I know all about how lotteries are in general a tax on stupidity, hope, desperation, etc. etc. I also know that Italy’s SuperEnalotto jackpot currently stands at €143,000,000. That’s a lot of money in anybody’s currency. I’m not saying it would make me happy, because we all know that money can’t buy...
A friend in London picked up a link I posted and riffed on it, which included this little aside that he’d read recently, and felt worthy of a lecturer he had known.
A professor told her class that an assignments would be due on the given date and no excuses would be accepted short of a family...
I know I’m late to the party, 1 but I have only now watched Gordon Brown’s surprise talk at Ted Global in Oxford. It was a magnificent performance, but that’s all it was: a performance. He started with a harrowing set of images, from the napalmed child in Vietnam via the vulture waiting for a Su...
Who says you can't go back?
All those tomatoes, all those seeds. I felt the old stirrings. So when I got home this evening I picked everything that was not absolutely green, paused momentarily to snap a faintly artsy shot (see above) and repaired to the kitchen. Slice and scoop, with a nice smal...
It would be easy enough to post every time one went to an exhibit here, about the disrepect given the English language in Italy. Sponsors pay large amounts to support beautifully staged art exhibits, and then allow the boss’s 14-year old to do the signage because they’ve had a couple of years of E...
