23 Days, Boredom and 60s Italian Pop Music
“Italy without Sicily leaves no image in the spirit. It is in Sicily that the key to everything is found. The purity of the contours, the softness of everything, the…
Are we there yet? And newsletters are the new podcasts that we pay for.
I’m not embarassed to say that I am Substack fan. Not that I’m the “get the logo tattooed on my body” type of fan. But I am happy to say…
Too much time
What happens when you have too much time on your hands? You may say, lucky you. And you could be right. I used to be busy busy busy but I…
35 Days. I don’t want to jinx it.
But I am really starting to think, with 35 days to go, that our trip to Sicily is going to go one of two ways. I like to call this…
Stop telling us not to talk about Madonna’s face – And why Madonna is the biggest misogynist of all.
And why you are, too, if you say I can’t or shouldn’t comment on her face. In the last few years, there’s been this line: “Women who criticise other women…
AI to the rescue?
I’ve been reading a lot about AI lately, and it’s make me a little itchy. There is no doubt that if you make a living out of your art –…
Numbers are not my thing
40 days If I’m counting down greedily now, will I suck them down just as greedily later?
Why is the MRI machine so noisy?
I went in for a brain scan today. Hopped into a very noisy MRI. You see, in 1998, after a number of decades listening to music really loud at home,…
The South is not Italy
Of course, I’m looking at this matter as an outsider. But this voting map of Italy shows just how fractured the north and south are. The South is not “Italian”…
On minimalism
It’s been the buzzword for, like, how long now? And while I’ve never read or watched Marie Kondo, I do know her “does it being you joy” mantra. What I…