The Far West - A Love Story For Valentine

It lacks the gritty elements and rugged, breathtaking scenery of the wild west, but the pure magic remains in the new stage play, based on a popular comic strip serial, 'Calpunio', with 'Cuttlas' the famous 'pistolero' the gunman. It's on in the Theatre Raval in Barcelona.

You wouldn't see Clint Eastwood or any of the other legendary Hollywood cowboys in this play. Cuttlas is not even fresh and blood but special puppets, not on the strings, nor made of rags with a head of cement or wood, but some pliable wire-ropes that 'draws' out the silhouettes of the many characters, 'acting' out all the actions and emotions. Yes emotions. More than that, love, as it's basically a love story.

The story line braids around the love of Cuttlas and his eternal beloved Mabel. Not leaving out, of course, the baddy Jack, and the pensive Juan Bala, (at least when he is awake in the shade under a tree with his Mexican hat) The adventure develops and terminates in the uproaring shindig of a rave Cherokee organized by the DJ Jeronimo. Apart from the electronic rhythm there's also direct live music, with sounds between ragtime and primitive jazz, with flavour of the so called spaghetti western.

To say that the play has no actors is not really correct. They are there, and famous ones too, who have to learn their lines as always, but they act and talk behind the scenes, together with a large team of technicians just like any other major theater production.

In the imagination of comics, anything is possible. I got the imagination to match too and I love comics in their many & varied forms.

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I Need Help - With Clams

A friend brought me a whole lot of food stuff and bottles of vintage reserve wine, lovely lemon sole, some Razor clams, and fresh Lai-Chees. I am supposed to turn these goodies into edible dinner.

I cooked the sole simply in butter. As I have no parsley I used spring onion and it's in fact even better. But, I have never ever cooked razor clams before, so again I just go by the golden rule that all seafood must be very lightly cooked, always rather underdone than overdone. These came out very nice too, except that there seemed to be some fine sand still remaining. I did wash them thoroughly in several changes of water first but ... !

I am hoping somebody, anyone who knows more than I do about cooking seafood, would kindly give me some idea how to correctly and best cook Razor clams?

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Let's Change The World

I have never heard of the lady called Eugenie Harvey, nor the movement she co-founded called: 'We are what we do', nor her book called 'Let's change the world, subtitled: Small actions x many people = great changes'. She and the co-founder David Robinson, a seasoned social activist, direct this movement 'We are what we do', trying to involve everyone on earth to do whatever little they can, however insignificant it might seem, to actively take part in this very ambitious but amazingly easy task of bettering the world. By simply effecting small and simple actions but consciously bearing the objective in mind. This book is also translated in Spanish. During the interview by the local press, she stated some examples of the simple things we all do in our daily life, with suggestions that we can do them differently and better. Most of them are suggested by 3,000 people responding by email and correspondence, to their petition published on the 'Guardian' in Britain, over the period of their participating and promoting what they aim to do as a new life long project and practice. The following are just a few of them: Smile, and return smiles Spend some time each day with people of different generation (race, culture) Take bath with someone you like Give right of way Ito another vehicle at least once each trip Learn some jokes and tell them. Tell stories too to children Listen and respond to somebody when you are needed Turn off the tap when you are brushing teeth Stop using plastic bags Switch off lights when they are not necessary any more Unplug the mobile when it's not charging Turn off all domestic appliances when not in use Eat with the family as regularly as possible Write to someone with loving words Talk to your neighbours often Learn to do first aid Cook something for friends Do something for others without expecting anything in return Touch people, a hug, a kiss, a squeeze of the hand, a pat on the shoulder Give away things you don't use any more to those who need them Recycle eye glasses - many people don't know this, they have old glasses in the back of forgotten drawers while each year there are 200 millions people in the world who badly need them. Anybody with any new suggestions can do so at: wearewhatwedo.es Tags:changetheworld

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Offbeat Thoughts About Beer

** Beauty is in the hands of the beer holder.

** My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
** Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
** Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.

** Apparently it was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'honey month' - or what we know today as the 'honeymoon'.

** You know what alcoholics call New Year's Eve? 'Amateur night'.

** Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

** The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
** 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.

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More Of Oscar Wilde's Wit

I might be repeating myself - I adore Oscar Wilde's wit, & always find his cynicism & sarcasm most entertaining. Not sure whether I had posted before the following quotes or not; if so, I am not apologizing.

** A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

** A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

** A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

** A true friend stabs you in the front.

** All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

** Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

** As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

** As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

** Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

** Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

** Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

** I am not young enough to know everything.

** Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

** All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

** It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

** Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

** Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

** Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

** Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

** She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

** The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

** The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

** America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

** There is no sin except stupidity

** There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

** Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong

** Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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