Posts by giovanni tiso
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So Douglas Adams was wrong... you can make jokes in base thirteen!
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Witness? Perhaps it's.... commit!
David Haywood does Richard Matheson? Sign me up for five copies.
That said, I demand to know how the first impression got sold out before you even told _us_. Is there another blogging community you see on those mysterious "late nights" at work, David?
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I always figure that at least half the family don't think it's "disgusting*" then it probably tastes how it oughta.
*how my almost seven-year-old describes a good 50% of what I try to feed him.
Yes, but then there's nary a dish that a child wouldn't prefer fried, and soon we'd be frying everything.
I can see the convenience and marketability of fusion, and I understand that it's sometimes good to innovate and not just replicate, but I think there's something to be said also for trying to reconstruct the authentic taste of a regional dish, given that it's most often the result of generations of small refinements and improvements. It's also a form of intercultural courtesy, a bit like trying to pronounce a foreign word as correctly as you can.
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However the "few exceptions" sadly includes political calls (after all guess who writes laws ...)
When canvassing, I've always refused to consider political material "junk mail". I'm sure that didn't reflect the opinion of at least some of the dwellers.
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Avauntular?
Priceless.
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And I quoted Groucho in an exam (2nd stage english lit) that wanted Timon of Athens described in terms of Marx. "Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo".
Anything less than an A+ for that would have been an insult.
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That's the kind of question a programmer would ask when reviewing a specification document.
Heh! One of the askers was a programmer.
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It's slightly arbitrary that when northern hemisphere people visited or lived in the southern hemisphere for the first time they chose to associate seasons with the suns angle.
The Maori had a word for "spring", and spring is the season when certain things happen, and not certain others (my trusty dictrionary explains that koanga means both planting time and spring). It would be very silly to call winter our hot season and it would lead, among other things, to extreme confusion whenever Vivaldi is performed locally.
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I assume it's an automatically-generated phone call that indiscriminately rings loads of people and recites dodgy messages to whoever answers?
Bullseye.
Favourite, possibly apocryphal but who cares, story about Quayle
Better than wishing he knew Latin so he could better converse with the people of Latin America?
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Piero Piccioni, film composer and pianist, most active c. '60-'80 (though he was a bandleader, as a teenager, even before the war).
Ah, but of course... Silly, silly me.
I'm also listening to Morricone (obviously), Bruno Nicolai, Piero Umiliani, Alessandro Alessandroni, Stelvio Cipriani, De Angelis fratelli, Berto Pisano, Franco Micalizzi, Armando Trovajoli, Giorgio Gaslini...
A list made even more meritorious by the absence of Nicola Piovani. I'm going to have to get my hands on some of these now.
If you haven't seen Dear Diary by Moretti, the episode with the mayor who wants to hire Morricone to compose a soundtrack to his island is a gem.