Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Music: Dolly Parton et al.

Posted on November 24, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Have you ever combined two ingredients you’re slightly iffy about and produced something rather wonderful? No, neither have I. I’d started to wonder if it was possible. Until I heard Dolly Parton’s version of Stairway to Heaven. You can listen … Continue reading →

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Shadows

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of the most important, and useful, books to have come out recently in Italy isn’t a novel, but an exposure of the role played by the Camorra, the international Mafia-style structure with its base in the organised crime of … Continue reading →

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Obsession

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

If you think I’m Johnny One Note when it comes to harping on about gay issues, you should visit the wingnuts’ answer to Wikipedia. It’s called Conservapedia (they always did have a way with words) and you can find it … Continue reading →

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Lies, lies, lies

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Leaks from a police investigation into the suspicious bankruptcy of a polling company employed by former PM, Tony Blair, have uncovered evidence that the information broadcast by both the BBC and independent television was deliberately manipulated to present the prime … Continue reading →

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More information than you’ll ever need

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just worked out how to publish photo albums with Picasa. So if you’d like to see all the shots of last summer’s Rome Gay Pride, including the ones that I didn’t post, now’s your chance. Gay Pride Rome June … Continue reading →

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Monkey business

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This is the small gold monkey I gave Giuseppe for his 50th birthday. He doesn’t normally wear gold – he prefers silver – but the monkey comes from the same people (Pomellato) as a similarly minute camel (they’re more or … Continue reading →

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Was Jesus gay?

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

http://www.youtube.com/v/ReYfDlIa-Z8&rel=1A little something Alberto Ruggin’s local priest might enjoy. Or Ted Haggard. Or Larry Craig. Or Archbishop Arsehole of Nigeria. Or Eggs Benedict. Or just about anyone, in one way or another. And if you’d like to know more about … Continue reading →

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Bored Sea Captain Secretly Marries….

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

For the full story, click here. My thanks, as ever, to the Onion (and Pierre et Gilles).

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Noblesse oblige

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of Italy’s longest standing jokes, the ex ‘royal’ family Savoia, hits the front page again today. No, Vittorio Emanuele, the pudding-faced capo famiglia, hasn’t tried to hire a few hookers for one of his ‘business dinners’; he hasn’t peppered … Continue reading →

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Ciao Darwin, Addio Alberto

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Just when you thought the catholic church and I had agreed,amicably, to differ and go our separate ways, news arrives of a local priest, Don Paolino (Little Paul), who has expelled one of his choristers from the choir and excluded … Continue reading →

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