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Introduction
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! Anyway, 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 were losers, whereas myself was, am, and always will be… a Winner. I immigrated to London in 1997 despite the discouragements. 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:
Last night my wife gave me the honeypies.
Things I don't like
- 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 philanthropist
- A befriender
- An internationalist
- A non-violent
- An anti-militarist
- A feminist
- 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
Most disliked word
- Incentive
My favourite idiom
If you are a little pusillanimous, that's fine, but please never get your knickers in a twist. Not that I fully appreciate the deep semantics, but you must admit it sounds like good advise.
To avoid
- The rat race