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  / it was one of the phrases
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  / it was one of the phrases
June 4th 2008 / But if you are merely with people (flawed as we all are), then why not just love them? // taken from ElsaElsa.com - Venus In Aspect To Neptune: Distinguishing Between Unconditional Love And Being A Doormat  / it was one of the phrases
June 3rd 2008 / If one takes an umbrella and trudges through the grounds on a tour of inspection despite wet and mist, one can no longer see one's own house after only a hundred paces, just brambles in mist, rivulets, bracken in mist. A little wall in the lower garden (drystone) has collapsed: debris among the lettuces, lumps of clay under the tomatoes. Perhaps that happened days ago. // taken from DC's: Spotlight on ... Max Frisch 'Man in the Holocene'  / it was one of the phrases
June 3rd 2008 / taken from The Walrus Magazine - Environment - The Chinese Dust Bowl - China Desert  / it was one of the pictures
June 3rd 2008 / The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked. She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean." // taken from Japanese woman caught living in man's closet -- Police Arrests -- chicagotribune.com  / it was one of the phrases
June 3rd 2008 / "Giusto!" (alla gatta che balza sul recinto) "E domani di nuovo non è un giorno" (1 giugno) "Sbaglia presto chi dovrà diventare un maestro". // taken from Il mattino - Peter Handke  / it was one of the phrases
June 1st 2008 / I didn't have my camera with me, but I knew I'd remember the important parts, and I do. I remember it even better than it was. I sometimes think parenting is a little like that too. // taken from italian trivia: lontano lontano lontano  / it was one of the phrases
June 1st 2008 / I also don’t believe “parenting” is working in any way, shape or form… either is the interaction between men and women.I no longer believe friendships that have endured for 20 years will necessarily last for 30 and I don’t believe that (heterosexual) men and women can be intimate friends once partnered.I am not happy about any of this but there. There it is and now it’s your turn. // taken from ElsaElsa.com Pluto's Last Gasp In Sagittarius - What Does It Mean For The Individual? The Death Of Your Beliefs?  / it was one of the phrases
June 1st 2008: mission accomplished / I sat on the bed and shot digital photos of the TV screen and thought about how everything felt all at once sleazy: television is sleazy, the FBI is sleazy, polygamists are sleazy, newscasters are sleazy, victims are sleazy, motel rooms are sleazy, Utah is sleazy, Texas is sleazy, America is sleazy, religion is sleazy, cameras are sleazy, even I am sleazy. // taken from PalmAire  / it was one of the phrases
May 31st 2008 / The next time you see Grandma, why don't you picture a giant white light around her, like an egg? And in your mind say, "Dark forces around my grandma, please leave, cause we don't want you here" And just sort of send it away. // taken from San Francisco - News - Friend's Best Man  / it was one of the phrases
May 8th 2008 / Now, 15 years after the rehabilitation began, it is very obvious that Mussolini's mystique still survives. You can buy endless magazines about him in the little newsagent-boutiques. In Predappio, his home town, there is a cottage industry selling Mussolini busts and fascist paraphernalia. The mausoleum there is a place of pilgrimage and there is always a queue of pilgrims. The graffiti adorning the walls of many Italian cities will be a Celtic (encircled) cross, the contemporary equivalent of the swastika. The new mayor of Rome allegedly wears one around his neck. // taken from Tobias Jones on the implications of Silvio Berlusconi's return to power | World news | The Guardian  / it was one of the phrases
May 8th 2008 / Guests are afforded the chance to become instant cyber porn stars. // taken from Big Sister sees it all, Sex and Blogs  / it was one of the phrases
May 8th 2008 / Mr Comacchio does not like the term vigilantes, prefering instead “concerned residents” who call the police when necessary. // taken from Muslims feel under siege as Italian Right sets up town vigilante groups - Times Online  / it was one of the phrases
May 7th 2008 / My grandfather used to have his bedtime stories told to him, on very special occasions, by Marcel Duchamp. // taken from Hello, I'm Rachel. - true story  / it was one of the phrases
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