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  1. The Dude's thoughts - Live your life!

    It's not about "achievement", it's not about "dreams", it really is about filling your day till it's over and new one will start, about putting one feet in front of the other and keep going.

    I'm not the first here that writes about the risks of apathy and procrastination (Commodus, now Imperator Majora, posted about apathy and King Athelstan about procrastination).. I commented on both those blogs, so anyone who read them probably has an hint already of what my ...

    Updated December 29, 2020 at 02:51 AM by Flinn

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  2. The Dude goes into politics! - Many defeats, and many fruitless victories...


    The "Molino S. Susanna", which makes part of the Park, it still works with water to grind wheat

    Last chapter.

    You'll pardon me if I quote Elrond of Rivendell, but somewhat what I'm experiencing here is so old and rooted, that quoting an Elder Elf seems the right thing to do.. to be honest is not even "many fruitless victories", it's very few fruitless ...

    Updated September 07, 2020 at 05:54 AM by Flinn

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  3. My Thoughts on the Hobbit Trilogy



    We can all agree The Hobbit Trilogy didn't end up well.
    I am 50/50 on the movies. There are many great scenes, like the Bilbo and Gollum scene, whend Bilbo meets Smaug, whend the dwarfs meet Bilbo, among others. All major scenes from the books are there, the issue to me is what it isn't. They had to much that doesn't exist in the books and most of them don't work at all. The only one ...

    Updated September 02, 2020 at 12:31 PM by Fahnat

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  4. The Dude's Kitchen - A dream made of pasta!


    First chapter here.

    So, as promised I'll tell you know about pasta.. ah pasta, pasta, pasta, such a delicious stuff, such a tremendous nightmare. Too many people, Italians included, think that making pasta is an easy job, well it's not so I can grant you, because a lot of things can go terribly wrong.

    Let's start from the cooking procedure: most ...

    Updated August 10, 2020 at 04:34 AM by Flinn

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  5. The Dude's Kitchen - The Cooking Experience



    It's about damn time that I start a blog about real cooking . Obviously this has very little to do with me being a Dudeist and very much with me being an Italian... by far this is the most complex story I'm gonna tell you, so I need to start somewhere by telling you which is my own interpretation of the mere ideas of "cooking" and "Italian cuisine".

    Talking about Italian ...