Down by the river this morning, a faint sweet whiff of aerosol spray paint alerted me that the Great Artist had been in action. Two pieces on the embankment. In the first, see below, a new twist on an old theme:

To one side, in Italian, obviously: Il cane è il migliore amico della donna. The d...

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I have no idea what happened in the last episode of The Sopranos.¹ As far as I am concerned, Christopher’s girlfriend has just been befriended by her FBI agent. One day, surely, I’ll catch up. As I caught up with NPR’s Pop Culture podcasts, however, I was struck by just how much attention the ques...

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Fish stories excite me. I don't know why. I can think of few things less interesting than sitting on a riverbank watching a float bob. But scientific investigations of similar topics make my pulse race, maybe because there can be few subjects that so perfectly illustrate the all-too-human inability...

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Down to the river last night for the third annual [Tevereterno]http://tevereterno.it/tevereterno.html binge to mark the solstice. Maybe I’m getting jaded, but last night was actually a bit disappointing, I’m afraid. There was a passel of marimba, xylophone, vibraphone type players doing a minimali...

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For an extravert, I’m actually quite shy. So when I see the cool kids egging each other on to spread their various memes across the internets, I tend to sit wallflower-like and wait for them to come to me. I don’t jump up and down saying “pick me! pick me!”. Not without a certain amount of pain, I a...

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