art and reality. same thing?

Nation & World | "Ratatouille" makes a star out of Paris rat-trap shop | Seattle Times Newspaper:

In a key scene from "Ratatouille," the father of Rémy, a rat who wants to be a chef, shows him a pest-control shop and tells him humans do nasty things to rodents.

To eerie background music and in the light of a street lamp on a wet night, the father points to the scores of dead rats hanging by strings in the window. The store's shelves have medieval-looking traps and boxes of rat poison.

The animated film and Rémy have made Aurouze, the real-life rat-trap shop in central Paris featured in the film, something of a tourist attraction.

as long as its memory lane time...

Here's the best of my shots from 1998, captioned and everything.  i figure nobody's done much of the late 90s except diego's '99 and '00 pics.  Crappy quality, 'cause all I was working with were one-shot cameras from kodak, and scanning technology sucked back then, too.

LJers featured include

• acroyear70 duh
• dashrippington
• blueeowyn 
• ptpgrad
  
• 3ravensringo and keltique
  
• dacuteturtle
  
• dglenn i think he's in the background in a 3LF shot
• firebow
  
• katrinb , thelongshot , and wilhelmina_d 
• meadwench
  
• greendalek
  
• pyratelady and skivee
  
• sagemcargh and zammis
  
• wench18 who earlier that night had given me my first kilt-check
• syntonic_comma in the then pretty large cappricio catch club

plus many names from the past like marc parisi, stacy, capt ali, merrie minstrel, full measure, renee camus, kelley anthony, filberta and fenton fowler (though the actors are still here), tee, the village choir, gwyn (i *really* miss her), jim neib still in bloody drama, and more...