The Froth

Just like I

4. October 2005

This is a favourite song. I am posting it for somebody I know. Someone who is just like I, as the song says. People babble on about passion all the time, and strong feelings, but the truth is, nobody really wants the expression of passion around for long. Not even for a while. Because it [...]

Hot Chocolate

21. September 2005

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Petite Fleur, my favourite hot chocolate place in Athens. I went there tonight with Blondie I like it because it’s tiny (only 5 tables), ladylike, has the best chocolate (Valhorna), nice pastries, plays Kurt Weill and Astor Piazzolla too. Chocolate! The waitress-chocolate witch of this place writes on the chocolate too. It has a record player and [...]

Sack the shrink

20. September 2005

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I was poring over Salon.com today, one of my favourite sites –which I haven’t included in the list because everybody knows it- and found an article about the relationship of Ann Bancroft and Mel Brooks, who were inseparable. This is the most astonishing thing I read in the whole article: «Bancroft told a reporter in 1984 [...]

Your face, it dances

15. September 2005

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I’ve found out you never replace anybody. Doesn’t matter if they are blockheads and idiots, or wonderful and charming people. The truth is you may get over people but you can’t replace them. Because you never get the same feeling from anybody else. It’s as individual as DNA. They touch you and you are forever [...]

Red dwarfs

10. August 2005

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You know how when you are looking at the night sky and the stars which are thousands of light years away, you are looking at the past really. Because some of the stars are dead and it is just that their light takes so long to reach us, they shine though they don’t exist anymore. [...]

Got published, got a top too

5. August 2005

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There is something nice in seeing your article signed with your majestic name, in a magazine. My horrible article on summer holiday etiquette is out today and as much as I am ashamed of it, I was happy to see it published. However they changed the title –theirs is awful- and the worst thing is [...]