Occasionally, I ramble

Ah, Italy.  Where the weather is always completely perfect, the bars are all open all the time to anyone who can reach the counter, and the food is fantastic.

I spent the first four days in Rome, which was nice, but...eh.  Don't get me wrong, the ruins were incredible, especially the Coliseum and the Pantheon, but the city itself is very 'meh'.  It's a lot like New York, but with a worse train system and more scooters (and fewer homeless guys talking to themselves).

After that we went to Florence for two days.  I wish we could have stayed there longer; it was absolutely incredible.  Not many ruins, but the city is small (and beautiful and clean) and the food is amazing.  The churches there, like the Duomo (St. Peter's Basilica) are these fantastically huge works of art that make you feel bad about yourself =P.  We went to Sienna (a small hill town about an hour out) for half a day, which was nice, but which got boring quickly, although I did find the Enter Shikari CD at a small record store there.  Whoo!

Our next stop was Venice, for three days.  Dear god, what an amazing city.  Canals instead of streets, really nice weather, tons of small neat shops with good, cheap stuff, and really really really great food, everywhere.  St. Mark's is nice, but Venice as a city is just so much more than one basilica and the piazza near it.  I really liked Venice.

Today we came to Milan.  Right now we are in a small hotel roughly an hour outside the city and 1 km from the Milan Airport.  Tomorrow we get up early to fly home.  Whoo!

Oh, and just for reference, we travelled from city to city on the Italian train system.  It was great.

Come see Urinetown!

June 14th, 15th, and 16th at 8:00 pm at BU's College of Fine Arts (855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston), studio 102.

I'm in it and it's pretty awesome =P.  Come see it!

Okay, maybe I will actually post stuff here.  Fine.  Since I have nothing much to do with my life anyway and my girlfriend is way too busy to ever actually see me =P.

So, as I was walking through Copley Square to get to Back Bay Station today, I saw a couple protesters, so I figured, hey, I'll check 'em out.  Well, reading their signs turned out to be a bad idea.  It was something rambling about how Clinton was a bad man blah blah blah kill the government yadda yadda and then (and I quote) "Victory to the Afghani and Iraqi resistances."  Um.  What?

Okay, I'm sorry, but I take serious issue with this.  I'm not a particularly patriotic person (as many of you who know me in real life will attest to), and I definitely don't support the wars this country is in right now in any way.  However, it's not the fault of the soldiers over there that they're there (yes, they enlisted, they weren't drafted, but they didn't choose to go fight in Iraq), and I don't think it's right to support the killing of our soldiers so that other countries can be victorious.  I don't like war, and I don't like subjugation, but if my country is already in a war, I don't really want to lose, and I don't want tons of US soldiers to die, which is what it would take for those resistances to succeed.

Yeah.  That's my rant about extremist ignorance in this country.  Extreme conservatives can be really bad, but hey, so can extreme liberals.  In fact, extremes are generally a bad thing.

So.  New...blog, soon to join my others in a strand of wastes-of-bandwidth that I don't update.  Hooray?