Hinderaker Sees Paris — For The First Time In His Life — At Xmas, No Less… And His Main Reaction Is About.. A Kids’ Board Book

His pungent take on the board book series, dedicated to various heroes of history (this one including Greta Thunberg, a child herself, at the time!) is very predictable.

Monotonously boring, in fact.

No, what is truly surprising to me, is… that he’d never been to Paris — in nearly 70 years. Never. Despite having been (for a time) a worldly, globe trotting litigator at a major AMLaw 100 law firm (out of Minneapolis). The odds of not having a business trip there, at least, in such a career… are vanishingly small (unless he had repeatedly refused to go, given his hard right bent, at the firm).

And perhaps she’s not yet achieved the stature of… a Charlemagne, in John’s eyes — but she is a prime example of what children can do, if they just don’t take “no” for an answer.

And — remember — these are kids’ board books. But in his travels, he makes no mention of this Gauguin, at the Musée d’Orsay (at left), or anything else in the city of light — at Christmas (as above right). [In truth, my favorite time to be there… is Spring, when everything is in a fragrant bloom, as you come up out of the Metro… but that is just…a quibble.]

Yeh. He’s become a… boringly-provincial, myopic… lil’ old man (how does his wife stand him?!). Heh.