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I’m back. I got back on Monday afternoon after waking up very hung-over and almost missing my plane. Trento is a fairly small place up north a bit chilly it was. The hotel was pretty swanky and the view was pretty impressive since most people are impressed by enormous mountains. Apart from that there wasn’t a whole lot going on. No internet cafe – hence no Burning Salad. The floor was pretty damn big but I had a team of helpers eager to destroy their knee caps in the name of art. Everything got done in the end in the usual way- stick down tape until your legs go numb, (drink), sleep, wake up, repeat. And it looked impressive in the end. Always does. Mission accomplished.

There’s really nothing very interesting to report apart from maybe a man on crutches who lurched towards me speaking Italian. I said ‘I’m sorry- I don’t speak Italian’ (in English, not Italian obviously) and he said ‘Ah, so you are English’, to which I replied ‘No. I am Scottish‘. And he grinned and said ‘John O’ Groats’. To which there is no obvious retort, so I said ‘That’s right, John O’ Groats’. Then he told me how he had travelled all over the world and spent some time in Scotland, including John O’ Groats and Edinburgh where he was sleeping rough and Scottish people are the nicest people he met because when he woke up somewhere in some hedge or other an old lady would came out in the morning and gave him some breakfast.

And I also got a postcard which seemed to depict some kind of local festival involving a very large wooden goose being hauled around in a boat.

And I got a cat lighter. Not as good as the other cat lighter that I got in Turin and later gave to Danny Saunders in a moment of drunken generosity but a nice one all the same.

So here I am back in Glasgow feeling a bit flat. It looks as if November has been the worst month for Burning Salad updates so far, so lets hope something happens before the end of the week. Like an earthquake or a plague of locusts. Otherwise I’m just going to post up some pictures.

Also I noticed last night that there has been some interest in the dream generator from a couple of random sites on the net- a Frank Zappa site and some blog or other.