Roma – Impressive Things Built by Dead White People

Rome, Italy.  Roma, Italia.  Or if you want to be stupid like they were in naming the last Winter Olympics, you can try Rome, Italia or Roma, Italy.  Still, I suppose the point of this trip wasn’t to make fun of names or rehash why Italyia didn’t deserve to win the World Cup.  The point [...]

Roma – Loose Thoughts from a Light Notebook

- Italiano is an interesting language, so sing-songy.  Methinks, though, that one of the reasons American English is rather flat is because so many other Romance languages (including the English accent) are musical-ish.  Life isn’t a frickin’ musical, stop singing.

- MIMES!!  So many MIMES.  I don’t know if it’s possible to trust a society [...]

Malta – Still Not Back in London

You are not reading a post about my past weekend in Malta.  I do not hear the sound of sirens in the dreary London morning.  I do not see the rain trickling down the windows outside my office.  I am currently asleep in my apartment in Malta.  When I wake up, I will begin my [...]

Thrown Out with the Trash

Women tend to put aside their platonic male friends quite easily, I think.  We’re easily dispensed with, you see – a shoulder to cry on, a sympathetic ear to agree that “all men are evil *ssholes” in bad times.  But then the next boy comes along, who will cause you to claim that “my [new] [...]