I wish I could stop saying things like: «Hey, I did this and this, you know?». And start saying things like “I think this and that. What do you think about this and that?» And I also whish I could call this not only my “home on the web”, but also …
Borders and love poems
I wrote a new article for GenerAzione Rivista. Its title: Several borders, four smiles and an earthquake. And I’m also working on a poetry project called (for now) Branches—Love letters to a xenophobe. As more often than I’d like, everything is in Italian. So if you read this beautiful language, I …
Michel and his Snoopy suitcase
Chiassoletteraria 2012′s theme was the night. And suddenly several strange night travelers began writing their stories on the official blog of the festival. The one who came to life from my keyboard was desperately searching for his brown suitcase with Snoopy drawn on it. However, it was first discovered by …
Trainslations
Back from Berlin, within several papers piled up in my mailbox, I also found the Financial Report 2011 from SBB, the Swiss federal railways company. I often say that my butt is shaped like a SBB seat, that I spend more time in a train than in any other place—and …
Not a Review #1 — Mutual Friends by BOY
BOY’s Mutual Friends trailer, with an excerpt from This is the beginning The day I first discovered Valeska’s beautiful voice, I was at the M4Music festival in Zürich, Switzerland. It was a few years ago and she won a prize for her song As Cool As Berlin, at the Demotape Clinic contest. Just like virtually everybody …
Restart your engines!
False start. A bit like Usain Bolt at the IAAF World Championships in 2011. Even if writing – writing a book or writing a blog – is actually more a multi-marathon than it is a 100m sprint. So, this blog post is just to say that I’ll put aside what I …




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