Χάος (Chaos) comes to Greece

Browsing my Picasa albums I found this foresight, a premonition. Two graphitti icons photographed in Athens, summer of 2006

Jim Thompson defines a President

I read a story one time about a fellow that was accidentally slipped into a big job; president of a company or something like that. He looked like the guy that actually was president, see, and when this guy ran off or fell in a mudhole or something and wasn´t ever seen again, why this one hooked his place. He didn´t know beans about the business, and all he planned on doing was to stick around long enough to snap a few rubber checks and maybe get the other guy´s gal alone in the parlor for a while. But once he got inside, the graft looked so good that he decided to stay for a real milking. He was scared out of his pants, naturally, because he didn´t know any more about the setup than a hog does about ice skates. But he ran a bluff, and damned if he didn´t make good on it.
His work was just cut out for him, see what I mean? The stenographers would bring him letters to sign, and he´d just sign´em. And when he got any letters, his vice-presidents or some of his secretaries would take charge of them. And when people showed up for conferences all he had to do was keep his eyes and ears open, and he could see what he had to do. He didn´t have to move. He got moved. As I remember the yarn, he wound up by getting made president of a lot of other companies and marrying the other guy´s gal, and no one ever knew the difference.

Jim Thompson in Nothing more than murder.

It somehow made me think of President Bush jr.

Be alarmed, be an informer

Taken in Oxford Street, London, England

Signs of Life: I´m back

After a long wwwless summer I´m back with signs taken in London last August.

The Unexpected Section: Texts That Are Broken Down In Several Lines

My sweet old etcetera

by e. e. cummings

Find the differences

A game to be played in couples: one partner speaks, the other marks on the screen; speaking/listening>oral communication.

Today as yesterday?

How do you pronounce it?

Morgan Freeman & The Electric Company say hi!

The Electric Company´s greetings

A Japanese Festival: an easy one

Ask davideoi for the question form

Words not to be spoken

Tuxedomoon Lyrics

The Velvet underground: not afraid to die

Ill be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you dont know
Ill be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that youre home

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside youre twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you dont know
The beauty that you are
But if you dont let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you wont be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside youre twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

Ill be your mirror

The unexpected section: Texts That Are Broken Down In Several Lines

San Francisco, by Richard Brautigan

What are you? B1, B2, or are you a C?

Swearing&Cussing Part II: Example 2

Swearing&Cussing Part II: Example 1

Carassius epitheticus

Swearing&Cussing Part I: Serious Stuff

About: what swearing is, how it works and how it affects your brain (for real!) plus should we do it?

#@@!$!%

Listening Comprehension Quiz

Tongue Gymnastics

Three witches watch
three Swatch watches.
Which witch watch
which Swatch watch?

Three switched witches
watch three Swatch watch switches.
Which switched witch
watch which Swatch watch switch?

Reading and singing FAST

One for the silly sing-along people

Are you in any way similar to this guy?

English Language

How about some history of the English Language?

Welcome to my blogrld

Some kind of welcome