Se vi sentite spiati dagli alieni ecco un bel sito che vi spiega come costruirvi un elmetto che blocca le comunicazioni telepatiche tra umani ed extraterrestri.

i think i'll go home and mull this over
before i cram it down my throat
at long last it's crashed, the colossal mass
has broken up into bits in my moat.

lift the mattress off the floor
walk the cramps off
go meander in the cold
hail to your dark skin
hiding the fact you're dead again
undeneath the power lines seeking shade
far above our heads are the icy heights that contain all reason

it's a luscious mix of words and tricks
that let us bet when you know we should fold
on rocks i dreamt of where we'd stepped
and the whole mess of roads we're now on.

hold your glass up, hold it in
never betray the way you've always known it is.
one day i'll be wondering how
i got so old just wondering how
i never got cold wearing nothing in the snow.

this is way beyond my remote concern
of being condescending

all these squawking birds won't quit.
building nothing, laying bricks.

Secondo un rapido calcolo ho visitato circa il 10% del mondo, esattamente 24 paesi.



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Una storia molto commovente dal Sun di qualche giorno fa.
"I was raped and kept baby".

Bush e Blair candidati al Nobel per la pace. Dopo quello per la letteratura a Dario Fo non mi sorprendo più di nulla.

Sabato la LifeSoc. del mio college ospitera' una conferenza sulle prospettive del movimento ProLife in Irlanda.

Intanto ho trovato questa curiosa lettera di Gary Cherone, ex cantante dei Van Halen e degli Extreme nonche' difensore del diritto alla vita, indirizzata ad Eddie Vedder.

Domani consegno il capitoletto che sto scrivendo e spero di trovare un po' di tempo per raccontarvi lo splendido concerto di ieri sera. Intanto, come anteprima, godetevi questa dolcissima Lisa Hannigan.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life;—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless,—pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretence and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

J.H. Newman

Tra venti anni sarai più dispiaciuto delle cose che non hai fatto che di quelle che hai fatto.

Eriadan, una bellissima striscia quotidiana.

I remember it well
The first time that I saw
Your head around the door
'Cause mine stopped working

I remember it well
There was wet in your hair
I was stood in the stairs
And time stopped moving

I want you here tonight
I want you here
'Cause I can't believe what I found
I want you here tonight
I want you here
Nothing is taking me down, down, down...

I remember it well
Taxied out of a storm
To watch you perform
And my ships were sailing

I remember it well
I was stood in your line
And your mouth, your mouth, your mind...

I want you here tonight
I want you here
'Cause I can't believe what I found
I want you here tonight
I want you here
Nothing is taking me down, down, down...

Except you my love. Except you my love...