http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/ Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:21:51 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/_following_ecos.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/_following_ecos.html Personal Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:21:51 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/prosper.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/prosper.html Books Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:46:37 +0000 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.... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/historically_in.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/historically_in.html Personal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:39:20 +0000 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.... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/domestic_silly.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/11/domestic_silly.html Personal Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:23:39 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_124.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_124.html Personal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:01:05 +0000 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)?... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/huh.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/huh.html Cinema Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:34:40 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/fall_out.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/fall_out.html Personal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:09:55 +0000 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?... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/the_education_o.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/the_education_o.html Personal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:36:05 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_123.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/10/post_123.html Personal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:57:45 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_122.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_122.html Books Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:07:40 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_121.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/07/post_121.html Travel Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:32:16 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/the_apostles_we_1.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/the_apostles_we_1.html Religion Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:02:17 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/post_120.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/post_120.html Portugal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:20:54 +0000 ...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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/so.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/so.html Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:04:32 +0000 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... http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/i_know_the_feel.html http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2009/06/i_know_the_feel.html Current Events Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:38:09 +0000