Monday, August 07, 2006

Forza il Herald Tribune!

Some brief observations from my all-too-brief holiday location, a sleepy seaside town in Southern Italy.

1. If there was a newspaper in Purgatory, it would be this one. The only English rag available, it made the Herald Tribune seem, well, jaunty.

As Lebanon and Israel burned, Castro keeled over and, heavens, there was another expulsion from the Big Brother House, it led on ...


















AARRRGGGGHHHH... I'd rather read the baseball results.

2. Italians like to round off their TV news reports with a "funny" that ivariably focuses on a slice of English eccentricity like this, yet their government can take decisions like this and still not win the top comedy slot.

3. While it may be true that "you will never eat badly in Puglia", even the greatest Spaghetti cazza (sha) can seem monotonous after day five.

2 comments:

ChrisB said...

Congratulations compadre - you are the first person in the HISTORY OF TIME to criticise The Independent for NOT putting the Middle East on the front cover!

YOU win Top Comedy Slot.

Those table things drive me mad too but not as mad as those TShirt type ones with lots of people saying 'Yes' 'No' or 'Up Yours Delors' - which is about the level they operate on.

Someone should explain to them that Tabloid really CAN be JUST A SIZE!

Questrist said...

I know but when they do it's not NEWS but just some WHINY HAND-WRINGING. UGH.