Richie Rich007's blog post - Wednesday already?!

Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 8:43:24 AM

I'm updating this blog rather blurry eyed and huddled round a cup of tea to try and inject and jump start me into working this morning.
Can't believe it's already Wednesday I've be working flat out and taking on more work, gonna be rich and very lonely soon.
Managed to get out with some friends this weekend and was wondering home when I came across the street very near me which has been abandoned because two houses have colapsed with subsidence. The reason I mention this is it never happens in suburban London.
There was an incident van, I expect to check for looters but apart from that the street was empty. A massive gap where the two houses use to be and various holes have been dug down the road to look for anymore faults. It felt very eerie.
Luckily no one had been hurt but what price do you put on loosing all your belongings. It’s funny cos it hardly made the news, being such a small event but these guys have been effected just as much as the hurricane's that have hit the US and other countries lately.
It all reminds me of how we can weep openly for starving children, dead princesses and the charred remains of bomb victims but are so ambivalent to traumas that happen to our next door neighbours.
Anyway on a lighter note Champion League tonight which will be my last desperate fix of football before the World Cup so I intend to savor every kick and dive (Deco).
Italian football is in a dirty sinking swamp - Gio - will it ever survive.

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GioFromItaly on 17-May-06 9:34:19

"Famine horror, millions die...
Princess D is wearing a new dress..."
(Depeche Mode, somewhere around the 80ies)

Italian football will survive, cuz you can't kill passion... dirty italian football (and the other, arrogant, rich, detested team of my city seems to be an iceberg of dump) will die, probably.. or this is what i hope

Tilac Girl on 17-May-06 10:48:02

Good luck with your football.
I am so sorry to hear about your neigbors. It is difficult when neighbors have such a tragedy.

Punk_Princess on 17-May-06 13:27:02

As I live very close to New Orleans I understand how bad the effects of the hurricane are/were....many prayers for your neighbors...

just_looking123 on 17-May-06 17:59:23

true about what you said about how "cold-hearted" we became when it comes to the "smaller incidents" happening in our neighbourhood....

and for the football...erm.. being the host (country) of the world cup (otherwise we wouldn't even have qualified - yes, that bad!) I think the dirtiest subject are not the teams and their management but the way these mega-events are mis-used for commercial profits. Just this morning on my way to work, I listened to an radio add: McDonald is offering 5,000 tickets (prizes when you buy the shit and you're lucky). 5,000!!!!! I'm convinced more than 80% of all the tickets went to the industry.. and we.. the normal but passionate football fans.. can't afford to buy a ticket (semi final: 800 to 1,500 Euros/USD!!!), not even mentioning the stupid system how you had to apply for them... online. This is making me soooooooo sick!! Usually we should boycott them...if we weren' such crazy fans of the best game in the Western hemisphere... (for us Europeans at least) soccer... not American football;)