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// June 2008
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// April 2008
// March 2008
// February 2008
// January 2008
// December 2007
// October 2007
// September 2007
// August 2007
// July 2007
// June 2007
// May 2007
// April 2007
// March 2007
// February 2007
// January 2007
// December 2006
// November 2006
// September 2006
// June 2006
// May 2006
// April 2006
// March 2006
// February 2006
// January 2006
// December 2005
// November 2005
// October 2005
// September 2005
// August 2005
// July 2005
// May 2008
- Akram takes us once again
- conversation of two
- Every so often in the scorching night
- The shmari is then an old friend
- For trite the phrase
- from behind the ghibli curtain
- of unnamed kings and lands and seas
// April 2008
// March 2008
- Once again etc
- morning of a table orphan
- other mediocre verses
- updates and flowers
- for ol times' sake
- Now wait for last year
// February 2008
// January 2008
// December 2007
// October 2007
- I'm defoliating the young ficus carica that we are explanting
- The school is at the end of a narrow gray road
// September 2007
- I am reading this book slowly
- there was this check from the car's insurance company abandoned in the drawer
- yeah the night is made to sleep and love, not to think things like these.
- ... about the G-day again
- more memories (not to talk about the present)
- remembering this conversation, in Rome, circa trastevere circa 2005
- what the girls say (draft #713)
- two words about politics (sorry)
- Libi came back from the beach
- So it's nineleven again
- the future of Pun
- nothingness and a sunset sky
- LP is no more
- "debts" at school
- Saul Bellow and "the bigger existence"
- sketch of the day, and other nonsense
// August 2007
// July 2007
- an advice for free
- a total of two quotes
- You think you can leave the matter to your lips
- threefold chronicle
- short conversation at the bakery shop
- more wishes from the sleeping volcano
- faces of the coins
- sogno
- things I am learning (and other private confusing digressions)
- I wonder if pencils are hard enough to break the ice
// June 2007
// May 2007
- uploading 3 snippets from my notebooks while I wait for the night ride bus to Pochutla
- Mexicans remind me of Italians in ways
- the Hotel La Croix, and other thoughts
- The shape of the city is unfathomable
- In Nicaragua there's a island in the middle of a big lake
// April 2007
// March 2007
- In the basement of the famous music club
- As though the sky now partook of an alien system
- story of my day and knee
- more random notes from under the urban island
- checking the google reader from the invaded hostel
- a place is a place
- chaotic notes about the reading day
- my short story
- (almost) without words
- not for a reason
- the Hostel and around
- blog is on a trip / one line report
- st. Patrick's day, New York, sparse notes
- announcement: this trip
- goodbyes /Biba goes across a corner of lawn
- hair cutter stories
- shortages
- afternoon in via vivaio, 7
- I don't seem to be able to write or think these days --so I'm writing about writing
- posting this post
- beginning of the day at the polyclinic
- going to bed. I'll change this poem tomorrow
- Because I soon will have to fly (and other notes on the national airline company)
- trying to write to Libi /1st try
// February 2007
- feelings of the passport
- quando venire in Italia? (or, why the word 'portal' should be confined to fantasy stories)
- the awards and my mood
- I was right! he said (and other brief thoughts about Prodi's government and the italian blogland)
- my life and Libi's
- disgusting enough to be fun again
- fine, just don't give me Berlusconi back please
- patchwork of six
- also about the story of the eternal husband
- Pig is a Lucky and Mild-tempered Animal (and other scattered thoughts)
- lament for britney spears
- altri giorni milanesi
- Taking from Amarilli
- in defense of commentators, follows-up
- monologue, 4AM
- corny dreams of Amarilli
- and everyone looked at them as if they were martians
- fears, etc.
- in defense of commentators
- I dreamed I was a member of Rasputin's family (half-delirious sunday post)
- I first met Rulla in Venice, on a day of exams
- patchwork of three
- Sergei Dovlatov, microsoft and the bad cop act
- the wrong side of the wall
- in the noise and other notes on solitude
- the massacre of Erba and Beppe Grillo
- patchwork of four
- another paranoid foresight
- a classical milanese episode: controllers on the bus
- into total unconsciousness
- quote of the day: la guerra e dietro la guerra (translating Clemente Rebora)
- notes on the mind and the roles (for adults)
// January 2007
- I know what's wrong with the splintered pot
- Italian translations on the web aren't even good for my dogs (sort of a rant)
- the going-there thing and its too early worries
- and so the poetry of laura pasolini enthralls us all
- stolen quote of the day, women
- with certain pictures you take
- George Orwell and the decadence of the English language
- a serious conversation
- the blog and the names
- unsent letter to Nina
- the rose
- me at Dennis's
- the massacre of Erba and ourselves
- the pro-kundera writing under the sottoportego
- the smartest girl
- song for all the missable verses (part I)
- progressive (in) definition
- more Somali repellent news
- a little about Benigni
- anything from the mirror
- words are not usually tellable
- political (in) definition
- the paper scarf
- infiltrating a public hospital
- My father says
- In San Pantalon a seagull is yelling
- more ranting against Trenitalia
- sitting at the green
- day one-- at dusk
// December 2006
- mirrorview of the year
- Libi is a dressmaker, I am not convinced
- it's all about experience
- So corriere.it says
- railways precautions
- The largest painting he ever did (yet more Xmas fatherish lament)
- metaphors: family's nets
- the next preferable option
- The other day I gave a look at the insides of my mind
- At the flea market of Bollate, fascism everywhere
- "things suck here." Homage to Dennis C. in a versified collage of his own p.s. words*
- Doctor C., dentist M.D.
- So I disclaim
- "the toy is broken"
- European hypocrisy
- winter in the dark (a very subtle metaphor)
- So my father cries
- "not when I keep my finger on that clitoral trigger"
- It rains hard on Milan (variation on the theme)
- "You" are screwed
- between two Orwell's quotes, our world today
- Vanni says
- Overheard in Rome: yep, the mayor asked Renzo Piano to design one
- technical interlude
- looking into the yogurt
- once upon a land /5: Sicily of silences and landscapes
- tourist commonplaces on the falling country
- everything was fine yesterday
- notes on solitude (for adults)
- me, arts and politics
- The pope is stupid
- wishy-washing the blog
- kidnappable italians
- letter to Nina who lives in R*
- once upon a land /4: the oriental sea town
- ...and by the way (or the shitty game)
- Goodbye Iraq, 'twas about time
// November 2006
- small truths learned from traveling
- so stupid to drive
- It's dark before six PM
- different every day
- once upon a land /3. the girl and the bug
- 2006 election fraud: updates
- I had a son three months old
- once upon a land /2. the impossibility to copy
- about Abu Omar again: the other sickening angle
- once upon a land /1. Milking buffaloes (and their songs)
- once upon a land /0. Quoting from Guido Piovene, et al.
- So some guy got married in a castle
- Italy: election fraud 2006?
- Story of an Imam, CIA informer, and victim of torture. So far (Part II)
- Story of an Imam, CIA informer, and victim of torture. So far (Part I)
- two things I know about William Blake
// September 2006
// June 2006
- Written in Milano, Italy, one early Sunday morning of June
- ramblin' around /11: I pass the italian border in the early evening (and all the other souvenirs)
- ramblin' around /10: I have to leave for Lijubliana in the morning
- ramblin' around /9: We are talking about our travels, but we're talking politics (unfortunately)
- ramblin' around /8: I imagine the hostility of the unknown (but I'm wrong)
- ramblin' around /7: obviously God reads my blog (and makes fun of it)
- ramblin' around /6: Places have to be different by the one you know already
- ramblin' around /5: Budapest --and other news
- ramblin' around /4: Wien doesn't want me today
- ramblin' around /3: types in Udine
- ramblin' around /2: The waters in the port are dark and indistinguishable (Trieste, Udine)
- ramblin' around /1: asleep on the row of brown seats after Verona
- Just let me do a pretty obvious consideration here
- As always when I'm about to leave without a destination
- Agriculture of the Mind according to mr. Hubbard
// May 2006
- I hate this world (news item: Heinrich Heine Prize for Peter Handke revoked! I can't believe it!)
- what about this or that?
- Out in the city, when the weather shambles the colors and the top of trees,
- I have been expecting this for a while, shit
- Who said that Milano is a nice place?
- a little good news about Peter Handke
- I hate this world (news item: the bear)
- I hate this world (news item: Somalia)
- My mother sounds bewildered (part two)
- oh, why about Berlusconi again?
- Sketch of the day: this sort of question-marked statue of liberty
- Every now and then during the day (part one)
- New Italian government (or: It's easy to be better than Berlusconi, although it's not enough)
- like something growing
- Nina tells her story
- is it time to talk about calcio already?
- Jawa is being a mother too
- sketch of the day, my relationship with her
- I feel his eyes on me as I am climbing the slope at the beginning of Naviglio Pavese
- sketch of the day, looking covertly at me
- You maybe taught to believe
- The room is quite bare as I remembered it
- "Il cinque Maggio" (or the remains of it)
- Quote of the day, "To be written on the mirror in Whitewash"
- Every damn morning in Africa (or: la piastrella)
- post scriptum to the previous post
- chewed by a thousand mouths
- sketch of the day, on a woman's body
- Coming late about the 25th April (again): How much sick the rhetoric about the "Resistance" can make me?
- latest from our funny political oligarchy, if you're interested
// April 2006
- I wish my typical paranoia was working in this situation (long so-and-so political soup, you can skip it)
- "But discobar culture is blossoming in Milano"
- Another book I'd love to throw into the Venice lagoon from an helicopter
- I don't know why something I have drives girls I'm with to write me messages
- In the dream I was sleeping somewhere,
- repositories of dust and guano and crammed pots
- The usual Beppe Grillo wishes for all the fossil reserves of the planet to finish. I'll write about that since I'm very brain dead right now.
- "Sick Fuck"
- this post is about the way I wrap up sandwiches in kitchen paper and domopak film
- It's all about Berlusconi (my post-elections analysis, if you really want to hear it)
- "It's impossible to say who won. These are the worst elections in the world"
- Sketch of the day, draining out my head
- "The country is going to the dogs"
- So we are four tonight, and this post will go nowhere
- Our reports from general elections front no. (I lost count). Everybody is a coglione
// March 2006
- In the dentist waiting room
- Red alert, shit is happening at corriere.it
- eating us alive
- "Proud of what I did" (regular italian news, 2006)
- Ticket or preach, or the news
- Blackbirds are singing somewhere outside
- My boss gave up on me
- Inside dentist's surgery, Italy, normal day (falling asleep again)
- Two political news, for old times' sake
- that's too boring
- On the brink of falling asleep
- There's a kind of elongated violet indigo clouds
- Saturday I was at home, sleeping
- About the JT Leroy hoax again: "Call me Savannah" or, Asia Argento's incredible load of bullshit
- The first time I saw Leni I was speaking to the classroom she was a part of at the U.
- 8th marches
- another phone call, etc.
- raining, sex & thoughts
- It's about twilight outside, so the globe lights in the room
- From the Elections front: hypocrites political billboards, our considerations. Part I, the left
// February 2006
- Gisa is being a mother part V (interlude)
- metalmechanical anarchy is having me
- Our reports from general elections no. 6: It's really crisis out there
- goodbye to my blogroll
- looking at Katrina numbers
- Sketch of the day: I just couldn't finish to draw it so I'm loading a picture instead
- 7 good things to do after Berlusconi wins general elections, again
- Our reports from general election front no. 5: faces of the republic, second set
- Our reports from general election front no. 4: faces of the Republic, first set
- Our one and only report from Olympics: you like Olympics? You shouldn't
- Goodbye, Luca
- Normal life at the bookstore, or the Vampires of Bellatrix
- working on the new makeup
- catching up with private stuff: a job in the city it's been a loooong time
- My Pausini's song memory (Part II)
- Tomorrow was another day (Gisa is being a mother part IV)
- Our reports from the General Elections front no. 3
- My Pausini's song memory (Part I, introduction)
- Gisa is being a mother (part III)
- Our reports from the General Elections front no. 2
- Quote of the day: always more
- Gisa is being a mother (Part II)
- born on the beer with white and beasty beard (delirium of a mind still half-dead)
- Our reports from the General Elections front no. 1
- Gisa is being a mother (Part I)
- it's no news
// January 2006
- and one is supposed to be happy
- Erection day will come
- and obviously in Italy
- life at the oil mill, or the turds farm
- Quote of the day, The Humboldt's gift
- ramblin' around: nuclear sex on the road to prague
- Looking for pharmacy Abate and beyond
- personal swirling stuff
- leavin' (just for a little while)
- my two cents of the JT Leroy hoax, or, the Bible Syndrome
- Ten favorite Italian books for your 2006 (part III, just two more entries)
- Poetry: Italy, thirteen saved strophes from a personal Ginsbergish attemp
- sketch of the day: those were the thoughts again
- Dumb journalist within these three wins a tree
- the dream of the tumbler switch (last night)
- Ten favorite italian books for your 2006 (part II, three more titles, puff)
- poetry: I could not hate you (in pictures: letter reading in the ox-bow incident)
- Ten favorite italian books for your 2006 (part I, 'cause I'm lazy)
- I dreamed: visions of some new year (Part three, Committing your flesh to the Canned Spirit)
- Quote of the day: a famous one, by Umberto Saba
- Suddenly, Ariel Sharon reminds me of my grandmother
- I dreamed: visions of some new years (part two)
- Best of 2005: movies
- Best of 2005: silences
- Sorrows of Milano
- I dreamed: visions of some new year
// December 2005
- Best of 2005: encounters, 2
- Best of 2005: encounters
- Best of 2005: drugs
- Overheard in Milan: he knows where's getting at
- Quoting: cloths and kipflers v. politics and philosophy
- O.K. about Xmas then
- Why, why do this?
- The other side of the condo
- Sonnet of the waitress' reciprocal craving who is sorry for the rhymed couplets
- Ramblin' around: cell phone messages and repetition compulsion
- When the word 'taliban' is on the news, you can be sure it's horrible news
- Sketch of the day, as the wind outside does something
- Quote of the week: the 'sublime laze' of Giovanni Comisso
- Bummin' around: Ferrara checking in
- Why I love my shortages
- my morning feeling towards Milan
- Fiorani smiles, do you smile with him?
- A Tenco case for a clueless Beppe Grillo
- bye-bye Tookie, whoever you were
- letter to a friend, on corpodibacco's birthday
- Overheard in Ferrara, for old times' sake
- A strange interview with former US Ambassador to Italy and our conspiracy fashion. Sorry, here's political talking, therefore quite boring, you're warned.
- The river Po, taken as it was without knowing or looking for all the tourists' walks
- my solution against idiot asteroids
- Not a normal person
- Overheard in Urbino: and the rent will be paid in dungs
- Bumming around: A sleep into the any-village
// November 2005
- Sketch of the day: Packing
- About La Dolce Vita again, or: Is life abbreviated by feelings?
- The bridge over the Strait of Messina and Leonardo Sciascia's wit
- About guns in Italy, and violence against women. A confutation.
- Private emotions
- Turin, foreign correspondence and wikipedia
- Technicalities: a layout poll for you, my readers. Sorry 'bout that.
- poetry: the night I talked you out of suicide
- La Dolce Vita is to come
- Beppe Grillo's pillory
- The web is the Cottolengo (three excerpts)
- Tale without a story, timeset circa 2002, location Milan (part two)
- Contacts needed to work in Italy, and some other well-known professional tragedy
- It's so cold outside you don't feel it
- You say news, I say dung
- Tale without a story, timeset circa 2002, location Milan (part one)
- (Not so predictable) interview with maestro Paolo Conte
- Citizens against Bank of Italy, 1-0
- Quote of the week: Ceronetti's Journey in Italy again (sorry, still reading it)
- more reforms (yawn): "Pink quotas" and the italian democracy
- Part of what. What we did these days
- I was disgusted by this country enough already, thank you.
- Some dreams are on the news, some not
- Sketch of the day: Deller and reality
- Quote of the week: Ceronetti, Italy, and the thinkablity of the world
- Report: practical suggestion to better the metropolis
- urban idiocy: the subway TV
- On illegal migrations (again). I say: legalize!
- 100 most linked italian blogs according to Technorati. Cool, we're out, they suck
- ANSA, the Avoid News Sometimes Agency
- The balkan pipeline, with its bloodish oil, arrives to Italy
- Let's blow up the United Nations before it's too late
- Italian good reputation abroad: who wants it?
- the Smell of Holiness and other curse words (for the blaspheme reader only)
- Milano foggy night
- Halloween was NOT meant for Italy
// October 2005
- Pasolini's poem on Direland. A must read. Ours too, not that must.
- Overheard in Milan: trolley survivor
- This is a deputy of the Italian Parliament...
- Racism in Italy: Dark into the eyes, the story of Sahid
- Mistreating trees (again)
ThreeFive WOUNDED in a terrorist attack in Naples! No wait, it's worse! it's a drill...- Overheard in Milan: pinned down at the bookshop
- Parliament abysses
- Ndrangheta and other bad things about Italy
- After the betrayal
- my newsfeed reader, Adam Ash question, Italo Svevo and the technological device (three posts in one!)
- Call it culture, Todays RSS culture feeds in Italy
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti arrested in Italy
- Sketch of the day: faces who are not me
- Tax amnesty: we learned the tide
- Off-Topic: Elfriede Jelinek and the Swedish prudery
- Another Caravaggio show. I can't take it anymore.
- trees are like monuments, said Italian Minister of Agricolture. So now, we're doomed.
- reading the story of Fabrizio Gatti (#4)
- Overheard in Milan: get them while they're young
- Sketch of the day: the lentils are in the background, waiting
- reading the story of Fabrizio Gatti (#3)
- Columbus shlumbus
- another massacre, in Monza
- reading the story of Fabrizio Gatti (#2)
- in Orgosolo (#2)
- Racism in Italy: a journalist infiltrated the concentration camp in Lampedusa...
- in Orgosolo (#1)
- don't smile at me
// September 2005
- Sketch of the day, as the evening unfold
- The Duane Hanson effect
- Italy is falling explained #4: public debt record (again)
- Today's sketch, cleaning up the grayness
- Racism in Italy #4, another episode of drowned immigration
- Today's sketch, at the greenish desk in front of the window
- against-something wristband, now in italian
- Overheard in Milan: We don't colonize, we tan
- italian architects make me laugh
- Overheard in Milan: Vacation is over, still no scoring
- Overheard in Milan: Riding not always a pleasure
- job stories #1
- gays' blood sucks (while our rich world is rapidly going haywire)
- the italian writer Goffredo Parise in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961
// August 2005
- woman as an object: a clock precisely.
- where the cultural scene is way beyond pathetic
- Lampedusa is a small Island
- so the imperfect slaves
- sign up to Gmail, and make them richer
- being a waitress at Berlusconi's
- neighbourhood #2 (continued)
- neighbourhood #2 (formerly walk milan)
- just out of boredom
- stupid toti has arrived (almost)
- japanese engineers: remote-control your asses you sick-os
- being a nazi officer and all
- ok, too much oxigen for the bitch commander
- sunkitalia
- cocaine in the Po
- wildfires, pastry and blood-test
- resized memories of past afternoons
// July 2005
- cin-cin on the courthouse
- racism in italy (#2)
- I hate to speak about silvio berlusconi
- poetry: terrace on milano
- parentesis: appeal to wives of japanese men: push your men out of the bed
- archeology for sale
- the more vain dandy PM you can get
- glad with papa-ratzi
- megalomaniac al-Masri and the Italian grave
- to Leni
- racism in italy (#1)
- jellyfishes (vacation in Italy #2)
- readings - Goffredo Parise, Abecedary
- respiration problems (vacation in Italy #1)
- SAQ, like "I though you were talking about Italy" and such
- the plot thing
- only a bit confused
- his city, bah
- anti- what?
- my friendly message to al Qaeda
- walk milan (chronicle #2)
- new stupid digital camera...
- why we love woody allen?
- why i hate that probe
- new style and old neofascisms (what a drag...)
- to hair cutting