Old friends sit you down and ask whether it is time you got a job. That conversation opens the most interesting post here, and rather than dismissing it the writer sets out what they actually said, including the part about paying out month after month for a franchise that never sold any advertising.
He lives in the south of France, and the local material is genuinely local. A licence granted to explore for shale gas near where he lives and then blocked, reported with the politics named and the ministers quoted.
There is a piece on misheard song lyrics that starts with a comedian and ends with him admitting he spent years hearing a line about a pedestrian crossing beacon inside a famous Californian hotel song.
Coconut oil, a road rally from London to Paris, and expatriate views on an American election fill out the rest.
Read the post about the friends and the job. It is the most honest thing here and the least like anything near it.