So what now? I wanted to get into this blog to delete and the others associate to it. Today I could' nt do it. Maybe tomorrow. So much time devoted to an excercise in futility. Yet... there was something interesting in the viewing something wirtten and posted years ago.

Humanitarian Hypocrisy

Ok! What's I have to say would not suit my Facebook friends, for them a picture would suffice, but I have words on my mind today. Last night on TV I saw the film LORD OF WAR (Nicholas Cage always gets my attention). The subject of gun-running delivering surplus weapons to ((surely) arms-induced conflicts in remote corners of our battered world, sent a powerful message. Arms manufactureres and arms-manufacturing nations quietly supply weapons to both side of conflicts followed by land invasions and air strikes to combact 'rebel forces' who would not exist without their weapons. Of course pollution, destruction, death and refugee crises are morally appeased by appeals to aid and humanitarian efforts. One neat package with the blessing of religious groups, the UN and the stock market...

Futile Emotions

A restless night. Waking  up in an agressive mood I reviewed my feelings, why do I want to resume blogging  ? I left blogging to dedicate myself to Facebook, then discovered that out of one hundred friends, less than ten interest me, I suspect at least 90 out of 100  of my so-called 'friends' have little interest in what I have to say as well. What can I say ?  "Look here my friends, I don't care about your cats and dogs, pictures and recepies of favourite foods or one more Oscar Wilde quote...

What day is it today ? No doubt just another day except for sudden urge to revive this blog. What a surprise at seeing old posts still here, as if time stood still. It feels good. I will come again tomorrow !

War Horse

Once upon a time a mare gave birth to a colt...While I enjoyed it, I can’t say I was greatly inspired by what began and ended like a Walt Disney movie, To be honest I feel it was neither here nor there. Simultaneously over-sentimental and semplistic to be a good WWI movie, yet much too violent to be a children’s   flick. The lound and clear message however is that war is total perverse insanity. Oscar nominations go to Joey the horse and horse trainer…

Seasonal Food

A friend writes: Why do we eat and drink so much this time of year? My clothes have shrunk and there’s still a week’s festivities to go. I spend half the year pigging out and the other half dieting. I was doing really well with my weight until a magnificent German bakery opened just 2 mins walk from my house, need I say more.

Answer: I know how you feel, German Bakeries are sadistic, but don't we love that sweet pain... my favourite is Cheese Cake... You know how some smoker claim to “I smoke but don't inhale?” Such a shame we cannot say “I eat but I don't swallow...”

Gemona del Friuli

Gemona is where I lived for my first sixteen years. In my time-span I have seen metropolis and outback deserts around the world yet this town on the edge of Italian Pre-Alps calls me back time after time. When there I rediscover myself in the surrounding mountains. Reflecting on ancient, frosty, ivy-covered walls and wintry landscapes, I recall that as a child I believed I chose to be born here…

The Girl On The Bridge

Stunning black-'n-white film by Patrice Leconte.
Love-story of Adele and 40-year-old Gabor, a suicidal circus performer who finds the perfect assistant for his knife-throwing act when he saves Adele, the striking vagabond waif set to jump out of a luckless life into the river. Their provocative, witty, funny, knife-erotic relationship is memorable…

Favourite quotes:

"Have you ever felt great fear and pleasure, both at once?"
“Luck? You think you catch it like cold? It takes faith! Willpower! Effort!”

A Magic Pudding for Season’s Best Wishes.

Koala Bunyip Bluegum, Sailor Bill Barnacle and Penguin Sam Sawnoff, had an extraordinary delicious Magic Pudding with an amusing personality. Said Bill: “It's a Magic Pudding because you can keep slicing into it and it never gets depleted. For a change of menu you only have to whistle twice and spin the dish around…” Cut-n-come-again is the pudding’s name and Cut-n-come-again, his nature, We been eating away at this Pudding for years and there is not a mark on it…

From an Australian Story by Norman Lindsey

Refugee Day in Brisbane

Thanks to Brisbane's City Council for a really great day at the Norman Creek Park, where a varied colored crowd came together in an exchange of ethnicity, culture, dress, food, music. and dance...

Makes me wish the entire world would get together to shake hands and appreciate the beauty of our diversity.