, I like the graveyard. *is emo*
The government stalked her? Seriously?
*bounces up and down while waiting for Extras to come out*
June 1st, 2007 07:27
i’m not so excited anymore…for Extras that is
June 1st, 2007 07:30
uhh why not??? its kinda old news but still……well excitement wears off!!! hey have any of u guys read Twilight?? im reading it now and i wanna kno if its good or not.
June 1st, 2007 07:47
Scott David Westerfeld, you still need to send me that copy of EXTRAS you PROMISED me.
on the issue of drugs are bad:
my school proudly hangs a poster that states that 72% of students choose not to smoke pot, what about that other 28%?
yay for rocks on top of dead people!
3 days, 1 hour left of school!
June 1st, 2007 07:50
i can’t wait for RUSTIES, you are doing RUSTIES, aren’t you?
June 1st, 2007 07:54
most emos are westerfans in disguise:
::sad-Zane died(but he come back to life not as a zombie in EXTRAS)
::black hair-Zane had black hair
::ect, ect, ect.
June 1st, 2007 08:11
Kewl pictures. Can’t wait to see Singapore. On the Beaudelaire grave though, it says “CHARLES BEAUDELAIRE son beau-fils, mort à 46 ans blah blah blah”, which means “CHARLES BEAUDELAIRE his son-in-law, who died at 46 years old, blah blah”.
What does that mean? Is Beaudelaire buried with his son-in-law? It doesn’t look like that though. Or is it his son-in-law, not the actual Charles Beaudelaire you saw?
June 1st, 2007 10:05
i have 17days left of school it sucks
June 1st, 2007 12:19
1 MORE DAY!!! haha
haha emo. i like that word. its fun to say. who came up with it cuz we use it in Arkansas too and haha most adults don’t know what it means. Emo people are very boring. One of my friends are emoish and they sit in a corner and don’t talk so I just leave her. It sounds mean but yeah
June 1st, 2007 12:21
haha I’m going to search Emo on Wikipedia.
June 1st, 2007 12:26
oh wow they are way wrong. it says nothing about cutting yourself and being depressed and crap.
lol i want to go to Emo, Ontario. And yes there is one
June 1st, 2007 12:41
ever heard of, prepare yourselves;
chremo (christian emo)
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Christian-Emo-%28or-Chremo%29
lol
just so this isnt totally off topic, dead people!!!!
June 1st, 2007 13:01
Emo people at our school are always in ISS. The teachers try to get them 2 talk, and they wont… so they write them up!! And the guys get written up for not having their shirts tucked in with a belt, (stupid rule) but think about it, most of them wear girl pants, so how would they tuck their shirts in??? It’s really unfair, but thats why they are never where you can see them.
June 1st, 2007 13:06
ugh That is a reatarded rule. We don’t have to do that here. The High Schoolers in Cabot had to but I moved. Haha there was this one kid named Hunter, he’s not emo hes acctually very fun, and he wore girl pants and OMG it was so funny. They were his sister Silvers and they were WAY to tight. Like skin tight, and he kept pulling up and messing with them it was so funny.
June 1st, 2007 13:08
Sorry for the double post, but have any of you ever seen Charlie the Unicorn??? It’s like a little movie thing on YouTube, it’s really stupid, but everyone in my skool loves it, and it is kinda funny. But I was just wondering, and being bored…..lol.
June 1st, 2007 13:25
no i haventt…..but have you seen the kitty cat song?? we all crack up at that for some reason. but ya thats a stupid rule. and why are we talkin about emos?? me and my friend kno this one kid Eric and we all call him emo for some reason and hes not. ok that was kinda random since you guys dont know me….but im bored.
June 1st, 2007 13:39
people at skool call me “emo” and i’m all “wat the heck?????” its annoying…
June 1st, 2007 13:43
i don’t know anybody on here either.. i’m going to youtube now to watch those videos. haha YouTube is like procratinator central
June 1st, 2007 13:44
procrastinator**
June 1st, 2007 13:45
ew, ppl, look up “The Seventeen Year Cicada” on Youtube
June 1st, 2007 14:57
haha I watched all three they were hilarious!!
Do the cicadas really do that? I think we call the Caddy Dids. Idk.
Hmmm I don’t think I’ve ever been called emo. I get called a prep more than anything but I not. haha My grandpa told me I should goth one time because I hadmy black hoodie on with the hood pulled all the way down. I could pull off the look hah
June 1st, 2007 14:58
okay those are a bunch of typos..my grammers not that bad haha. i should revise more
June 1st, 2007 23:40
People at school call me emo to!!! It is soooo weird to, cause im like the farthest thing from it! But the only reason they call me that is cause I have a buncha emo music on my iPod. But who says I actually listen to it!! But i AM NOT EMO!!!
June 2nd, 2007 02:10
Fawesome!!!! Good pictures
Hey, guess what? Early this morning, my school caught on fire or something, and burned a lot, so school was canceled! But it’s not as fun for me since I woudn’t of had school today anyways…only the younger grades…but it’s still cool!
June 2nd, 2007 06:19
hhuh i wish my skool would catch on fire….
but yea the other 2 movies are funny!!!! i dont get called emo… just punk or skater for some reason. just because i wear big sweaters, jeans 24/7, died my hair red (a while ago) wear etnies, and listen to rock ALL the time does NOT make me one.
June 2nd, 2007 08:00
hmm I wear blue jeans, berkinstocks and old navy shirts.. not preppy but not punk/emo/skater..just normalish i guess lol i love to wampus cat hoodies but its getting to hot for that
June 2nd, 2007 10:58
All the emos at my school became… un-emo. It was like an emo revolution or something. Though instead of cutting they erase themselves. Like, they rub erasers all over their arms and get ugly weird scras. It’s gross. Very strange. But why are we talking about emo people?
June 2nd, 2007 11:08
Except for Charles Baudelaire, I haven’t heard of any of those people. But those are fexcellent, fexcellent pics. And yes, jetlag will eat you. I love traveling, but I always fall asleep on planes, and that uber-confuses me when I wake up.
June 2nd, 2007 11:19
(Sorry for the double post)
They erase themselves? That’s interesting. Never heard of anyone doing that before.
June 2nd, 2007 11:31
Well, it’s rather creepy. So they have these rectangular scars on their arms. Ah, it freaks me out just thinking about it.
June 2nd, 2007 11:56
Yeah that sounds really gross!!! OMG… who would want 2 do that. Do they just like rub themselves raw?? I would never do anything like that!!!! Im sorry but erasing yourself is just WEIRD!!!
June 2nd, 2007 14:11
so they earase themselves that sounds like what an emo elementary kid would do. i where stuff simalar to Ally exept i dont wear birkies as much more tenies and and my cool slip on shoes and i also wear my jacket constantly but..
its getting hot:(
June 2nd, 2007 16:07
Aww! Yay! Your back! I have missed your posts!
Good luck with the jet-lag stuff. K.
Bye.
June 3rd, 2007 00:49
I wear same thing everyone else in my school wears, jeans, flip flops, and a T-shirt. It doesn’t matter how warm it is, we still wear jeans, cause girls aren’t aloud 2 wear shorts. We aren’t aloud 2 wear tanktops either. So when we see each other on the weekends everyone looks so different!!! Our school has a really stupid dress code though….as you can see.
June 3rd, 2007 02:40
ours is stupid too. if we wear skirts, tanks, or shorts they have to be “3 fingers wide & arms lengths down”
ewww thats creepy to erase yourself!!! i mean, even though cutting is worse, why would you want to make scars that way?
June 3rd, 2007 04:56
my school has the arm and finger thing for shorts and no tanktops that dont cover your whole shoulder but no1 pays attention to it and sometimes its nasty
June 3rd, 2007 06:03
Can you even buy tanktops that cover your whole shoulder anymore? I haven’t seen any.
June 3rd, 2007 06:32
I haven’t seen any tanktops like that either. But even if there were tanktops like that, we couldn’t wear them. Nothing less than a T-shirt @ our skool. And we have 2 follow the rules unless you want 3 days ISS. Which would stink.
June 3rd, 2007 07:06
At my school you can basically wear anything as long as it isn’t “too revealing.” Mostly the teachers don’t care, but sometimes they will unexpectedly crack down on you. Strangely, you can’t wear pajama pants at my school. Supposedly they are “suggestive.”
June 3rd, 2007 08:37
At my school the dress code is pretty relaxed. We HAVE one, but no one pays attention to it, so 75% of the girls in my grade go around in tiny little tank tops in the middle of frikkin’ winter (and summer, spring, etcetra)
June 3rd, 2007 09:24
our school is all strict. if anyone wears any thing against the dress code we first get a warning, then have to wear sonething from the lost and found (ewww) and finally get detention. i hate my school so much!!
June 3rd, 2007 11:44
Hey! Welcome back to the U.S. I can’t wait to hear about Singapor. (sorry, I really stink at spelling.) And Australia. (again, sorry.)
122 days until Extras come out
or 4 months
or 10,540,800 seconds
or 175,680 minutes
or 2928 hours
or 17 weeks
I told you that I was still counting, Scott! I can’t wait!! Ekkkkk!!
June 3rd, 2007 12:35
Im counting 2!!! Okay, but just days, not all the other stuff!! But still, im counting!! Cant wait!!
June 3rd, 2007 12:59
I’m just counting down to the last day of school. 26. Days. God.
June 4th, 2007 04:16
According to my English teacher we have less than 10 days of ‘actual classes’. I don’t know what, um, non-classes are, but apparently we have about 6 days of them…
June 4th, 2007 04:48
Hmmm… thats weird, non-classes. Sounds like something id like 2 have year round. But Im on summer break, so im not thinking about skool till August 24th. Yay!!
June 4th, 2007 04:54
2days, 1hour left of school!!!
emos ersing themselves again ties into westerfans in disguise, like the pretty operation where you get new skin.
but yeah, that is so gross, like they want to dissappear
do all the emos do that?
June 4th, 2007 06:41
Why is no one posting 2day?? It’s Sunday, isn’t it??
June 4th, 2007 07:17
well i’m out of school aredy but we go in on July something and that sucks becouse we only have like a month for vacation
.Jessie is right why is nobody posting it’s Sunday!!!!
June 4th, 2007 11:20
mostly boys stuck in the 90s wear them and girls do for gym
June 4th, 2007 11:36
This is random, but has anybody else seen Pirates 3? I just did, and it *sucks*. It is an insult to your brain.
June 4th, 2007 12:54
haha so first of all, I saw how someone posted that youtube trailer for the uglies (haven’t read that series yet) and I like how there was a clip from the tv show lost in the trailer I think. I haven’t seen lost but it looked like the commericials from the show. Anywho, I couldn’t figure out the contact me thing on your site but I just finished the midnighters and loved it. I haven’t read any sci fi books since middle slash/early highschool but it sure rekindled my love for them.
June 4th, 2007 22:38
don’t die.
from the jetlag.
and you’re such an amateur photographer!! haha. but a good one.
June 5th, 2007 00:12
Krista: You’re gonna love the Uglies, they are so good!!!
Thats all I can think of 2 say, other than….I thought Scott said he was going 2 post more offen now, or did I just read that wrong??
June 5th, 2007 03:17
wow iv been gone a long time!!! hehe
well i have to say i dont really now any of the people up thier… but o well its still fool! 
this is my last week of school!!! yeppe and its 3 half days and one 2 hour day!! so its not even a full week!! go summer yey
June 7th, 2007 15:13
wow, i’ve missed a lot tooo….wat are we talking about?
June 12th, 2007 05:57
ahhhhhhhh! dead people!
lol!
July 14th, 2007 07:36
Umm, I think that was the cemetere du pere lachaise (I’m too lazy to put the accent thingies in). I’m prolly totally wrong because all year long all I did was read your books in my French class. I did learn this though – J’espere que tu sois viole par satan- I prolly translated improperly, but it’s so mean it’s funny. Try it out on your French profs.
September 7th, 2007 09:46
Scott Stalking Dead People.
How fun. XD