Friday, September 24

Berlusconi fiddles while Rome burns...

And, if Nero had been alive by the time the Flavian Amphitheatre had been built, well, this is very much what it may have looked like. Granted, there's not much to go up in smoke today, but...this video is by far the best video on youtube, although you don't see the orange - and very realistic flames- from this temporary art installation in Rome. Why temporary? You'd think after all the trouble of putting up these things, they'd keep it going for awhile...After all, Rome wasn't burnt in a day...




I absolutely love the Colosseum as a monument of all times. It used to be lit up green every so often -- but, unlike the Empire State Building - it was lit up that way whenever America killed a death row inmate. Personally, and considering that one woman is killed every three days in Italy by her lover - husband or ex, I always thought they should be lighting it up pink just about every three days...and then, hope it would be temporary.

2 comments:

Dave514 said...

Cara Francesca:
This is somewhat off point, though Silvio the Il Duce is as about a criminal as you can get, here is the layout of the Sicilian....Calabrese Ndrangheta. It's supposed to have strong ties in Canada. I'm sure that's true in the US too.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/09/25/the-rules-of-the-%E2%80%98ndrangheta/

Yes, yes the Calabrese are Sicilians, check your history...LOL!!! One rule about all Sicilians is that you can't understand them whatever it is they speak.

Davide

Anonymous said...

Pretty wild!