Apparently the whole world does hate us. Perennial über-violent, Bush bashing favorite The Flood has been accepted into the 12th annual Milano Film Festival. Believe me, folks, I’m as shocked as you are. The land of Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini is embracing little old me as a artist type. There’s something so wrong with that. And yet so right.

So I’m flying out there from Istanbul as soon and the wife and my vacation in Turkey ends on the 14th of September. They’re paying for my lodgings and I’m assuming the rest of the trip can be written off as a business expense. More »