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Month: January 2008
“The horror of what is taking place in Iraq exceeds my worst fears five or six years ago (after Bush came to power). I am horrified at the disastrous mistake involved. Imagine the complete madness in trying to occupy a large Arab country in the middle of the Arab world, a culture we know precious little about, and who speaks a language only a handful of our specialists can speak, with armed forces which we have limited control of and with a large army of private soldiers …. The whole thing is a scandal … a series of lies. I don’t understand the motivation for the war, but suspect the real reason for the war, which one would suspect of a country which is a third oligarchy, a third plutocracy and a third theocracy, is that it simply is a profitable machine.”
Harold Bloom [wikipedia.org] quoted in Harold Bloom: ‘What We Are Seeing Is the Fall of America’ [alternet.org].
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Verona, Italy, November 2007
Verona [wikipedia.org] is supposed to be a romantic city for lovers. A good stop you would say for a honeymoon? Well I won’t be remembering it for it’s romantic qualities, not from this trip. You see it was while getting off the train in fair Verona where I lost my camera. Not quite a Shakespearean tragedy but a quick way to ruin my day nonetheless.
I tried to enjoy Verona. Took a few photos with the Ixus I purchased for Candice before the trip—she insisted I keep it to make me feel better, which did make it easier to put aside my desire to sit in a pub and try to find my missing camera in the bottom of a few too many bottles of good Italian wine (and maybe something stronger.)
So. Only a few photos from Verona but I feel I should still post an entry for completeness. On the bright side I should mention that we had our first really good Italian food at a small tavern in Verona. Possibly the best gnocchi I’ve ever had and it was not even on the menu. The chef made it because they did not have any other vegetarian dishes that day. One more reason that Italians are better than French in my worldview.
You can see a few more photos in the Verona, Italy, November 2007 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com]
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Chili and Curry
I must have gotten up too early this morning. Or slept badly last night. I don’t know. Whatever I did it screwed up my coordination today.
This morning a piece of tofu grew legs, jumped out of my chopsticks and left an Orion’s belt of chili stains on my shirt. Then at lunch a pea flew out of my curry and left a yellow Hollywood gun wound on my shirt.
Maybe I need to go back to kindergarten and learn to feed myself. Or maybe I just need to go to bed early tonight.
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Red Light District
Dragon Hotel, Mosque Street, Singapore. Rooms for rent at all hours. Hourly rates.