Author: mc7858attitude

Quebra pedra

While the little Paula is struggling for her growth, myself decided to avoid the nuclear therapy recommended by an urologist (it seems someone studying remote planets and strange life forms) to destroy my stones and to make use of the traditional knowledge of Brazilian Indian populations.

Therefore, we asked a Copacabana UN blue helmet going back home to find the quebra pedra, forest plant with evocative name (break stone) and curative properties, in order to prepare infusions and compresses.

Let’s hope everything will turn out well (especially for Paula).

Big Brother knocking on the door.

It’s not a substantial problem, seen from here, but the other day, at Barcelona airport parking, while retrieving the ticket at the entrance, the machine looked at our plate number and registered it on the ticket (and somewhere else, I suppose).

I didn’t feel comfortable.

At my bank, in Italy, to enter you have to put your finger on some sort of futuristic device in order to leave a trace of yourself. The service is not so futuristic, though, and many times you leave there also a lot of time and money for different kind of ‘fees’.

Nonetheless, even if the service would be much more efficient, we pay it with the progressively stronger invasion of our privacy. I am not sure it is worth it. I am not sure it is constitutional. I am not sure I like it.

Sooner or later we shall have to choice: or enter clandestinity, using only cash, switching off the computer, wearing big hats and sunglasses or try to mislead them, creating hundreds of alias, opening counts everywhere, using internet for any transaction, but always with different identities.

Ah, chiare fresche e dolci acque

I’ve got stones

Some nights ago I woke up in pain.

It was not for humankind general situation neither for the current Italian political circumstances; the soreness was coming from inside. No, not from my soul, but from the kidneys. Actually, the right one.

I have got stones. Four of them, from 0,2 to 0,4 centimetres.

Back on the Coast I’ll have to make use of a ‘lithotripsy’ machine. Good luck to me.

Referendum: good news

Italian media are celebrating the ‘victory’ of the abstentionist faction at the referendum on medically assisted procreation.

I wonder: if they really represented the majority, why didn’t they go to the polling stations to vote NO ?

Would they have won?

Then, a political or ethical option has not won yesterday in Italy.

The winner is the lazy, unuseful, apolitical, unengaged, TV-corrupted section of the population.

Joined, for this occasion, by some lazy, opportunist, clerical, pavid political figures, already working to capitalise their move.

Nevertheless, 12 millions citizens considered seriously their responsabilities, voting yes or not.

This is good news.

Support Committee for Rutelli in Ivory Coast

Following the recent enlightening positions taken by Francesco Rutelli on various issues, we, Italian expatriates in Abidjan, decide the establishment of a Support Committee for Francesco Rutelli in Ivory Coast.

In fact, we would like to send Rutelli in this African country, so that he does not represent anymore a menace for the residual hope of a coherent and rational political debate in Italy.

To join the Committee, open the window and shout strong and clear: Rutelli, vattenn…..

The bather 2

One year ago (July 2004), I published a picture of a bather in order to celebrate the advent of summer.

Nowadays I present a variation on the same topic, for the first day of June.

Here there is no sun, the sky is covered by clouds and it will goes on this way until September. While I’m writing it started to rain.

The sketch is less sophisticated than the previous one (???), but perhaps more intelligible.

Red is the nose.

The taxpayer

Another recurrent rhetorical character is that one of the taxpayer. Among ‘international community’ labour forces we often look at him as source of inspiration and incentive.

We imagine the global taxpayer fastening his own belt in order to assist the international bureaucracy in its gigantic responsibility.

And we imagine his proudness when a well established mission renew its entire fleet of air-conditioned 4×4.

In these times of technological advance, it should be simply realizable our most genuine dream: to have in front of us in the office not the simple portrait of a wife and children, but a self-renewing frame presenting the faces of millions of tax payers, smiling to us with confidence.

It’s all an eating eating

The magazine Diario advertise itself telling that, if you (the reader) recently joined a dinner where someone pronounced the phrase giving the title to this blog, you really need to subscribe to that source of fresh and accurate information.

I like Diario very much, but lately I am quite keen in using myself that expression, as one of the key for interpretation of the global society.

Another one is obviously the idiom the cleanest has got scabies, adapted to describe the sector of public works as well as the political arena.

And the third one, much more optimistic and constructive is: who’ll kill us…..

It is surprising how many occasions you have to use one of these categories to represent events occurring here or in country.

And almost everyday you may also take advantage of them to describe your own deeds.