Paul Attinello

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  • S.E.P.

    Telephone call on a Sunday, from the police in a small village in the county south of here. Apparently someone has disappeared, and the neighbors are worried about him – someone I’ve never met: but someone who is on my list of contacts for HIV patients who want to talk to someone. This is a…

  • Reitalianization

    [Los Angeles, 1990] Tonight is party night – lights, glasses, guests: a dazzling and varied collection of Italian designers, Italian models, a very choice set of imported beauties (tutti questi Italiani). The only non-Italian is our host, who introduces us to his new boyfriend Gianfranco, a richly dark man with remarkable hands who, in the…

  • Evanescent

    Spurious mentioning Handke reminds me, not of the brief writings I’ve read by him (always elegant, exquisitely tooled, even if they do seem to leave the universe a little darker and more hopeless); but of a completely amazing stage work I saw by Handke in 1994, and reviewed for an academic newsletter. I can’t find…

  • Maintenance

    Tonight I was doing my rather intricate monthly bagging of pills – I’ve been doing it for years. It is a possibly somewhat over-meticulous response to, on the one hand, the intricate demands of HIV medications and the many supplements I take; and, on the other, my tendency to lose track of everyday actions unless…

  • Abasement of the Northmores

    After a rather disappointing day, where I just sort of maintained cruising speed – didn’t really do much useful, but didn’t stop completely – it is now late at night, when I should be sleeping (as I can’t sleep in tomorrow, because I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning). But I am not sleepy……

  • Pointless power

    Given that I have just been getting into PowerPoint a lot more lately – downloading templates, giving those two conference presentations – I was somewhat dismayed, but enlightened and impressed, by Edward Tufte’s sharp critique of its use. He claims that the program and the culture that has sprung up of how to properly create…

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