Cèlia, from Transparència, has passed me on an easy and nice-to-write meme. Here it is:
1.- Take the nearest book, open it on page 18 and write here line 4.
“…no funciona desde hace un año. Pero si no se sabe concretamente…”
Why, this book! It was my present for him and it’s me who is reading it first. I like it very much, but I have to spare time for many activities that get in the way. The poor thing has been very patient for the time being and doesn’t loose interest whenever I take it again. It really deserves a review.
2.- Explain the last thing you have seen on TV:
To be honest, don’t know for sure. I had Horatio from CSI in front of me and the moment after, due to an unexpected zapping, a scene from Honey, I shrunk the kids turned up. Maybe this was the reason for me to feel absolutely zonked. There was Horatio again afterwards, but it was too late. I had succumbed to tiredness.

3.- What projects do you have?
I have an interesting professional project which would have a lot of ???. I know it won’t come to reality due to a budget problem, but my boss likes my idea and has asked me to work on it. I like my boss.
I’ve gots heaps of personal projects: A little holidays with him, to make a glasspaint for a very special corner at home, ask Whity to help me with a new cooking post, update my receips database, make the scarf Whity claims for every winter, organize the thousand stray files in my computer and the portable hard disks, make up some Christmas card, tune my blog design, make a personal gift to some blogger girls, to learn more about flash animation and remote assistance programs, convert to digital format the videotapes of my theatre plays before time ruins them, finish the book and start another one…

And the main project: keep the illusion of every new day surrounded by people I love and who love me. Not really original, but very important for me.
4.- What material would like you to try?
“Material” is a very general word… moreover, I always like to try new things. For example, I will try a new paint for glass, this time. It can be a good thing because they told me that it’s light proof and does not change hue. At a technical level, there is a whole world of software I would like to test, I do it little by little, depending on my crowded schedule and my needs in this field. I can’t think in any new food I’d like to taste. Any new recipe I could think of would do. Some drink, a very refined French champagne. A renewing massage… and many other things which is better to try whith somebody else…

I wouldn’t dare to pass this meme on to anybody. I’m quite new at this and don’t know you very well, maybe you’d feel like writing or maybe you’ll virtually throw it at me. Just like Carme says: if you like the idea, go ahead!
Lots of kisses.
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Oct
22
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A school ruled by nuns was responsible for my education for some years. We were all catalan but called them madres, still influenced by the might of Spanish language during Franco times. Just like in any good stew, you could find every kind of stuff there. Real vocations, judging by the lack of joy they showed wearing the habit, were not common. There were glorious exceptions I will always remember with affection, anyway, and the truth is I can remember all of them with a smile now because the worries and childish behaviors (and I’m not only talking of those of the pupils) look different from the perge of age.
I will make random portraits of those women and my feelings about them. I think they are the reflection of a period and maybe many of you have met similar characters in your life.
Madre “friends could call her Cheli”, as she said herself-, was the director for many years, and had won a deserved fame as some kind of Gestapo woman. She had terribly cold blue eyes, and a fully-teethed smile she liked to show off. This was her way to create a confidence climate so that she was able to get you down immediately after with some comment of absolute contempt. The secret was not to let her influence you, but how can you explain it to a bunch of knee-scratched little girls? She taught us Maths when we were fifteen, and a good number of girls left the blackboard crying bitterly due to her cutting comments. I was not the less impressed by her tactic, and she couldn’t help praising my “natural manner” in her presence, which in our language means “why the hell don’t you get scared to death?”
A thorough, strict teacher must not necessarily be unkind. As long as people don’t bother me, I always practise the “live and let live” philosophy, and never understood what pleasure she could get from depressing us. I think she had complex feelings. She liked to see herself as a good, comprehensive woman, maybe she even used to pray for hours asking the Lord for his grace, but it was difficult for her to struggle with her own personality.
Cheli played the leading part in a really funny episode.
In the Assembly Hall, during the annual reunion dedicated to the Domund donations, after a very wise speech about the need to give and to give oneself (always on the verge of asking us to become nuns) the turn for us to ask arrived. With her small chubby body on the stage, madre Cheli said she would answer any question we had about such a touching and supportive subject.
I was some 12 years old, and a little hand raised from the back of the room. It belonged to one of my classmates’ brother (boys started to be allowed in the school four years after I began studying there). He had golden hair cut in the shape of a helmet that moved along with his head. A really sweet little boy.
Madre Cheli, overwhelming with joy, said: “Come here, son”. Teeth were all you could see in her face. She looked like the owner of the candy house.
The boy got up in that fearless way just little children do, climbed with great effort the few steps to the stage and stood in front of Cheli, who had been observing him with starving delight. She said: “Tell me, son” and stuck the microphone in his mouth just in time for him to shout like a professional actor and absolutely fascinated: “Why is it the DOUGHNUT day today?”
It was an absolute catharsis. For once, everybody could laugh at Gestapo’s face itself. Amid of the racket, madre Cheli urged him to go mumbling “go seat, son” and pushing him slightly out of the scene with a hand.
While following him with an iced look, faking a happy smile, pressing her teeth and hearing hundreds of students laughing their heads off on their seats, she doubtlessly regretted the suppression of body punishments.
A really good time to remember.

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Oct
14
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They would never fool him again, but that night it was a little late to play the macho part. The Ribeira Club was full of sensual sticky girls. His laughing friends, who had taken him there as a challenge for his virility, had already run away, but he did not remember how nor when. A blood test would have revealed that Salvador could live with pure whisky running in his veins.
Due to his clouded sight, he was only able to distinguish the girls’ curves as a garment of the highly colored landscape of lights and exuberance. They knew exactly how to use their tongues and kissed him once and again, while suggesting activities for the hours to come. He tried to look indifferent, in order not to let them know he was failing to keep his balance.
Would his friends see him act with such dignity, they would definitely not laugh at him the way they used to.
He thought it wise to drive home while he still remembered how he was called and where he lived, trusting in his good driver sense and praying not to find any breath test on the way. There was a good thing about that all: she was too drunk to be scared. So drunk he did not even notice he had not left that pleasure self-service alone. Of course, he did not even notice she letting herself rock smoothly on the back seat of the car all the while. He did not notice that she got out of the car with him nor that she had climbed the stairs behind him. He managed to close the door without looking at it, just with a clumsier than usual tap of his heel. She was already in.
He was home at last, still on his feet and able to think a little. He had won. Now what was it he needed so much…? Ah, yes!
He went to the toilet mechanically and pissed as if he hadn’t done it for a month. The bedroom was nearby. He went there with vacillating steps. He could not stand the heat. This air conditioned is bullshit! -he thought, unaware of the fact that he was trying to turn it on with his mobile phone-. He tore his clothes off and fell on the bed downwards in all his length, with a groan tat climbed his throat from the very pit of his stomach.

In the meantime, she had made her own analysis about the eccentric single’s little flat. Kitchen and living-room shared room, canvas chairs and non-curtained windows. No pictures, one mirror, two turtles, three cinema posters, four old videotapes and DVD armies that filled a few shelves.
There was only one more room apart from the bedroom: a little study where all books evicted by the DVD were having a good time and more DVD lied, all of them presided by such a clean Mac that it even gleamed with the light of the room at the front.
It was a long time since he had been heard. She went to the bedroom silently, as she used to. That masculine naked body was a real paradise. Even backwards, the penis sticked out between the two half-open legs. They already had two things in common: she was wearing no clothes and while she approached, something also longer than usual, aroused by instinct, approached with… her?
No, they did not always speak about her in feminine.
Was that sleeping soft-buttocked guy anything but an invitation? Well, nobody would pay her for the job, but at least she would not miss the opportunity to help herself. When she sticked it deep inside, the man moved only a little, then nothing. Maybe he was used to it, after all.
She entered, felt the warmth of the body and let herself go at the same time. Salva, that got flooded, was courting for a really unpleasant awakening full of nasty discoveries. She had done a thorough job but was not still satisfied. You must never miss the sucking part. She started rhythmically, non-stop, with little movements at first, more intensely afterwards. Those fluid exchanges drove her crazy.
He, still uncounscious, looked as if he wanted to react. Turned upwards suddenly and upwards he remained, with open arms and legs.
And there, squashed under Salvador’s ass, she died, the last and more voracious tiger mosquito of the season in the Baix Llobregat.
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Oct
6
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Pandolfi and Pirindola are really fond of Youtube. We must set some kind of content filter this week. A few days ago, they were looking for videos about magic and magicians while we -the two grown-ups- were getting lost among files to classify and ftp servers.
All of a sudden, the voice of Juan Tamariz the magician could be heard coming out from Pandolfi’s computer. He was speaking of “… poor Pepe Carroll, who died very young.” The little girls took no notice, of course, but we two share generation memories and looked one another in astonishment. We didn’t know he was dead.
Finding almost everything in the Net takes just a little patience. So you can imagine me trying to find out what happened to that magician who was quite famous in Spain in the early nineties and whose life had such an early end.
I read that he was born in 1958 in Calatayud (Zaragoza), and his real name was José Arsenio Franco Larraz, but he surnamed himself after Lewis Carroll the writer. He studied industrial engineering but never took it as a job because his first and only love was magic.
He started at the Zaragoza School of Magic and all along his career he acted in Las Vegas and many countries of Europe and SouthAmerica. In 1982 he was the second prize winner in the Card Tricks category of the XV FISM World-Wide Magic Championship that took place in Lausanne, and won the first prize in the XVII edition of this championship, celebrated in The Hague in 1988.
He even wrote a two-volume book about magic, Cincuenta y dos amantes (Fifty-two lovers). Here you can read a review about the book and a video of one of his card tricks. He became an specialist in close-magic thanks to his great hand skill, and followed the Structuralist philosophy of the Madrid School of Magic, along with other magicians like Juan Tamariz, Camilo Vázquez, Juan Antón, Arturo de Ascanio, Doctor Varela, etc.
I also read that his best moment arrived in 1994, when he won the TP de oro prize as the best TV host for Genio y Figura, a TV program on Antena 3 that was also the starting point for comics who are still working like Chiquito de la Calzada or Paz Padilla. He also presented A quién se le ocurre (1995) and collaborated with Concha Velasco in Sorpresa, sorpresa.
After that he started working for Tele5 but the change did him no good : the programs Vaya nochecita (1995) and Aquí no hay quien duerma (1995-1996) were cancelled before expected due to lack of audience. Things went from bad to worse for him from then on.
He was single and could not overcome his mother’s death. He got deeply depressed and his health weakened. He looked so bad he just couldn’t appear on TV and had to work in theaters or night clubs where no close-ups were possible. It’s said that he started consuming antidepressants in dangerous amounts.
He died in Zaragoza on a magic night, the 5th January of 2004. The official version states that he had a heart attack.
You can read him briefly interviewed here.
Each person means a world and a story. Sometimes, a much darker story than we might think. Pepe Carroll lived a golden moment that finally vanished, and his ephemeral fame allowed me to follow his trail. Many stars and whole lives shine a light and vanish afterwards, lost among the crowd, eternally unknown.




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A gift from a special woman: Cèlia, author of the blog "Transparència", in a special date: 2008's Catalonia day.
Xmas 2008 present:
Amazing image and words from Carme Rosanas, author of the blog "Col·lecció de moments".
Symbelmine award:
A magic present from Cèlia, author of the blog "Transparència".


