THIS IS HAPPENING OUTSIDE
OUR FUCKING WINDOWS

In case you were wondering about the latest batshit Hollywood whirligig that was transpiring outside the windows of our offices, take a gander at this moment from the Heineken-sponsored F1 Live Festival, which involved formula-one racing vehicles SCREAMING up and down the Boulevard and doing donuts in the asphalt, choppers churning clouds of exhaust fumes and, we shit you not, fucking parachutists billowing onto the street, all of it accompanied by a freakin' ORCHESTRA and announcer on loudspeaker, before a throng of race-mad gawkers. The deafening combustion and grinding gears weren't markedly more punishing than an average midweek hangover around these parts, but it did make it a tad difficult to concentrate.