tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19062188695123187082024-02-20T21:36:47.309-08:00Full of BolognaI am not joking when I say that I shall never be too full of Bologna. I am also not joking when I say that I hope to never consume and thereby be full of any Oscar-Meyer bologna...Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-66426805724767120852009-06-09T05:30:00.000-07:002009-08-23T10:05:27.923-07:0040 degrees, 80 percent humidity is happiness<div>Sadly there remains only 8 days left of my time in Bologna. And as far as my reputation as a blogger, I realize that I hardly rank novice...but what did you expect from someone without a camera?! The thing is though, amongst all of the people who I met this year, I imagine well over 5000 photos exist with potential Full-of-Bologna voyeur ability. And therefore over the next few weeks I will work to put up some of those photos so that those who are still interested (I cant imagine anyone however...) can be satisfied...</div><div><div><div><div><br /><div>So for those who do not know, my parents finally came to visit me! We spent about 2 weeks together all over northern italy. It was great to have such familiarity around me, and they brought me allergy medicine which was highly gratified. There are many photos, but I have access only to those from Marta...my parents stayed for much more time, and hopefully they can send me those so I can document the rest of their trip. For now: the road trip.<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">SO</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Frank</div><div style="text-align: center; "><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZA056wFWLMPKsaXLYtt9o_w99S6t1WaZmveI6sdVs2KnFCxZZ2XzV7L70vTFUXKOgu1f5AJ3P9qqDzoXULm8rbw6cLi7aZyJGBk69tsYhreDgj-kcCWBds7UaXY8fW7Wjl1N_odJREzU/s1600-h/IMG_8879.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZA056wFWLMPKsaXLYtt9o_w99S6t1WaZmveI6sdVs2KnFCxZZ2XzV7L70vTFUXKOgu1f5AJ3P9qqDzoXULm8rbw6cLi7aZyJGBk69tsYhreDgj-kcCWBds7UaXY8fW7Wjl1N_odJREzU/s200/IMG_8879.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373198463095495794" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Sally</div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVqX8zaFqEIudgjh8HXbYNrshqlTAhRT5a4aUGaxFOz9hmFog2LAbxCfyPxVabhQCg0F3T3WgXVtuO9Jzh6FJO8U00bxJImaza-cFYSky2YI3UgBscSRhUd3A_niZ2HMUPB-NUMSDqJw/s1600-h/IMG_8863.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVqX8zaFqEIudgjh8HXbYNrshqlTAhRT5a4aUGaxFOz9hmFog2LAbxCfyPxVabhQCg0F3T3WgXVtuO9Jzh6FJO8U00bxJImaza-cFYSky2YI3UgBscSRhUd3A_niZ2HMUPB-NUMSDqJw/s200/IMG_8863.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373194123882818562" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Marta</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDGKTyoYMK8G3JJdd8p6UKAjlT6aq4AnoBD7neG-oNPeplvWY25KaULpERjRp-BRP_5IPeeZ-rMesCyu1qtRabNpsTQKn0eYgRW1rDA4k_AB7xogTU27mzr8ts1VtV1EYhuL22iODRWU/s1600-h/IMG_9021.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDGKTyoYMK8G3JJdd8p6UKAjlT6aq4AnoBD7neG-oNPeplvWY25KaULpERjRp-BRP_5IPeeZ-rMesCyu1qtRabNpsTQKn0eYgRW1rDA4k_AB7xogTU27mzr8ts1VtV1EYhuL22iODRWU/s200/IMG_9021.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373196230138578658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And some hairy creeper</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwATfqK9-oCcRzp44AX-OaBWG-XKKstzRjEFPVTclzELrXxMVLvp7Rq4HtyTUBIEcBo8Dt48muJ2bBZJH0hA4VW7F5LFPcLLD6cLqhTdM5YebjcOxD4_5rcqCCr-3PJHWmcfW6TaJkuyQ/s1600-h/IMG_8996.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwATfqK9-oCcRzp44AX-OaBWG-XKKstzRjEFPVTclzELrXxMVLvp7Rq4HtyTUBIEcBo8Dt48muJ2bBZJH0hA4VW7F5LFPcLLD6cLqhTdM5YebjcOxD4_5rcqCCr-3PJHWmcfW6TaJkuyQ/s200/IMG_8996.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373198446397149986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">went by car, making frequent stops to eat and drink, for a weekend getaway of wine-tasting, beach bumming, and coastal sight-seeing.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">mom in piemonte</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6-druWn6BCR8awGGMuFeBW2bhyQw5pBfQitRUH_SCnOeLtPDe8Ry3Hohrp4S1Bt5wZMY85Q0Wc2AkImORocobOqg_ltZwOLR0t4lVKqvUEMII9aCPbDL_7twfeb38wJf-ngVvwmWsCQ/s1600-h/IMG_9036.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6-druWn6BCR8awGGMuFeBW2bhyQw5pBfQitRUH_SCnOeLtPDe8Ry3Hohrp4S1Bt5wZMY85Q0Wc2AkImORocobOqg_ltZwOLR0t4lVKqvUEMII9aCPbDL_7twfeb38wJf-ngVvwmWsCQ/s200/IMG_9036.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373184781565249650" /></a><br /><div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEico-ukUxtjzzQP6OC4kIkuH8mrW9hKfnCcMJJyEqK5ZUm_ozcH09uN-PW7-wIRIJdfW7lW2ECm_aRP-Pv5nn884kWvWL1i7Wsj86wcee99ko941-sWomG6eZ-ej6IRzMvw-k3OnnkvQvY/s1600-h/IMG_9035.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEico-ukUxtjzzQP6OC4kIkuH8mrW9hKfnCcMJJyEqK5ZUm_ozcH09uN-PW7-wIRIJdfW7lW2ECm_aRP-Pv5nn884kWvWL1i7Wsj86wcee99ko941-sWomG6eZ-ej6IRzMvw-k3OnnkvQvY/s200/IMG_9035.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373183045007708866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Dad in piemonte</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ETX-J7HruO4-hZc13_ljSq3I7gG94KvpT-a-7HeEuXYTahOZZ2oJwz1wvaZzCJwNmySApRZIoIW7Jmjsib09qJBSLwgkK5gplS-qqMsEbApBUWfGEUgY36ls_pS7DpTlNf2mTMO_6Pw/s1600-h/IMG_9042.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ETX-J7HruO4-hZc13_ljSq3I7gG94KvpT-a-7HeEuXYTahOZZ2oJwz1wvaZzCJwNmySApRZIoIW7Jmjsib09qJBSLwgkK5gplS-qqMsEbApBUWfGEUgY36ls_pS7DpTlNf2mTMO_6Pw/s200/IMG_9042.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373198438500657026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cinque Terre</div><div><div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2RgKZxT9OLkOhU5WC7DKGPUj5j7Nmf7fVR47O453agOQnqs-eoluz6xMYrYDEQkhT9og0_WAArdHgKaCPhufFlnABCegBmENKNB-2p3yt92kM7Dyn-InDlb5C-uVHWVjZvCRvD6bXsc/s1600-h/IMG_8982.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2RgKZxT9OLkOhU5WC7DKGPUj5j7Nmf7fVR47O453agOQnqs-eoluz6xMYrYDEQkhT9og0_WAArdHgKaCPhufFlnABCegBmENKNB-2p3yt92kM7Dyn-InDlb5C-uVHWVjZvCRvD6bXsc/s200/IMG_8982.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373184775531521634" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIx7KSN0z0u2cuhDoqjVEpRS7GjsgS9YfrFbTIYZ_uznjw_6J-4HibtaX7svWApCF33eO9VG81Afs9owtO9UbGeCZE8drqlw_Vinp1nmxBvU7M_CrefQZ5xuGZBSB-L30RsAszKLWuF0U/s1600-h/IMG_8968.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJTSqZvBeF_garM_QvMJRWl0fAMPT-fTGOok0AQ6uJqmrcnkF3mNKUPeRsS8KBnUmBw5DUP0YByDBTVnv70-SW_zZ2Pse3MUxXZuV-ptFf_n45SkxKHSLGS8TZxohdBrLcb4Mj5lPzOQ/s200/IMG_8893.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373183682204694178" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBYpzKjYcATbEK4J8MP_1Jf0LsnjQninLt7JYVXD4kpWNenXKrgz_1qsOABPM-JuVfjzvTAKZtcWYhW1hdC5ypcJncuRCXShL8satU-dDvn0E4TmR1tbB-qD_meYlXi-57k3Bu-7_uPI/s1600-h/IMG_8947.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBYpzKjYcATbEK4J8MP_1Jf0LsnjQninLt7JYVXD4kpWNenXKrgz_1qsOABPM-JuVfjzvTAKZtcWYhW1hdC5ypcJncuRCXShL8satU-dDvn0E4TmR1tbB-qD_meYlXi-57k3Bu-7_uPI/s200/IMG_8947.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373183672575882978" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Picnic where dad tried to open a bottle of wine with a tree...it works, but he was unsuccessful on this attempt</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrXOEcYvWNyiyziJjl1IjKHlObjewy9SQbODpe-XigkEFVtp6shLZi7pa35sxAMwVKH7oiC440nPQQeOWWEWq-RRIDL3poZnEkHgTnUhqRPV1cvh0OLbBzDONqMVt469FA63mcqgNrvZE/s200/IMG_8872.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373194114705499922" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></span></div></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFP15cyyYjnu0W5PjcOY0oO9Wp9h_2H_ABq19WlF21i8U0A5O0SNkwiie4wmQYTagklplBjQCDcQ_EvKMceUaHNP7FOBZ-renY9t5eNqB1BswBTMjhq7d8KEIM20w5rpwX32CPiEpyCI/s1600-h/IMG_8865.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEFP15cyyYjnu0W5PjcOY0oO9Wp9h_2H_ABq19WlF21i8U0A5O0SNkwiie4wmQYTagklplBjQCDcQ_EvKMceUaHNP7FOBZ-renY9t5eNqB1BswBTMjhq7d8KEIM20w5rpwX32CPiEpyCI/s200/IMG_8865.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373183058613330642" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Dad showing off rock sediment lines</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT6JbS6zDKM7Sk4u37W7ARfnQLXr_At3-maYanJhPbV9tFR3S4CmnPf2mDBUWhPT7w-k3FetRg3nuim3JDDXIaFg-p3x1lJAcAmiK9mHlElB-DD4iQWsLRhzgJT3KMs5A_-tOsmLbrK5c/s1600-h/IMG_8974.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT6JbS6zDKM7Sk4u37W7ARfnQLXr_At3-maYanJhPbV9tFR3S4CmnPf2mDBUWhPT7w-k3FetRg3nuim3JDDXIaFg-p3x1lJAcAmiK9mHlElB-DD4iQWsLRhzgJT3KMs5A_-tOsmLbrK5c/s200/IMG_8974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373181656010683906" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mom genuinly interested in dad's explaination</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLn87nSHf4bCA4yumTXmELlld1z52GC4UwANph5c-jcRaVtsJDhr_x8Hnu1hQZ2anXIg0LradiwYIfuHTP17j0MSQaAoFU4GE29zPxza7IH21wbkB927CSbcCGt_nL6vECkXn_hYq7SY/s1600-h/IMG_8978.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLn87nSHf4bCA4yumTXmELlld1z52GC4UwANph5c-jcRaVtsJDhr_x8Hnu1hQZ2anXIg0LradiwYIfuHTP17j0MSQaAoFU4GE29zPxza7IH21wbkB927CSbcCGt_nL6vECkXn_hYq7SY/s200/IMG_8978.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373198453165610770" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hip Hip for wine!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0tQ0PVwJZ4_i7c2EAMkD0lGCuzwuOPpZQnVEf6D1IqGF7dZtThwologmGO3_dI1sXnRV_AjXrocbefUsneF2pN9xJr8M-TL1ukNnvexOnomjIpmx5XY6G-Ctd3hLSH5pZi-14j_tP1I/s1600-h/IMG_8972.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0tQ0PVwJZ4_i7c2EAMkD0lGCuzwuOPpZQnVEf6D1IqGF7dZtThwologmGO3_dI1sXnRV_AjXrocbefUsneF2pN9xJr8M-TL1ukNnvexOnomjIpmx5XY6G-Ctd3hLSH5pZi-14j_tP1I/s200/IMG_8972.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373181648254912066" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNHKtF1XWJp6DCkolxXiqDMD7W7x1XEad8gk7vJR6sruRG_NjgnmUk1TGQ-dwMOgWt2yIE27meCuIB1L09D-Q0aWEElYkIVKpo9D9pJuFGqDl9YjXWgFdqWlOEdwiIszCTnhU3WqOQ5M/s1600-h/IMG_8899.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNHKtF1XWJp6DCkolxXiqDMD7W7x1XEad8gk7vJR6sruRG_NjgnmUk1TGQ-dwMOgWt2yIE27meCuIB1L09D-Q0aWEElYkIVKpo9D9pJuFGqDl9YjXWgFdqWlOEdwiIszCTnhU3WqOQ5M/s200/IMG_8899.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373181637585581698" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Ciao!</div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-80415321510426703552009-05-15T02:08:00.000-07:002009-05-19T17:00:34.291-07:00The rat bit the cork of the king of russiaSo for those of you who did not know I spent the last week in Malta. This (because most people don't know anything about it) is a small island country which is part of the European Union and lies south of Sicily. It is inhabited by Maltese and English speaking people, and has 7000 years of history (in fact they advertise that their monuments date further back than Stonehenge...).<br /><br /> So I set out with my Português pal Marta early last Thursday morning to take a 3 hour train ride to Pisa (i got really cheap airfare from there).<br /><br /> Here is Marta in a train in a tunnel:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHMar5e8Kw6Yx8Mv8RWoeLfzQUXcnqiVdNcoH1r-qSzxVbhZQJSRK9GIHdcvy5I-SpnAxt1rXOUhJfpl_upzxZULCw4XDRGGU4Xmua7tmxbNir-lLsG_jHmq4jdnlIafN5dU5on1SWKk/s1600-h/IMG_8009.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHMar5e8Kw6Yx8Mv8RWoeLfzQUXcnqiVdNcoH1r-qSzxVbhZQJSRK9GIHdcvy5I-SpnAxt1rXOUhJfpl_upzxZULCw4XDRGGU4Xmua7tmxbNir-lLsG_jHmq4jdnlIafN5dU5on1SWKk/s200/IMG_8009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336076960741486690" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a>Here is Marta in a train outside a tunnel:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_E316ENGkywVGOFYyOvR_rhyphenhypheninmYiDVBEjOAwPz6bHkpwn6zdeNAdexUlCgqZyLewTrWjVfQU_PCAx6SMr4kei5pSiDyIJBj8uNjn_mEDES06NdU1pQHd3JILzc-oUiTaK7nW1vVrTk/s1600-h/IMG_8010.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_E316ENGkywVGOFYyOvR_rhyphenhypheninmYiDVBEjOAwPz6bHkpwn6zdeNAdexUlCgqZyLewTrWjVfQU_PCAx6SMr4kei5pSiDyIJBj8uNjn_mEDES06NdU1pQHd3JILzc-oUiTaK7nW1vVrTk/s200/IMG_8010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336076962413393778" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a><br /> Here is James waiting for a connecting train, recently attacked by one of those fighting italian rose bushes, they are fierce:<br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEa5TPdIBaxl2v8U9M56hyphenhyphenarfezIabjwhOHUQQgXo7LliZJI_oRCoyorbU5LqwhsmI7R1K88pPPB_IS4IJtYp8IzNuGgABNvFJks2dI9GRGXErJMU_Kil3MS2OY-tsCfmFJ_ZvmfCLUc/s1600-h/IMG_8021.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEa5TPdIBaxl2v8U9M56hyphenhyphenarfezIabjwhOHUQQgXo7LliZJI_oRCoyorbU5LqwhsmI7R1K88pPPB_IS4IJtYp8IzNuGgABNvFJks2dI9GRGXErJMU_Kil3MS2OY-tsCfmFJ_ZvmfCLUc/s200/IMG_8021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336076967513261858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a>Once we arrived in Malta, we got our rental car, a beautiful PICANTO and discovered that the Maltese drive on the wrong side of the road, and all the cars are manual. It was quite fun for the first few days stalling in front of cars and on hills, but by the end I was a studly master at it...here I am pimped out<br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnAxhBjmWns4D5QuhKv8ZIQaHjJZOvdoK9oLFbEm53g5ANTWy5QtdnaCVnSeUDSGV_0UpGWCb4OXBa3YFrr0mHmw74hUSufqOLU6Fn3etyZrGPhdbjFdNP4_rRdPll0HxNj4-VNw7_Sk/s1600-h/IMG_8177%5B1%5D"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnAxhBjmWns4D5QuhKv8ZIQaHjJZOvdoK9oLFbEm53g5ANTWy5QtdnaCVnSeUDSGV_0UpGWCb4OXBa3YFrr0mHmw74hUSufqOLU6Fn3etyZrGPhdbjFdNP4_rRdPll0HxNj4-VNw7_Sk/s200/IMG_8177%5B1%5D" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335976755297780258" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a>So there are 3 Islands in Malta: the main one, Gozo, and Comino. The main was over turistified, and had few beaches. Here is a look at some of the things we saw on the main one:<br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyx1sg8ARq08D_eAFvrgUOYkWmi7eeUFrnwA1wBxzBYD1Z99hE55n4SItFdJ68XkwD90Etb0WUaip0oQvE3XApwrrLr_u5-h1e8AQNGLUjB3q0LlQjBoTRM61r4AtpDYJLqH0hOhlRhw/s1600-h/IMG_8043.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyx1sg8ARq08D_eAFvrgUOYkWmi7eeUFrnwA1wBxzBYD1Z99hE55n4SItFdJ68XkwD90Etb0WUaip0oQvE3XApwrrLr_u5-h1e8AQNGLUjB3q0LlQjBoTRM61r4AtpDYJLqH0hOhlRhw/s200/IMG_8043.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336078628742377906" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLwigkFH2T9VuSfKlQ1_x4ADHTuepy0bOtd786daU7Q4LBfrQa7et1TqrNYZ1wCBUkaQDaR0GBxg3VugJWsG4db2axgGEimEkiqHjjz-AQosxxMOEJDZtSTzzeugCZDqLQrDdkhobdmk/s1600-h/IMG_8061.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLwigkFH2T9VuSfKlQ1_x4ADHTuepy0bOtd786daU7Q4LBfrQa7et1TqrNYZ1wCBUkaQDaR0GBxg3VugJWsG4db2axgGEimEkiqHjjz-AQosxxMOEJDZtSTzzeugCZDqLQrDdkhobdmk/s200/IMG_8061.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337515007666147154" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA5rLsXj2g9Mq_AR6LT-XB2TmKHW5VGfJpxHNKoioVANReWNavcLLlTLhXsL6zj3fcKf3QZ9vqyXKRaseImU62uBJCF6aTQnDjwSL2f9WEpTbQkHZOWID8J1SayN8xIQWobXUHBHCEdk/s1600-h/IMG_8045.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA5rLsXj2g9Mq_AR6LT-XB2TmKHW5VGfJpxHNKoioVANReWNavcLLlTLhXsL6zj3fcKf3QZ9vqyXKRaseImU62uBJCF6aTQnDjwSL2f9WEpTbQkHZOWID8J1SayN8xIQWobXUHBHCEdk/s200/IMG_8045.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336078632493590626" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a> <div><br /></div> <div>After I had a very nice icecream, the likes of which I can never remember being allowed to enjoy as a small youth...and then here is a picture of the awesome buses that we didnt have to ride due to our PICANTO!</div> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNoldeR1d8FPtzjVbuy_J6lC_3Ls1q5FlC0OQmMZAeOyYq860rwEvNlG-ezYhbEJu4LVBVhP92Nxk36O0nnlvZuTt53hgXWlSbYZXJdPeepc1Gj4Yq7KWkRejGHiSPPt6Ee5vLqfVnug/s1600-h/IMG_8068.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhNoldeR1d8FPtzjVbuy_J6lC_3Ls1q5FlC0OQmMZAeOyYq860rwEvNlG-ezYhbEJu4LVBVhP92Nxk36O0nnlvZuTt53hgXWlSbYZXJdPeepc1Gj4Yq7KWkRejGHiSPPt6Ee5vLqfVnug/s200/IMG_8068.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337686598728016066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb7II6oAPbWzbNphyphenhyphenDcTUfnOCUgU91nFnvYlY2YOF7ewU6kZpXc8TCqUeweuAHY7BoPZs9dEjYY-tatrvs73ChN-pcUVJPvabWXoidDBQC-JL2nRaF8wm6rvTYZrQ0vj9Nu-uzlVJ7F0/s1600-h/IMG_8052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb7II6oAPbWzbNphyphenhyphenDcTUfnOCUgU91nFnvYlY2YOF7ewU6kZpXc8TCqUeweuAHY7BoPZs9dEjYY-tatrvs73ChN-pcUVJPvabWXoidDBQC-JL2nRaF8wm6rvTYZrQ0vj9Nu-uzlVJ7F0/s200/IMG_8052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337686602143777474" border="0" /></a>And here is a look at the Maltese language, which is 50% arabic, mixed with all of the 7000 years of influence: french italian english...<br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtrf0WSyva6XZZ6g3RI3llJGcAq8gpVRrrSywuUU3igaBuwRomP7ZQ1J_85A-Sv0g24VWBqMz6zVx7DrFg4QLV6u2PgkoLNST1r2oG_-GtpXX2HXIA1lAxg-fbc7THRZ0FAVEIURv9SQM/s200/IMG_8280.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337532588695139266" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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text-decoration: underline; text-align: left; display: block; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a><br /><br />To get from island to island it is necessary to take a ferry, which costs very little.</div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCdoV4ho_UKjxuYnMlCtZo1LJO9A5Gus3mCjIvD1XQIm3GA_aoDOvnLx62npVP2e5KvMDn2hFLJaJYa-RIxYDdDgpyzzeEsXCVd0a8x3_g0HgBprqftaeLBBMYpN6GBpRjqvV1ZXEqMM/s1600-h/IMG_8121.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCdoV4ho_UKjxuYnMlCtZo1LJO9A5Gus3mCjIvD1XQIm3GA_aoDOvnLx62npVP2e5KvMDn2hFLJaJYa-RIxYDdDgpyzzeEsXCVd0a8x3_g0HgBprqftaeLBBMYpN6GBpRjqvV1ZXEqMM/s200/IMG_8121.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337522614545754338" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhch1wRB8ZT4ZOp7Olhef0IJb3_sDHDDzgKCFiE-fdFMvl2GOjgqHBPrt7qPybLveVyRt2RB-QAmY1_djG7Dr-kyLYS9fWfNGiJDgcFDSUIJuzYHsbWhs_mqLIZyizq_-EvCMcKxRjuaac/s1600-h/IMG_8116.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhch1wRB8ZT4ZOp7Olhef0IJb3_sDHDDzgKCFiE-fdFMvl2GOjgqHBPrt7qPybLveVyRt2RB-QAmY1_djG7Dr-kyLYS9fWfNGiJDgcFDSUIJuzYHsbWhs_mqLIZyizq_-EvCMcKxRjuaac/s200/IMG_8116.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337522602784252146" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Then I did the unthinkable, I entered the social-cyber realm! Not as extreme as facebook or myspace, but couchsurfing! With couchsurfing you create an account with pictures and info and then you host people at your house or you are hosted at others houses for free! So we found a 40 year old guy named Mario who was the most generous individual i have ever met. He has been hosting travelers since 1982 (at least thats when he started to keep a guest book), and has had a total of 22 people stay at his house in one night. When we were there there was also a Polish couchsurfer guy named Martin, who prepared us a traditional polish meal with potatoes, oil, and meat...good good.</div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkvUszyiXOBo6sfPgkS6-t-FQKiT7ASLLqR_B6MYIXVzfyZW5f7deImmFqnHBcp-T9cHELZoEQ12Wxe0tarA1lYxT2SFIo-PfZ8Vdn7_0-koLjFYKZTWISbxoxNjJZZFDY8Jv6ShCHJs/s1600-h/IMG_8543.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkvUszyiXOBo6sfPgkS6-t-FQKiT7ASLLqR_B6MYIXVzfyZW5f7deImmFqnHBcp-T9cHELZoEQ12Wxe0tarA1lYxT2SFIo-PfZ8Vdn7_0-koLjFYKZTWISbxoxNjJZZFDY8Jv6ShCHJs/s200/IMG_8543.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337686615116698194" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98WQopUDXxHoW60s5uJLfvENxQ6tz-TJnWH24SDtigAD_aADhyphenhyphenX6aLoHJQrHBCESol3TjHNEeyWXjkHNYv3lyuTsUYkcZzAx6BCUoQT1chxsQGqpl-qBW-0aGQgqg8_zAms4vslb7mEs/s1600-h/IMG_8592.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98WQopUDXxHoW60s5uJLfvENxQ6tz-TJnWH24SDtigAD_aADhyphenhyphenX6aLoHJQrHBCESol3TjHNEeyWXjkHNYv3lyuTsUYkcZzAx6BCUoQT1chxsQGqpl-qBW-0aGQgqg8_zAms4vslb7mEs/s200/IMG_8592.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337539353681866194" border="0" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXRIIXzBS9zlmpDWsQmt73HPVcu9IT-_rlQno_w7NMGLNBx23NbHerd_cYjKoigpPqGD_s64sBUGDzgpjTTcRvtyqnBhayodL9DwvITSUF0Maiq2UBNjk3nK6mnllyVA0gn0hkQo5k6M/s1600-h/IMG_8580.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXRIIXzBS9zlmpDWsQmt73HPVcu9IT-_rlQno_w7NMGLNBx23NbHerd_cYjKoigpPqGD_s64sBUGDzgpjTTcRvtyqnBhayodL9DwvITSUF0Maiq2UBNjk3nK6mnllyVA0gn0hkQo5k6M/s200/IMG_8580.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337539346468402594" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><div>The trip made me realize i need to get a job so that i may continue doing trips like this in the future...hah.<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cfxp8dVFCDncsXZqdkanOAulT2jUwFSxfHALaOgL5vSyYtV8wwNSoY1pxtQr1GW0bPiMv9NL9Nv-BEhaBYcahHHmM1eZikK2yHHFgcYSWLxlLWKa-AoZyvPWIlFXrqGkbJ_Qlh_XycI/s1600-h/IMG_8557.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-cfxp8dVFCDncsXZqdkanOAulT2jUwFSxfHALaOgL5vSyYtV8wwNSoY1pxtQr1GW0bPiMv9NL9Nv-BEhaBYcahHHmM1eZikK2yHHFgcYSWLxlLWKa-AoZyvPWIlFXrqGkbJ_Qlh_XycI/s200/IMG_8557.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337539344243667874" border="0" /></a><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-91886656023967725382009-04-19T15:26:00.000-07:002009-04-19T15:58:56.570-07:00Contemplating Beans and Suchness***Look at bottom of this post***<br /><br />Today my Spanish roommate 'Ana' woke up at 6 AM to soak beans in preparation of her Fabada Asturiana. At three we began to drink and prepare the tables. We ate essentially beans in some amazing tomato stew like thing with some sort of Spanish ham, with some Chorizo and some pig's blood and onion sausage. 'Twas amazing<br /><br /><br />Amongst the guests was 'Sparky' who has so much sexual energy stored up that he will rip apart any object that is presented to him. Yet he licks you kindly if you offer him food, and he is very obedient as are most city dogs in Bologna who are beaten by their young masters. Here he is with Ana:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZT6OxndmhgkDULKJGinKFoyjl0E3VOxG-XwPVU5MaAcHHuakMqodExjbLZKKOoyiQKWF7QjcXluIeclBl42XWtYj-ycj8DisckvKiiVWc90hF-KKFOmqH98GiEce9eWJIrqz5VgYMWs/s1600-h/P4191306.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZT6OxndmhgkDULKJGinKFoyjl0E3VOxG-XwPVU5MaAcHHuakMqodExjbLZKKOoyiQKWF7QjcXluIeclBl42XWtYj-ycj8DisckvKiiVWc90hF-KKFOmqH98GiEce9eWJIrqz5VgYMWs/s320/P4191306.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326532945100466546" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here he is selecting the next song to play from my computer.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizav56QY0a-JUZ6Qs9WHeNsrzZKrwvSQ-wJXr3F9mmBJBs8eyieTazIIUa58SwMxYDEQE2cafYhY7x6S_4-uzTFQfWnxItsBmhnWotoHJon5CStW8DNkF4HfClikvsviHFM0wj73MNZ2s/s1600-h/P4191303.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizav56QY0a-JUZ6Qs9WHeNsrzZKrwvSQ-wJXr3F9mmBJBs8eyieTazIIUa58SwMxYDEQE2cafYhY7x6S_4-uzTFQfWnxItsBmhnWotoHJon5CStW8DNkF4HfClikvsviHFM0wj73MNZ2s/s320/P4191303.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326532942961930274" border="0" /></a><br />Franks and Beans!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUIRkG4Rk0GOF-j6wZU9ew_UHloB3v7YIxhQIxWhpPUW_mNCz1BCUESxep9w-UwrxZhKjLMACJpIIU-s6nFKXwryeiTI_jvygafm_qgkHipe8fH9N4om18kI__HaAXcW1zHV5jJ12DtU/s1600-h/P4191301.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUIRkG4Rk0GOF-j6wZU9ew_UHloB3v7YIxhQIxWhpPUW_mNCz1BCUESxep9w-UwrxZhKjLMACJpIIU-s6nFKXwryeiTI_jvygafm_qgkHipe8fH9N4om18kI__HaAXcW1zHV5jJ12DtU/s320/P4191301.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326532939277809970" border="0" /></a><br />And afterwards we attended a nice wine tasting event (yes another).<br /><br />These days I am extremely lazy, not accomplishing things that I really desire to do. It is all adding up!!! Don't you hate that feeling? I have a half-finished film script, a half-finished short story, a half-finished wall painting, and TONS of essays which are still in idea stage...ugh!<br /><br />But this gets me by, even though I shouldn't depend on such excuses:<br />"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."<br />-Luis Borges<br /><br />***************************************************************<br />Also, if you have read this far, please leave your opinion regarding this quote:<br />"I strongly suspect that most of the great knowers of Suchness paid very little attention to art...(To a person whose transfigured and transfiguring mind can see the All in every this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness or even a religious painting will be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner."<br />-Aldous Huxley<br /><br />Does this mean that art plays no role 'at becoming one' with one's self, and if so, does Huxley suggest that those who desire 'knowing' should ditch art? Answer in the 'leave a comment.'Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-8584497189152785062009-04-14T08:53:00.000-07:002009-04-14T10:31:05.156-07:00Dionysus on Easter BreakSince I was young, whenever I was in the passenger seat of a car I would vertically bar my arm up against the window and imagine that everything in view in front of my arm that passed by would then go into "my world"...<br /><br />IF YOU BEGAN LOOKING AT THIS BLOG YOU MUST WATCH THE VIDEO TOO (NATASHA)<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzufVCeb7Pz6qGNGoGfPJSNcaW7ZHNm8Sk86kAw-1GXJFkUMVsJA04MNB9EYWoI2lNWHMwEDmcjkDMWQ7pTIQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />Train. Cheesy Poofs. 25 Cheesy Poofs. In one minute. In one mouth. And the wager of a free drink. Choking. Success!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk49VuPxY9VW9UGEluFapbIj6fBCTs4CdBca_yzkcNLtQerG6sLIcGf7D3-K2wzFy-gjjApeRz8hyphenhyphenSz8TrfBkjvX1fbtlvzbMpgVake7GYP57H2kD9vvi0WTzylrA6g7oDsw0ATho_gd8/s1600-h/P1010890.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk49VuPxY9VW9UGEluFapbIj6fBCTs4CdBca_yzkcNLtQerG6sLIcGf7D3-K2wzFy-gjjApeRz8hyphenhyphenSz8TrfBkjvX1fbtlvzbMpgVake7GYP57H2kD9vvi0WTzylrA6g7oDsw0ATho_gd8/s320/P1010890.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324587038890182066" border="0" /></a><br />Varese. Speaking Italian mixed with Portuguese. Tea time. English Lesson. Fiat 500L. Bar. Drinking. Pizza. Park frolic. Inspiration. Writing. Red Tulips.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwquinZhxPHXy1qH_CUUOBs_IvB7ftdzCO8I6KTTaI2YcSQ2qNkrsvNjI2CKoXyqJLIhPYX4byXyyWxUWovuoRzmhLZhrNvEZhIGsOc9nhzBqkSUw566GJGgbXyZiIoWW0DbCdVaOfFFE/s1600-h/P1010899.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwquinZhxPHXy1qH_CUUOBs_IvB7ftdzCO8I6KTTaI2YcSQ2qNkrsvNjI2CKoXyqJLIhPYX4byXyyWxUWovuoRzmhLZhrNvEZhIGsOc9nhzBqkSUw566GJGgbXyZiIoWW0DbCdVaOfFFE/s320/P1010899.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324588045674425874" border="0" /></a><br />Late to Bed. Early to Rise. Cliche Italian Behavior. Seemingly organized. Taking time. Relaxing. Collecting Passengers. Leaving 2 hours later than Scheduled. Denial of GPS. Maps Instead. Denial of Freeway. Small "scenic" roads instead. With no approval from the back seat 3. Front seats: 3 extra hours of fun driving and sight seeing with no recollection of destination. Back seats: 3 extra hours of just wanting to arrive at destination, headaches, stomach aches, 5 million curves, no space. Saudades. Allergies. Runny nose, itchy eyes. God damned Allergies.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinO1AcP7kLJ3m-pw2hwyByeqD5dNhIrou0BLkAKRKSdVyJyRt7YgRLotyFbLK4S0ca3QLCo1OAKFc0FugpOdWN_Vl8sLsqZ8LaHAU16akN1dOhXGZrnmMKHRIHr_ousdZYv-4LY-zOnQQ/s1600-h/P1010900.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinO1AcP7kLJ3m-pw2hwyByeqD5dNhIrou0BLkAKRKSdVyJyRt7YgRLotyFbLK4S0ca3QLCo1OAKFc0FugpOdWN_Vl8sLsqZ8LaHAU16akN1dOhXGZrnmMKHRIHr_ousdZYv-4LY-zOnQQ/s320/P1010900.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324588052236437458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DtCb-uIGOsGrg57ne3lE2RsAZF1RZKd6zULBqWugFRCmMkkqBYLvkbFKbDjnAHjSR2oiv04tGqoYXdLIXg_b2MdusAdB98kykJSwdNgLAcFYTbskB-3g4oiJcJstB6BaNlgAKkoh9KQ/s1600-h/P1010901.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DtCb-uIGOsGrg57ne3lE2RsAZF1RZKd6zULBqWugFRCmMkkqBYLvkbFKbDjnAHjSR2oiv04tGqoYXdLIXg_b2MdusAdB98kykJSwdNgLAcFYTbskB-3g4oiJcJstB6BaNlgAKkoh9KQ/s320/P1010901.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324589799931741698" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOj0nIvCllBiDmofM6I_M1-PruQ75H7ftjQDo1WeIWnjJoRgMGQpH-mCepYWD21j8dFWdP8Oap_w3QsZyTbe1c2623VJM4zmVbDlSCF3PFGiItxVe5FNAKpNHj-YJNzGWyqco4-8u1d8/s1600-h/P1010915.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpOj0nIvCllBiDmofM6I_M1-PruQ75H7ftjQDo1WeIWnjJoRgMGQpH-mCepYWD21j8dFWdP8Oap_w3QsZyTbe1c2623VJM4zmVbDlSCF3PFGiItxVe5FNAKpNHj-YJNzGWyqco4-8u1d8/s320/P1010915.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324589799872491778" border="0" /></a><br />Wine tasting. Wine. Wine. Wine. 10 Euros = Neck bag with Wine Glass. Free Wine all the Time. Excursions to the sea. Purple Tulips. Missing Friend. Also missing was any coherent memory of the rest of the night. Terrible biker-like Italian singer singing American Pop Hits. Terrible bearded Italian singer replacing most words of American Pop Hits with the word "Wine". Terrible pony-tailed Italian singer throwing red wine onto crowd. Poor Marta's wine stained clothes. Mornin'. Beach. Foccaccia breakfast. Wine. Little town. Couples. Kids. Kids. Couples. Cute puppy. Car. Singing. Parma. Alleriges. Quick tour. Home. Forro. Anticipation. Moments of Intensity. Stolen Boat. My 3rd Eye. Smiles. Bliss. Felicidade. Sleeeeeep. Ate ja.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX3m711xcmZg7I_ALMtFWBPQLBMpvRHcrzJjUc8mMmBvaMY_qQYDoytJ71IrGRivc9LSR_jMuqSeZVOrK0ivPsM1TJ6_rjGw7FQjW-GXxvixw-A3G0STCXW9qRdg-gDge7nN_L3pTu89M/s1600-h/P1010916.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX3m711xcmZg7I_ALMtFWBPQLBMpvRHcrzJjUc8mMmBvaMY_qQYDoytJ71IrGRivc9LSR_jMuqSeZVOrK0ivPsM1TJ6_rjGw7FQjW-GXxvixw-A3G0STCXW9qRdg-gDge7nN_L3pTu89M/s320/P1010916.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324591466694887554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDMYg_wYwWbENc_HJ22vV4LcU0kcF5qD6VZG2SwtaY85De2Oqo8Nz-RMpLlS_DWByR_4sEU8PJZIejsAJNalynNw1ZciPt4XDcSAmw9-bu-1XZWG1fO4yfSXjjd3xqWR6Lm96OTYICNg/s1600-h/P1010920.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDMYg_wYwWbENc_HJ22vV4LcU0kcF5qD6VZG2SwtaY85De2Oqo8Nz-RMpLlS_DWByR_4sEU8PJZIejsAJNalynNw1ZciPt4XDcSAmw9-bu-1XZWG1fO4yfSXjjd3xqWR6Lm96OTYICNg/s320/P1010920.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324593414727356978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHG0IWtaZnY2XJe8KrUBxto0YcK7YnYvNQZ4XPPeQ4HJMKbf7dY9SCjUR-CbayiZty7WFW-OT-YIczM4D0d3ImtYSrqqty7dVLSNa8OJ_K3_uS_n5zLcrBxRau4mHeHvlR8QeD0tO3c0/s1600-h/P1010923.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHG0IWtaZnY2XJe8KrUBxto0YcK7YnYvNQZ4XPPeQ4HJMKbf7dY9SCjUR-CbayiZty7WFW-OT-YIczM4D0d3ImtYSrqqty7dVLSNa8OJ_K3_uS_n5zLcrBxRau4mHeHvlR8QeD0tO3c0/s320/P1010923.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324593410944131746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbKqgNLIVsU7wifls07uhRe9eXMgnf3B_HIgBLjcm79aqZqgPijfTmyzjKfkYp7LFzJoPEaoWHQ0mLIvBVgw212X4WU8spbIbZi3YqpzNlzz_LehVc7BIMM8DDZbY18JMGCMo4vcIcRI/s1600-h/P1010937.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbKqgNLIVsU7wifls07uhRe9eXMgnf3B_HIgBLjcm79aqZqgPijfTmyzjKfkYp7LFzJoPEaoWHQ0mLIvBVgw212X4WU8spbIbZi3YqpzNlzz_LehVc7BIMM8DDZbY18JMGCMo4vcIcRI/s320/P1010937.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324593417192880642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz4vpDUEr7_eAshkNSLjoY9Ujyd5PGthsUNePxgo7taE8Uz-DoNzFrA5QHfZopI-jK7w3gd4r3EsgEOhxztb8sZYzqt1TznLRAoVFTPdM4NCU5_OrFexGZb-RJGZy1TRqCV0-CUz0wHs/s1600-h/P1010942.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz4vpDUEr7_eAshkNSLjoY9Ujyd5PGthsUNePxgo7taE8Uz-DoNzFrA5QHfZopI-jK7w3gd4r3EsgEOhxztb8sZYzqt1TznLRAoVFTPdM4NCU5_OrFexGZb-RJGZy1TRqCV0-CUz0wHs/s320/P1010942.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324593415251379698" border="0" /></a>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-81138043541981117462009-03-18T14:52:00.000-07:002009-03-18T17:06:37.992-07:00Sleeping in a Big Bed in a Space Bubble by the SeaSo if you had not already realized, blogs are not my cup of tea. I am way behind on my holiday salutes, and i find it hard to document with a camera all the things that i am doing. So news: I will be going off to Carrara with my marble sculpting class to dig up marble in some old cave (the same of Michelangelo) and bring it back here and use it! Also I am taking a small part in another film festival, this one is going to be in the main piazza on the second largest outdoor screen in the world, (second to korea or something...damn those koreans) with old old old films. The largest section is all of Frank Capra's work;the festival is called Cinema Ritrovato, or refound cinema. I am writing and relaxing as usual tho, omellete du fromage. Last night I was surprised into a lovely night of live Tango, and it was performed very particularly. That is, it wasn't the traditional one argentinian hunk dancing with sexy sandra in red n' heels, instead it was all themed around the idea of metropolis. To give you an idea, the curtain opens, a waiter brings chairs into his restaraunt and awaits guests, and all the interactions were interprited with tango. I felt so inspired. I will surely be the tango king.<br />Now please let me start off with Part 3 of holiday cheer (i look so sad in the opening frame):<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzhZhkLHJ4DQEXpS7kFNtG2GSKJF8T1C-B_xYYpChoN76uPD3ThOov0MOjMV1_sQSNvTZirHeKH-Ny60V-K1A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">And now here are some photos that I scrounged about for.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Here I am way back in November prior to the elections...i've got the first "M", perhaps for <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">M</span>ock this ridiculous group of possible tourists<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGiiUS3cx2F2XPtCB_e0kbwTrs_Tu4O9kPH1u8eezuzALNqHThXtZwjMEPl5Tz5n8YPMJp7inezYOZAo8EmN8E8ZA_ximFkFJ9sPFt_TM-ZRS5ZucedGJx_8ssiODTWQmLxObcvCIH4E/s1600-h/Americans+in+Bologna+for+Obama%21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwGiiUS3cx2F2XPtCB_e0kbwTrs_Tu4O9kPH1u8eezuzALNqHThXtZwjMEPl5Tz5n8YPMJp7inezYOZAo8EmN8E8ZA_ximFkFJ9sPFt_TM-ZRS5ZucedGJx_8ssiODTWQmLxObcvCIH4E/s320/Americans+in+Bologna+for+Obama%21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314651072610192146" border="0" /></a><br />"You will vote for Obama, or I will eat your soul"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR7X1jP_1tVQJxrVop7Ul33vzT5UbvdjFUc8D2zrUeI5gXaM1cg7GENwmS-nG9yPGuw-aADf3j-mOvPah7snBSB8KJ7x8r1of93a1h8jivmLnlkOMYs1T5O8AwOKelK1URJv1w3qmvRs/s1600-h/GEDC2388.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqR7X1jP_1tVQJxrVop7Ul33vzT5UbvdjFUc8D2zrUeI5gXaM1cg7GENwmS-nG9yPGuw-aADf3j-mOvPah7snBSB8KJ7x8r1of93a1h8jivmLnlkOMYs1T5O8AwOKelK1URJv1w3qmvRs/s320/GEDC2388.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314657022645057426" border="0" /></a><br />Here is a photo of this little jewelry market, everything seems perfectly normal, right?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEudindh660guxI1WIhlLFfMaLs3dWr5jMZ6hvPCMCQigZ36-6lBp4QiTuYH2ua-GPKmX7z9H1Y9cfXHVrh6GE0Yn2TT7o81ygvFfDbolhsWvsuPVi7h9a9RgoEm2e1zrbe5ZIb-eyjvQ/s1600-h/mercatino3+103.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEudindh660guxI1WIhlLFfMaLs3dWr5jMZ6hvPCMCQigZ36-6lBp4QiTuYH2ua-GPKmX7z9H1Y9cfXHVrh6GE0Yn2TT7o81ygvFfDbolhsWvsuPVi7h9a9RgoEm2e1zrbe5ZIb-eyjvQ/s320/mercatino3+103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314651084210607970" border="0" /></a>Wrong! Here the camera caught a little spirit man...see him in the middle towards the bottom?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHwHkeCf6y67DD4lIds-NKChnFZ6c618t6GR2yQScSmZPk_sdPjC7Tn7cTolNl3-QyWb45O7Qr59-JURy3dz2UECLrE0KODFhyphenhyphenNkIshyjPxPWXpviqGPRmiOfdp4FH-f1vK4dJWYm1aw/s1600-h/mercatino3+104.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHwHkeCf6y67DD4lIds-NKChnFZ6c618t6GR2yQScSmZPk_sdPjC7Tn7cTolNl3-QyWb45O7Qr59-JURy3dz2UECLrE0KODFhyphenhyphenNkIshyjPxPWXpviqGPRmiOfdp4FH-f1vK4dJWYm1aw/s320/mercatino3+104.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314651080391628338" border="0" /></a><br /></div></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-18816356382944828682009-03-08T10:47:00.000-07:002009-03-08T12:46:28.587-07:00Sailing Through<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oOHOOLK7ws08KTWYVoFkAsLWHKk8eBAIaS_pTY_nUfL4aS-vZi0cRLShBOCIzQkiZ0GLJZnvgo1FDleh2Nj2D5ID-SCabw4eKzbnb5mpOkqAQA7W-vRx-4uLI4ilZnEgCv2by6hLCo8/s1600-h/P1040302.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oOHOOLK7ws08KTWYVoFkAsLWHKk8eBAIaS_pTY_nUfL4aS-vZi0cRLShBOCIzQkiZ0GLJZnvgo1FDleh2Nj2D5ID-SCabw4eKzbnb5mpOkqAQA7W-vRx-4uLI4ilZnEgCv2by6hLCo8/s320/P1040302.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310897600993927618" border="0" /></a><br /><br />So I realize that I have been an absolute joke of a son/brother/bro/dude/whatever...but I promise that PART 3 of James' Christmas Greetings will soon be in arrival. As for now please allow me to entertain you all with various photos documenting my recent activities.<br /><br />Right now two of my friends are visiting me: Aaron the American <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU63BDHSgxpFrcHdmtigURR2ezqOs4__zety5h1T-ShUbX7czMigTV4gTFjK686U8aRgtOY3azsmOAM3D7QiMbZPH_xy9B34t0QVwYxMjUJOSjgba6PouATA58YsuNPWHZvwDwlufUVPE/s1600-h/P1040308.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU63BDHSgxpFrcHdmtigURR2ezqOs4__zety5h1T-ShUbX7czMigTV4gTFjK686U8aRgtOY3azsmOAM3D7QiMbZPH_xy9B34t0QVwYxMjUJOSjgba6PouATA58YsuNPWHZvwDwlufUVPE/s320/P1040308.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310889797817125762" border="0" /></a>whom I know from UCSC, and Steven the Brit <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_gYbqZAnkptRpW9t5dznG46SlyL1HqDdMsIs84fNG2BmyNq6f29PR3fUeGc_4DiZ0RJIn-FkRPXN4AhQzbcaxCEnTdpilFdSN2nqzkNUhCRqpxpH8nifmznMLY72pHn6OBsbt9QoqC4/s1600-h/P1040306.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_gYbqZAnkptRpW9t5dznG46SlyL1HqDdMsIs84fNG2BmyNq6f29PR3fUeGc_4DiZ0RJIn-FkRPXN4AhQzbcaxCEnTdpilFdSN2nqzkNUhCRqpxpH8nifmznMLY72pHn6OBsbt9QoqC4/s320/P1040306.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310889789938233682" border="0" /></a>whom I met here in Bologna and who has returned multiple times to exploit my kind and generous nature. The past two days have been warm and clear and beautiful, so we headed up to the hills behind Bologna where my friend Ele lives. There she has a dog named Zuppa (soup in italian) who loves to fetch sticks, balls, and peices of brick...ah how lovely. The grass was green, the sky was delightfully chipper given it had just woken up from its winter hibernation, and we were drinking wine from a 5 liter bottle whom we dubbed Sandra, and one of the few examples of decent italian beer. Other fond memories were a 1 year-old blonde boy named Marco pointing to me and saying "papa," the lunatic bus driver who confided in us the local history of the area which involved germans throwing partisan babies into the air and opening fire...yes quite pleasant...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ84QenQryec_iOtIdWCd7n8R7kp7JoX3fGe1b9z9wDGlrRQVTOyh_W2JJi1fUY93rA47cmUO2MNEg6CV1WtgbUei0tuKuy2T69UWjUFql1snAmUaS8zGgPhuahnyt50TVvoHzJFy7E4A/s1600-h/P1040304.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ84QenQryec_iOtIdWCd7n8R7kp7JoX3fGe1b9z9wDGlrRQVTOyh_W2JJi1fUY93rA47cmUO2MNEg6CV1WtgbUei0tuKuy2T69UWjUFql1snAmUaS8zGgPhuahnyt50TVvoHzJFy7E4A/s320/P1040304.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310897591650672994" border="0" /></a><br />We took some corny group pictures using the timer on aaron's camera:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJOQSWzqlg1WefU3lLbNWZ8nfN_RNRvT7vQwSBiW5iUyrXoYqWEAXq9AIjaGyIhyphenhyphentp6P_RpNTvdMM1PwpXEhC0T9HtmfFRYDTuvEUnrROND7DPEfhaTXB4oPOdBOqz_aT3DGMoGbteq8/s1600-h/P1040321.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJOQSWzqlg1WefU3lLbNWZ8nfN_RNRvT7vQwSBiW5iUyrXoYqWEAXq9AIjaGyIhyphenhyphentp6P_RpNTvdMM1PwpXEhC0T9HtmfFRYDTuvEUnrROND7DPEfhaTXB4oPOdBOqz_aT3DGMoGbteq8/s320/P1040321.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310886859125145298" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLfxalcjjCqM0_u_yUacJduqHqmaaLGhODQzPppRA3d_b-J0ujaENcnsWFd58Jzj2N7HOgKCbprgNkKTY2YEBs8KfI3N_X7mfFcaUl3xMPmWu1l2CSlibNmQ44pVrloOBtPeEDLdv4nY/s1600-h/P1040324.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLfxalcjjCqM0_u_yUacJduqHqmaaLGhODQzPppRA3d_b-J0ujaENcnsWFd58Jzj2N7HOgKCbprgNkKTY2YEBs8KfI3N_X7mfFcaUl3xMPmWu1l2CSlibNmQ44pVrloOBtPeEDLdv4nY/s320/P1040324.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310886864722714674" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskmoboxFjKYFQbN7TjvkoFUa6MZGCPT4APUDuNEgihym-C0toyhu7gGf0Ma01KjaoYCxMkvLrgpveAAPyw1JjgHViKi98IkA8jFXY1x3It-EH7b8Y99vPi4LhvY50mMFwrkexgFbo8Bg/s1600-h/P1040318.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskmoboxFjKYFQbN7TjvkoFUa6MZGCPT4APUDuNEgihym-C0toyhu7gGf0Ma01KjaoYCxMkvLrgpveAAPyw1JjgHViKi98IkA8jFXY1x3It-EH7b8Y99vPi4LhvY50mMFwrkexgFbo8Bg/s320/P1040318.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310897608232677442" border="0" /></a>And then a few weeks ago I attended Carnivale in Venice, which is famous for its masked costumes. I however decided to morph into horse-man, and people constantly gawked at me because of this. Favorite memories were losing count of the bottles of wine we consumed, losing count on the amount of times we danced with random minstrels or even without music, 3 Portuguese princesses, crazy masks, tango lessons, turning around all corners and finding new adventures, and barely catching the last train that was too full so we had to sleep in the corridors.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnjpUUplIApz7c8kAmfTzz-DAP9eMEORHcS7x7iTgKEgrrNmUiKn6xfZCtQGdZY-0ybp65nGnt4jffEKPkA3Z6-DB0Stzvcr4SWlGQLSyKaTETmPYqZW4uNO0FnD0580ccjC5pKuXx_w0/s1600-h/n717208527_1571974_745.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnjpUUplIApz7c8kAmfTzz-DAP9eMEORHcS7x7iTgKEgrrNmUiKn6xfZCtQGdZY-0ybp65nGnt4jffEKPkA3Z6-DB0Stzvcr4SWlGQLSyKaTETmPYqZW4uNO0FnD0580ccjC5pKuXx_w0/s320/n717208527_1571974_745.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310901336796331506" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ6U-bJ38dXXv_-o2j28TzV9jsu7GMF65UuHPzm50eY4v-Up8appJoNgG_3odAUsXRtya5iIzWWwfFvnZpaxMiaVhdQVNFWdyM-jAhIneASdcJQwXm-vlcVDJuXidoPHBV_5buDY1rjFc/s1600-h/P2221082.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ6U-bJ38dXXv_-o2j28TzV9jsu7GMF65UuHPzm50eY4v-Up8appJoNgG_3odAUsXRtya5iIzWWwfFvnZpaxMiaVhdQVNFWdyM-jAhIneASdcJQwXm-vlcVDJuXidoPHBV_5buDY1rjFc/s320/P2221082.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310903063252116674" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvrfkq8NcUBxuEs4t8Eo6xO6hnni0fDglynxZWkswUQ4oc4w45MbcyCAcUD0mEgvA0ijKgWb0A9q71ewV_0qF3PkIFMrdBPaip7UE8z8i465vGOv63T9NXuxg3UVXyI8HS6hL-EKpZqGg/s1600-h/n8643674_47742215_4248.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvrfkq8NcUBxuEs4t8Eo6xO6hnni0fDglynxZWkswUQ4oc4w45MbcyCAcUD0mEgvA0ijKgWb0A9q71ewV_0qF3PkIFMrdBPaip7UE8z8i465vGOv63T9NXuxg3UVXyI8HS6hL-EKpZqGg/s320/n8643674_47742215_4248.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310904965767917666" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEide33WsdJM70WfYBlnCoOuHZpWGL2STclPk5xmKFUQbYvV5e8jeRcqrMNI-1UQLdn0lH8SSbUys7NPqdX4vExivTq0YxasvzHgoGKRUzzFZ2Qx_0ELUFH0VHTJnoqQI-AvY1EBAktmgnM/s1600-h/n717208527_1573431_3855.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEide33WsdJM70WfYBlnCoOuHZpWGL2STclPk5xmKFUQbYvV5e8jeRcqrMNI-1UQLdn0lH8SSbUys7NPqdX4vExivTq0YxasvzHgoGKRUzzFZ2Qx_0ELUFH0VHTJnoqQI-AvY1EBAktmgnM/s320/n717208527_1573431_3855.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310903068252970978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY4Fmoq1R2nxTX1HCRfZ5x_ulJPixasgEVS1fIUI_u3bW_QhXNfnM_W57wqWFZQnQQRGJlfO1-zfXmT5IAWVZsEEq7a2YW87CosYdhDhKKp9Q_fEfcK2OR3XkPimWrpOA81yRQ062eVM/s1600-h/P2221083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjY4Fmoq1R2nxTX1HCRfZ5x_ulJPixasgEVS1fIUI_u3bW_QhXNfnM_W57wqWFZQnQQRGJlfO1-zfXmT5IAWVZsEEq7a2YW87CosYdhDhKKp9Q_fEfcK2OR3XkPimWrpOA81yRQ062eVM/s320/P2221083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310904961464047474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLaES-wpzmbDrz5Lg6ieioshjoTvDFpoCR9Jf7s9bc4Jx391RL5B54a4clsALf8Q09N-vDYSEHoRZR-KRhg5dGBgvp0gQufprm0-MPKP1S44i7NitEpM6zi0Y29Ng3-CUWBNWWHsNfA4/s1600-h/P2221077.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLaES-wpzmbDrz5Lg6ieioshjoTvDFpoCR9Jf7s9bc4Jx391RL5B54a4clsALf8Q09N-vDYSEHoRZR-KRhg5dGBgvp0gQufprm0-MPKP1S44i7NitEpM6zi0Y29Ng3-CUWBNWWHsNfA4/s320/P2221077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310901339887703890" border="0" /></a>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-54200035759332397622009-02-07T07:22:00.000-08:002009-02-07T07:49:25.506-08:00Hawt SpringsYo yo, I have been slacking off with pictures and films and other such content, so Ive asked friends to give me some photos of theirs. Here I am with Nicolò Jack and Doina at Terme di Petriolo. There were about 4 or 5 seperate pools off the side of the road, next to a river. It was cold, but so hot inside. And we drank wine.<br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Here Nicolò is spitting out fairies from his nose, he tends to do that when he immerses himself in hot water. I on the other hand am catching the fairies that escape and put them in a bottle. Then I would shake the bottle until the fairies were paste-like, and I continued to pour them over my head...apparantly it helps cure sneezes</div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300078186630947490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgTOtFifzyN__K05FXICdr6lXYNgnHf5155XUunJ-wPbstW0mbQY3TwLL2Zp0TAlwZbt_cVBQq9v1IpUkUOmx39DDAv4oXRe0_wbdovkFH6oaBBsYXGNI2c_mnLvLYlJQHeAlrMx0ygw/s320/IMG_1533.jpg" border="0" /><br />We found swings and Jack thought it would be artsy of him to photograph us in B&W, and I think that the color of the sky would have been more visualy pleasing, but I just like swinging...</div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300078169263543970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhhphhB5tywAlrQ1ZN_r4kEvSkpyreZ9EcRV-VGcQaIO9qMbiQ1yqxOPmYlVY038Hr00_lqfsVC3zumxK6u1qZY40PGiSqXRbqkOXCcsofkAK2X3J21SvY91THDEs2sYXDJ82Qumu__M/s320/IMG_1503.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><div>And here I just enjoy looking off into the unkown for the best location for putting a swing set and then comencing an enormous swing park!</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300081274674600914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUVV8B9zj7ZMNS089UuotHKeJN4veLXOFv0lf8cSFWlTEtrRtjCWe1KkCXimoF2k5AiHMOgRJ5Zb2YfrnvE9uXGc-RPUHxaI1PjRhbxxvWMxZcLnrOYUeiXL82gKMLifKGVUE_WmFEFb8/s320/IMG_1516.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>I was just scratching under my nose...I swear.<br /><br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300078176409313554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcA-UFkHElqMy7McqJ_kyxu5C1UilSq9WItpYPBLu2Vz8Po31kGORXS2HcQZEkZSKAqQp8EqiiCL1RD6mtaFgq2eft00nGSibN4qk0myOsV4-Pb0oPXfTxrXOsfpDMBzWzd-zNxXe-RHg/s320/IMG_1527.jpg" border="0" /><br />Un altro foto di piccioni...<br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300078182953015298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf3RC46CdhNJAkldlQQNx1iT8i1Q6bqP-pliCbn62KUQHG07Ybd2_g9mPU572NsYGjn6XZxmUnWQddOmeSZ0yLGazMIvV_DDhK_yr0y9CO61taLHSK123y17tWcAEHM8Y0t3Ufreospow/s320/IMG_1530.jpg" border="0" />Oof, the overwhelming scent of sulfer...<br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300080922588067362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibotjQplT-1Q0ScnoF-_6m_M9C_NU5hAVLwwD4uVekSWLaBu8LXRsNrPXBTfCJqmL2oYogdJ4mUbz3D8HHGWY7z6yCKGsdCsjiy3dI6cJ9S9_m497WUIytJVieLEDhaiZzL8-0fNLCPGI/s320/IMG_1524.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>Here is a group of ancient romans whom we spotted across the riverbed, they were speaking about how to get rid of Hannibal and his elephants in the next Punic Wars. I didnt tell them that my ancestors are in fact Carthaginians. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300080913111004914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLbEeHOP0GF0U4QkWbfATD3UB0wh8rhrSkhhiMcSFelKFQdOgOrHAYXcKM_C3UXgDL9oj7Ww0UgyRb-W7Q-B-Bn0H9MO5tZ4_T5VHnDy4gzraImd4vyQPd2Ooa0HduTvYbQSOYDtB-0A/s320/IMG_1538.jpg" border="0" /></div><div>One of the only color pictures to choose from, my god that sulfer smell just made me make the worst faces...</div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300080916797615282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNICQYB_CUwSlm106tTov6oZJSwujnGsR5qGB9mrNKY_8PXm-_Xeohg_r5aLMDIMfYwY2lCBQMBfhAzjBpztI4_HiQrcjK3iQO1mwV_xNiZ2H3B0fZQ0S2oDoqDIUNOs-EOtSKIDtpkc/s320/IMG_1523.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-1285440779387888792009-01-20T02:39:00.000-08:002009-01-20T03:19:52.938-08:00Wind or windSo on my poll, the majority of you voted for quantity over quality in this blog, so even though i don't have much content i'll try to get more things and more often. I am continuing with my holiday greetings, even though the holidays are slipping away, and this video is just as embarrassing for me as the previous, and i hope that you all enjoy. Yes I did film a segment in my bathroom, as you will see, but only because my housemate came home just as i was about to film and she wanted to go to bed and the bathroom is the only place where i cant bother anyone and not freeze my ass off...so dont judge me.<br /><br />The days pass and I find myself in the best of moods.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXGiBbpOu6DKxhXZ_m5e2bKEeySsYDyLr-ZrCP4-JUCQubidSfbotwLrS5hJR8vCJzMTX-doj-QOYXRsWy' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br />So Im waiting on a friend to send me some pictures of an event that I attended, but they have not arrived yet. So here is a picture of me enslaved by my Spanish housemate, you can see the pain in my face...just kidding, but i was F***ing tired. On the brighter side I can get my back and head rubbed whenever I want, even though its a bit less than par...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWRV0Wi0HnPHbtIoANaV2zkXgBoLUyJir9xdiCV5ZU0UBTnwhOy2i3nj7kOj31UqOJBb8gPl2liMocZxVH9jowRWSjTv0rbOpDTrXDFpdiXo0fHT_FB8USgJsgxLBQb6wO8Wc2Yd202w/s1600-h/P1181032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWRV0Wi0HnPHbtIoANaV2zkXgBoLUyJir9xdiCV5ZU0UBTnwhOy2i3nj7kOj31UqOJBb8gPl2liMocZxVH9jowRWSjTv0rbOpDTrXDFpdiXo0fHT_FB8USgJsgxLBQb6wO8Wc2Yd202w/s320/P1181032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293326116897580242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Heres a photo of the famous winter sun and jungle of italy! actually its a photo that Nicolo, the lad pictured here, recently gave me. It was taken in Thailand and i thought it was appropriate to put up because it was he who encouraged me mostly to come to bologna. If I had not of gone to thailand I probably wouldnt have met him nor come here...but i can go much futher back than that....(if i hadnt picked my nose during italian class freshman year i never would have...)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhup-615RbFVyeoGrcVY1HNdRIxV_ngeF6bZA8M2EqQWBnePUx35q7p6pu4PoIKg69rMG2wXEGqcMfIWvNrR4vAJ-j6aLka4F2_u4uvG6fdpENvSR90Kl7gav0nzzTAWcn9IHlsN9-yTGI/s1600-h/P7220497.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhup-615RbFVyeoGrcVY1HNdRIxV_ngeF6bZA8M2EqQWBnePUx35q7p6pu4PoIKg69rMG2wXEGqcMfIWvNrR4vAJ-j6aLka4F2_u4uvG6fdpENvSR90Kl7gav0nzzTAWcn9IHlsN9-yTGI/s320/P7220497.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293326119615629970" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I do like the idea of polling, so ill put up another votable option again, and please participate!Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-75335528452162975162009-01-10T08:37:00.000-08:002009-01-10T10:36:33.196-08:00Bologna è bianca!Well I am realizing that some things in this blog will be somewhat embarrassing (for me) but I don't mind too much. SO, whats happening is that I had planned on creating a holiday blog that everyone could see before Christmas, but there was no way that was going to happen, since I was in Germany. And now another problem has arisen: my computer has only 2 GB of hard drive left so it is quite hard for me to create this blog in a timely fashion. My initial plan was to have just one long video with my seasons greetings, but for many reasons (1. You all seem to be voting for quantity, not quality 2. not enough space to edit it all at once 3. You all are impatient and demand that I post post post!) but I must now shorten it with what is on my computer at the moment, and I will send them off as they are edited. There's the scoop.<br /><br />Anyhow I have started an internship at the Bologna Cineteca working on a film festival that will occur the 18th of Feburary. It will screen like 20 or so short films from upcoming directors from across Europe, as well as an homage to NYU's Tisch School of Filmmaking. I am in charge of translating the subtitles into Italian, translating the booklets and promotions into English, and organizing most of the NYU part. It's fun, but lots of work. School doesnt start until Feb or March, until then I will have two tests to study for, shouldn't be hard.<br /><br />These days I am writing still, reading more, and trying to paint when I can get around to it. Much love, enjoy and have patience if you dont see yourself, there will be much more coming shortly.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6Wh5x23hRH0EeUTKgSuUSzY00ZGp9DHPM1TD8bZm2YMbT9ZjbSnRwWUcSaxBnJViMtso9N3DuBfZfyKFV6iVdPwaD4apQPac467RFEpjB8K2uV9yBJy88sGR8LhIMu6CNtcXYMbhYyA/s1600-h/CIMG0112.JPG"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwjGOrURsAWpHhdVIARmTwf1tC5PbQy86PzS8hPklP36k4fBdYckfLXDiM4rpsMU-b6ifA_nW-LCe7ksRSw3w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></a><br /></div>Why don't I add some pictures too, since you all want more more more. (If i had a camera i could take interesting and creative pictures of things that i see, but since i dont have one the only pictures that i recieve from friends are just "people pictures"...)<br /><br />So these pictures were given to me by Natasha, and this is one where Natasha climbed the Asinelli Tower but fell to her death...we shall miss you...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoQHNC9OQ8hvX6m2dWl02ZSOHEIJAJ18R2tzX5o-5htwc2lH1FVhpDbieRtaeCkW3WBueoRvF483kjsMU_Z5E9Yw5vNyswl0v4zlVNamNPMrHtHkY2674nJYnZlejYlyL4EA-nIJKa8M/s1600-h/DSC00882.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoQHNC9OQ8hvX6m2dWl02ZSOHEIJAJ18R2tzX5o-5htwc2lH1FVhpDbieRtaeCkW3WBueoRvF483kjsMU_Z5E9Yw5vNyswl0v4zlVNamNPMrHtHkY2674nJYnZlejYlyL4EA-nIJKa8M/s320/DSC00882.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289709386303284626" border="0" /></a><br />Here I am juggling in the park on a clear day....oh clear days. By the way, it snowed 4 cm the other day here, and the next day was hell because it rained and turned everything into slush. But it was beautiful for me to be walking in an urban street where everything is white and fresh looking, like it is in the forests. Makes things seem more real somehow, it brings some sense of nature into a place where natural things are a rarity.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4tALNbV69BHAEsTmOgAIT-dtR1Ke-edM5I4l9bNkVY1OgqBCqQbFjSzlqEe_ytIFy_0Oea0uzy7PAsGtNIIHfVEbEq-DW34lgplJmM-rzGfiTl7NCu_kXVk8ptjUlSsrnO3C88Osrq0U/s1600-h/DSC00931.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4tALNbV69BHAEsTmOgAIT-dtR1Ke-edM5I4l9bNkVY1OgqBCqQbFjSzlqEe_ytIFy_0Oea0uzy7PAsGtNIIHfVEbEq-DW34lgplJmM-rzGfiTl7NCu_kXVk8ptjUlSsrnO3C88Osrq0U/s320/DSC00931.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289709401122746210" border="0" /></a><br />"Was'a matter you?!" I like the colors. I look like a candle.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aZ5HTCpUbL1GcMaG_MEvNPiA8GK4SISSNtqSk2IbzuRdZ0Qx2QJBHwUh2DxpqFLY20QzD39FBXscna2dOt7Zqm8EXeq-RKBB8sKsr0wYnSbaU209n6PN4AxrIh7CBBFLSBwpHrnLdts/s1600-h/DSC00838.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aZ5HTCpUbL1GcMaG_MEvNPiA8GK4SISSNtqSk2IbzuRdZ0Qx2QJBHwUh2DxpqFLY20QzD39FBXscna2dOt7Zqm8EXeq-RKBB8sKsr0wYnSbaU209n6PN4AxrIh7CBBFLSBwpHrnLdts/s320/DSC00838.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289709416263449138" border="0" /></a><br />Here is Natasha, Lucas, and I at the park. We have pensive, sad, and happy here...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjstvw-KybFkMFYOPD1YK-wGw-8RNrqYvN65HkzF-aphcmWGYJQj8izyoHO6z4oDOAu4kH-TAqoVGHA2d5KMvVvl_IEYcEYyCflrXncIlWt1HLyfpu8DgBpW8LppsSr83di3yaqmHn3qFY/s1600-h/DSC00940.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjstvw-KybFkMFYOPD1YK-wGw-8RNrqYvN65HkzF-aphcmWGYJQj8izyoHO6z4oDOAu4kH-TAqoVGHA2d5KMvVvl_IEYcEYyCflrXncIlWt1HLyfpu8DgBpW8LppsSr83di3yaqmHn3qFY/s320/DSC00940.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289709406707630338" border="0" /></a><br />Here is a picture I took of myself looking glum, nose-deep in my personal hell of blog making for you ungrateful people! Kidding, but it was hard to use a computer in a language that has more consonants than vowels...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6Wh5x23hRH0EeUTKgSuUSzY00ZGp9DHPM1TD8bZm2YMbT9ZjbSnRwWUcSaxBnJViMtso9N3DuBfZfyKFV6iVdPwaD4apQPac467RFEpjB8K2uV9yBJy88sGR8LhIMu6CNtcXYMbhYyA/s1600-h/CIMG0112.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6Wh5x23hRH0EeUTKgSuUSzY00ZGp9DHPM1TD8bZm2YMbT9ZjbSnRwWUcSaxBnJViMtso9N3DuBfZfyKFV6iVdPwaD4apQPac467RFEpjB8K2uV9yBJy88sGR8LhIMu6CNtcXYMbhYyA/s320/CIMG0112.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289709411657202818" border="0" /></a>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-71920683395793938662008-12-30T17:37:00.000-08:002008-12-30T18:09:18.215-08:00spades are the best symbol on playing cardsHello, well this is just a temporary blog, because everyone seems to be on the verge of cutting my head off via internet if i dont post anything soon. The thing is, Ive been working on another video but its taking a while because I am on vacation in germany and holland and britain, and i dont have much time to work on it. but be expecting that one in the next week or so. for now here are some photos to hold you over.<br /><br />Here I am in London, apparantly bowing to the utter beauty which overwhelmed all my senses and brought me to my knees:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jCtjVjrsK_K9AL3lCthzWnZiqWB6mXvdvPDeFj3V1QRmS99fGNlkupaGRB4HnyvterNqaGLd36niAISZ4sOlGu0KHO3wfkvyt21MLOYkcGo0crGCrLmzvMT8DFF2VdKrlTSyb0ZO2Lk/s1600-h/CIMG0129.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jCtjVjrsK_K9AL3lCthzWnZiqWB6mXvdvPDeFj3V1QRmS99fGNlkupaGRB4HnyvterNqaGLd36niAISZ4sOlGu0KHO3wfkvyt21MLOYkcGo0crGCrLmzvMT8DFF2VdKrlTSyb0ZO2Lk/s320/CIMG0129.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285765055811671554" border="0" /></a><br />Here we are on christmas eve opening some little candy things and me acting like an imbecile:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2a1DwbABeLi8icgBPfh3pDoENzjjYI10yC2Fa9gE4jZhEcQ5bjKFKd5UqTnhAGUMIBIpLnl3d9Lk1vQWewNR2hboCmzIiLFigB4-SUc59J5ysk4z7kW3R7_vEeNmDv9KpCQS68Ax3yY/s1600-h/CIMG3072.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2a1DwbABeLi8icgBPfh3pDoENzjjYI10yC2Fa9gE4jZhEcQ5bjKFKd5UqTnhAGUMIBIpLnl3d9Lk1vQWewNR2hboCmzIiLFigB4-SUc59J5ysk4z7kW3R7_vEeNmDv9KpCQS68Ax3yY/s320/CIMG3072.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285768887050698962" border="0" /></a>Here I am with the family (minus Jonas, or Fez as some know him). On my head is the family cat named Helmut...(did you catch the pun?)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCj2I6yqirC0CkI5PuqDW9k8GBPxGBG9ZK7vIF1YXRPps72W1rylak_XKXIqtU3YjTWKE2ZXyccrEbibPKwA-UDR3942mzCRrmEkux2vCUoo64aB5VgB9Q-Ulis3sITVJ1Eh7Y6A1MOnE/s1600-h/CIMG0053.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCj2I6yqirC0CkI5PuqDW9k8GBPxGBG9ZK7vIF1YXRPps72W1rylak_XKXIqtU3YjTWKE2ZXyccrEbibPKwA-UDR3942mzCRrmEkux2vCUoo64aB5VgB9Q-Ulis3sITVJ1Eh7Y6A1MOnE/s320/CIMG0053.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285765039943905778" border="0" /></a><br />Food with mother and grandmother. Food consisted of herring, salat, lachs, tintenfisch, and such...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekyJERu8WSVC52w28BFgTFQCEhGOD3my5DgSKiGGai7e5u-jsJb2evo15ZJawUnp2dyUWk4zAGZ1LnLGGpHOhKUCLhz1AKR8pPLVLT0pE5whq_FpHHBC0EpTr-8_ZY6ZME8jkJc4tbBI/s1600-h/CIMG3044.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekyJERu8WSVC52w28BFgTFQCEhGOD3my5DgSKiGGai7e5u-jsJb2evo15ZJawUnp2dyUWk4zAGZ1LnLGGpHOhKUCLhz1AKR8pPLVLT0pE5whq_FpHHBC0EpTr-8_ZY6ZME8jkJc4tbBI/s320/CIMG3044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285768895416104050" border="0" /></a>Here we are outside trying to escape the pressure of the family to drink...but we end up drinking anyhow:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MRSf4itXFh748OzOfaQxcGYd534FrA7EM-qm797PUVpOzeKUWJheV3ffwhUpI5DZzwx3OY-qbbv9mOj1euCeVPj4PHnwx5G9hnY_Xsg-oTZqiNtqy6ktZcxTLoOGXEg4q5DlS4BdRww/s1600-h/CIMG0116.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MRSf4itXFh748OzOfaQxcGYd534FrA7EM-qm797PUVpOzeKUWJheV3ffwhUpI5DZzwx3OY-qbbv9mOj1euCeVPj4PHnwx5G9hnY_Xsg-oTZqiNtqy6ktZcxTLoOGXEg4q5DlS4BdRww/s320/CIMG0116.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285765052207244690" border="0" /></a><br />Here the family convinced me to dress up as Goethe (they are so proud of Goethe because he was born in frankfurt), and then i butchered the german language by reading some old poem he wrote in german. it really made everyone laugh, and they made a video of it, but its really boring unless you understand german i think, because it just sounded like me mumbling and wearing this garb that somehow at the time i did not find that embarassing :<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7Hp-2aC0Sn6DrrckqcUao9Ewi_zEtgRZcUJSKa66TGZpLkYvkl_tLXHZFV9spL_JGMyr8HJqvJ9U4sSXtZiWd7P8-mEpopOWFk7-CkEaREBVL92skJhdMYWLBnASzzuvCqBkEi3whmk/s1600-h/CIMG3048.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7Hp-2aC0Sn6DrrckqcUao9Ewi_zEtgRZcUJSKa66TGZpLkYvkl_tLXHZFV9spL_JGMyr8HJqvJ9U4sSXtZiWd7P8-mEpopOWFk7-CkEaREBVL92skJhdMYWLBnASzzuvCqBkEi3whmk/s320/CIMG3048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285765037068110642" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The christmas tree had candles that were replaced every few hours because they would just burn like matches. very dry matches:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhphENRzHIBtnLgx_r-o0pwuy5lOCA0vUAgtohSHz2_6Q9kULZAzG3od5etqDiaEY5-yz8CJdLRor7mmwwcouUgujRnJA9Ggpb8mmLXnVtmgBSz244j7VBPhrgczwUUAkrd3T8V2E8U7-I/s1600-h/CIMG3053.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhphENRzHIBtnLgx_r-o0pwuy5lOCA0vUAgtohSHz2_6Q9kULZAzG3od5etqDiaEY5-yz8CJdLRor7mmwwcouUgujRnJA9Ggpb8mmLXnVtmgBSz244j7VBPhrgczwUUAkrd3T8V2E8U7-I/s320/CIMG3053.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285765027350355106" border="0" /></a>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-53739267238641343592008-11-11T06:57:00.000-08:002008-11-12T06:09:19.763-08:00People WatchingSo much has happened here in 'talia since my last post. I have moved to a really sweet pad in the center of town with an italian and spanish chica. For three weekends in a row me and my friend Nicolo'. We went to the Ligurian coast where we slept on the beaches and went swimming in the warm beach water, and cinque terra where we drank a lot. My american friend Michael came along during that trip. Then the next week Nicolo' and I went to Siena and Perugia where we took part in student occupations of the university, went to hot springs, went to a national chocolate festival, you name it. Here is a video that i put together of these trips. Nicolo' did a lot of the filming, and most of it was him wasting film, but i salvaged some very creative shots that he did. For example AND DISCLAIMER towards the end of this film there will come up a part that says "The Matrix" and it is from the center of Siena where Nicolo' filmed random people for a half hour. I added some music to some of the more interesting sections and i like how it turned out, but i do not expect everyone to sit through it all:<br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwGJe3BTA2lcAKE-1jegZTiZWAaA5s89sw8b7E-S0Jfm2NBC4ZzTZOIPIsPhsxegK7XKHxY8zpoQx_eqwmFog' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />The other video is from an italian news program who interviewed americans and italians and their responses to Obama winning the election. I have a short part in it, although they cut out everything i said. I believe what i said in english is "I am happy Obama won because we need many things changed in our country and he represents that change." At which point I went on the explain specifically the war, the economy, taxes, and overall changes for our world image. But they just leave all that out. I also uploaded it onto youtube because its way faster:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qbWLTENSqk"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qbWLTENSqk</a><br /><br />Also here in italy there is a woman way up in the government named "Gelmini" who is responsible for cutting tons and tons and tons of money out of the italian education system, and implacing a single teacher to teach all classes of each topic. Its terrible and therefore there are huge protests across the country in the forms of teachers teaching in piazzas or students occupying different buildings, or mass protests (like the one i took part in which had over 40,000 people). I feel that it relates to me in that i care about the education of the future generations of this world, i care about people standing up for injustices, and i care to see if masses are able to make a change. Therefore on this day we marched through the streets blocking all traffic and buses and ultimately businesses, at one point the police attempted to cut us off and they beat a few students, but after they let us pass where we then went to the train station where we blocked all cars entering and leaving. It was here that there was a huge line of police and i had my trusty recorder (flute) with me so i walked up and down the lines of police playing them a tune in hops of tranquilizing the situation. And a bunch of people applauded and took my picture and one of them ended up in a page of La Repubblica which is italy's biggest newspaper. I tried to find it online, but the quality isnt great, in fact you really have to squint to see me. Dont worry i have an actual copy of it:<br /><a href="http://www.magazine.unibo.it/RassegnaStampa/JQ2/JQ2PI.pdf"><br />http://www.magazine.unibo.it/RassegnaStampa/JQ2/JQ2PI.pdf</a>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-56590627267530639332008-10-02T05:28:00.000-07:002008-10-02T05:55:57.754-07:00SoupGreetings, as usual I have been magnificently busy with friends, food, and fun. However recently to add to the madness I am also dealing with moving into a new room which has no internet so I am unable to do anthing technological, and classes have started and I am scrambling to find courses which interest me and which also can be useful to my major back home. It is quite hectic. I have started to do Capoeira here and I am doing it 3 times a week, which is much more often than what I did in Santa Cruz. <div><div><br /><div>My friend Aaron (who is studying in Spain) came to visit me for a week and he took a bunch of pictures and I asked him to give me some so that I may add them to my blog. If I had a camera of my own (<cough>mom and dad...<cough>) I too could take cool photos. I also am going to leave a link to Aarons blog so that you all may see the other photos that he used. Someday soon I will make another video blog, but I dont see that day on any immediate horizon...</div><br /><div>Aarons blog: <a href="http://lavidaontheflipside.blogspot.com/">http://lavidaontheflipside.blogspot.com/</a> </div><br /><div>So first we have my two friends (both named Nicolò) and my friend Sara. I need a haircut. And I just realized that I have no idea how to organize these photos on this blog program and i dont have time to screw around with it...so here they are in no particular order.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUUO1VGLjtiBdTUkJgd9kIqLqVEDBCOyVIgAQfXg9Exlqmc__EDxk0fW7l2K9Xa25LNrCkfv4IwYBRuHJkfzu0bjn_zSNg7djkLNqLaonK_WcarhnslrXtt38sJnr6cp8LOn0n82p06og/s1600-h/FB6B51A6-142F-44EA-81D1-BBC56A13C54B.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252537092646278066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUUO1VGLjtiBdTUkJgd9kIqLqVEDBCOyVIgAQfXg9Exlqmc__EDxk0fW7l2K9Xa25LNrCkfv4IwYBRuHJkfzu0bjn_zSNg7djkLNqLaonK_WcarhnslrXtt38sJnr6cp8LOn0n82p06og/s320/FB6B51A6-142F-44EA-81D1-BBC56A13C54B.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div><br /><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduyQYV8fBWAiys8_isJobuxfR8vz_zipyNTRg9PgHo4HI6w0OyMy-wG-W9-CsHptCHVnWMs-XL0o99bxcWgu9s1rYcW8FT1X1JkxWywbVLMfsmpv6WKPrMSsEF-7JqqG679bUfSkseKY/s1600-h/297C6648-8C21-4935-A422-7DFA06849A58.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252538151822382802" style="FLOAT: left; 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ5dYWo3LVZQMgyqhEgciQ-HBqtvkiTb4wlvUt6tSdwtlrT93c715WbbJI7jTzDbO87vchZtQ_uDXjqxL5uikx1hYGsfLuU9b18xJ3EqgTHcWqS5OLZLqSBi1cf2GBikVfwggb1vwc5mg/s320/03D82794-083D-442C-A6A4-04FFD42E3A75.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUUO1VGLjtiBdTUkJgd9kIqLqVEDBCOyVIgAQfXg9Exlqmc__EDxk0fW7l2K9Xa25LNrCkfv4IwYBRuHJkfzu0bjn_zSNg7djkLNqLaonK_WcarhnslrXtt38sJnr6cp8LOn0n82p06og/s1600-h/FB6B51A6-142F-44EA-81D1-BBC56A13C54B.jpg"></a></div></div>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-21214745332216205112008-09-12T04:39:00.000-07:002008-09-12T06:47:21.137-07:00SO much to doSo I hope that the quality of this video is better than the first, because blogspot seems to totally pixelate my videos that really don't look that bad when I am editing them...oh well I will repost if it looks bad. Anyhow I have been super busy every day so unfortunately I must state that these videos (if you havent already guessed) shall arrive very sporatically, perhaps once every two weeks. My days are full of waking early and passing out late. I drink in the afternoon, at dinner, and late at night. I am working on videos, various writing ideas/stories, class searching, house searching, friend meeting, food consuming, wine hounding, bicycle riding, and profuse sweating due to the intense humidity. I have met a few local poets whose poetry I am translating and (according to my mother) the U.S. government will pay me for my work. Even if they don't I believe that I am appreciating this poetry much more than I would have if I had just read it over once. You all would have a blast here....<br /><br />In this video my friend Valentina helped me film some things, but she went back later and deleted all the scenes with her in them, but I managed to squeeze some in of her. I also had a very ambitious idea for a fun film that I could post, but it was taking so long that I gave up and just inserted what I had in a random fashion. I did save some other fun stuff for my next video however. Enjoy! Oh, and keep it coming with the posts, its a nice way to connect with you guys.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzVge3KSu9_5lkZmQ79e7iWA7cYMH5Ts7B7m5nNkF9xTXeKRAW1DqyEtBkdt4FLvAWw8HRlab1AwHMsfj_FGw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1906218869512318708.post-11451790314963559832008-08-31T07:38:00.000-07:002008-08-31T07:51:56.052-07:00My abodeHere is a brief look into the life that I am easily becoming accustomed to. I just took a few shots of my house and slapped some music over it. For those who do not know, I am living here for a month or so basically alone because my Italian friends are all still on vacation. So if anyone is in the area, stop on by and we shall drink wine and be merry. And for some reason even the food tastes better when made in the kitchen here... italia...<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzza8aDqHIkL8QPoh6578c55mtY-_zDIWdlgbntdRaColw7zy8f-jZSmWoLKzMvpZgHMtZIW04Sp5DDhvhDcg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761810316348612959noreply@blogger.com9