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 [...]