Who said that Milano was a nice place? Once again, the middle class has won and we all got five more years with a new reactionary phony mayor, the slimy former Berlusconi's Minister of Education Letizia Moratti.
Another mayor who will have no problem in cutting down trees, I guess, or financing more ugly housing projects, encouraging the fashion & design mafia as long as it is not concerned with the ugly city itself, but just with the money, and so on. One mayor that will, for five more years, encourage her citizens to just keep on working hard, head down, be a little greedy, be a little racist, be a little acquiescent, and coward for the rest. Most important, another mayor that will encourage every social category, of every creed, color, political idea, to be even more sealed within its own borders and to look conspicuously to everyone else from there. Good.

Good ol' Milano. Sometimes I wonder why its citizens want it this way. I guess it is because of the extreme prgamatism of the milanese tradition, where money and houses and cars and the like are the only solid stuff we all can think of.
Well, amen. Not that I thought there were actual alternatives to this picture, I'd only love to see some new approach at it, just for the boredom it causes me.

-- In picture: the new mayor cheers us from her pit

Note: We all know Overheard in NY and what source of endless pleasures, bafflings and amazements is.
If we put enough material together it would be nice to have our "overheard in Italy" thing (what, it takes the whole Italy to have enough overhearding people on the internet here) so feel free to submit. We'll do the translation.
Because of the loud background noise of traffic on the streets here in moron Milan, we currently have only one-liners. Here's the first one.

An eterosexual Fashion Guy (i.e. not a stylist) and a black model at a café table in downtown.
He's showing her a book of photographies, giving articulate explanations when his telephones rings. The ring tone reproduces a loud neigh that makes everybody turn and look at them.
Black model: "Oh, no please! Enough with the horse!"