So recently I was in Prague for a wonderful conference on comic books and film studies where I had the pleasure to geek out about the liminal encounters between words and pictures; I presented a couple of ideas about Firefly, a wholesome TV series that unfortunately was cancelled (mostly because of corporate interests) but that…
Category: Other & Miscellaneous
Around the meme in 80 worlds
From your ‘bobr kurwas’ to your ‘hawk tuahs’ and now to your “it was staged”, more and more the global information and news, trivial or significant, are being conveyed through memes. We are truly living in the Harambe timeline, or as I would say to a normal human being in a casual conversation, “we are…
Where literature meets art
Not too long ago I had the opportunity and pleasure of discovering a wonderful masterpiece, a hidden gem of sorts that surpasses the individual confinements of written words and drawn images. Unflattening by Nick Sousanis is technically a graphic novel, but such a label is inadequate to describe the work itself; suffice to say that…
Under the olive tree
So anyway, there I was, taking the not-so-midnight – it was more like the ten fifty-five – not as much a train rather than a bus, and not as much as taking me anywhere rather than taking me to Athens. Did I just fashion that build-up to misleadingly quote Journey’s Don’t stop believing? Yes, yes…
Nr. 100 – 5 anni di Blogdan
La faccio semplice: oggi – 1 ottobre 2023 – il mio blog compie cinque anni, calcolato da quando è stato pubblicato il primo articolo (2018) che ho repostato ieri. Inoltre ho ‘manipolato’ la faccenda in modo tale da far sì che questo fosse l’articolo numero 100, e questo l’ho fatto perché…beh, perché ho una sana…
Che le Cronache abbiano inizio
Una biblioteca dedicata alla decima musa e che arde da millenni, una città rovente e che vive grazie alla PerenneFiamma, dei cittadini conosciuti sicuramente di nome e altri che celano fin troppo bene i loro segreti, questo e molto altro vi attende. Nel territorio del crepuscolo hanno così inizio le Cronache di CindeTown. Tra filosofia…
May the Chronicles begin
Within the Burning Library dedicated to the tenth muse burns the ForeverFire; the fired-up city, its inhabitants – the ones that are well known by name as well as those who conceal their secrets – and the mysteries of old await you. In this twilight, the CinderTown Chronicles begin. Dear LoreKeepers, midst literature and philosophy,…
The quirky fil rouge
This is a bit of a tie-in article. Given that I have a Youtube channel that is called Be a quirky writer, you can understand why the blog has a similar name. Recently I did a video about Waterworld for the Haunted Shores 2023 online conference. The theme was “Aquatic Surfaces & Depths” and I…
May your voice never die
I only knew his voice. I was a child at the time, but his words echoed in me, were a source of wisdom and accompanied me. For several years of my childhood my father was away for work; financially those were hard times for my country, so one of the solutions was to immigrate to…
Da binge a speed…
Molti conoscono ormai il termine inglese binge watching; un modo per consumare, o meglio ingurgitare, una serie televisiva in tempistiche relativamente brevi. Si tratta in fondo di guardare una puntata dietro l’altra, una specie di maratona, per vedere cosa succede. Riflettendoci, mi sono reso conto che con certe serie, magari in tempi morti dove la…