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I Want To Get Wasted At An Italian Bar And Listen To Leonard Cohen (1 Viewer)

rockaction

rockaction

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But I’m sober these days. Seventy-eight days without alcohol, one drug blip. Other than that, it’s been the whole sobriety shebang. Pomp, circumstance, meetings, everything. Talk me out of European whisky and regaling our Italian brothers and sisters with Canadian song.

 
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Osaurus said:
First you’ll take Manhattan....
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Nice.🤝

I’m just glad Europeans rarely have ice. I can hear the clinking in the glass right now, but I wouldn’t even know how to ask for it. Per/por favore and grazie are all I know. “Whisky. Grazie” is all I can really say. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Just pretend you're feeling a bit buzzed and you'll feel a bit buzzed.
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A splendid idea that does not satisfy the craving for the vapor smell of the milky liquid hitting ice. But my other senses are satisfied: For example, all I can see are scooters as far as the eye can imagine. That does not put me in a whisky mood, thankfully. It’s hard to be whisky-grizzled on a Vespa or whatever they’re scooting on. 

 
otb_lifer said:
head to Calabria ... thank me later.

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I’m traveling with company. Parents, brother, sister-in-law. Can’t cut out of the schedule. In Rome for another day. Pompeii tomorrow. Today was a papal appearance that I skipped. I am not a Catholic, I guess. Couldn’t muster the will for a second straight day of The Vatican. 

 
rockaction said:
I’m traveling with company. Parents, brother, sister-in-law. Can’t cut out of the schedule. In Rome for another day. Pompeii tomorrow. Today was a papal appearance that I skipped. I am not a Catholic, I guess. Couldn’t muster the will for a second straight day of The Vatican. 
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you are part(s) Italian, no?  Italian - Catholic as Fillipino - Jolibee ... jus' sayin'

 
rockaction said:
Ah, I just re-read that. Now I get it. Raised Roman Catholic, but I’m turned off by certain things. 
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ditto, mi genti

i very much appreciate The Word, the teaching ... the spirit of Christ - yes, sign me up. 

but the dogma wore me down - starting wif the corporal punishment, coupled with the shunning of our family 'cuz Dad was a "gambler", so to speak - they treated my brothers and me like dog#### - called us half breeds when it suited them (Mom's Irish), no good greaseball when they threw that out the winderr. 

and, yes, by THEY i am referring to both Cleric and layperson staff.  they finally ran us all out by the time i was in 7th grade (my older bros already expelled years prior ... i hung on longer due to academics/athletics)  

my daughter has bought me back.  we never baptized her, we never foisted ... she asked to attend mass, so i granted.  we've gone every Sunday since ... she is getting a ton from the peace and serenity it offers. 

i'm glad she did initiate ... this ain't her father's dogmatic theocracy atm. 

 
otb_lifer said:
i'm glad she did initiate ... this ain't her father's dogmatic theocracy atm. 
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That’s great. So much better when it comes from within. Bless her and us.

I was finally pushed over the edge by history and the scandal. Too much for me. I’d always excused the central authority as important for organization and teaching, but that showed me how much damage the structure alone mixed with the political power could do.

 
rockaction said:
That’s great. So much better when it comes from within. Bless her and us.

I was finally pushed over the edge by history and the scandal. Too much for me. I’d always excused the central authority as important for organization and teaching, but that showed me how much damage the structure alone mixed with the political power could do.
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the scandal. 

yep. 

our Parish is predominately Fillipino/Hispanic ... 75% culled from those demographics, i'm sure ... the white attendees are less and less as each week passes by ...

that's pertinent because the Pastor and two attending priests are all Fillipino ... and he (Pastor) gave as inspiring, evocative 30 minute homily on said scandal a few months ago ... he was humble, ashamed - in tears at one point - but full of humility and pennance - now, i lnow from a good con,  but i've sat privately with this man, and i smell "legit" in a very positive way.  

it certainly doesn't change what horrific things happened - but they're clean - and they all begged for our forgiveness, prayers, and strength. 

my daughter's a sharp lil' thing ... she understood it correlated to "the talk" we had about "inappropriateness" - kids are a ton more savvy these days. she got it.  she digested it. she was pissed, and felt betrayed. but she's moved on, by her own choice. 

final note ... Christianity, in and of the Protestant bent, may be dying a very painstaking death in much of this country ... but, i assure you, the Asian and Hispanic populations in the Northeast urban areas will always pump the Catholic Church with fresh blood ... they are the new Irish/Italian bedrocks. 

 
If by "Canadian song" you mean Nickelback, don't do it.

But, seriously, just lost one of my best friends to alcohol at 47.  If its a problem, the stakes are high.  Be kind to yourself and the rest will follow.  

 
munga30 said:
If by "Canadian song" you mean Nickelback, don't do it.

But, seriously, just lost one of my best friends to alcohol at 47.  If its a problem, the stakes are high.  Be kind to yourself and the rest will follow.  
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No worries about Nickelback or Avril, for that matter. 

Stakes are reasonably high and have been for twenty years. Time to quit.

 
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb toward the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can

And no one called us to the land
And no one crosses there alive
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me
To rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabys
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky

 
Sure thing. 

Talk to you on the 5th of July.

Such a long trip without getting wasted and listening to Cohen. Next up is Florence for three days then Barcelona and Toledo and Malaga...

Sort of missing the States. Don't see how it gets better after the Colisseum and the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo,  Raphael, Donatello, etc.

 
It's 3:11 PM here. If this were PST, I'd be drinking or stoned off ADHD medication and caffeine at 5:11 AM.

And listening to the ladies' man of ladies' men. 

Did I mention he was Canadian?

Dang. 

 
Sorry. The tourist stand here is selling naked souvenir towels. Nothing screams ash-covered ruins like naked souvenir towels.

Is Rick Derringer in ze hausen?

 
rockaction said:
Sure thing. 

Talk to you on the 5th of July.

Such a long trip without getting wasted and listening to Cohen. Next up is Florence for three days then Barcelona and Toledo and Malaga...

Sort of missing the States. Don't see how it gets better after the Colisseum and the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo,  Raphael, Donatello, etc.
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You got a Picasso museum in Malaga. Which includes this:

The oldest architectural remains in the city are the walls of the Phoenician city, which are visible in the cellar of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
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"Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance"" - I could get lost here for years!

I already pined about the Barcelona Gothic Quarter.

Toledo looks to have some really cool sections of town as well - castle and cathedral - nice.

I think you got a lot left.

rockaction said:
Sorry. The tourist stand here is selling naked souvenir towels. Nothing screams ash-covered ruins like naked souvenir towels.
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Like in --- "the King has No Clothes"? 

Don't fall for it - there is no towel.

 
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