Since February, I live in Italy. Since 15th of May, we have internet access. I just don’t know where to start, how to sort out my virtual life…
I will start right here and now. Sunset. Mountains. Tired. To walk or not to walk?.. To go to Nice tomorrow or not to go?.. There will be [...]

That’s what I call patriotic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApnpkWQGHw
Falco seemed to be a cool guy, so sorry he’s dead.

If someone were to come to me and say, “Wooster, would you be interested in joining a society I am starting whose aim will be the suppression of aunts or at least will see to it that they are kept on a short chain and not permitted to roam hither and thither at will, scattering [...]

Impressive. 5 most dangerous roads on Earth.
I am not surprised that two from the five are in Russia.

Stopping going to the office was one of the best decisions of my life, despite all the things that I miss. If I hadn’t stopped working, I could have make weird things, like this guy. Yes, my job was that boring.

Here is the list of 50 works of art that one should see before one dies, taken from Guardian blog, via kottke.org. SEEN means that I was in that place and I am pretty sure I have seen this piece of art, but I can’t remember how exactly it looks. YES!!! means that I can [...]

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last time you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth”.
Mark Twain, “Connecticut Yankee in King’s Arthur’s Court”.
That’s why despite all my efforts, including living in Germany for 3 years, [...]

“It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one’s country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.”
Edith Hamilton, “The Greek Way”

I am afraid of mice; yesterday I saw one in my bedroom. My feelings about that are… strong. I feel like a toothpaste squeezed out of this flat, out of this city, out of this way of living.
Gru-the-dog is staying with me at the moment, because of renovations at dad’s place. She paid no attention [...]

That’s all there is
Nothing more than you can feel now
That’s all there is
I’m fucked! Renovations at dad’s place. Should I say more? Money and communication with the guys who are working there (one is from Georgia, another one from Azerbaydzhan) make me totally upset. Exhausted. And Gru, the bloody uneducated dog, stays with me these [...]