Hermanos Cuervo

abandoned drinks in urinals...

José Fontana

The "Fontana", latest trendiest club in the Ciudad...

John Logan

The Men's room at "Boogaloo"..

Bret Easton Ellis

Triumph of presentation over substance, of marketing over content:

art cover highly recommended..

Salman Rushdie

WaltzingMathilda exercising drawing skills in the Generalife.

Was Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh" in the back of her mind?

Columbano

A famous group-portrait of a romantic XIX painter, Columbano, gets the de-construction post-modernist treatment at the hands of primary school-aged very young artists (Museu do Chiado, Lisbon)

Cesária Évora

The whole who's who of Cape Verde's music performed here, including Cesária.

( "B.Leza" bar , Lisbon)

Jules Verne

Another failed attempt at witnessing the Green Ray.

Better to read Verne's book or watch Rohmer's film instead

(Praia Grande, off Lisbon) .

Joseph Conrad

Is Peter Jackson trying his hand at re-interpreting Conrad's metaphysical novel ( "Heart of Darkness" )? After Copolla's simillar atempt in "Apocalypse Now", is "King Kong" another journey into a frightening unknown psycho-Freudian hinterland?

Imelda Marcos

A self-confessed fétichiste dares to expose her innermost longings...

( Dunhill party at Agustin de Betencourt, Madrid)

Francisco Franco

The necrologic concept of the totalitarian Right makes Lenin's tomb at the Red Square look pitiful..

(Vale de Los Caídos, off Madrid)

Georgevitch

Coming Out...

Earliest echographic evidence of a Work In Progress...

For too much time I've been hesitating... But how could I go on with this double life?.. On the surface this Casanova-like availability but deep down another orientation?.. I would have to come out at some point.. Many friends will have some difficulty in grasping the new reality... A few female friends will no doubt feel utterly disappointed... But these are times of tolerance we are living in.. Not much is left that really shocks you... Better to come clean than to live a semi-lie.. The compartmentalizing must have a stop.. Hypocrisy and calculating cynicism have to be abandoned... My true self must be allowed a chance to come to the fore.. I'll say it not only out loud but in the Internet for all to know.. I'm proud of it, why refraining from tell all?.. So, there it goes.. I'm coming out.. :

- I'm a romantic monogamist . I'm entwining my future with that of Miss Maria Alexandrovna Kuznetsova ( a.k.a. the Russkaya or Miss Boots in the posts of this blog..) And I'm going to be a father (of a Boy) in early Summer.

There.. I've spilled the beans.

I feel better already.

Frederico Garcia Lorca

Multicultural New Year's Eve ..

Delerict grandee house in Alentejo: better to build from scratch?

Dinning-table: imagine a solid slab of French oak, varnished to perfection... (to be continued...)

At the very end of the evening, deep inside new year, the Host recites Lorca's "Eran las cinco de la tarde.." .. Commotion is generalized