SOCKET on CBC

Has anyone else heard the first two episodes of Socket on CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/socket)? It's a really good radio show about visual art. It takes the whole art intervention thing to heart and it manages to be funny without dumbing it all down. And it rises above the usual artspeak that so plagues much discussion about art. Thank god for that.

Hometime

(scribbles found inside the Duomo in Florence...yes, the Brunelleschi one)

Highlights and lowlights of Italy:

- gelato every day (or twice or three times even)
- McDonald's x 3 = Venice, Florence, Milan...more than I've had in the past year
- my luggage breaking
- making Caprese salads in the hotel room
- MTV ITALIA!!!
- zucchini flowers in abundance, deep-fried, on pizza...

Venice
- Palazzo Grassi
- seafood risotto at Madonna (thanks Ann Webb)
- seeing Palazzo Corner della Ca Grande
- awesome Lucio Fontana copper works at the Guggenheim
- deep-fried meatball sandwiches

Florence
- trying on a 990 euro bag at Miu Miu and then being offered a less expensive one by the salesguy...at 690 euro
- getting lost on the way to the Prada outlet in Montevarchi- then finding out there's a one in New York state
- deadly ravioli in truffle cream at Za Za
- feeling faint in the Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi

Rome
- Italy's World Cup win over the Ukraine, the riots that ensued
- espresso at Sant Eustacchio
- the Pantheon
- Capucin crypts (thanks Reesa!)
- herded like a moo cow through the Vatican museum
- taking the bumpiest mini bus ever back to downtown from Trastevere

Milan
- having an argument with the train ticket lady
- Duomo façade covered in scaffolding!
- Italy's win over Deutschland
- La Scala
- four cheese maccheroni at Ilia (thanks to Sonia at Flash Art for recommending)