Archive for January, 2008
Vacationing on the Gutter
I know vacations are a right for those who actually work, but Brazilian carnival approaches and, for those who don’t know it, it’s just a time when every Brazilian declares a strike. The whole country virtually stops, and everybody becomes entranced into bad music and naked people dancing on the streets, all under the inspiration [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Another Little Song
Okay… So I went to bed and couldn’t sleep. Damn! But there’s a song that is so naively joyful that seems to always sooth my moods. It’s from “Legião Urbana” (translates as “Urban Legion”), a band that began as a punk rock silly things and grew up to make some of the most poetic lyrics [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )For The Friends I Don’t Frequently Speak To…
Who would have known that it would take a cracker’s commercial to finally wake me up to the reality. I know this is an odd way to start a post, but hear this sad history. This is one of the very few occasions I might seem human before the eyes of those who read these [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Evolution VS Stupidity
On November 24th, 2009, “on the origin of species” celebrates it’s 150th birthday. After accumulating literally thousands of tons of evidence on it’s behalf, among fossils, written pages of observation and genetic research, it’s unbelievable that there’s actually still academics trying to convince us that the world is only a few thousand years old, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Good Bye Billy!
Just like many windows users, it’s been a while since I’ve got the feeling that there’s something wrong with my computer. Weird things have been happening here, and its almost like the PC is haunted; it’s not that it crashes, but it has disconfigured my cd burner, the internet becomes incredibly slow from time to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The multi-millionaire
Ladies and gentlemen, I´m sorry for taking a couple of days with no new posts here, but I really had a pretty busy week. Everyone who has been reading some posts on this blog probably knows that I am supposed to be a student; what may not be so clear is that I’ve also been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Enlightenment or It’s Never-Ending Search
Every time the Dalai-Lama writes (or lends his name to) another book, riots of “enlightenment seekers” flood the bookstores in the hope that, this time, there will be something written in there that actually will make life a lot easier to cope with. He must know the answers, right? After all, Steven Segal considers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )The Best-Seller Shelves
There are very few occasions when a walk on the mall seems more appealing to me than a day spent at the park benches with friends. Mostly, I only go there because of my monthly ritual: watch a movie, eat something at Macdonald’s and check out the new stuff on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )(This) Writer’s Strike
Erm… Ok, maybe I’ve just had a busy day and didn’t spare the time to write a proper post. But, what the hell… I’m going to hide my lack of efficiency as a writer behind a fake political action supporting the American writer’s strike. This writer is on strike, baby! No post tonight!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Achmed – The Dead Terrorist
It’s not politically correct, it’s not polite and, as a matter of fact, it’s quite vulgar a lot of the time. For all those reasons, Jeff Dunham almost made me pass out watching this little presentation with his dummy Achmed. It’s the first ventriloquist I actually enjoyed seeing since I was a kid. Come to [...]
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