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joseph and chico

By Flavia Krause-Jackson
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Chico, Pope Benedict XVI's nine-
year-old ginger Siamese cat, has published a tell-all book for
children about the life of Joseph Ratzinger, from his childhood
in Nazi Germany to his election as supreme pontiff in 2005.
``The story of my friend starts on April 16, 1927 on a
very cold night,'' begins the tongue-in-cheek biography of
Chico's master, told from the point of view of his favorite pet
by German author Jeanne Perego.
``Joseph and Chico'' (Edizione Messaggero Padova) has
papal authorization and includes a foreword by Georg Gaenswein,
Benedict's personal secretary since 2003.
``Here, dear children, you will find a biography very
different to the others because telling the story is a cat --
and it's not every day that a cat can call the Holy Father his
friend and write his story.''
Chico, who confesses to having scratched Benedict's face
one Christmas, tells his readers how he knew the pope was
feline-friendly after spotting a sculpture of a cat in the
garden. If it had been one of a dog ``I would have thought
twice before setting a paw'' there, he says.

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compiled by the La Venta Exploration team, filmed in August.

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Oct. 10

quid pro quo

i love my duc



and i think he deserves this:

burma

``ho visto il loro certificato di nascita, poetico, incredibile: l'unico paese al mondo dove nello stesso certificato si augura lunga e serena vita al nascituro.''


am feeling quite nauseated by a surge of token activism, which seems to me as futile as it is genuinely insulting. red shirts? the point being, er..what? expressing solidarity? am sure the lifeless corpses of thousands of monks are touched and grateful. if someone could organize something big and bold. a march of hundreds of thousands, millions of non-burmese citizens trying to bust through the land frontiers on all sides, from india to china, or to try at least to be physically close, then sign me up. but red shirts? petitions? if all those efforts, and the resources and money vested, could instead be re-directed to one single and basic concept. of barricading the country not with soldiers, guns but people like you and i. everyone giving up something that is more than an afternoon of flag-waving and candle-lighting but something far more concrete: a holiday, savings, real time and real effort. change is brought about by boldness and courage. not empty rhetoric and forwarded emails. nor political expressions of sadness and sympathy. nor pointless sanctions. or useless reports of journalists not even there and certainly not by the spurious visit of the UN nigerian to the country. our solutions seem as tired as we are.

a few pod obsessions in a nutshell

i am in a horrid mood. am sure this futile exercise will soothe my chafed nerves.




sam shepard
mmm..yes. starting to feel better already. what can i say. this is the man that ends all men. wrote the script to paris texas..stars in days of heaven...is shacked up with jessica lange...the ultimate epitome of the intellectual marlboro man. hose me down..



chen chang

always had a soft spot for asians. am sure i was not alone in going weak at the knees at the rugged mongolian in crouching tiger, hidden dragon. i then lost the plot when i saw him again, shaved head and shirtless, in taiwanese masterpiece three times (in the country folks...). hose me down..




romy schneider

visconti's muse. sublime. tragic. magnificent. doomed. say no more.......




catherine keener
yeah. yeah. yawn. yawn. hose me down.
maxine...maxine...blame ``being john malcovich''






new entry: ellen page. canadian pixie. distressingly talented. smart. must pipe down.




cause he was the DADDY. a dude to end all dudes. jeff bridges is his spiritual descendent. that effortlessness. that cheeky grin. the lazy eyes. hose me down!

love/hate.


must work now. ho hum.