holla

so it has been a crazy couple of weeks. france, amsterdam, italy, uganda(oh shit). i don't know not much to say other than i am hung over and i will be home monday. bottega prepare for me to show up on time, do my job, and be polite to everyone; go home and be a hermit. that's it florence is still the coolest place ever and limoncello don't play.

see you fools in 48 hours like eddie murphy

on the loose like aids

so i left desenzano this morn for a couple weeks of vacay. for the first time in monthes it is warm and t-shirt weather. i guess i've got good timing. right now i'm killing the 10 hours i have until my train leaves for paris; so i am wandering around milan. i stopped to pick up a newspaper and i guess that fact that it was an english one tipped me off as a non-italian. the dude asked me if i was american i of course responded yes by default and he thanked me for the ramones, whom he happened to blaring out of his radio. that is probably actually definately the coolest thank you i have ever gotten. though i am not responsible for the ramones badassness i do dig them so i told him he was welcome. so i guess the next time i hit you i will be on more foriegn soil i'll let you know what happens.

p.s. if you had any doubts about out slipping world power i have seen more asians today than italians so i guess you could say they are taking over

in my face

so i praise america for it's freedom and she sucker punches me in the throat. after i left the internet point yesterday i picked up a newspaper. second page side column and booyah. less than half of american teenagers in a national pole could answer simple questions like: when was the civil war fought? or said colombus landed in the states after 1750 etc. etc. way to go. yeah we have the most nuclear footballs so to quote nasty nas "fools don't want beef they vegetarian", but we can't add 2 and 2 so we end blowing ourselves up. i don't really have anything to say about this except if you've got a kid educate the drain on society. this is embarassing.

meat

so yesterday was my last wednesday in desenzano a.k.a my last day off. it was cool becasue one of the guys i work with took me to a friends house for diner. i was introduced to a local dish called spiedo. basically you get a rotiesserie with four prongs; some sage; and veal, chicken legs, a whole rabbit, fatty bacon, and pork ribs. put each one on the skewer one a time with season and sage leaf in between. cook it for 5 hours slathering butter and fat on it every 30 minutes or so; boil some potaotes and booyah. add in about 6 bottles of wine more cheese than you can shake a stick at(what the hell does that mean?) and kill it with 12 loud italian people and the 2 top soccer teams playing on the boob tube and woweey it is amazing.

on a not as cool note i've now had something bad happen 3 times to me. it has really made me apperciate america sense those of you who know me are aware that i am not afraid to bash my homeland. over 7 monthes i have been stopped 3 times by police and shaken down for about 30 minutes for no reason. literally walking to the laundromat(al three time) doing nothing and listening to music. yesterday it happened again and it was the worst so far. i had my ipod and the yanni was cranked so loud i didn't hear this cop calling me. he ran up behind me and grabbed me pretty forcefully and really scared the poop out of me. i turned quickly and guess that threw him off guard so he got in my face. now, my italain has gotten pretty good but a combination of the speed and the accent this guy spoke with i could not understand a thing. i asked him to slow down and told him i was american and this made it worse. "why are you here?", "where are you going?" bullshit shake down and 30 minuteds late he threw my passport at me and told me to beat rudely. i've dealt with my fair share of cops and when i was 15 i was all about talking shit and pushing back becasue i knew i hadn't done anything wrong. as i've gotten older i have learned it is in my best interest just be polite as i was in theis situation, especially because i don't know the laws or my rights here. what was funny about it is it made miss the freedoms that george bush doesn't understand but is so diligent in "defending". if yuor white and not on crack and reding this you probably don0t understand. if your black your with me. being stopped for no reason, then being yelled at, then because you've done nothing wrong being told to "get the fuck out of here" is ridiculous. it was the same as being sat down at linn park on sunday afternoon and being told i was a piece of shit because i rode a skateboard and wore a black t-shirt(all of you whom have ever commented on my affinity to black clothing may realize why it tend to bother me) and i just didn't like it. overall this is a great country and i have no complaints, but the power of the police is a scary thing. while i've ben here there have been people killed and beaten by police and that is never acceptable unless it is the most extreme measures. i'm not changing my opinion on my country or our police i think the later are especially bad; but most folks should realize we have it pretty good. there are problems but at least can't gun you down for no reason(unless you're black and under 25). it is the one thing i look forward to being back around; however as the great ice cube once said"fuck the police!"

-you can only appreciate the freedoms you have when they are abused by those who are sworn to protect them.- i said that mofos

blah

-fog won't go away
-it refuses to get warm but playfully teases
-so chick in the laundromat demanded i get my clothes out of a drier becasue she added money and pressed the wrong button despite the fact i wasn't finished. she yelled i laughed and her husband looked like he wanted to kill himself
-only have 3 days in desenzano then i'm on vacay and i'm excited.
-stoked about coming home to my girlfirend, friends, and family
-unstoked about my home being birmingham
-considering moving to iceland not learning the language, writing an amazing novel, then following john kennedy toole to paradise and securing my self into literary fame 30 yearss from now
-scratch the above i got shit to do

think about it

"the hero of today becomes the tyrant of tomorrow unless he crucifies himself today." - joseph campbell

i've been rereading the hero with a thousand faces, this quote really grabbed me. if you've never read this book do, if you don't want to at least think about the above statement

beware

so today is wierd. desenzano has fog pretty regularly but today it has gotten thicker as the day goes on. you can only see about 3 meters in front of you and it sucks. what makes it worse is shapes appear and move jerkily resembling ZOMBIES!!!! if there was ever a day for the walking dead to roam the earth this is it. zombies are my only fear in life so as you can imagine i am freaking out. i have already stored a butchers knife close to my bed and packed water and food. get ready folks this is it. for those who survive i will see you at sea because that is the only place where we will be safe.

do not sleep and get up some stairs if you have a shotgun load it this is not a test.