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Impressions

Evgenij Onegin was truly magnificent. The opera is beautiful, but I expected no less from Tchaikovsky, the first composer I had ever heard.
All the singers were excellent, even as actors. The set design is spartan but impressive, and the costumes splendid.
The very young conductor was a revelation: perfect.
The restoration at La Scala sincerely convinced me,...

Phenomenology of qualunquista

or
of the rebirth of the Fronte dell’Uomo Qualunque*

We are surrounded. Like the chicken virus, they are there but not seen. They are more and more.

The qualunquista, whom we will call Q. also in honour of the homonymous being of Startrekkian memory, eats bread, clichés and urban legends for breakfast.
“Where the truckers,...

Cowards

Done

No two without three

Che Gioia

Considering the number of people who came under the Pirellone today, I’m almost starting to think that Milan deserves to have the Gioia forest cut down.
The fact is that they will do it, no matter what we do.
Deceit made, law found, as Rocco Tanica says.

New year, new vine*

2005 doesn’t want to go: it even seems to last a second longer.

*that is what they say on New Year’s Eve among robots. Asimov rulez.

Stories of Ordinary Madness

The boss shouts from the office: M!!! How do you spell senz’altro?
(N.B. she boasts a degree…)
M: With an apostrophe!

On the other side of the cupboard, a colleague’s voice says:
M, do you have a degree in Italian?
No, I am a native speaker.

(Steel and I were under the desk laughing)...

As promised

But who is this advertising face from Lancôme going to be?
Maybe a mature beauty for an anti-wrinkle cream?
No. Have the stomach to click on the photo at your own risk.

indovina indovinello

Of course, seeing her in the morning, when you have yet to wake up,

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Ford?
Yes?
I feel like a couch.
I know how you feel.
Aaaaaaaaaaah!

(I have meant to write this useless post for a long time.)

Divano