Published on 27 ottobre 2007
to tell you the truth what i would like to talk about already has a title “zero tolerance”
but in reality I do not like this wording so mush, it sound slightly fascist.
anyhow, beyond definitios, I would also like to have my say about the political influence in a civilized society.
actually, i’m going even further! i would like to propose a political manifesto or maybe even to start a new political party!
alè!
why not, donkeys and horses do it, i also can?!?!
while i think about seriously, i have ready the strong points of the programme.
there are only two:
- first : it is absolutely prohibited and serious consequence for anyone who throws around, on the street, anything : an empty packet of cigarettes, a plastic bottle, or anything else…
i find that if a person is careful not to do a small act like this, will not get into the habit of doing something worse.
here we have solved the problem of a civilized society.
- second : anyone who is appointed at as a civil servant, be a politician, a policeman, a carabiniere, or similar, must buckle up while in the car. When I see around a municipal police car, and nobody inside is buckled up, i assume that if they do obey such a simpl, quick, free rule, completely to their advantage, who can convince me that they pay taxex like i do, such a complicated, laborious, unuseful task, and to their disadvantage?
here we have solved the problems of the institutions.
when i hear that “we will get to work to apply the law number 220, of june 97, that establish that regional competences mustn’t be resolved in the local department but at ministerial level …..” i have it up to here! enough! let’s start from scratch!
two very simple rules : do not throw paper around, everybody buckles up.
stop.
simple, isn’t it?
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Published on 24 ottobre 2007
these days, more than usual, you are sending e-mails (especially) or messages regarding technicality, organization, managing and other aspects of my job.
unfortunately i either do not have enough time to answer or i don’t have the faintest idea of what to answer, often being ignorant about specific technical aspects of my job.
let’s do this, i’ll pass you on to claudio, my assistant.
ask him, through the comments.
he will always answer you.
because i told him so…
hi i’m claudio,
and i have discovered recently that, besides the “technical/organizing/managing and other aspects” of his work, starting from today i can also explain to you how to answer to your posts on this blog:o)
let’s start.
so long.
claudio
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Published on 24 ottobre 2007
i had a plesant conversation on he phone with vic tonight, from 7 pm onwards, it should be aired on radio deejay in his program vickipedia.
i’m i boasting about it?
yes, I’m boasting about it
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Published on 22 ottobre 2007
well, today is a special day.
it is like being at home with few friends.
all relaxed sipping red wine and suddenly the door bell rings.
one of us goes at the door, opens it, and …. finds in front of him tens, hundreds, thousands of people wanting to come inside!
all lined up, all pushing to get into my house.
Yes, what happened is that corriere.it
http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/07_ottobre_20/settimio_benedusi_foto_modelle_sport_illustrated.shtml
spoke kindly about me and my job.
luckly mine is a virtual house, so everybody can come inside,
i just wanted to welcome all the new friends that are coming to visit us.
come inside please, make yourself confortable,
if you go to the loo leave it as you would like to find it..
if you find something in the fridge take what you want,
walk up and down, back and forth,
if you want you can also write, there are no filters, you only have to answer “yes” at the question : are you humans. we do not want androids, only humans.
to season it all i place a small photo of myself, taken some years ago with optical film and desk (imagine that!)
welcome!
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Published on 19 ottobre 2007
from Espresso on sale now: ” a wave or terrible enviness is sweeping through the fashion photographers fraternity. After eighteen years during which no italian photographer has had the honour to sign the cover page of “Vogue Italia”, because it’s editor Franca Sozzani prefers foreigners, especially Steven Meisel, here is the surprise. In September “Uomo Vogue”, the other magazine of the group Franca Sozzani became the editor in the last few months, and where the embargo is more relaxed, the xenophilous editor finally allows a cover page to an Italian photographer. a good portrait, very sharp of masked director Tim Burton .
and who’s the lucky choice? A joung man only 25 years old: Francesco Carrozzini, from Milan. Most loved only son of Franca Sozzani. He can really say: viva la mamma”
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Published on 19 ottobre 2007
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Published on 6 ottobre 2007
in the evolution of language bizzarre things happen, because language is alive.
infact from sanscrit we went to greek, from greek to latin, from latin to vulgar, from vulgar to italian, from italian to slang, without the perception of any change for those using the language throughout the years.
a slow but constant evolution.
it is interesting to notice now and then language evolutions, while they happen.
one of this for me is the multiple use of the word ciao when ending a meeting, a phonecall between two people.
i do not know if it is typical of milan or only of the people i know, or even of myself only, but it happens to me more and more often to end a phone conversation not with only one ciao, but a almost infinite sequence of ciaociaociaociao …
is one not enough?
why?
to always have the last word?
to avoid being drastic?
to avoid being conclusive?
halas!
i’m completing this post umberto eco would be proud of with a photo of mine taken few years ago (a black and white film and printed in a dark room! do you remember the dark room? that dark room with enlarger and bowls?!? no1?!?! all right…) i was saying an old photo that has nothing to do, but i like to show .
it was in the south of spain.
that in the background is sierra nevada.
where spaghetti western were shot, nearby there is still a village where period movies are shot, the day before shooting (obviously i was there to work) we went around to check locations and, while going through the village of the wild west, we found ourselves in the middle of a real movie with carriage, cowboys and so on.
well i’m off now.
ciaociaociaociao ….
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