As you can see, I have no time to update my blog. However, this is a video I have prepared in response to the new hymn of Forza Italia (Silvio Berlusconi) . Good vision

Well, today I would like to talk about the city where I live in, Bologna. As you probably understood from the title of the post, I’m not really up of flattering it. “The city has changed a lot. When I came to Bologna in 1960, the city was really different. Back then it was a city where you would have never gone to sleep. Some restaurants were always open. The first “slap”happened in ‘73- ‘74, at the time of the petrol crisis, with the obligation of closing bars and clubs at twelve p.m.”.

To these words of Guccini, I would add that many initiatives of Cofferati, now mayor of Bologna, did not improve at all the situation, as I thought instead he was going to do when I was celebrating his victory through the streets of the centre!!!

“Forbidden to consume outside after 9 p.m.”, argues the mayor’s imposition. And the council of state agrees as well!! Reasons: assure urban safety and avoid loud and tipsy people who go around the arcades and squares untill late!

Basically, or alcohol or fresh air!! For everyone!.
OLIVETTI M40: yes, but there is still noise!
So what do we need squares for then, if not to meet all together? To socialize? Especially in a city where the spaces to socialize are in extinction!!! Let’s put it this way: the noise of (some) squares is something that the city has to accept, as it’s accepted the noise of the railways or the airport…So it’s a service that the city offers to the citizenship which permits dialogue and comparison!I would worry instead if the squares would be empty!!!
OLIVETTI M40: what about the people that pee here and there, and leaves bottles everywhere?
So, my dear typewriter, to forbid the sale of alcohol it was “acceptable” in America during the years where you got pruducted, therefore more than seventy years ago!Not in 2007!These are nothing else but excuses to justify the imposition.
Problems can be risolved in another way: chemical toilettes, for example! If people use squares there should be also services! Garbage bins would be needed as well. Or simply put the “vuoto a rendere”(in Italian we use the expression “vuoto a rendere” when we buy a bottle of something (milk, water, wine) living a caution that we’ll take back when we’ll return the empty bottle) as they do in Germany!!! It makes me laugh when in the newspaper “Il Resto del Carlino” concerning the urban blight of Bologna, they show full garbage bins and beer bottles piled up around them.
Obviously… where do they have to put those bottles?!? Mhhh! The funny thing is when you look around at night “dealers” of beers that stealthily sell warm cans that cost double (and people exasperated buys it!!! Hiding and stealthily, as he is doing some kind of serious crime!!!). All of this reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer is Beer Baron.
Then, Bologna is missing of social places which are real and central, not public canteens with a discount of 30% up to 9:00 p.m…
Anyway, as a conclusion I will link a piece of Dario Dariotti, BOLOGNADEMERDA o BOLOGNA DE MERDA ( shitty Bologna), that I think it strays enough with the topic.

The piece is available in four different remix, which you can listen and download directly from the blog of the author: Myspace di Dario Dariotti (o DariodeRoma).
And since the piece talks also about “Mamma Roma Addio” (Mother Rome Goodbye) of Remo Remotti, famous artist of the Rome, I will post this video as well. Bye everyone!