In Paris tonight, cars are burning, rocks are being thrown, Dominique de Villepin is promising to restore order (a reassuring image) … and Dylan just finished his show at Le Zenith. Set list from Pagel’s site:

1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
5. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
6. Girl Of The North Countryv (acoustic)
7. High Water (For Charley Patton)
. - Intermission -
8. Drifter’s Escape>
9. It Ain’t Me, Babe
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
12. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
13. Desolation Row
14. Summer Days

(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’,
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’,
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

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Addendum: Did you notice that the French government has - no kidding - a “minister for social cohesion?”

Uh, can’t we all just, like, cohede?

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