http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/ 2009-11-20T09:21:51+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/_following_ecos.html I like Jerusalem Artichokes | Sempé's Cartoons | Mendelssohn | Camilleri's Montalbano | Conceptual art | Being read out loud to | Sunny, cold Autumn days | Warm clotted cream rice pudding | to cook | to read | to... Personal claudia 2009-11-20T09:21:51+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/prosper.html It's such a joy for me to subscribe to Sotheby's auction announcements and to be able to browse their e-catalogues. It's as if I am awarded a glimpse of a beautiful work of art or of a piece of memorabilia... Books claudia 2009-11-18T14:46:37+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/historically_in.html A feeling of awe: attending a book launch among a small audience that included 92 year old Eric Hobsbawm. It's like having the whole 20th century sitting there with you.... Personal claudia 2009-11-09T08:39:20+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/domestic_silly.html C: What are you thinking about? R: Nothing at all. C: But that's amazing! R: Huh? C: There are people who spend decades in buddhist convents trying to achieve that.... Personal claudia 2009-11-04T08:23:39+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_124.html I've been having weird, weird, weird dreams. "Aren't they all?", you'd say. I know, I know. But mine are usually very frivolous and I wake up annoyed at myself for losing REM time with things such as Carla Bruni turning... Personal claudia 2009-10-28T11:01:05+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/huh.html Can anybody explain to me why is that the french trailer for the new Zemeckis animation movie boasts "Jim Carrey est Scrooge" when the movie is dubbed in french (presumably not by Jim Carrey, says I)?... Cinema claudia 2009-10-26T19:34:40+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/fall_out.html The letter was suprisingly rather informal and asked her why hadn't she responded to the previous ones. It finally said "Take a look at the last New Yorker you received. How would you live without it?" "Just fine", she said... Personal claudia 2009-10-22T17:09:55+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/the_education_o.html Walking by the British Library, I point at a poster with a Marie Curie quotation: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." C: That's a good one. R: Didn't she die of radiation poisoning?... Personal claudia 2009-10-22T09:36:05+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_123.html I've been so neglectful of this blog and I blame Twitter and Facebook. And my laziness. It's so much easier to write a sentence and click enter. And then one fine day I'm trying to remember the name of an... Personal claudia 2009-10-14T09:57:45+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_122.html By the end of the nineteenth century, Florence was a key destination for cultured travellers from Europe and America. Writers such as Wilde, Rilke, and Mann, painters such as Degas and Klee, and, not least, the young art historian... Books claudia 2009-07-13T15:07:40+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_121.html There must be a name for those perception errors in which we incur when, after finding out about something previously unknown, that same something seems to pop out everywhere afterward. I had never seen people surfing on a river before... Travel claudia 2009-07-12T10:32:16+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/the_apostles_we_1.html 6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus... Religion claudia 2009-06-23T18:02:17+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/post_120.html R (still in shock over the low usability level of the Lisbon airport): Your slogan should be "Welcome to Portugal, where we unnecessarily complicate what could be extremely simple." ***** (comparing passports - forgot to bring reading material for the... Portugal claudia 2009-06-22T10:20:54+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/so.html ...you vote for the UK Independence Party whose main goal is to get the UK out of the European Union. A bunch of their candidates get elected for the European Parliament (I guess they want to work against it from... claudia 2009-06-06T12:04:32+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/i_know_the_feel.html MCCORQUODALE ( pause, weary). In the closet you'll find a rope. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp CAULFIELD opens the cupboard. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp I bought it a month ago. I intended hanging myself. CAULFIELD. What stopped you? MCCORQUODALE. The weather turned nice. Funeral Games, Joe Orton... Current Events claudia 2009-06-02T17:38:09+00:00