Here’s another photo of Naples’ largest square, the Piazza Plebiscito where Silvio Berlusconi will be speaking tonight. As you can see from this picture and the one I posted yesterday, the city of Naples is piled high with flaming garbage and even the pigeons are wearing gas masks. (They look kinda cute though, don’t they, those mask-clad pigeons?)

How will citizens be able to see Silvio tonight over all the debris? Oh, wait… That’s right. There aren’t bags of trash all over the city of Naples, despite what the media claims. After all, if it’s in the news, it must be 100% accurate, right? I almost forgot to use my eyes.

In case you’re wondering, I won’t be attending Berlusconi’s rally tonight. Frankly, unless that diminuitive megalomaniac is one of the Final 5 Cylons, I’d rather catch the Season Four Premier of Battlestar Galactica.

Speaking of tech, while the thought of reading a book on a computer monitor has never appealed to me, the Amazon Kindle sounds amazing. It’s a wireless reader that lets you store a bunch of tomes on a device that weighs less than your average paperback. The monitor is alleged to be as easy on the eyes as Johnny Depp.

I tell ya, as a bookworm and chronic diarist who has moved no fewer than 20 times in the past 20 years, I can attest to the heaviness of the printed word, not to mention bookshelves. The thought of being able to bring all my favorite books back to Italy without paying for extra baggage (it weighs a mere 13 ounces) is enough to make me swoon. Sigh …