Archive for February, 2008
Patting the Privates Violates Penal Code in Bel Paese
2008.02.27
Sorry, but I just could not resist– I mean, can you imagine the judges of the high court of the land researching and discussing this case? Or the lawyers in oral arguments? Would that I had been a fly on the wall…
Touch your privates in private, court tells Italian men
John Hooper in Rome
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday […]
Filed under: La dolce legge
Ode to Marzo
2008.02.24
Catarì
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Marzo: nu poco chiove
e n’ato ppoco stracqua
torna a chiòvere, schiove;
Ie ‘o sole cu ll’acqua.
Mo nu cielo celeste,
mo n’aria cupa e nera,
mo d’ ‘o vierno ‘e ‘tempeste,
mo n’aria ‘e Primmavera.
N’auciello freddigliuso
aspetta ch’esce o sole,
ncopp’ ‘o tterreno nfuso
suspirano ‘e viole…
Catarì, che vuò cchiù?
Ntienneme, core mio,
Marzo, tu ‘o ssaje, si’ tu,
e st’auciello song’ […]
Filed under: Art & culture, Uncategorized
Sick Apartment Syndrome
2008.02.18
I have spent the last 5 days sick, in the company of my sick husband and sick apartment. Our apartment, which was built in the mid- 1990’s is terminally ill. The first symptoms occurred this summer, of course while we were on vacation. We returned to a kitchen turned lagoon and a […]
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