June 15th 2008 /
Per molte ragazze, al Sud, lei è un mito. Una a Taormina mi ha detto: «La Gregoraci è il segno vivente che c’è una speranza anche per noi».«Non sa quanto questo mi renda fiera. Se nasci in Meridione lo capisci subito che avrai una vita con il freno a mano tirato. Se hai l’ambizione di affermarti, la fatica è tripla. Per le donne, quadrupla. Quando per strada mi chiedono: “Come hai fatto?”, mi vengono le lacrime agli occhi». // taken from Dagospia.com - (13-06-2008)
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June 15th 2008 /
we see Courbet trying on his artist hat in the grand tradition of Rembrandt and countless others. Aside from the beautiful use of charcoal and stumping, this image fascinates me in showing just how self-aware Courbet is in depicting himself. Courbet never stops watching us watching him. // taken from Art Blog By Bob: Love and Death
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June 14th 2008 /
Mi metto a frugare. Io sono ubriaca fradicia, ma non molesta. Una famiglia repressiva mi ha insegnato l’arte di mantenere la calma anche nelle situazioni di alterazione psicofisica. Sono piuttosto depressa e sull’orlo di un pianto con il tale con cui siedo sul marciapiede. // taken from Judith Vau Asch: Qui al Nord.
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June 8th 2008 /
"An older married man must form alliances, or associate with younger or unmarried men at some point, and it would be better to associate with and invest preferentially in those who are least likely to threaten his paternity, especially in societies where cuckoldry is rife," says Wilson. // taken from Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars - New Scientist
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June 6th 2008 /
In the nineteenth century, Diego Velazquez was the Jimi Hendrix of portraiture. // taken from Art Blog By Bob: Insider Portraits
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June 6th 2008 /
Guess who had a very private talky-talk in (maybe) romantic Northern Virginia tonight, probably at the Bilderberg Group meeting in Chantilly? Your Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton! They really met and talked, in private, Thursday night. And really, it sounds like they did this at that creepy Bilderberg Group meeting, which is happening now, and which is so secret that nobody will admit they’re going, even though everybody who is anybody goes to Bilderberg. // taken from Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip -Hillary & Barack%u2019s Very Special Date Night
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June 5th 2008 /
a un tratto mi alzo, con mossa calcolatamente goffa invado il suo spazio... quel cilindro d'aria che ci difende dagli importuni e dai merdi... e come prevedevo lei è costretta a muoversi, a scoprire il libro... lo alza un poco, povera cicia, manco fosse una difesa bastevole... e allora vedo: mille splendidi soli. cazzo. mi ammoscio subito // taken from a.i.:
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June 5th 2008 /
If we run in the London marathon, no one notices.We've been supplanted by the 80- and 90-year-olds, who grab all the attention. Young people find the really old curious and rather interesting. They help them unload their shopping, listen to what they say. As Alan Bennett said in his diary, you have only to eat a soft boiled egg when you're really old for everyone to say how wonderful you are. // taken from BRIGHT OLD THINGS | More Intelligent Life
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June 4th 2008 /
Many things fell away in that moment, in a confetti of shimmering pieces, as if they had never even impacted upon me at all, indeed as if their irrelevance had been prearranged. Not even a bruise, I said again later as I looked at myself in the mirror. I was that lucky. // taken from a circle, a sighting, a wound, a reckoning
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June 4th 2008 /
So all these world leaders are going to get together in Rome to solve the food crisis in a world were the big boys find it necessary to spend 1.2 trillion dollars a year in weapons. The AP tells us that that these elite experts in world hunger are going to eat "Italian Specialties". // taken from Wandering Italy Blog: International Food Crisis Summit Begins Obscenely
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June 4th 2008 /
Every living environment has an effect on its inhabitants and in New York City that environment is one that has an element of brutality. New York is a great city and has improved markedly over the years, but this is a harsh place and breeds cynicism, skepticism and cautiousness. Survival skills. And one of the results is a rather unusual foreign language vocabulary. // taken from New York Daily Photo: No Salga Afuera
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