The pig is dead December 10, 2006
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At this very moment, Luis Sepulveda must be raising his and Vittorio Gassman’s glasses with a generous portion of the bottle of Dom Perignon which was given to him by the late actor. I spiritually join him, as well as millions of people who will cheer up tonight, in Chile and throughout the world, those that were hurt and those that knew the suffering of a whole country for too many terrible years.
The pig is dead.
A man directly responsible of the massacre of thousands, all gone unpunished, a man of unbelievable arrogance, a dictator, driven by greed for power and money, a man in lowercase letters, a being with no conscience. May he burn in his own private hell.
I will not speak out his name here. The greatest punishment that a human being could get in the ancient greek mythology was not just to die: the Gods decided to forget him or her forever. It was as if he or she had never existed. So let it be with one of the biggest criminals in the history of the twentieth century.
Bowling December 10, 2006
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Today we ate at a nice restaurant in Mirano (”I molini”) and after lunch we spent some time at a gaming place nearby where Filippo and I had a couple of games of bowling - something he’s liked a lot since he discovered it last summer in Austria.
Of course, the balls weigh about a fifth of his total body weight (he’s not quite 8 years old) so one cannot really pretend him to be able to impart it a lot of speed. But he played a few good shots nonetheless, and we had quite some fun.
And I had my share of fun as well: in the second game I beat my own record, with four strikes - two in the last two frames. No, I am not the kind of father that will play to let his son win! I did encourage him a lot, and Filippo well realizes he still has to grow a lot stronger before he can play it at a competitive level…
Below are a couple of pictures of Filippo playing, and - for the record - a screen shot of the last game.
