…just another hippy blog

national security
Originally uploaded by mudpig.

I have really nothing to add to this perfect Italian story. Newspapers ^(*) have said enough about it and everything is going exactly the way I have forseen long time ago.

I’ll blog about it as soon as it ends. And we all know how and where it will end

This is just a “say hi” post. Nothing about bikinis or mechanical raccoons.
Actually, I was going to talk about cyborgs, ninja squirrels, yellow submarines and cookie eating aliens, but I’m too tired right now. Will keep that for a future post.

voooolare… oh oh…. faaaallire… oh oh oh oh!!

Oh, I almost forgot: Hi!

^(*) This word should exclude any or most Italian newspapers, of course. Those are only "papers". No "news". They can’t call themselves "toilet paper" because the paper isn’t soft enough, and because Italians don’t care if you sell them crap and say it’s "news", but technically it’s toilet paper. Backed by the government.

piercing. bunny. hands.
Originally uploaded by Mike Wood Photography.

Dear Sergio Cofferati,

I appreciate your intent to make Bologna a "cleaner" city and I do believe that the "broken windows" theory might contain some truth, but let me explain you a few basic concepts.

Drinking a beer after 10 pm is not a crime, so forbidding the sale will only cause people to be more p***ed off and drink more.

Cleaning a car’s window shield is not a crime. If you are worried about some immigrant insulting car drivers at some crossroads, well, somebody ought to tell you that that’s already a crime. No matter if the guy is immigrant or comes from the moon, and no matter how he gets by.

I am free to get myself a piercing or a tattoo where the fuck I want! Did you get it? If some goddamn a*****e sells tattoos or piercing jobs with no concern to hygienic norms, he is already breaking some existing law!

Oh, and by the way… why don’t we just put some distinctive clothing on hippies and punks and whoever you don’t feel comfortable with?
Some very talented people and organizations already did this in the past with huge success! F**k tollerance and f**k helping people to meet and socialize. Let’s stuff them in some railway carriage and send them on a nice holiday.

Also, you could just shave yourself, wear some nice blue hat and yellow gloves and run around screaming "You Will Respect My Authoritah!", but I guess South Park fans would be rather p***ed off. Besides of you looking rather silly.

I’m sick of hearing people talk about "zero tolerance". They need to look up a damn dictionary.
We don’t need "zero tolerance", we need "zero crime" and "100% tolerance".

Yours sincerly,

a hippy that won’t be visiting Bologna very soon thanks to a ******** major like you

Retired homeless fisherman
Originally uploaded by pedrosimoes7.

Did you notice the new roof?

Our beloved Pope Benedict XVI could not prevent himself from telling us happily that the Vatican Palace has a new roof.

I’m glad to hear that. And I bet there is quite a lot of “roof-less” and “food-less” people that will be damn happy to know that no raindrop will fall on his golden throne.

This is not intended to be another cynical critique to the holy Vatican City joint-stock company. I just get too pissed off when I have to hear this bulls***t on the news. On Italian news of course. Well, there should be some quotes around the word “news”, I guess.

Hollywood Terence
Originally uploaded by Malenkov in Exile.

Geez I must have underrated human stupidity. Latest news from the Dolce Vita Country:

Shotguns are still hot.

Dear European Union, you better shut the f*** up or we will have Italy’s train company buy Alitalia because we don’t give a damn f*** about our own laws, let alone we respect yours. (*)

(*) I guess you’ll have to take a train in Italy at least once (and try not to shoot yourself in the foot afterwards) to understand the reach of this statement

Burn, Rome, Burn!
Originally uploaded by Giampaolo Macorig.

Now that even Rome is gone I just hope some people will open their eyes and finally see why Italy needs a new Left. I hope that bunch of stone aged and brain dead polititians that call themselves leftists will open their damn eyes and retire to Hammamet - where they all belong. And I won’t make a single exception this time.

I guess there must be quite a good reason if the Communist Party has disappeared during the latest elections. I feel that they quit to represent working people since quite some years, being too busy in caring about their own personal businesses. And I feel the same happened to trade unions. I guess we are all fed up of Italian’s political class. Which is roughly the same we had fourty or fifty years ago.

So, farewell Rome. I have loved every single day I have been there (*), but I guess things will be different now.

(*) Except for that time I had a tasty pizza right in Piazza Navona. A wonderful location. Except for that f***ing 10 metre wide political poster attached to one of the wonderful buildings that face the square, figuring - guess who - The Almighty and Endless Clown. Now try to figure out how p***ed off I was.