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Rock’n'roll, at last

13 April 2010, 2:00 pm


Evolution, music & video by SM, vocals by Kelly X
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This song explores a terrible human condition, showing that there is light at the end of the tunnel. We all have lovely parents, and we’re pretty nice folks ourselves: we would never, ever say bad things about them. We know we’re nice also because there are some gutter white trash, pieces of shit, honky ass, red neck motherfuckers out there, and we sure aren’t one of them, right?

Unfortunately, in this mean world, there are some less fortunate people: the children of gutter white trash, pieces of shit, honky ass, red neck motherfuckers. This song is for them. Remember: no matter how gutter white trash, pieces of shit, honky ass red neck motherfuckers your parents are, you still have hope: just get the fuck out of that fucking barn right now!

Mi dispiace, ma questa canzone è intraducibile. Racconta della liberazione di una ragazza figlia di genitori assai antiquati, razzisti e spiacevoli. La fanciulla, dopo aver lasciato la natìa casetta di campagna, finalmente può disporre della sua esistenza come meglio crede.

PS: Thanks, grazie, merci, danke for the heaps of views, embedding, messages. You’re the best audience there is.

Categorie: art, ideas, me, music, musica, personal, play!, politica, politics, sex/porno, sex/porno.
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Artificial Stupidity

5 February 2010, 4:48 pm

The constant, spectacular failures in developing computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require very basic, almost non-existent human intelligence.

Categorie: ideas, web/tech.
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SexText

22 July 2009, 8:51 am

As I wrote some time ago, I have a column called Alt Sex on the italian Rolling Stone. I finally managed to collect all the articles (29 so far), complete with images, on my italian website. Updated monthly. (Image courtesy of Australian Sun and Health, circa 1970)

Categorie: ideas, personal, sex/porno.
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Get Bin Laden soon

6 April 2009, 11:30 am

One of the most awaited moments of the beginning of Barak Obama’s presidency was certainly his debut on the international scene – that just happened this past week at the G20 meeting in Strasbourg, France (one of the most spectacularly boring cities I’ve ever visited). While most of the US press focused on Michelle Obama’s wardrobe and how the couple navigated the rigid british royal etiquette, some new organizations (most notably Fox News) noticed the huge change in language and content from the previous administration. And while the most conservative commentators feared the effects of this new attitude, it sounded very right to me. As I’ve told anyone who asked , the main relational problem that the USA is facing today concerns its place as a nation among other equal nations. I believe the new White House language will not only improve US international relations, making it much easier for americans to travel abroad (without being hassled about US foreign policy), but in time will substantially improve US security both here and worldwide.

Plus, there’s another more subtle but perhaps even more important change in Obama’s words: he knows the value of symbolic speaking. This is an essential (and long awaited, at least by me) change, especially when addressing those parts of the world where symbolic language (and acts, such as the 9/11 attacks) is the most understood. So, once again, I’m glad mr Obama is in command. Now there’s just one more thing he needs to do…

Categorie: chicagoan, ideas, politics.
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The pursuit of laziness

22 February 2009, 4:35 pm

One of my mother’s favorite books was a little essay written in 1883 by a french socialist “journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist”, Paul Lafargue. He must have been quite a character; the book, written while he was in jail, is entitled The Right to be Lazy and it’s available online. “It polemicizes heavily against contemporary liberal, conservative and even socialist ideas of work” (hence everybody), says the book’s own Wikipedia entry: Lafargue criticises “the primacy of the “right to work”, and argues that laziness, combined with human creativity, is an important source of human progress.” I cannot but agree with Lafargue, even though I’ve never actually managed to read the book.

Categorie: ideas, politics.
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