Seven Guests

My seven guests.

1. Richard P. Feynman
2. Jesus
3. Roger Penrose
4. Tom Hiddleston
5. Emily Dickinson
6. Amelia Earhart
7. Joss Whedon

Having Penrose, Dick and Jesus all close to each other, would be definitely most of the fun of the night. Fortunately they are an American guy, an English gentleman and... Jesus. So, they probably wouldn't end punching each other on an argument. (I'm not so fond about Richard, doh).
Tom would try to hit the conversation of these big three all night, eventually without any effective result. However, he would end playing bongos with Dick during the after dinner. (Both drunk, obviously).
It would be perfect having Emily near Tom. She wouldn't probably speak at all anyway, so that having Tom there could either avoiding the frustration on being unable to interacting properly with the other three and entertaining her during the whole evening. Discussing about classics and poetry, but also rainbows, butterflies, tiny stars, unicorns and all "their kinda stuff". Unreal people.
Amelia would poke here and there Emily during the conversation, but, mostly she would be absorbed by Joss and his questions about women and feminism and power, probably with already a script forming in his mind.
Me? I would totally unable to say a single word, completely drowned in the awesomeness of my guests.
After that, I think, I will die.
Quickly.
And happy as a clam.

My Olympic Games essay

It's Sunday morning.
10AM.
I'm not awake because I just woke up, but because I didn't sleep.
Yet.
Or.
At all.
AS USUAL.

After a lovely evening ranting and bitching around with a couple of friends, drinking an immoderate quantity of pudding milk tea, I spent the whole night on the parquet of Dunhua Eslite bookstore lurking Chinese translations of all the Shakespearean plays I could think of.
Highest moment when a random guy, too into a Nabokov's poetry book, LITERALLY sat ON my head.
I can't recall about nobody SAT on my head before.
However, I didn't ask him to marry me, since it was Nabokov and not Yevtushenko.

(Impressively. In Italian we write Evtušenko. I just googled the English transliteration and it's Yevtushenko. God, why?).

Back home, I bought a pumpkin sandwich and a soy milk for breakfast, listening Keith Jarrett's 1976 Tokyo Concert Encore.

("Music is what feelings sound like")

For living, I read papers.
Tons. Of. Papers.
Concerning, mostly, bionic-men and heavy metals.
(And that seems Wolverine)
(But it is not).

I write on my agenda the day in which movies are out and comics are out and action figures are out.
At 36, I wear set of pins with witty jokes about famous scientists on my skull-themed sweaters.

Geek.
It's a compliment.