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<title><![CDATA[Venise, futur Atlantide? (partie 2)]]></title>
<link>http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/venise-futur-atlantide-partie-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>glaliberte</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[La première journée, nous avions déjà parcouru une bonne partie de la ville qui est semblable à un l]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>La première journée, nous avions déjà parcouru une bonne partie de la ville qui est semblable à un labyrinthe, avec ses allées débouchant sur un canal et qui nous obligeaient à rebrousser chemin (il n&#8217;y a qu&#8217;une fois où nous avons fini par retourner  sur nos pas après avoir tourné en rond, et c&#8217;était le dimanche).</p>
<p>Le samedi, journée ensoleillée, nous avons parcouru les mêmes endroits, mais cette fois de l&#8217;angle d&#8217;un des vaporettos, des bateaux qui servent de transport en commun pour les résidents (et peut-être encore plus pour les touristes).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1347" title="vaporetto" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070132.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="512" /></p>
<p>Voir tous ces palais donne une impression saisissante de la richesse qu&#8217;ont connue ces lieux. En même temps, on peut sentir une certaine torpeur, un relâchement dans l&#8217;entretien de ces immeubles. Il faut dire que Venise s&#8217;enfonce et que les inondations se multiplient, limitant les investissements dans les immeubles déjà hors de prix tant qu&#8217;il ne sera pas certain que la ville fasse les efforts nécessaires pour enrayer le danger, bien connu depuis plus de 40 ans.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1348" title="Ca'D'Oro" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070081.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="512" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1350" title="palais_venise" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070073.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
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<p>La place Saint-Marc est l&#8217;endroit le plus bas et même par jour de beau temps, l&#8217;eau n&#8217;est pas très loin.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1368" title="vue sur san giorgio maggiore" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070116.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>Des pontons sont d&#8217;ailleurs disposés en permanence pour permettre aux gens de se déplacer quand l&#8217;eau envahit la place centrale de la ville.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1354" title="place_saint_marc" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb060038.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>Comme il pleuvait le dimanche, nous avons pu voir leur utilité.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1352" title="place_saint_marc_pluie" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb080177.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
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<p>Nous avons aussi visité le palais des Doges, un autre beau vestige de cette époque d&#8217;opulence. On a vu un livre sur l&#8217;évasion des prisons de Venise de Casanova dans la boutique de souvenir. Céline l&#8217;a pris à la bibliothèque au retour. C&#8217;était amusant de lire l&#8217;histoire de Casanova et ses descriptions dans les lieux que nous venions de visiter.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1355" title="palais_doges" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070113.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1356" title="palais_doges_cour" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb080160.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1357" title="palais_doges_escalier_or" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb080170.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="512" /></p>
<p>La dernière soirée, nous sommes partis au hasard dans une partie peu touristique de la ville. Céline a repéré un endroit qui semblait avoir de l&#8217;animation. Avec ses vitres givrées, je croyais que c&#8217;était un local pour gondoliers locaux ou autre. C&#8217;était en fait un restaurant sympathique et simple tenus par deux vieux bonhommes. Au mur, on pouvait voir des photos des deux messieurs alors qu&#8217;ils étaient plus jeunes et servant dans le même restaurant.</p>
<p>Petit conseil : venir en période hors-saison tourisitques : les prix sont coupés de moitié, ce qui le rend abordable et permet d&#8217;éviter les odeurs nauséabondes et l&#8217;humidité qui baignent la ville l&#8217;été.</p>
<p>Autre avantage, cela permet de visiter la ville de nuit, qui est aussi sinon plus belle par endroit.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1358" title="venise_nuit" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb060054.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1361" title="Universite_lettre_jour" src="http://meteosuisse.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pb070106.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[A fi sau a nu fi …seducator]]></title>
<link>http://pantaleonescu.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/a-fi-sau-a-nu-fi-%e2%80%a6seducator/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pantaleonescu</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Orice barbat ar vrea sa cucereasca femei… E in firea lui… Insa nu toti reusesc, le lipseste sarmul, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Orice barbat ar vrea sa cucereasca femei… E in firea lui… Insa nu toti reusesc, le lipseste sarmul, sau banii sau masina cu multi cai putere, prezenta, atitudinea de barbat cuceritor… Iubirea nu se invata, spunea cineva, si totusi…</p>
<p>Cel mai mare cuceritor al tutror timpurilor se spune ca a fost Don Juan, insa… se pare ca fost doar un mit, literatura! Totusi a existat un <em>pradator</em> care pe cat a fost de ral pe atat de <em>vorace</em>… in materie de erotism. Numele lui e Casanova.</p>
<p><img src="http://femeiasecolului21.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/giacomo-casanova.jpg" alt="giacomo-casanova" width="300" height="436" /></p>
<p><strong>Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt</strong> (1725-1798) a fost un aventurier italian, originar din Veneţia, devenit celebru prin peripeţiile sale galante, evocate în „<strong><em>Memoires</em></strong>” („Povestea vietii mele”) scrise între anii 1791 si 1798, care cuprind existenţa sa aventuroasă şi experientele sale, convingerile sale, care se remarcă printr-o bună cunoaştere şi descriere a moravurilor epocii.Nu cred ca vei avea rabdarea sa  citesti cele 12 volume autobiografice ale lui Casanova, daca vrei sa afli macar de ce nimeni nu a putut sa-i egaleze talentul de <em>vrajitor sexual</em> de mai bine de 200 de ani!</p>
<p><img src="http://femeiasecolului21.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Casanova_1788.jpg" alt="Casanova" width="425" height="469" /><br />
Dar de ce au unii succes in exces?  Pentru ca si in zilele noastre sunt “casanovi” cat cuprinde. Cum reusesc  ei sa cucereasca o sumedenie de femei, iar unii nu reusesc sa tina macar o femeie langa ei.</p>
<p>In 73 de ani de viata el a facut dragoste cu 132 de femei, printre care aristocrate, actrite, dansatoare, servitoare, sclave grecoaice, cinci surori plus mama lor, un travestit, o cocosata, o nimfomana, cateva calugarite! Spre deosebire de fictivul Don Juan, Giacomo Casanova nu a fost un pradator sexual. El se indragostea de-a binelea de multe dintre femeile pe care le-a avut si scopul lui, atunci cand le ademenea in iatac, era sa le satisfaca pe ele.  In memoriile lui… el da niste “sfaturi” cu care eu, personal, sunt mai mult sau mai putin de acorda…in linii mari, ele ajuta foarte mult nu numai in a cuceri o femeie, ci in a o mentine langa tine, daca asta doresti.</p>
<p><img src="http://femeiasecolului21.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/casanova_fr.jpg" alt="casanova" width="297" height="400" /><br />
<strong>1. Ca sa faci o femeie sa se simta speciala, fa ceva special! </strong><br />
Atunci cand vrei sa impresionezi o femeie, niciodata sa nu o intrebi ce ar vrea sa faca. Un adevarat <em>Casanova</em> are intotdeauna are un plan de atac. Astfel femeia capata incredere in el si se lasa dominata cu placere.<br />
<strong>2. Intimitatea e sexy! O femeie magulita e trei sferturi cucerita! </strong><br />
Si nimic nu maguleste mai tare o femeie ca atunci cand simte ca a captat intreaga atentie a unui barbat. Du-o departe de galagie, in intimitate o femeie poate fi ea insasi, dar totul depinde de atmosfera in care patrunde. Insa, sexul… nu inseamna niciodata intimitate. Insa intimitatea e premergatoare erotismului.<br />
<strong>3. Las-o sa se simta fascinata de faptul ca…esti fascinat de ea.</strong><br />
Casanova invita femeile in camere pline de lumina si oglinzi pentru ca ele sa se bucure de imaginea lor din toate unghiurile posibile. Femeia insusi se simte mai sexy atunci cand se priveste in oglinda. Nu exista nici macar o oglinda ?…fi tu insuti oglinda in care sa se admire, aratandu-i efectul pe care il are asupra ta.<br />
<strong>4. Intreab-o la ce se gandeste</strong>.<br />
Batranul cuceritor stia sa atinga intai sufletul unei femei inainte sa indrazneasca sa atinga orice altceva. E usor sa faci o femeie sa vorbeasca despre sine, e usor sa ii stapanesti si corpul, sufletul insa e mai dificil. Casanova seducea femeia pe durata catorva ore, stia sa intrebe, dar si sa asculte.Barbatul  modern are tendinta de a se concentra mai mult asupra femeii ca obiect…o am cat pot de repede si de cate ori pot, fara implicatii, si atunci nu mai esti un <em>Casanova</em>… Motivul pentru care femeile il gaseau pe Casanova fascinant era acela ca el le gasea pe ele fascinante!</p>
<p><img src="http://femeiasecolului21.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Giovanni_casanova.jpg" alt="Giovanni_casanova" width="300" height="285" /></p>
<p><strong>5. Nu te zgarci tocmai acum!</strong><br />
Daca te-a acceptat pe tine si invitatia ta de a iesi impreuna nu-i arata cat de zgarcit sau sarac esti. Exagereaza cu galanteriile, cu mici desfrauri costisitoare. Acceptandu-le pe acestea, le va accepta si pe cele care urmeaza (in dormitor).<br />
<strong>6. Da importanta simturilor ei.</strong><br />
Casanova folosea afrodiziace. Parfuma camera cu tuberoze pentru ca se credea ca stimuleaza apetitul sexual…fii inventiv… provoac-o sa vorbeasca dar nu uita, din cand in cand, o atingere usora ca sa-i aduca aminte de ce se afla acolo… Asadar, acorda atentie celor cinci simturi ale femeii de langa tine. Fiecare din ele e un motoras pe care trebuie sa-l incalzesti.<br />
<strong>7. Ai rabdare! </strong><br />
Desi Casanova se infierbanta atunci cand observa ca o femeie nu poarta corset, ci doar o camasa de dantela, nu se arunca asupra ei. El credea ca daca gusti placerea prea repede, nu apuci s-o gusti pe toata. Deci trebuie sa stii ca preludiul nu incepe cu 60 de secunde inaintea actului sexual si nici macar nu incepe in dormitor. El incepe o data cu momentul intalnirii…<br />
<strong>8. Joaca-te! </strong><br />
Mancarea si bautura pe care le comanda Casanova erau in mare parte aluzii sexuale, ii placea sa se joace. Cand o stridie lunecoasa ii cadea ei in decolteu, se oferea imediat sa o soarba de acolo. Casanova era constient ca sexul nu e un lucru serios, ci o joaca de adulti. Asadar, cand o inviti sa mancati undeva, aminteste-ti ca preludiul deja a inceput. Mancati unul din mana celuilalt, beti amandoi din acelasi pahar etc.<br />
<strong>9. Fii spontan</strong><br />
Casanova era un tip rabdator, dar niciodata nu lasa sa-i scape o ocazie daca se ivea singura. Cand o femeie ti se ofera din proprie initiativa, uita de toate celelalte porunci si bucura-te de norocul pe care l-ai avut.<br />
<strong>10. Fa-i cadouri senzuale </strong>Casanova cumpara femeilor desuuri si le dadea motiv sa le probeze. Astfel, joaca incepea. Nu oferi femeii cadouri foarte serioase din prima: carti, haine de blana. E de-ajuns ceva vaporos, o esarfa de matase, un “<em>neglige</em>” in care sa alunece cand ajungeti in dormitor. Trimite-o sa se imbrace singura in baie si las-o sa-si faca aparitia triumfatoare. Va fi pregatita!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Love Week: What is your symbol of love?]]></title>
<link>http://aspiringartists.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/love-week-what-is-your-symbol-of-love/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>AspiringArtists</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The ecstasy, passion and turmoil of love- love in all its consuming forms- have been parsed and diss]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The ecstasy, passion and turmoil of love- love in all its consuming forms- have been parsed and dissected over the millennia, but the essence continues to elude. Philosophers and poets have struggled to understand this most primal of human emotions, only to come up short. Plato compared love to the appreciation of beauty, but what is beauty? Descartes saw an emotion so dee[ that a lover&#8217;s soul actually merged with the soul of the person loved. Freud suspected that love was a vestige of arrested development and confined it to the couch. And yet, Shakespeare might have said it best when he asked, famously, &#8220;What is Love&#8221; and left the question to answer itself.</p>
<p>The failure to understand love has obviously not prevented us from falling in love. Everyday, someone is struck by Cupid&#8217;s arrow and learns, first hand, what love really means. Ask that person to explain it, however, and you will get a hundred different answers- all inadequate. She might argue that love is simply a feeling, like being happy or sad. But that would not explain how love can sometimes contradict itself, our emotions, or why we can be angry and in love with the same person at the same time. Many couples, however, are sexually passionate and may like each other without truly being in love. And then there is the argument that love is a mutual affection based on admiration, attachment and common interests. But love is much more than just a partnership. To paraphrase a familiar catch phrase, sometimes being in love means letting go.</p>
<p>Symbols allow us to express love in a way that words often cannot. The ineffable qualities attributed to love are eloquently captures in a visual language that has evolved for as long as man has sought to explain it. In fact, the earliest love symbols predate civilization and language itself. One of the very first examples of prehistoric art, a limestone sculpture of a pregnant woman, is thought to have been carried by male hunters as a reminder of their mates back home &#8211; a precursor perhaps of the modern-day locket. Some even argue that warmth was not the only service fire provided cavemen; it also awakened their desire for knowledge, primarily because it accompanies the desire for love. By the time man began developing a crude written language, love was one of the first symbols coined. In Egyptian hieroglyphics, for instance, the ankh represented a love shared between two people, among other things.</p>
<p>In the millennia since then, the vocabulary of love symbols has flourished and grown more nuanced, offering tongue-tied lovers a token for every occasion. There are gifts of courtship and signs for commitment, even gestures to express mourning over a lover&#8217;s death. Each new symbol fills a void in language created by the rising complexity of romantic relationships. Moreover, new symbols are a response to changing social mores. While love may be universal, transcending both time and place, how love is expressed symbolically is a reflection of each culture&#8217;s relation to love and sexual relationships. A culture that extolls love will glorify its virtues through rich imagery, while a repressive society will discourage and sublimate them. Seen the other way, whether it finds pleasure in romance, the way young lovers do, or responsibility and consequences, like a schoolmarm.</p>
<p>Some of the most magnificent symbols date back to Ancient Greece and Rome, where love and sex were treated as just another of life&#8217;s ongoing bacchanals. Pagan love was guilt-free, hedonistic and unrestrained. Bisexuality was encouraged, as were homosexual relations between men and boys. Paramours and courtesans were considered superior to wives and virtuous women, and men who managed to fall in love were considered victims of illness. In keeping with this &#8220;liberated&#8221; climate where sex was worshiped, love symbols were elevated from static tokens to the echelons of the Gods. And each God was as fickle and promiscuous as Greco-Roman relationships themselves. Cupid, the mischievous matchmaker, embodies the pleasure-seeking values of this period: a God that symbolizes the uninhibited nature  of romance, where few rules dictate where love can strike. Likewise, Venus, the impetuous love Goddess, exemplifies what was considered the enviable qualities of women: uncontrolled passion, insatiable lust and unrivaled beauty.</p>
<p>By the Middle ages, as Christianity swept across Europe, sex was turned into a guilty and sinful activity, more a civic duty than a biological gift. Premarital sex was forbidden and married couples could only have sex in one position and never on Sundays, and then only to conceive children. If women were sometimes relegated to sex objects in Greco-Roman culture, medieval women were second-class citizens, property given away at marriage and valued for being nurturing mothers. Romance as we know it today did not exist; love was merely a pretext for keeping families together. Pagan rituals that celebrated love were suppressed by the Catholic Church across the continent. The festival of St. Valentine&#8217;s Day, which originated in Rome to honor the God of fertility, was converted into a commemoration of a martyred saint. And the heart, the symbol of primal love between two people, was recast into a religious icon representing God&#8217;s transcendent love for man.</p>
<p>The start of courtly love and the creation of the romantic ideal emerged in the 11th century. Courtly love, which was based on a highly ritualized code that prescribed the behavior of ladies and their suitors, existed to serve the lady. A nobleman in love with a married woman of equally high -or higher- stature had to prove his devotion by heroic deeds and amorous writings. Once the lovers had exchanged pledges and consummated their passion, complete secrecy had to be maintained. Although the pleasures of lovemaking returned, the act itself was regarded as baser than &#8220;true love&#8221;, expressed mostly through kissing, touching and fondling. As the Protestant Reformation movement gained ground, courtly love introduced the element of romance between men and women for the first time. This revolutionary concept, in which love was based on mutual respect and admiration, elevated women from a servant to an equal, at least in matters of the heart.</p>
<p>This seismic shift in the regard of love- divine sacrament to emotional happiness- was attended by a largesse of love symbols. Courtiers relied on any advantage, including extravagant gifts, to win a woman&#8217;s heart. Though little jewelry was made during the Middle Ages, by the 12th century, jewelry making reached the status of a fine art. Diamonds, once reserved for monarchs as a sign of their crushing wealth, became a gift offered in marriage, while gold and other precious metals were removed from the vaults, spun into decorative forms and worn by women to show off their statute and charm. The end of this period also gave us some of the history&#8217;s greatest lovers: Romeo and Juliet, the 16th century classic story of star-crossed lovers, and Casanova, the Italian romantic born in 1725 who remains the archetypal seducer of women.</p>
<p>As the Victorian age arrived in the 19th century, love symbols became more baroque and laden. Outright displays of affection were discouraged, and Victorian symbols allowed lovers to express that which could not be uttered in polite company. The rise of capitalism meant the decline of nobility and the ascension of a new class of rich entrepreneurs who rejected the courtly customs in favor of a maudlin sensibility. Women, once appreciated for being dazzling and flirtatious, were now held up to prudish notions about virginity, virtue and modesty. Wedding dresses, for instance, became layered and restrictive, burying the flesh under yards of textiles. This new sensibility is perhaps best exemplified in the subtle language of flowers that allowed lovers to communicate without the knowledge of chaperones. The type of flower presented, its color, even how it was worn conveyed a particular message. And the messages themselves were decidedly Victorian: wallflowers, ivy and myrtle all represented fidelity, while lavender and foxglove were, respectively, devotion and insincerity. If a boy presented a  girl with a red rose with leaves and thorns, it meant she was feared, but he was hopeful. If the girl returned it with the leaves removed, but the thorns intact, it was a signal for him to move on.</p>
<p>In the 20th century, Victorian restraints gave way to a new age of romantic love that united sexual outlet, affectionate friendship and family functions in a single relationship. Spurred by a capitalist boom and the burgeoning feminist movement, relations between the sexes became more egalitarian. Marriage was based on love and happiness, rather than on economics or prescribed rituals. Dating as we know it today came into existence and young lovers were given license to experiment before taking the plunge. New love symbols emerged to express this brave new world. Anniversary gifts afforded an opportunity for spouses to celebrate their continuing love. Valentine&#8217;s Day became a secular holiday celebrated by school children and grandparents alike; everything from chocolate hearts to greeting cards flooded the marketplace. Young lovers, meanwhile, developed their own special symbols like identification bracelets, tree inscriptions and varsity jackets.</p>
<p>New symbols have also been coined in response to major social, political and medical events in the latter part of the 20th century. The worldwide scourge of HIV and the failure to find a cure has transformed the condom, once considered vulgar, into a  life-saving symbol of respect between lovers. The feminist revolution further realigned the boundaries between the sexes, and questioned whether certain love symbols were not themselves sexist in nature. Technology has also given us new avenues of communication through which to express and find love. As any American teenager knows, typing &#8216;143&#8242; into a person&#8217;s pager translates into &#8216;I love you&#8217;. Emails and instant messages have revolutionized the courtship process &#8211; think of them as the 21st century&#8217;s equivalent to the handwritten love letters from the previous millennium.</p>
<p>It would be obvious to state that new love symbols will continue to arise as love takes on new forms. Yet, the sentiments they express will be surprisingly similar. The Gods of the Greco-Roman era may share little on the outside with the streaming 1s and 0s that make up modern-day love missives. But as their core, both hope to express that which cannot be put into words- the ineffable qualities of love that have stumped man since the beginning of history. Empires might rise and fall, wars might sever relationships, plagues might ravish generations, but love will always -always- conquer time and symbols will be its witness.</p>
<p>What is your symbol of love?</p>
<p>(Source: Assouline)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[P.s. Oud (over mij)]]></title>
<link>http://komttijd.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/p-s-oud-over-mij/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ruudsneep</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Al 2 jaar schrijf ik, wanneer ik iets over mijzelf dien te vertellen, een kort gedichtje dat in het ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Al 2 jaar schrijf ik, wanneer ik iets over mijzelf dien te vertellen, een kort gedichtje dat in het Italiaans en Frans te vinden is in ‘Histoire de ma vie’ van Casanova.<!--more--></p>
<p>Ik geloof dat het origineel van Virgil(ius) is, maar ik heb het boek niet hier in Utrecht liggen, dus zou dat moeten nazoeken.</p>
<p>Het is eigenlijk een anti-paaps gedicht. Ik heb alleen de twee regels eruit gehaald die mij aanspraken:</p>
<p>Nul serment n&#8217;est gardée,<br />
nul accord n&#8217;est sincère,<br />
Quand la bouche a parlé,<br />
Le coeur dit le contraire.</p>
<p>(Niet heilig het verbond,</p>
<p>Niet veilig is het pact,</p>
<p>De zaken van de mond</p>
<p>Verloochent door het hart.<br />
vrij vertaald)</p>
<p>Waarschijnlijk is het tijd het ondertussen te veranderen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Notebook Casanova]]></title>
<link>http://vakadesign.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/notebook-casanova/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vakadesign</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vakadesign.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/notebook-casanova/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As Riley packed his backpack this morning, he announced that he needed another spiral notebook for s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As Riley packed his backpack this morning, he announced that he needed another spiral notebook for science class.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Another</em> one?&#8221; I ask.  This is the third notebook this year.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, the other one fell apart.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What do you <em>do</em> to them, Ri?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The covers just keep falling off!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re not treating them right,&#8221; interjects Jake. &#8220;You need to treat them like a lover.  You need to treat them softly, and carefully.  Stroke them gently.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Really, Jake?   <em>Really</em>?&#8221;   I ask.</p>
<p>He grins widely, and nods his head, &#8220;Yeah.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s really beautiful.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Uh-huh,&#8221;  he agrees.</p>
<p>&#8220;Or,&#8221; says Riley, &#8220;OR!  I could treat it like a <em>notebook</em>, because that&#8217;s less creepy.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vakadesign.com">www.vakadesign.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[COMIX OF THE DECADE #4]]></title>
<link>http://teh09er.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/comix-of-the-decade-4/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>davis64</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teh09er.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/comix-of-the-decade-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I’m usually against decade lists, especially those conducted when that decade hasn’t even finished y]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Casa nova]]></title>
<link>http://123bier.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/casa-nova/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alemão</dc:creator>
<guid>http://123bier.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/casa-nova/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tudo pode mudar, até um blog que estava parcialmente inativo. O Einz, Zwei, Drei, BIER! agora faz pa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Tudo pode mudar, até um blog que estava parcialmente inativo.</p>
<p>O Einz, Zwei, Drei, BIER! agora faz parte do WordPress &#8211; mais por questão de conveniência do que propriamente por um grande motivo sem muitas explicações.</p>
<p>Será atualizado com mais frequência, ou com conteúdo que preste?</p>
<p><strong>Não.</strong></p>
<p>Mas pelo menos é um começo.</p>
<p>Ah! O endereço antigo, no blogspot, ainda está disponível, com todo o arquivo de causos e postagens (tem alguns realmente bem legais antes do blog ser mais imbecil e formato de desabafo) pode ser lido <strong><a href="http://www.123bier.blogspot.com" target="_blank">aqui</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>(www.123bier.blogspot.com)<br />
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<p><strong>SAUDAÇÕES GERMÂNICAS.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[20 novembre: Archeologia del futuro italiano.]]></title>
<link>http://dalpulpallanewepic.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/20-novembre-archeologia-del-futuro-italiano/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alessandro Raveggi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dalpulpallanewepic.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/20-novembre-archeologia-del-futuro-italiano/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dalla notorietà delle saghe di Emilio Salgari all&#8217;archeologia fantastica di Peter Kolosimo, no]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://dalpulpallanewepic.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kolosimo.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-62" src="http://dalpulpallanewepic.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kolosimo.jpg?w=102" alt="" width="102" height="150" /></a>Dalla notorietà delle saghe di <strong>Emilio Salgari</strong> all&#8217;archeologia fantastica di <strong>Peter Kolosimo</strong>, non dimenticando l&#8217;<em>Icosameron</em> di <strong>Giacomo Casanova</strong>, le <em>Storie naturali</em> di <strong>Primo Levi</strong><em>, </em>il <em>Pianeta Irritabile</em> di <strong>Paolo Volponi</strong>, <em>Cima delle Nobildonne</em> di <strong>Stefano D&#8217;Arrigo</strong>, fino ad arrivare al successo internazionale di <strong>Valerio Evangelisti</strong>, l&#8217;attenzione della letteratura italiana per il <em>fantastico</em>, l&#8217;<em>avventuroso</em> e il <em>fantascientifico</em> ha rappresentato una corrente non troppo nascosta della nostra tradizione considerata <em>mainstream</em>, a volte obbligata alla vena neorealistica e confessionale, a tratti intimista, per altri tratti verista.<!--more--></p>
<p>Questa venatura alternativa e immaginifica, volta alla produzione di <strong>utopie</strong>, <strong>distopie</strong> e volentieri <strong>ucronie</strong> che danno nuovo senso al corso del tempo storico (anche a partire da riscoperte archeologiche e fascinazioni per l&#8217;antico -una vera e propria archeologia del futuro), ha la potenza di farci vedere oltre l<strong>a tradizione provinciale</strong> che spesso molta letteratura italiana promuove, assecondata o forse spinta da una temibile potenza ideologica e culturale nello stile <em>Don Camillo e Peppone</em>. Esagerando i confini del possibile italico, l&#8217;opzione del fantastico-fantascientifico avventuroso verrà analizzata anche in rapporto alla <strong>paraletteratura</strong> (il fumetto, la crime story, la letteratura sci-fi e cyberpunk, etc.), a ben vedere spesso più <em>apocalittica</em> proposta anarchica che <em>integrato </em>placebo delle menti.</p>
<p>Questi gli argomenti della lezione di<strong> venerdì 20 novembre</strong>: Cosa significa il termine <em>fantastoria</em>? È solo spazzatura per le masse, bric-a-brac alla moda? O ha qualcosa a che fare con la tradizione del romanzo e della storia italiani?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[More Photography please...]]></title>
<link>http://casanovafresh.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/more-photography-please/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>casanovafresh</dc:creator>
<guid>http://casanovafresh.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/more-photography-please/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, World Famous Crew stayed with me and we did a photo shoot with Clear Effect, the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">This past weekend, World Famous Crew stayed with me and we did a photo shoot with <a href="http://myspace.com/clear_effect">Clear Effect</a>, the theme was &#8220;Rebels with out a cause.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a taste:</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 493px"><img title="World Famous Crew &#38; C.F." src="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs003.snc3/11036_339277775214_610375214_9928864_4411661_n.jpg" alt="" width="483" height="322" /><p class="wp-caption-text">World Famous Crew &#38; C.F.</p></div>
<p style="text-align:center;">Here&#8217;s two from my camera:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 493px"><img title="World Famous" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs079.snc3/14656_1284399392761_1313415523_813881_6774035_n.jpg" alt="" width="483" height="483" /><p class="wp-caption-text">World Famous</p></div>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 493px"><img src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs059.snc3/14656_1284555196656_1313415523_814457_1252164_n.jpg" alt="" width="483" height="483" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Faye vs. Belle</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[My Lady Luck]]></title>
<link>http://doctoratlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/my-lady-luck/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>doctoratlarge</dc:creator>
<guid>http://doctoratlarge.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/my-lady-luck/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I’ve always shared a love-hate relationship with the females in my life – I love them, they hate me.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I’ve always shared a love-hate relationship with the females in my life – I love them, they hate me. In fact, at many parties and other convivial occasions, I’ve seen women glance empathetically at my wife with the sort of expression in their eyes that they might cast upon a painting of one of the early Christian martyrs at an art gallery. I’ve come to know from reliable sources that ladies generally swoon at the prospect of spending an evening out with me – and go into hiding as soon as they regain consciousness.</p>
<p>Some of this state of affairs, I admit, is my own construction. When I entered college, I was determined to be a cowboy (apart from being a doctor of course; I reckoned that with the professional hazards that a gun-fighting cowboy generally encountered, medical knowledge might come in handy), and though I had never ridden a horse, I could draw a water-pistol out of my trouser pockets with the speed of lightning. As all readers of Louis L’Amour and Oliver Strange would recollect, cowboys are very particular in their misogyny and regard the female of the species with rather thinly veiled contempt – until of course they meet that special woman who causes a stirring in their hearts (and presumably in some lower portion of their anatomy as well). So you can say that at that stage of my life, my relationship with females was based on the hate-hate equation.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, I made the acquaintance of a batchmate whose name was Dinesh, and who as I soon learned, had a draw that was even faster than mine. And since he had actually ridden a horse at some school fair, I became absolutely devoted to him. Now Dinesh was even more ardently dedicated to the misogynist principle in ‘The Cowboy’s Manual’ than me. When he grew weary of target practice with his airgun on a cardboard target hung on the hostel-room wall, he taught me to fire paper-bullets at the cheeks (facial that is) of the girls during lectures, using a rubber band as the launcher.</p>
<p>“I help them to be rosy-cheeked without makeup,” he explained.</p>
<p>The girls however were much less appreciative of this philanthropy and my chances as a future Casanova took a considerable beating as a result. This continued for a while; but if there is one thing that I have learnt in life, it is that though a man can fight his destiny, he can never fight his glands. Day and night they screamed their demands to me, until to Dinesh’s intense disgust, I was forced to admit that misogyny was not my cup of tea; in fact philogyny was a better description of my true inclinations. By the time I realized this however, my reputation was already made, and as acute observers of feminine character would agree, once a woman’s mind is made up it is impossible to change it with anything short of brain transplantation. So there I was, stuck with a cowboy’s reputation and a Casanova’s aspirations – just what I deserved, my distaff readers would probably exclaim at this point. But be charitable ladies, I adjure you; a man is entitled to a mistake or two in his youth, I say.</p>
<p>Despite the elephantine character of a female’s memory, I believe I might I have still made it in the end, but for two insuperable encumbrances. Firstly, my nose. Romantic literature, I believe, lays a lot of stress on the role of the eyes in fostering intimate relations between opposite sexes of a species; but first one has to get past the nose to make better acquaintance with the eyes. My nose was neither Roman nor Greek (the two most renowned nosy nationalities), nor was it of any other type that is generally encountered in heroic descriptions in world literature. Possibly, the best description that a perceptive female critic once gave it was a cross between a cauliflower and a potato, and as numerous studies published in ladies’ magazines have shown, women are least attracted to this category of noses. Another female critic observed that my nose was the best argument in favor of the more widespread availability of plastic surgery. And despite the widespread knowledge of the theory propounding a directly proportional relationship between the size of the nose (see illustration below) and a certain discreet organ in the male, girls seemed strangely reluctant to test out the veracity of it by direct observation.<a href="http://doctoratlarge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pinocchio1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-260" title="pinocchio" src="http://doctoratlarge.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pinocchio1.png" alt="pinocchio" width="600" height="455" /></a></p>
<p>Even more than the nose however, the problem was that the feminine presence affected me in either of two ways – I became as taciturn as a rock afflicted with mutism (habitual readers of ‘Penthouse Letters’ may have misconstrued my meaning if I had written that I became as stiff as a rock), or worse still, a sort of ictus affected me so that my body tied itself into knots and paroxysms of hyena-like laughter erupted from my throat. Either of these phenomenons invariably made my lady companions to prefer to be in Beelzebub’s company if the only other alternative available was mine.</p>
<p>And this was the story of my life, until I met my wife that is – but that is a story for another post you know.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lucha Report for 11/14]]></title>
<link>http://carnagechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-lucha-report-for-1114-results-and-upcoming-shows/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Carnage Chronicles</dc:creator>
<guid>http://carnagechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-lucha-report-for-1114-results-and-upcoming-shows/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Kris Zellner RESULTS EMLL 11/13 – Arena Mexico 1. Escorpion &amp; Rene Guajardo Jr. beat Bengala ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What My Top 10 Actors Say]]></title>
<link>http://meimi132.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/what-my-top-10-actors-say/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>meimi132</dc:creator>
<guid>http://meimi132.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/what-my-top-10-actors-say/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ok.. I couldn&#8217;t do just 5&#8230; it was friggin&#8217; impossible!! I couldn&#8217;t leave one]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ok.. I couldn&#8217;t do just 5&#8230; it was friggin&#8217; impossible!! I couldn&#8217;t leave one off without feeling bad&#8230;. Though there are 11 I can think of, properly favourite, so one was kicked. Who? I won&#8217;t say, cos I still feel bad&#8230;</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ouYWPNf0SvU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ouYWPNf0SvU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>(Literally ALL the eye of the tigers have embedding disabled&#8230; so looks like you&#8217;ll have to go to yt anyways&#8230; evil.. but I supplied the HD one above, so its easy to find lol.</p>
<p>Now, the only one I put in order is Tennant, cos he is my all time favourite, and that will NEVER change. Unless a taller awesome scottish guy comes along. Who&#8217;s a more accessable age lol. The rest are in no particular order.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3486" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/david-tooth_and_claw_232.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3486" title="david Tooth_and_Claw_232" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/david-tooth_and_claw_232.jpg" alt="david Tooth_and_Claw_232" width="450" height="258" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From Tooth and Claw from series 2 of new Who.</p></div>
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<li>David Tennant, 6&#8242;1&#8243;, 38, doesn&#8217;t look it&#8230; :swoon:</li>
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<p>Because the man is pure brilliance. The voice, the body, the hair. Everything about him is AWESOME, but not completely perfect, ya know what I mean&#8230; he&#8217;s not&#8230;. conventionally conventional. There are flaws, but they just add to his character lol. I could listen to that voice saying anything&#8230; for hours&#8230; he&#8217;s just too lovely. And looks awesome in anything. ANYTHING.  Some say he looks elfen, delicate features or whatnot, which could mean I like pretty boys. So untrue. He does fit the pattern of innappropriately aged men lol. Though&#8230; he&#8217;s the one who started it&#8230; I was 15&#8230; he was 34. Casanova. All to blame hahahaha. He fits into the &#8216;tall, dark and handsome&#8217; archetype though. TDH for short.</p>
<div id="attachment_3475" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/highfidelity276.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3475" title="HighFidelity276" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/highfidelity276.jpg" alt="HighFidelity276" width="450" height="270" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From High Fidelity, 2000</p></div>
<ul>
<li>John Cusack, 6&#8242;3&#8243;, 43</li>
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<p>Not only is he a brilliant actor, a joy to watch, he&#8217;s cute too. Not too cute, but cute. And lovely. And so funny. Serendipity is possibly my favourite Cusack flick. Though High Fidelity comes damn close. Then Grosse Point Blank and Being John Malkovich and Con Air. Theres more&#8230; but not now lol. He fits with the older man type. TDH.</p>
<div id="attachment_3476" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/photoshoot.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3476" title="photoshoot" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/photoshoot.jpg" alt="photoshoot" width="450" height="299" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My favourite photo of Misha to date. Though its hard to pick lol.</p></div>
<ul>
<li>Misha Collins, 6&#8242;0½&#8221;(exact same height as me&#8230;cutting it close lol), 35</li>
</ul>
<p>He&#8217;s just&#8230; he&#8217;s yummy. First noticed when portraying Castiel in Supernatural in season 4. Just&#8230; so&#8230;awesome&#8230; so adorable as the ignorant/innocent&#8230; character. (Can&#8217;t say too much&#8230;.spoilers n whatnot, my friend might read this.) But I tracked down the majority of his other stuff, and he&#8217;s just as yummy. Yummy with slightly naff hair and hick-accents and even russian, thought russian I&#8217;m not against lol. Can&#8217;t wait to meet him at the convention later this month, 2 weeks away! :woooooooooooooooooo!!!! I get to have a picture with him! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! (I&#8217;ve let the fangirl out. If you couldn&#8217;t tell. lol.) He fits into TDH too, but with gorgeous blue eyes instead of gorgeous brown. I don&#8217;t know quite what I&#8217;ll do when I meet him&#8230;.. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<div id="attachment_3477" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/009.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3477" title="009" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/009.jpg" alt="009" width="400" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Currently my favourite photo of Jensen I thinks....</p></div>
<ul>
<li>Jensen Ackles, 6&#8242;1&#8243;, 31, getting younger slowly lol.</li>
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<p>All because of Supernatural. After I gave in and watched Supernatural late last year, I had to make a choice between Jared Padalecki, aka Sam, or Jensen Ackles, aka Dean. As you can see, I went for Dean, sure he&#8217;s 3 inches shorter than Sam, but Dean is&#8230; Dean&#8230;. just&#8230;.Dean&#8230;slightly morally questionable and more bad boy than his younger brother, but not too bad boy, that&#8217;d be boring lol. You&#8217;d understand if you watched Supernatural and are either a girl or gay lol. Jensen wins over Jared, but the team of the two of them are soooooo cute. He&#8217;s of the TDH variety, but with slightly lighter coloured hair lol. He&#8217;s a bit younger than the majority of the list too haha. Only 11 years older. He&#8217;s engaged to his long term girlfriend Daneel Harris. I&#8217;ve only seen her playing total bitches in tv shows or movies, I dunno what she&#8217;s like in real life, she&#8217;s gotta be nice though, cos Jensen is weirdly shy sometimes apparantly lol. Unless he&#8217;s the bitch and she&#8217;s the butch LOL. That&#8217;d be hilarious if true.</p>
<div id="attachment_3478" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/josh-premiereout003.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3478" title="OUT18002988" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/josh-premiereout003.jpg" alt="OUT18002988" width="450" height="455" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The first image of JJ that made me take notice lol. Also the pic that prompted me to watch Fringe lol.</p></div>
<ul>
<li>Joshua Jackson, 6&#8242;2&#8243;, 31, CANADIAN!</li>
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<p>JJ combines 3 of my favourite things. Tall, Canada and JJ Abrams. He&#8217;s in Fringe. Awesome new series from JJ Abrams. I notice lots of J&#8217;s in my list lol. More to come too. He fits TDH too. In a slightly pudgy faced way. But he&#8217;s awesome in all the stuff I&#8217;ve seen him in, in a cute, droll, sarcastic way. I started watching Dawson&#8217;s Creek because of this guy! Thats like&#8230; the lowest I&#8217;ve sunk to watch favourite actors&#8230; and I&#8217;m becoming strangely addicted&#8230; DAMN ME&#8230;. damn the fluffiness&#8230;. damn JJ being in it&#8230;.</p>
<div id="attachment_3479" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 277px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/03_07_01.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3479" title="03_07_01" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/03_07_01.jpg" alt="03_07_01" width="267" height="400" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">JDM. The Comedian to most guys out there, Denny to me.</p></div>
<ul>
<li>Jeffrey Dean Morgan,6&#8242;2&#8243;, 43</li>
</ul>
<p>Another older guy. This time I&#8217;m blaming Grey&#8217;s Anatomy. JDM was Denny Duquette. My favourite guy in the show. Grey&#8217;s fans will know of him. Most of you lot won&#8217;t lol, some will I&#8217;m sure, cos Grey&#8217;s Anatomy will be a guilty pleasure, like Dean has &#8216;Dr Sexy MD&#8217; in Supernatura lol. (A clever combo of House MD and McDreamy from Grey&#8217;s.) JDM is&#8230;.pure sex. The voice is gorgeous. And the eyes&#8230;. there used to be a fansite called JDMSchool, but it went away&#8230; I don&#8217;t know why, but all I know is the creators of the site were far too scary, refered to him always as Daddy for his role in Supernatural as John Winchester, Dean+Sam&#8217;s daddy. Also, JDM is the sole reason I finally decided to watch Supernatural. Theres a clear path from one actor to another lol. He again, is TDH.</p>
<div id="attachment_3480" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/normal_route233.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3480" title="normal_route233" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/normal_route233.jpg" alt="normal_route233" width="400" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">RDJ in an awesome car advert.</p></div>
<ul>
<li>Robert Downey Jr, 44, 5&#8242; 8½&#8221;</li>
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<p>Shortest of my whole list. First noted while watching Iron Man. Who didn&#8217;t? Seriously? The mans hot stuff. Not long after I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by order of one of my friends. But its when I came to uni the fangirling really took off. I bonded with two other girls over RDJ, to begin with lol. We had movie nights, I managed to procure a large amount of his filmography which we watched one by one lol. Charlie Bartletts one of my favourites. He makes up for his lack of height in awesomeness. I watched season 4 of Ally McBeal, got addicted, watched season 5, then started from 1 lol. Got the boxset for christmas. Fits the DH part, but not tall. Tall for some girls I&#8217;m sure, but not me lol. I should also mention, RDJ is the reason for the JDM phase, which lead to the Ackles, which lead to Misha. lol. A trail. What did I say?</p>
<div id="attachment_3482" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/colin2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3482" title="colin2" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/colin2.jpg" alt="colin2" width="450" height="337" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From Love Actually, a movie I dont actually like lol.</p></div>
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<li>Colin Firth, 6&#8242; 1½&#8221;, 49</li>
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<p>I can&#8217;t remember why I was watching Love Actually&#8230; but I do remember Colin Firth&#8217;s pretty face staring at me on the DVD case. So I&#8217;m blaming that. He may be a archetype for the posh british kinda guy, but least he&#8217;s not like Hugh Grant, bumbly british guy&#8230; bah&#8230;. Firth is&#8230;. yummy. He&#8217;s the oldest of my list, unless I start counting the semi-fangirlisms lol. He&#8217;s just&#8230; I dunno&#8230; I saw Pride n Predjudice when I was like 5-6, so it can&#8217;t be the Mr Darcy thing&#8230; He&#8217;s got a lovely voice to boot. I went on a Colin-kick a few months ago, got like 6 movies with him lol. Not all good ones. Last Legion is&#8230; bad&#8230;. very very naff&#8230; but he&#8217;s in it&#8230; so it makes up for it lol. I think late 30&#8217;s, early 40&#8217;s is optimum Firth age in movies lol. And yes, he&#8217;s very TDH. No blondes yet I hope you notice lol. Not sure why that is&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_3485" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nph-harold-and-kumar-480880_1600_1200.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3485" title="NPH-harold-and-kumar-480880_1600_1200" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nph-harold-and-kumar-480880_1600_1200.jpg" alt="NPH-harold-and-kumar-480880_1600_1200" width="450" height="337" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">He&#39;s riding a unicorn fercryin&#39; out loud! Worship the man!!!!</p></div>
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<li>Neil Patrick Harris, 6&#8242;1&#8243;, 36, didn&#8217;t know lol&#8230; was still thinking he was 34 lol.</li>
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<p>Now, this guy&#8230; less mancandy, more pure win. He&#8217;s Barney! Barney Stinson is the pinocle of awesome. The pinocle of Legendary. And he&#8217;s not bad to look at lol. I prefer Ted though. (Josh Radnor) Both who I saw in How I met your mother. Later night fluffy comedy. Loved it. And Ted&#8217;s just so cute. But NPH has to be on this list cos he&#8217;s pure win. He&#8217;s in Starship Troopers! In Harold and Kumar go to White Castle(or Get the Munchies here in the UK lol)! And, he is Dr Horrible. He&#8217;s epic. I refuse to watch Dougie Houser though, would scare me and scar me lol. First blonde of the list lol.</p>
<div id="attachment_3484" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 354px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nathan_fillion_02.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3484" title="nathan_fillion_02" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nathan_fillion_02.jpg" alt="nathan_fillion_02" width="344" height="650" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">So smexy.</p></div>
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<li>Nathan Fillion, 6&#8242; 1½&#8221;, 38 Same age as Tennant.</li>
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<p>Nathan Fillion. Capt Mal. Capt Hammer. And, most recently, Richard &#8216;Rick&#8217; Castle in Castle lol. He&#8217;s tall. He&#8217;s Canadian. He&#8217;s got brown hair. And he&#8217;s got that crooked hot thing going on. Slightly rough around the edges rather, same as RDJ and JDM has I spose lol. Definately TDH. And Canadian! :woop: Not as good as Scottish, but better than Irish lol. First noted in Serenity. Then watched Firefly. I know, shoulda been the other way round, but if I didnt see the movie on ITV4 I probably never would have seen it at all lol. Love that movie.</p>
<p>So&#8230; what do these guys say about my taste in men? lol. Well, men over boys definately. 30 is a great age for guys. So&#8217;s 40, but when you&#8217;re not even 20 (yet, December) its not really feasable lol. I do prefer dark over blonde&#8230; but its not exactly important lol.</p>
<p>And do you see any Zac Efron-likes in this list? NO! Thats cos I have decent taste lol. Lowest I&#8217;ve sunk is Chad Michael Murray in One Tree Hill. (I didn&#8217;t mean to&#8230;. :sob:) And my youngest mancandy is Steven Strait. The perfect Jacob. He&#8217;s 23 I think. And tall enough. 6&#8242;2&#8243; Mmmmm&#8230;&#8230; and yeah, 23, just IMDB&#8217;d him to double check lol.</p>
<p>And, because I just gotta, a few more pics I wanted to use, but didn&#8217;t. MANSPAM!!!!!!!!!</p>
<div id="attachment_3487" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/41025137.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3487" title="41025137" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/41025137.jpg" alt="41025137" width="450" height="600" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ahhhh the lols.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3488" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/free4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3488" title="free4" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/free4.jpg" alt="free4" width="450" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cas and Dean. The winningest couple in Supernatural lol. Destiel ftw!!!!</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3489" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 363px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/001a.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3489" title="001a" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/001a.jpg" alt="001a" width="353" height="432" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kinda reminds me of Liev Schreiber in this pic... which aint a bad thing if ya know what I mean. LOL</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3490" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/joshua-nylon-outtake-007.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3490" title="joshua-nylon-outtake-007" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/joshua-nylon-outtake-007.jpg" alt="joshua-nylon-outtake-007" width="450" height="344" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A pic with Anna Torv from Fringe.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3491" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tih_priestly_store.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3491" title="tih_priestly_store" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tih_priestly_store.jpg" alt="tih_priestly_store" width="450" height="387" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Even with a blue mohawk and eyeliner, you still would. Don&#39;t deny it. He wears a kilt in the movie too. It&#39;s soooo good lol.</p></div>
<p><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/550w_endoftime01.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3492" title="550w_endoftime01" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/550w_endoftime01.jpg" alt="550w_endoftime01" width="450" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/oberserver-outtakes_002.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3493" title="GAS1014549_002" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/oberserver-outtakes_002.jpg" alt="GAS1014549_002" width="450" height="453" /></a></p>
<div id="attachment_3494" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/david-tooth_and_claw_231.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3494" title="david Tooth_and_Claw_231" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/david-tooth_and_claw_231.jpg" alt="david Tooth_and_Claw_231" width="450" height="258" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">One of my favourite episodes, because he does his real accent, and shivers go up spines.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_3495" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/mainimage.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3495" title="mainImage" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/mainimage.jpg" alt="mainImage" width="450" height="450" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Even in a bowtie. And I hate bowties.</p></div>
<p><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/jensen-ackles-jensen-ackles-168015_500_333.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3496" title="jensen-ackles-jensen-ackles-168015_500_333" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/jensen-ackles-jensen-ackles-168015_500_333.jpg" alt="jensen-ackles-jensen-ackles-168015_500_333" width="450" height="299" /></a>Dean on the Impala. Doesn&#8217;t get much hotter.</p>
<div id="attachment_3497" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tiger1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3497" title="tiger1" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tiger1.png" alt="tiger1" width="450" height="281" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">End of his epic Eye of the Tiger lip sync. I mean epic. Its so good. And he&#39;s so cute when he&#39;s smiley like that.</p></div>
<p>Doesnt happen enough in Supernatural. Dean smiling like that I mean lol.</p>
<div id="attachment_3498" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wheelers3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3498" title="wheelers3" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/wheelers3.jpg" alt="wheelers3" width="450" height="676" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From a pilot of a series called &#39;Reinventing the Wheelers&#39;, which I really wanna see.</p></div>
<p><a href="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/4h5m61-jpg.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3499" title="4h5m61.jpg" src="http://meimi132.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/4h5m61-jpg.gif" alt="4h5m61.jpg" width="350" height="197" /></a>I think lol&#8217;s are deserved here. Specially if you watch it over and over&#8230;.which you shouldn&#8217;t lol&#8230; I must stop now&#8230;. ok now&#8230;. NOW!!!</p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fenilseta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fenilandbollywood.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/qsteamy-scenes-with-anyone-else-kareenano-saif-ali-khanyes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SPEAKING UP: Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor with Karan Johar TIMES NEWS NETWORK (BOMBAY TIMES; Nov]]></description>
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<link>http://karinagubistaite.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/verslavende-sitcom/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Karina Gubistaite</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In mijn geboorteland is er een gezegde die het volgende zegt: van al het fijne een beetje. In Nederl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In mijn geboorteland is er een gezegde die het volgende zegt: van al het fijne een beetje. In Nederland kennen we ook een soortgelijke uitspraak: geniet, maar drink met mate. Alle wijze uitspraken leren mij dat een overdaad aan iets dus nooit goed kan zijn. Maar alle goede raad ten spijt, ik heb een serieuze verslaving ontwikkeld. De leegte die &#8216;Sex and the City&#8217; achterliet is namelijk meer dan opgevuld door: &#8216;Gossip Girl’. Er is geen aflevering die ik heb overgeslagen. Ik praat erover. Ik denk erover. Net als dat één van de hoofdpersonages over &#8216;Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s&#8217; droomt, droom ik over &#8216;Gossip Girl&#8217;. En nu schrijf ik er zelfs over.</p>
<p>Ben ik gebrainwashed of is er werkelijk iets speciaals aan deze serie?</p>
<p>Afgezien van het feit dat de kledingkast van GG op een waarde van $19 miljoen geschat en vijf verdiepingen hoog is, vind ik dat de serie diepgang heeft. Je leert waardevolle levenslessen, de fouten die de personages maken kunnen door de kijkers voorkomen worden. Je leert onmisbare etiquetteregels en de serie bevat leerzame uitspraken. De acteurs zijn stuk voor stuk geloofwaardig. Achter de schermen zijn er al drie koppels ontstaan. Maar ondertussen zetten ze een geloofwaardige liefdesband met een totaal andere tegenspeler neer.</p>
<p>Ja veel diepgang dus. En bijna vergeten&#8230;Het wasbordje van Dan, het zelfvertrouwen van <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x5wsh_594U">Chuck</a>, de badboyblik van <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzGnsqnHRw8">Carter</a> en de uiterlijke genen van Nate ben ik ook niet vies van.</p>
<p>Het personage Chuck Bass heeft volgens mij veel overeenkomsten met de historische figuur Casanova.Hij hoefde ook weinig moeite te doen om een vrouw voor zich te laten vallen. Omdat alle andere vrouwen ook al voor hem vielen.Vrouwen gedragen zich soms net als strontvliegen. Als er eentje op een drol gaat zitten, dan denken alle andere vliegen dat die drol wel van goede kwaliteit móet zijn. Onze tijd is veel te kostbaar om het te verdoen aan het uitzoeken welke mannen van goede kwaliteit zijn. Het heeft iets met gestaltpsychologie te maken.</p>
<p>En er is nog een reden waarom Casanova geliefd was onder de vrouwen. Mark Twain heeft dat ooit erg goed verwoord: “Liefde is de onweerstaanbare begeerte om onweerstaanbaar begeerd te worden.”</p>
<p>Hoewel de serie op ethische en extatische kwaliteit niet zo hoog scoort, zit het met de esthetische kwaliteit wel goed. Het ziet er namelijk prachtig uit. Helaas komt het alleen niet zo geloofwaardig over. In GG is acht van de tien mannen een succesvolle romanticus. Maar laten we rationeel blijven nu. De werkelijkheid is minder rooskleurig. Misschien is dat ook wel het geheim van GG. Je kan 42 minuten lang genieten van een wereld waar het ergste probleem het niet kunnen kiezen tussen al die romanticussen is. Ach het is maar een afleveringetje om bestwil.</p>
<p>Bronnen: Marwijk, F. van. (2009). Manipuleren kun je leren. Zaltbommel: Haystack.</p>
<p>Andru, E. (22 oktober 2009). Gossip Girl Wardrobe Costs $19 Million. Geraadpleegd op: 7 november 2009, van: http://fashion.gearlive.com/chicdish/article/q309-gossip-girl-wardrobe-costs-19-million/</p>
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<link>http://sabysync.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/macsok-akik-tortenelmet-irtak/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sabysync</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sabysync.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/macsok-akik-tortenelmet-irtak/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nagy Sándor, VIII. Henrik, XIV. Lajos, Casanova, Bonaparte Napóleon. Öt történelmi személyiség, akik]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h2><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-544" title="20070118_napoleon" src="http://sabysync.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/20070118_napoleon.jpg?w=284" alt="20070118_napoleon" width="284" height="300" />Nagy Sándor, VIII. Henrik, XIV. Lajos, Casanova, Bonaparte Napóleon. Öt történelmi személyiség, akik a szánalmas szájhősökkel szemben tettekkel bizonyították férfiasságukat.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#000000;"> Nagy Sándor, a király, világpolgár, hódító és csábító kilenc évet töltött vérben és páncélban, amíg Egyiptomtól Indiáig kiterjesztette birodalma határait. Napóleon megjelenéséig a világtörténelem legnagyobb hadvezérének személye körül már életében is legendák keringtek. Krisztus előtt 323-ban, a harcmezőről 32 évesen távozó makedón férfiszépség nők ezreinek fejét csavarta el, ám életének egyetlen igaz szerelme leghűségesebb barátja volt.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#000000;"> VIII. Henrik az angol történelem egyik legkegyetlenebb alakjaként nemcsak népén, de feleségein is gyakorolta hatalmát a 16. században. A rőt szakállú, testes hím uralkodása alatt vált le az anglikán egyház a katolikusról, hat felesége közül kettőnek pedig, a feje a nyakáról.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#000000;">XIV. Lajos fényűző életében a művészet támogatása, és a politikai kihívások mellett fontosak voltak a versailles-i kastélyban játszadozó udvarhölgyek is. A napkirály, aki a 17. században Franciaországot az európai nagyhatalmak sorába emelte csöppet sem volt igényesebb férfitársainál, és bátran kihasználta az útjába kerülő lehetőségeket.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#000000;"> A velencei Casanova, akit szabados, és botrányos élete miatt börtönbüntetésre is ítéltek, a 18. században falta mázsaszámra a nőket. Az olasz kalandor egy csehországi kastély könyvtárosaként írta meg emlékiratait, amelyből életének pajzán részletei sem hiányoznak.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#000000;">A férfiasságát nemcsak a csatatéren, de hálószobákban is firtató, korzikai születésű Bonaparte Napóleon nagy élvezettel gyűjtötte a trófeákat. Bár uralkodása alatt hatalma alá vonta a kontinentális Európa nagy részét, csupán egyetlen törvényes utódot nemzett a világnak. /V.Sz./</span></h2>
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<title><![CDATA[Historia de mi vida. Giacomo Casanova. ]]></title>
<link>http://algundiaenalgunaparte.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/historia-de-mi-vida-giacomo-casanova/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alguien</dc:creator>
<guid>http://algundiaenalgunaparte.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/historia-de-mi-vida-giacomo-casanova/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Despilfarrador, viajero y, por encima de todo, libertino. Pero también gran escritor, erudito y filó]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Despilfarrador, viajero y, por encima de todo, libertino. Pero también gran escritor, erudito y filósofo. Así fue Giacomo Casanova, y así, en todas sus dimensiones, se muestra en sus &#8220;Memorias&#8221; que, por primera vez en España, <a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;">la editorial Atalanta publica</span></a> sin cortes ni censura. A lo largo de más de 3.600 páginas, el amante perfecto se muestra en toda su esplendorosa, lúbrica y autodestructiva humanidad y nos desvela un siglo XVIII tan absorto en la pasión como en el raciocinio.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Tahoma;"> <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/magazine/2009/527/1256834866.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;">Las memorias sin censura de Casanova</span></a>. Texto: Emmna Rodriguez.  el mundo.es &#124; Suplementos &#124; Magazine 527.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><img class="alignleft" style="border:0 none;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/4095055418_18bbe7bbda_m.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="240" />&#8220;Va y viene a todas partes, con una cara franca y la cabeza en alto, bien vestido&#8230; Es un hombre de unos 40 años como máximo, buen mozo de aspecto saludable y vigoroso, de piel muy morena y ojos vivaces. Lleva una peluca corta de color castaño. Por lo que me han contado, tiene un carácter descarado y despectivo; pero, sobre todo, tiene mucha labia y, por consiguiente, es ingenioso e instruido&#8230;&#8221;. Este retrato, realizado por un agente de la inquisición veneciana, es de los pocos que se conservan de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova" target="_blank">Giacomo Casanova</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Detrás se escribe la leyenda de un hombre de baja cuna – sus padres eran comediantes – que se relacionó con reyes, obispos y genios de las artes, como Voltaire, con quien mantuvo discusiones literarias, o Mozart, con el que llegó a colaborar. <strong>Casanova hizo del juego amatorio un oficio</strong>, acometió empresas como la creación de la Lotería Nacional Francesa y protagonizó huidas como la de la famosa prisión veneciana de <em>Los Plomos</em>, a la que fue a parar por asunto de una estafa y de la que se libró con ingenio, convirtiéndose en una especie de héroe que era reclamado en todos los salones para narrar la aventura.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ahora, <a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank">de la mano de Atalanta</a>, llegan a las librerías españolas, íntegras, en estado puro, sus célebres &#8220;<a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank">Memorias</a>&#8221; <strong>tal como las concibió, sin los cortes ideológicos o morales de la censura a que fueron sometidas empresas anteriores</strong>. Así, se incluye – completo – un revelador episodio de onanismo y homosexualidad, tratado más sutilmente que el lesbianismo, que se muestra en escenas más explícitas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Casanova, en compañía masculina, contempla a tres ninfas bañándose en un estanque a la luz de la luna, y pasa a relatar: &#8220;El delicioso espectáculo no pudo dejar de excitarme enseguida, e Ismail, loco de alegría, me convenció de que no debía tener escrúpulo alguno, animándome, por el contrario, a dejarme llevar por los efectos que la voluptuosa vista debía despertar en mi alma y dándome él mismo ejemplo&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Cómo él&#8221;, prosigue, &#8220;me encontré reducido a desfogarme en el objeto que tenía a mi lado para apagar el fuego que encendían las tres sirenas [...] que sin mirar hacia la ventana, parecían dedicar sus voluptuosos juegos sólo a los ardientes espectadores que allí estaban dedicados a contemplarlas&#8221;.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Quise creer que así era, y eso aumentó mi placer mientras Ismail era feliz sintiéndose condenado a sustituir al objeto distante que yo no podía alcanzar. Hube de resignarme naturalmente a hacerle el mismo servicio. Habría sido descortés por mi parte negarme, y, además, le habría pagado con la ingratitud, cosa de la que era incapaz dado mi carácter. Nunca en mi vida me he visto ni tan excitado ni tan fuera de mí&#8230;&#8221;.</span></span></em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Detalles ocultos.</strong> Suculenta narración que en las ediciones de <strong><em>Aguilar o Edaf</em></strong>, las que han circulado hasta ahora en España, se resolvió manteniendo la visión de las ninfas en el estanque, pero ocultando el resto: &#8220;Lector, he de ahorraros los detalles del cuadro, pero si la Naturaleza os ha otorgado un corazón ardiente y unos sentidos a la par, adivinaréis el estrago que aquel espectáculo único y fascinante hubo de causar en mi pobre cuerpo&#8230;&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><img class="alignright" style="border:0 none;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4095055504_770163a713_m.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="240" />Existen otros muchos cambios de palabras y de sentidos</strong>. Hay, por ejemplo, un párrafo en el que el narrador se refiere al suicidio, pero la palabra fue sustituida por &#8220;funesta idea de la muerte&#8221;. &#8220;Hay que dejarles ese pequeño consuelo, pues sin ese refugio acabarán por odiarse a sí mismos, y el odio a uno mismo lleva a menudo a la funesta idea del suicidio&#8221;, podemos leer en la nueva edición.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Hay otro momento en el que Casanova elogia a la República con vítores que adornan un exaltado discurso que hasta hoy no había podido percibirse. &#8220;¿Se puede inventar algo más bello en materia de lengua que “ambulance, franciade, monarchien, sansculottisme”? ¡Viva la República!&#8221;, declara, pero en las ediciones citadas todo el párrafo fue eliminado.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Autobiografia.</strong> Ahora, por fin, llega libre de prejuicios “<span style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank">Historia de mi vida</a>”</span>, título de unas memorias que su autor hubiera querido titular &#8216;Las confesiones&#8217; –nunca perdonó a Rousseau que le robase el título–. En total, se trata de unas <strong>3.600 páginas </strong>– repartidas en dos volúmenes – en las que el manuscrito original se enriquece con todas las notas e índices que los especialistas han ido elaborando hasta hoy. &#8220;Un relato que conmueve, exalta, divierte, inspira, solaza y excita tanto la lujuria como el raciocinio&#8221;, señala en el prólogo el escritor Félix de Azúa.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">¿Qué convierte a Casanova en un personaje que sigue resultando atractivo para el lector de hoy? &#8220;Lo más interesante es su capacidad para introducirse, muchas veces aprovechándose de sus relaciones con mujeres influyentes, en las más altas esferas, para hablar de tú a tú con figuras como Luis XVI, Federico de Prusia o Catalina la Grande&#8230;&#8221;, <strong>señala Mauro Armiño, traductor y responsable de la edición</strong>, quien destaca la frescura y modernidad del estilo oral de unas memorias en las que en todo momento se entabla un diálogo con el lector.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;La imagen que el cine y el teatro han dado de Casanova ha sido la de una marioneta del amor, pero eso es reducir su verdadera dimensión, ya que fue uno de los grandes escritores de su tiempo, <strong>un hombre cultivado, erudito, seductor y divertido</strong>; un filósofo en acción&#8221;, sostiene Phillippe Sollers en el ensayo “<em><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/1003364" target="_blank">Casanova, el admirable</a></em>”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">La potencia de las &#8220;<a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank">Memorias</a>&#8221; radica, según Azúa, en el recorrido que hace a lo largo de toda una vida, desde &#8220;una brillante floración en uno de los más hermosos jardines del siglo XVIII, la República de Venecia; un crecimiento deslumbrante en las cortes más poderosas de Europa; una madurez robusta, durante la cual esa viva lumbre se va achicando poco a poco, y una decadencia insoportable que sólo la muerte puede aliviar&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Fue en esa etapa final, ya sexagenario, retirado y olvidado por todos, cuando <strong>Casanova se propuso escribir una obra </strong>que diese cuenta de sus esplendores idos. Se puso manos a la obra en el castillo de Dux (Chequia), al que fue a parar gracias a la caridad del conde de Waldstein, su último protector, quien le dio el puesto de bibliotecario.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ya convertido en un viejo estrafalario y de extraordinaria memoria que acabó sus días convertido en objeto de mofa y vejación –los criados del castillo de Dux se reían de él y llegaron a propinarle una paliza– se propuso recuperar el pasadocon un propósito muy claro:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> <em><strong><span style="color:#333333;">&#8220;Al acordarme de los placeres que he experimentado, los revivo y gozo con ellos por segunda vez, y me río de las penas que ya he sufrido y que ya no siento&#8230;&#8221;.</span></strong></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ahí empieza el recuento de una vida (1725-1798) cuya ocupación principal fue siempre &#8220;cultivar el goce de los sentidos&#8221;. Las aventuras amorosas, que se iniciaron en la adolescencia, van serpenteando un camino en el que acontece de todo: encarcelamientos por líos económicos o de faldas, persecuciones por parte de la Inquisición por sus prácticas cabalísticas, cambios de actividad que lo conducen del Derecho a la carrera eclesiástica y militar en nombre de la República&#8230;</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><img class="alignleft" title="Portada de las Memorias de J. Casanova de Seingalt por Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). Fecha 1910 [edición de 1880]." src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2787/4095055632_ea0faefe14_m.jpg" alt="" width="154" height="240" />Hijo de la ilustración. </strong>La biografía trepidante de este digno hijo de la Ilustrración, despilfarrador, timador, jugador empedernido, duelista, viajero, masón, pero también cultísimo autor de libretos de ópera y de ensayos, fue inmortalizada cinematográficamente por Fellini en su célebre “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074291/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;"><em>Casanova</em></span></a>” (1976), con el actor Donald Sutherland en la piel de quien ha pasado a la historia por convertir la seducción en un arte.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;A pesar de un fondo de excelente moral, fruto obligado de los divinos principios arraigados en mi alma, he sido, durante toda mi vida, víctima de mis sentidos. Me he complacido en descarriarme&#8230;&#8221;, escribe en el prefacio a sus &#8220;Memorias&#8217;&#8221; una obra cuyo valor no se reduce sólo al relato de sus lances amorosos. Anecdótico resulta ya el dato de que <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>se acostase con 132 mujeres</strong></span> de toda clase y condición, si se compara con la importancia de su testimonio para recorrer la Europa del siglo XVIII.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Alrededor de 100 ciudades fueron escenarios de sus andanzas en una época en la que los viajes resultaban peligrosos y quebraban la salud del más aguerrido. <strong>Hasta España llegó en una visita </strong>en la que se involucró en un proyecto de colonización de Sierra Morena, compuso un libreto de ópera en Aranjuez, mantuvo una aventura con la española doña Ignacia y fue encarcelado en dos ocasiones: una en el Buen Retiro tras ser denunciado por posesión de armas – intervino a su favor el Conde de Aranda –, y otra por liarse con Nina, la amante oficial del influyente virrey de Barcelona, el conde de Ricla.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Teresa, Lucrezia, Henriette, Ignacia, Caterina y tantos otros <strong>nombres de mujeres aparecen falseados </strong>en el original de sus &#8220;Memorias&#8221; –los &#8216;casanovistas&#8217; acabaron después ubicándolos en la realidad–. Unas provenían de la nobleza; otras eran simples cocineras de posada o prostitutas. A todas las amó a su manera, con algunas tuvo descendencia y llegó a reconocer que el gran amor de su vida fue Henriette, una mujer con cierto misterio por la que llegó a convertirse –por poco tiempo– en un beato, y que fue la única de quien quemó sus cartas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Celestino.</strong> Casanova disfrutó con la conquista y se convirtió en amigo y protector de muchas de sus amantes, llegando incluso a buscarles marido, sobre todo a aquellas que compró a sus padres a corta edad –práctica habitual en la época– asegurándoles que velaría por su felicidad.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Fue un Marqués de Sade blanco; siempre rehuyó cualquier práctica violenta&#8221;, señala Mauro Armiño, &#8220;pero no tenía prejuicios y consideraba que el incesto era una idiotez, llegando a mantener relaciones con una de sus hijas al mismo tiempo que con su madre&#8221;. En &#8216;Historia de mi vida&#8217;, la hija en cuestión se llama Leonilda y su madre, doña Lucrezia: </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Creamos un ángel, mi querida amiga&#8221;, le dice a esta última en un episodio en el que comparte lecho con las dos y en el que al despertar, cuando la hija va a descorrer la cortina, extasiado ante la belleza de su desnudez, exclama: &#8220;¡Ay!, al volver a la cama me deja que cubra con mis besos todo lo que veo; pero en cuanto me ve en la puerta del precipicio se repliega y me da a su madre, que me recibe con los brazos abiertos e imperiosamente me ordena que le haga sin piedad otra Leonilda&#8230;&#8221;.</span></span></strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/4095055586_5b7a25f44f_m.jpg" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">A Casanova hay que entenderlo en el contexto de la Venecia de su tiempo, donde, <a href="http://www.elboomeran.com/blog-post/1/7325/felix-de-azua/una-cruz-en-duchov-primera-entr/" target="_blank">como explica Félix de Azúa</a>, &#8220;no se dio la represión religiosa que atenazó al resto de Europa. La tolerancia sexual era manifiesta y –como le sucedió a él mismo– casi nadie era hijo de su padre&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Un libertino que respetaba profundamente a las mujeres&#8221;, le califica el prologuista al enfrentarlo al otro gran mito de la seducción: Don Juan. &#8220;Allí donde el aristócrata sevillano, infectado por la teología, se muestra vengativo, psicópata, misógino y engañador, en ese mismo lugar luce el burgués veneciano cómplice de las mujeres, su secuaz y su salvador en más de una ocasión&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/4095055586_5b7a25f44f_m.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><img class="alignright" style="border:0 none;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/4095055586_5b7a25f44f_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="140" /></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Casanova busca mujeres con las que pueda compartir sus expansiones eróticas. Don Juan parte del rechazo inicial, considera que no son iguales en el ámbito amoroso y está convencido de que sólo se las puede conquistar mediante un acto de poder&#8221;, sostiene la escritora Lourdes Ventura, autora de ensayos como “<strong>La tiranía de la belleza</strong>” o “<strong>La mujer placer</strong>”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Para Don Juan, la conquista es un reto y sus conquistas, una vez logradas, dejan de interesarle. Para Casanova la seducción es un teatro, un baile de idas y venidas en el que hay dos contendientes. Don Juan es un acomplejado que necesita demostrar al mundo que puede humillar a una mujer mediante su conquista y abandono; Casanova un hedonista que comparte sus juegos de placer&#8221;. &#8220;¿Sedujo Casanova a las mujeres?&#8221;, se pregunta Félix de Azúa, sosteniendo que, más bien, se dejaba seducir, aceptando de buen grado las ocasiones que se le presentaban y, eso sí, &#8220;adivinando muchas más de las que un ciudadano vulgar es capaz de intuir&#8230; o aceptar&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>El gran amante sigue atrayendo y escandalizando con sus aventuras al lector de hoy.</strong> En ello influye su ejercicio de desnudez en un siglo de disimulo, su falta de pudor a la hora de exhibirse, &#8220;que lo emparenta con algunos escritores contemporáneos&#8221;, sostiene Lourdes Ventura.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Por debajo de las ambiciones que en todo momento expresa, late, lleno de contradicciones, un pensamiento ilustrado encarnado en un individuo &#8216;ejemplar&#8217; y &#8216;único&#8217;, indaga en las razones de su modernidad Mauro Armiño. &#8220;Su talento extraordinario se despliega en una obra cuyas revelaciones psicológicas llegan a alcanzar una intensidad dramática comparable con &#8216;Las mil y una noches&#8217;&#8221;, señala, por su parte, J. Rives Child, autor de la biografía &#8220;<a href="http://www.bibliolimpo.com/articulo.php?art=BECO0006&#38;na=Casanova,_el_rostro_oculto_de_un_seductor" target="_blank"><em>Casanova. El rostro oculto de un seductor</em></a>&#8220;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;Al narrar la historia de su vida, consigue algo que Proust replantearía de un modo radical un siglo más tarde: que el esplendor sólo permanece vivo en el arte literario y que hay que escribir contra el fracaso del instante, en busca de un tiempo perdido&#8221;, pone el colofón Félix de Azúa.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.elboomeran.com/blog-post/1/7325/felix-de-azua/una-cruz-en-duchov-primera-entr/" target="_blank">Prólogo de Félix de Azúa para la edición de Atalanta de las memorias de Casanova, &#8220;Historia de mi vida&#8221;</a><br />
<a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/club/Casanova/elpepuculbab/20091107elpbabpor_15/Tes" target="_blank">El Club Casanova</a> – El Pais.com<br />
<a href="http://www.elpais.com/elpaismedia/ultimahora/media/200911/03/cultura/20091103elpepucul_1_Pes_PDF.pdf" target="_blank">Fragmento  de &#8216;Historia de mi vida&#8217;, de Giacomo Casanova</a>. (PDF)<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Tahoma;"><em>&#8220;<a href="http://www.atalantaweb.com/libro.php?id=48" target="_blank">Historia de mi vida</a>&#8220;. Giacomo Casanova. Traducción de Mauro Armiño. Atalanta. Vilaür (Girona) 2009. Dos volúmenes. 3.648 páginas. 120 euros</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Photography continues&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Here&#8217;s another from Clear_Effect from our most recent photo shoot.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[El sender de gran recorregut GR-83 recorre mitja Catalunya, des de Mataró fins la muntanya sagrada d]]></description>
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<p>El sender de gran recorregut GR-83 recorre mitja Catalunya, des de Mataró fins la muntanya sagrada del Canigó, en terres del nord, i Prada de Conflent. P<span style="color:#000000;"></span>erò avui ens volem fixar només en un petit tros d&#8217;aquest magnífic camí. En un tros que no queda gaire lluny de Barcelona. En un tros que podeu fer a peu, en bici, o fins i tot en cotxe, en alguns trams. La porció de sender seria la surt de Collsacreu, a la carretera C-61. Aquesta carretera uneix Arenys de Mar amb Sant Celoni, passant per Arenys de Munt i Vallgorgina. A dalt mateix de la collada de Collsacreu surt el brancal del camí que puja cap a la Casanova de Pibernat. Aquest tram és excel·lent. Un camí de terra, però ben acondicionat us porta fins la Casanova en vint minuts. Podeu aparcar allà. La vista és magnífica sobre el Montseny i el Montalt. A prop de la Casanova teniu, en el sector d&#8217;obaga, un bonic bosc de castanyers. El més proper que podeu trobar a Barcelona. A la Casanova surten diferents camins, en diferent estat, que menen a Vallgorgina, baixant per un maravellós bosc de roures, alzina, pi i castanyer, o bé a Subirans, terme d&#8217;Arenys de Munt, o cap a Mataró. Si ja en teniu prou podeu tornar pel mateix camí després de passejar pel bosc. Sinó podeu continuar tot i que els cotxes més baixos s&#8217;ho passaran malament. La ruta corona el Pi d&#8217;en Buac, i la Creu de Rupit. Esplèndit panorama. Si continueu endavant, fer-ho en bici és espectacular, podeu decidir on voleu anar: fins a Mataró per l&#8217;àrea del parc forestal i Can Brugera, o per Sant Andreu de mata, o bé camí de Canyamars pel pou del glaç, o fins Sant Andreu de Llavaneres. També teniu a l&#8217;abast el Santuari del Corredor. Des de la Creu de Rupit tots aquests llocs són accessibles. Nosaltres però, que no sóm uns garns caminadors o ciclistes, ens hem conformat amb arribar-nos fins les perxades plenes de castanyes dels voltants de La Casanova de Pibernat. Un petit racó del <a href="http://www.diba.es/parcsn/parcs/plana.asp?parc=5">Parc del Corredor</a>. Segons on sigueu podeu dinar a diferents llocs. Si heu anat a petar a Subirans, camí d&#8217;Arenys de Munt, us direm que ens agrada el senzill restaurant que porta el nom de la vall: Subirans. Tel<strong>:</strong> 937.951.290. Carns a la brasa de somni. També al restaurant del mateix santuari del Corredor. O bé, si sou a Canyamars, al <a href="http://www.larectoria.net/">restaurant La Rectoria</a>.</p>
<p>El sendero de gran recorrido GR-83 recorre media Cataluña, desde Mataró hasta la montaña sagrada del Canigó, en tierras del norte, y de Prada de Conflent. Pero hoy nos queremos fijar sólo en un pequeño trozo de este magnífico camino. En un trozo que no queda muy lejos de Barcelona. En un trozo que puede hacer a pie, en bici, o incluso en coche, en algunos tramos. La porción de sendero sería la que sale de Collsacreu, en la carretera C-61. Esta carretera une Arenys de Mar con Sant Celoni, pasando por Arenys de Munt y Vallgorgina. Hay que subir la collada de Collsacreu desde donde sale el ramal del camino que sube hacia la Casanova de Pibernat. Este tramo es excelente. Un camino de tierra, pero bien acondicionado, lo llevará hasta la Casanova en veinte minutos. Puede aparcar allí. La vista es magnífica sobre el Montseny y el Montalt. Cerca de la Casanova tiene, en el sector de umbría, un bonito bosque de castaños. Lo más cercano que se puede encontrar de Barcelona. De la Casanova salen diferentes caminos, en diferente estado, que conducen a Vallgorgina, bajando por un maravilloso bosque de robles, encina, pino y castaño, o bien a Subirans, ya en término de Arenys de Munt, o que van hacia Mataró. Si ya tenéis bastante trote podeis volver por el mismo camino después de pasear por el bosque. Si no pueden continuar aunque los coches lo pasarán mal. La ruta corona el Pi d&#8217;en Buac, y la Creu de Rupit. Espléndido panorama. Si sigue adelante, hacerlo en bici es espectacular, puede decidir dónde quiere ir: hasta Mataró para el área del parque forestal y Can Brugera, o por Sant Andreu de Mata, o bien camino de Canyamars por el pozo del hielo, o hasta Sant Andreu de Llavaneres. También está disponible el Santuario del Corredor. Desde la Creu de Rupit todos estos lugares son accesibles. Nosotros sin embargo, que no somos unos grandes andarines ni ciclistas, nos hemos conformado con acercarnos hasta las perchadas llenas de castañas de la zona de La Casanova de Pibernat. Un pequeño rincón del Parque del Corredor. Según donde esté puede comer en diferentes lugares. Si ha ido a parar a Subirans, camino de Arenys de Munt, os diremos que nos gusta el sencillo restaurante que lleva el nombre del valle: Subirans. Tel.: 937.951.290. Carnes a la brasa de fábula. También comereis bién en el restaurante del mismo santuario del Corredor. O bien, si estais en Canyamars, en el restaurante La Rectoria.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Giggin w. Clear Effect]]></title>
<link>http://casanovafresh.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/giggin-w-clear-effect/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>casanovafresh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My very talented friend Kat a.k.a. Clear Effect, and I did a photo shoot for her portfolio! Here is ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">My very talented friend Kat a.k.a. <a href="http://myspace.com/clear_effect">Clear Effect</a>, and I did a photo shoot for her portfolio! Here is a teaser&#8230; there&#8217;s some ill shit to come. But until then, enjoy this! The next stuff is super fun and you shall see!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[plan séquence]]></title>
<link>http://julietteteste.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/plan-sequence/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Juliette</dc:creator>
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