GARY-BALDI-SMITH, in a sense, pioneered Dave Delacroix in Italy...now showed up at the HOTEL DAVE (€56.50 per nite/big screen TV), Cambridhe University-educated, COMEDY or SPYING for the RUSSIANS, much against Campus tradition; we lolled -post "doobie"-Grappas/Hotel D., college ambience...
3 years younger than I, the poor bastard is balding which is not a Cardinal sin, just one of Natures crimes for, athletic, debonair, he could only look at my ENGLISH SHEEPDOF accoutriments...and sigh?
We started conversation, traditionally; old pals: Subj: Who'd died, etc. Old girlfriends? Who'd married WHICH sonofabitch, different gender, same results: Might as well be?
Eventually; because I always SENSED something Biblical aboout Gary-Baldi-Smith...I cut to the quick and affirmed I was 2 years into-having "a blast" in ITALY, presumably, like him?
...He did not concur, and, in addition to correcting my by-now irreversible-un-grammatical ENGLISH-English propounded the following:
"...It's NOTHING like England, Old Man? Italiy? The whole bloody place ia a mess. Frickin' Natives are OUT with the Immigrants. The bloody ruins (Roman) are BLOODY RUINS...and NO-ONE can find a blessed job! The MEN are idiots, the SHEBAS all dress like whores! The railroad system - Italy's backbone - is functional/not PUNCTUAL, traffic is ANARCHY. The money grubbing VATICAN continues its HERESY, Pollution here makes downtown LOS-ANGELES look and smell like the garden of EDEN; and PREZ BELLUSCONI is spot on when he says "It's hard to kick-start the Italian Ecconomy when everyone is at the Beach!?"
"...So why," I asked, "Mio Amico (my friend) have U sojourned here these past 10 years? "
He (Gary-Baldi-Smith) took a SLUG of his GRAPPA (I could ver do that without choking):
"Wine" he replied: " Good food! Woman! Song!; old boy?..."
.....Dr. JOHNSON - as always - was correct when he said, "PATRIOTISM is the last refuge of a Scoundrel. With regarde to Gary-Baldi.-Smith: Scoundrels ARE Patriotism, personified.
c 2014/davedelacroix/lorde borgo-Italia.
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