Huqleberry Redux

Silvio Berlusconi punched in the face!

With video!

Amanda Knox speaks from her cell!

Roma defeats Sampdoria! (Predicted)

A resilient LAG returns to The Eternal City!

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Oh boy…

I watched Roman Polanski’s The Tenant.

Don’t think she can get enough
Always feels like she’s runnin on a hamster wheel
Gettin high, crashin cars and makin mistakes
Keepin her face packed with cocaine

(quoting songs and using  italics)

Take all the paper currency out of your wallet or purse and start licking the edges, it’ll get you high. Or it will just make your teeth numb or nothing will happen at all… Whatever the case I hope you either dial a number in your phone book or go running to the corner.

Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.

“When I was a young kid, my mom told me the dirtiest thing in the world is money,” said the researcher, Yuegang Zuo, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. “Mom is always right.”

Scientists say the amount of cocaine found on bills is not enough to cause health risks.

Money can be contaminated with cocaine during drug deals or if a user snorts with a bill. But not all bills are involved in drug use; they can get contaminated inside currency-counting machines at the bank.

“When the machine gets contaminated, it transfers the cocaine to the other bank notes,” Zuo said. These bills have fewer remnants of cocaine. Some of the dollars in his experiment had .006 micrograms, which is several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand.

Via CNN

Roma, Roma, Bella.  Oh how they floundered last season, barely securing a place in the Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup aKa poor man’s Champions League).

Their activity in the summer transfer market has been equally drab.  Most of the speculation and rumours floating around Europe aren’t good; Aquilani in talks with Liverpool; Vucinic wanted by Arsenal; Mexes Gay for Man City?

Panucci has signed to Parma.

With all the goings who is arriving?  A displaced Julio Cruz?  Another subpar striker?

Unsure of what to expect, I reluctantly watched the final fifteen minutes of their first Europa League match against Gent (Belgium).  It raised my spirits!  Francesco Totti appeared to be fit, a somber Spalletti and the team flowed in perfect harmony.

Given, it was Gent, nowadays it seems you can’t underestimate the tiniest of minnows paired against the Romans.  The game ended 3 – 1 (Mexes, Totti (p), Vucinic) in favor of the Giallorossi.  A good start to what will surely be a tough season even with the departure of some heavy hitters i.e. Ibra and Kaka.

Check out the Serie A schedule here.