My head feels just twice the size

May 6, 2009

Stolto è colui che tenta di farmi ubriacare
(e solitamente la sbronza è tale che non sopravvive per raccontarlo).

Ora però avrei bisogno di un espresso…

books and literature

S.S. Van Dine’s The Scarab Murder

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve

November 8, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Classic Science Fiction Stories

This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here

November 7, 2026 9:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

Artificial Integrity in the Age of Anxiety

In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a

November 4, 2026 9:00 am

4 Comments

sbrect
Posted at 12:07h, 07 May Reply

Cin Cin
Shelidon
Posted at 08:15h, 09 May Reply

argh, lascia perdere, che brindano alla goccia
sbrect
Posted at 08:47h, 12 May Reply

ho un paio di amici che vi si troverebbero proprio bene
Shelidon
Posted at 19:33h, 16 May Reply

Beh, nemmeno io mi ci trovo poi così male…