Sunday, March 23, 2008

Glory Holes Around Sacramento

that ... Thanks Gary

us who played 'dodgeball', 'Witch controls color' and 'Flag'.

We do not even miss 'letter will say to kiss'. We

shoes that had four wheels and stretched when the foot
grew.

that we would put the cards on the spokes with clothespins
bicycle.

us who who left the longest trail in the braking
bike was the coolest. We

that 'if you do take a ride with the new saltafossi
do not have to change gears'.

us who spent hours searching the holes on inner tubes
putting them in a bowl. Hello

We lit the pedaling.

We who rings the doorbell to ask if there was the friend at home.

We were doing a competition to see who Babol chewing more big-time. We

that we adopted stray cats and dogs that we were never attacked any
deadly disease but after they put their fingers caressed
us in the mouth. We

that the thermometers break them and the balls of mercury giravano
per tutta la casa.

Noi che dopo la prima partita c'era la rivincita e poi la bella, e
poi la bella della bella.

Noi che se passavamo la palla al portiere coi piedi e lui la prendeva
con le mani non era fallo.

Noi che giocavamo a 'Indovina Chi?' anche se conoscevi tutti i
personaggi a memoria.

Noi che giocavamo a fiori, animali, cose e città (e la città con la D era
sempre Domodossola)…

Noi che con le 500 lire di carta ci venivano 10 pacchetti di figurine.

Noi che ci mancavano sempre quattro figurine per finire l'album Panini ma come doppioni avevamo un sacco di scudetti.

We who had the 'secret place' with the 'secret passage'.

We ate that if the tape cassette, and we had to rewind the tape
with the pen.

We just watched it on TV cartoons. We

we had beautiful cartoons.

us who argued over who was stronger between Mazinger and Grendizer (Grendizer, of course ..)

us who watched 'The House On The Prairie' even if you put sadness.

We who have told the joke about 1,500 times that of the ghost cheese did not anyone laugh, not even us. We

that excites us for a kiss on the cheek. We

that we had no mobile phone per andare a parlare in privato sul terrazzo.

Noi che i messaggini li scrivevamo su dei pezzetti di carta da passare al compagno.

Noi che si andava in cabina a telefonare. Col gettone.

Noi che c'era la Polaroid e aspettavi che si vedesse la foto.

Noi che non era Natale se alla tv non vedevamo la pubblicità della Coca Cola con l'albero.

Noi che le palline di natale erano di vetro e si rompevano.

Noi che al nostro compleanno invitavamo tutti, ma proprio tutti, i nostri compagni di classe.

Noi che facevamo il gioco della bottiglia tutti seduti per terra.

Noi che se guardavamo tutto il film delle 20:30 eravamo andati a dormire TARDISSIMO.

We watched that horror movie even though you were afraid.

We were playing football with the pine cones. We

that the cones tiravamo there as well. We

we played the bell and then run away.

We did that in the photos of trips and the horns were always smiling. We

that the bathroom could be done only after the 4.

us who went to school with folders to 2 tons. We

that when a school was an hour of gymnastics left home in overalls.

us who went to school there alone and walked back alone because there were freaks but they were in a mental hospital. We

that if a school the teacher gave you a slap, Mom at home they gave you two. We

that if you at school the teacher would put a note in his diary, was the terror at home.

We did that research in the library, not on Google. We

that the Internet did not exist.

but we know by heart 'Zoff, Gentile, Tardelli Cabrini Oriali Collovati Scirea Conti Rossi Graziani Antognoni (coach Bearzot)'. We

that 'Chernobyl disaster' means that we could not drink milk in the morning.

We are buying eggs in bulk and thick pizza a finger, with the paper of bread that is soaked in oil.

We did not know what was the moral, but there was always that ... make tea with Walker.

that we could stay out in the afternoon bike. We

that if you went into the street was not so dangerous.

We already knew that dinner was ready because there was Happy Days. We

that November 1 was 'All Saints', not Halloween.

What luck have been there.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

How Long For A Dog To Recover From Pancreatitis



from corriere.it - \u200b\u200bNEW YORK (USA) - The world of gaming it will cry. Gary Gygax, one of the creators of role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, died at his home in Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. He was 69 years. By Dave Anderson, in 1974, Gygax had given rise to the famous medieval fantasy game that has since infected millions of teen-ager and not just all over the world.

THE GAME - first published by Gygax's company, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), Dungeons & Dragons was the starting point of publishing-related role play. It is still by far the best-known and role-playing game with 20 million players, translations in many languages \u200b\u200band over one billion dollars in sales of books and accessories until 2004. Inspired by mythology, the original game allowed players to play a human being who belongs to one of four classes: warrior, mage, thief, cleric, or be a member of a fantasy race: dwarf, halfling or elf.
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A couple of words to spend too remember the wonderful evenings spent in the company of creations by Gygax and all that his work and his monumental, fundamental insight has generated over the years. The fantasy was not the same without him, generations of children would not have discovered Tolkien, there would be no movies, books, video games and much, but just as many, other little things that made me company over the years ...

I still remember when returning from London by train avidly read printed and robbed in college, when the Internet was a luxury, espnsioni, rules to aggiuntuive, item list a thousand things and downloaded by connecting to various BBS, where we talked about games role.

I remember the first painted miniatures with a taste and capacity after several failed attempts (and I still have all those "soldiers") and nuts multifaced and the feeling of being part of a strange elite, others believed that consists of idiots ...

Thanks Gary.

Underage Drinking Statistics

Goodnite Buddy

from corriere.it - \u200b\u200bJimi Hendrix Buddy Miles said that "beating a dead battery." Stout fierce style, an eye to a rhythm and blues and rock, the musician from Omaha (New England) would like to be remembered as "the worst among the bad guys." It was definitely one of the most important drummers in history del rock. Martedì è morto nella sua casa di Austin, in Texas, per complicazioni cardiache. Aveva sessant’anni. Nonostante abbia lavorato, fra gli altri, con Carlos Santana (con cui registrò un album nel cratere di un vulcano alle Hawaii) e John McLaughlin, il suo nome è legato a quello di Hendrix e alla sua Band of Gypsys, il trio con Billy Cox al basso che portava avanti il «black power» musicale. Fu una gloriosa ma brevissima esperienza, nel ’69, culminata con un album live (l’ultimo autorizzato da Hendrix prima della sua morte), tratto da quattro concerti nel periodo di Capodanno del 1970 a New York. «Fin dalla prima sera la gente era soggiogata dal suono che avevamo creato», ha ricordato Miles. Jimi had met in Montreal to Seattle when the guitarist was playing with the Isley Brothers and Buddy with Ruby & the Romantics. "Jimi and I were talking the same language of music. We had learned to play by yourself and our approach to music was unconventional. There squeezing the brain to write the arrangements. " Hendrix, fascinated by his style percussion studio wanted him to play three pieces in his legendary album "Electric Ladyland." Despite the then military training Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell. "He is extraordinary, but the blues are better than me," stressed the gruff Buddy.
Born September 5, 1947 as George Miles, began playing in very young gruppo jazz di suo padre. Poco più che adolescente venne preso nella band di Wilson Pickett. Creò con il chitarrista Mike Bloomfield gli Electric Flag («La miglior band con cui abbia mai suonato») e, nel 1968, formò i Buddy Miles Express, pubblicando il disco «Expressway To Your Skull», prodotto da Hendrix. Negli anni Settanta arrivò la collaborazione con Santana. Ma nel decennio successivo Buddy dissipò il suo talento fra disavventure giudiziarie e problemi con la droga: «Sono andato all’inferno e ne sono uscito. Ero arrivato a un punto in cui i miei problemi stavano per sopraffarmi, non mi fregava più di nulla».
Alla fine degli anni Ottanta, il ritorno «miracoloso». Con una curiosità: Miles lent his voice and his own personal version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye for a spot. The protagonists were the puppets California Raisins (Californian raisins). Today it is still considered the most famous American TV jingle.
The list of artists with whom he worked is long: David Bowie, Prince, Muddy Waters, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Betty Davis, Neil Young, Barry White, Stevie Ray Vaughan. One of his most recent publications is "Blues Berries" in 2002. "I've been a musician my whole life - he said in one of his last interviews -. I did not do nothing. "