A couple of days ago, I received one of those private messages that make me smile. A blog reader wrote: "Your post today is spectacular! I really like your writing. Have you ever thought about writing a book?" I felt a genuine warmth in my response, and I responded with thanks. Then a question slipped out, perhaps a bit bold...
I was listening to a popular podcast, one of those well-made ones: smart people, pace, observations that occasionally make you pause while you're doing something else. At a certain point, one of the hosts—a person I respect for her intelligence and acumen—said a phrase as old as my grandmother's cream-colored refrigerator: "There's no…
If hypocrisy were officially listed among the deadly sins, the gates of Heaven would remain desolately closed for lack of patronage. Hell, on the other hand, would be fully booked, populated largely by those who spend their lives setting themselves up as champions of morality and faith. One almost suspects that the deadly sins are…
In 1991, I was seventeen and had a room full of motoring magazines. I knew everything about bores, races, chassis. For me, Formula 1 was a mystical event: the alarm clock ringing even in the middle of the night, the darkness of the kitchen, the screen lit up on circuits on the other side of the world. The drivers were superheroes made of steel and gasoline. Today, the…
When I first started to distance myself from social media a year ago, and after several attempts, I finally settled on the RickyVerso formula as a personal blog, I felt a bit like an outsider. In reality, I discovered a community of countless people who can no longer tolerate being subjected to the whims of algorithms and the rules imposed by someone who makes a profit...
There are moments when life presents you with existential crossroads. They usually happen in the most unexpected places, like a client's purchasing office, in front of a thirty-something girl wearing the latest fashion (probably paid for in installments with a salary of €1,200 a month) and you...
Look at this photo. It looks like a professional athlete's shot under the right lights, or a motivational poster from some fitness guru trying to sell you protein shakes at outrageous prices. The truth is much more humble, smelling of plaster and consumed just a few meters below ground level. Having passed the fifty-year mark,…
Yet another absurdity unfolded in Ankara, one of those pages destined to redefine the future in the darkest of ways. Dictator Erdogan, at the end of the NATO summit on July 7-8, 2026, offered a gift to all the heads of state and government present: a Gümüşay .357 Magnum revolver, produced in the 1990s by the Turkish…
A foot. Naked, sweaty, resting on a plate as if it were a fine steak. Someone photographed it for the non-existent restaurant The Shed at Dulwich, calling it a "refined egg and meat dish," and hundreds of people tried to book a table to try it. It's not satire, it's not a nightmare: it really happened, in London, in...
The 11:59 PM Blackout 11:59 PM. The alarm reminds me that I have a meeting with Mick Jagger and his remaining associates after Charlie Watts' departure. I open Apple Music: the new Rolling Stones album will be available in a few seconds. I'm told to listen to Anna Pepe... I'm blacking out. 12:01 AM. Here it is...
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