Today is my mom's 60th birthday. I have to work today, so we actually celebrated last night.
"Mom," I said, "let me take you out to dinner. Pick somewhere nice. Anywhere you want to go."
She paused a few moments. "Let's go to Ralph's."
Ralph's is a roadside barbecue stand in the middle of nowhere, aka Triangle, Virginia. By roadside, I mean roadside. There are no tables. There's barely any parking. They do have really good barbecue sandwiches, though. And their hotdogs aren't bad, either.
I guess mom just had a taste for it. For being from Missouri, her tastes in food are very southern. But then her mom and dad were from Tennessee.
And now I offer up the strangest piece of spam I've ever gotten in my in-box. I fully expected some crazy porn site, but curiousity got the better of me.
Hello, I am an Italian journalist. My name is Giampietro Stocco and
last year I have written an alternate history novel, Nero Italiano. In
the last months I put a website with some italian allohistory- and
sci-fi contents:
http://www.giampietrostocco.it
If you wish, have a look: there is also an English version.
Regards,
Giampietro Stocco
It's, well, strange. I figured since my online identity here is borrowed from an Italian experimental novel, I should showcase weird little things by Italians from time to time. It's animation heavy, so it might take some time if you're on dialup.
Excelsior.
3 comments:
Happy birthday to your mom. Isn't that funny when people want something really simple? Sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered. I have a bbq joint nearby and sometimes I just go there, it's such good and comforting food.
That spam -- that's very interesting. Wow. Talk about the unexpected.
Well hello. Thanks for posting.
Your spam was good spam. It was just odd that it came into my inbox. I saw it later on some of the sf newsgroups, along with the discussions there you've probably already read. I imagine it came to me by way of the newsgroups, because I post there from time to time under my real-life name.
I do like alternative history. It's an odd and interesting form of fiction. Harry Turtledove's stuff is well done, and I like Thomas Pynchon and Eco for the way they re-use and re-create history.
Your site looks very interesting, but unfortunatley I'm not informed enough in Italian history to know everything you're working out on the page (visually, it's very well done). I have your site bookmarked, and plan on looking in from time to time. Best of luck to you.
Here I am again. If you still are interested, my home page has changed and the English link looks a bit better.
There are new things to look at.
So long!
Giampietro
http://www.giampietrostocco.it
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