In the early nineties, I went through a really, really, really tough time in terms of money. We couldn’t buy anything, travel, do anything but the basics. At this time, we noticed that our apartment was starting to disintegrate due to use…
How to reform it in the most cost-effective…
No one can say I haven’t tried…
ME — Yes, we are celebrating one year of dating, you can ask for anything you want!
SHE — We could then go around the world on a yacht and //
ME — (CUTTING HER OFF) Whatever you want that costs less than my two kidneys!
Oops! What would she…
— Whatever I want?
— Whatever you want, son! It’s your birthday, you choose!
— I want to play tag at the airport!
Yes, I was a child with exotic tastes.
Dona Carmen, very sympathetic, gathered the entire building’s gang — maybe twelve children — put us inside her beetle…
A short apocalyptic tale
— How are things over there, Dex?
— Temperature at one hundred and eighty-seven degrees Celsius. Still unable to see anything in here, but the wind noise would deafen you.
— I have no doubt… Good luck there, buddy! We speak a century from now.
— Dex, is everything in…
Or “What would happen if someone walked naked across the surface of the red planet.”
Claudinho was happy!
He had just received the news from Marscom, saying that he had passed the necessary tests to enter the “Terraformer Level F” course, not the most sophisticated, nor the most reputable college on Mars, but…
Even so, he would now become a college student!
That was an…
Is this happening only in Brazil, or is it a worldwide phenomenon?
I don’t expect anything more from anyone to provide me with a service than incompetence.
When everything goes smoothly, I’m surprised.
For me to stay in just one field, medical care with my mother, I had experiences that illustrate well the reasons for my lack of trust in others.
My…
Almost.
In 1982 I had a black poodle called “Flor.” It’s her in my mother’s arms in the photo below; the other dogs are her puppies:
Flor was brought up in a little too orthodox way. My mother believed that, if taught well, the dog could walk down the sidewalks without…
And I even sang to her on that phone call!
One of the girls I liked the most in my life was a saleswoman at Pakalolo, the store where I worked in 1991, and one of the places where I was happiest in my life. She and I had a troubled history: when I met her, she was dating one…
Or “How our subconscious can play the worst tricks on us when it wants to.”
In the late eighties, I took a trip to Europe that lasted forty days. At the time, I was a keyboardist in a band in my high school, so all I thought about was music. …
Sometimes a little push is enough… Or, perhaps, a slight tug!
It took me a long time to choose my profession.
In fact, I only realized that I wanted to be an actor when I was twenty-seven.
So I spent a good part of my youth working in jobs that barely supported me. …
