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Brief presentation

Kursivo is my pseudonym. It’s only an alias that I have self-deprecatingly given to myself, because nice cursive handwriting often has a slant; it is reminiscent of the wise hunchback. Hey, it’s only because some bitch once told me that I should have walked straight! Anyways, my real name is Luca. I was born in Pordenone, a nondescript town in the North East of Italy, in 1967. Growing up as a boy, I hated skul. Not that I didn’t like studying, but I couldn’t keep up with the curriculum. And the teachers were icy-cold. Also, I hated family life. My parents (the uncle and the nanny) were losers. Whereas I was, am, and always will be… a Winner. I immigrated to London in 1997, despite my uncle discouraging me. Now I think I have just about managed to do something meaningful with my life. But that’s only up to the rightious judges to decide.

Areas of activity, interest and expertise

Areas of activity

• Comedy
• Experimental and Electronic music (And one day god announced: "Let there be Goa trance")
• Woodwork
• Technical drawing
• Web design
• Exotic cuisines
• Linguistics
• Modern languages
• Poetry

Areas of interest

• Stained glass
• Current affairs
• Political phylosophy
• Grelling

Areas of expertise

• Doorways & Pavements
• Wind up therapies (so please don’t mess around)

Things I like and things I don't

Things I like

• Prosperity
• Bordeaux rouge
• Sunsets
• M.L.K.
• Ghandi
• Integrity
• DM shoes
• Polish tripes
• Goulash
• Sunday roasts
• Cocktails (especially Piña Colada)
• Generous people
• Visionary people
• GSOH and openess
• Laughter
• Seafood linguine
• Jerusalem artichokes
• Come up with new words and idioms such as the following:

HONEYPIES. Eruptive and rapturous series of terms of endearment intended to tender and sweeten the romantic affairs.

Last night my wife gave me the honeypies.

Things I don't like

• Giovanni Leone
• Pain (who does?)
• Waste
• Mice
• Hypocrisy
• Intellectual dishonesty
• Narrow-mindedness (It’s the thing that winds you up the most)
• Marketing
• Insurances' and religions' street vendors
• Porridge
• Lukewarm gruel
• Black pudding
• Corruption
• Frugality
• Fascists
• Camping (never again)

Things I am or try to be and things I am not and never was

Things I am or try to be

• A non-violent
• An anti-militarist
• A feminist
• A philanthropist
• A befriender
• An internationalist
• A reckless person
• A bon vivant
• A good host
• A hard to please person
• A humanist
• An individualist
• A little theatrical or histrionic
• An integral person
• Cross party
• A self-disciplined person
• A Teletubby
• A good swan for the Queen

Things I am not and never was

• A boy scout
• A racist
• A misogynist
• A nationalist
• A xenophobe
• An envious person
• A frugal person
• A hoarder
• Someone insensitive
• A disciplinarian
• A good team worker
• A dictator
• A quack
• A conformist
• An herbalist

(NEW!) The only one of my dreams I think I will never have enough time to realise

• Become a well-remunerated radioevangelist

My favourite word

• Bikini

The worst swearword

• Incentive

My favourite idiom

If you really, really have time to read this claptrap – mate - that's fine, but whatever you do – mate - never ever, never ever get your knickers in a twist. Not that I fully appreciate the deep semantics, really, but you must admit it sounds like it’s good advise.

To avoid

• The rat race

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