Spiritual Retreat
Out of town. Way out in the so called wilderness: A bucolic setting. Mother nature showing off her splendorous beauty with a cascade of trees, flowers, fields, rivers. Mountains framing the complete isolation imposed by the rules of the game. Nine days in total silence. … Read more
The Jerk, on and off
Consumed by the mystery of life, I face the intrigue of death. This existence of ours seems to be based on little more than mundane intrigues. Death remains the fundamental mystery, the one and only common denominator for us all. Rich, poor; up, down; in, … Read more
The Creative Monster
The dude was a creative monster. No doubt about it. But the days when he was not creative, he was just a monster… a pathetic human being full of idiotic tics, invaded by viruses, psychological defeats, victim of intellectual thefts, philias and phobias, accustomed to … Read more
The New Gladiators
The New Gladiators are the perfect vehicle to sell Nike or Adidas. Gold, silver or bronze. They march with a certain solemnity into the rectangularity of the football pitch while The Lions roar and The Saints pray. The moving billboard puppets excite The Buccaneers so … Read more
The guy in room 18
A desolate old timer parked on a wheelchair somewhere out of reach, graciously shared with me part of his ancestral wit: -Death is okay, believe me. What’s a pain in the ass is illness. I know what I’m talking about. A couple of male nurses, … Read more
The doomed oriented pessimist
Hey you, hedonists, self-indulgent hybrid-BoBos, hipsters and posts, movie-goers in search of entertainment, sequel followers, happy-go-lucky campers, tele-pizza buffs, perennial optimists, you all weigh too heavily on the evolution of humankind. Kind? Make it unkind. Oh, the human animal. You and I. Here we are, … Read more
The days of the blog
These are the days of the blog, the time of the fog, the tick-tack ticking of the increasing gap created between man and woman, rich and poor, north and south, east and west, black and white -those grey matters that come out of a philosopher’s … Read more