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December 2011
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How Some KGB Oldtimers Tried to Bump Off a Visa... →
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September 2011
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this is the website to our short film, Dumbleweed →
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Have a vision. And don’t take no for a answer.
August 2011
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The answer is that the answer changes.
-Nicholas Johnson from Test Pattern for Living
facebook. i quit you.
July 2011
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June 2011
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Unfortunate Road Situation, Slavic Style →
May 2011
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Watchlove this.
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Orgesticulanismus
April 2011
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Expert: Situation at Norilsk Nickel Resembles... →
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January 2011
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My favorite Czeslaw Milosz poem...
And to hear Mr. Milosz read it out loud is even better…
CONVERSATION WITH JEANNE
by Czeslaw Milosz
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told you the truth about my distancing myself. I’ve stopped worrying about my misshapen life. It was no better and no worse than the usual human tragedies. For over thirty years we have...
October 2010
5 posts
How Not to Visit Moscow (Photos) →
Schwarzenegger in Moscow, Part 2 (More Photos) →
Schwarzenegger and Medvedev Twit and Meet →
Two Dogs and A Ball (and other early William... →
The first video is the best. Just goes to show that technology doesn’t always have to define the acuteness in which we experience things. Two dogs. And a ball which we can’t see. And a camera sitting perfectly still, in black and white.
September 2010
5 posts
President Medvedev Fired Moscow Mayor Luzhkov →
Russian Con Artist Enjoys Political Immunity →
100 Years Later, Moscow-Nice Train Service Returns →
J.D. Salinger’s first published short story, “The Young Folks.”
The Young Folks J. D. Salinger
Story XVI of XXI, March-April 1940
ABOUT eleven o’clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o’clock had...
From Wikipedia…
Belka (Белка, literally, “squirrel”, but as a dog’s name most likely means “Whitey”, from Russian: “белый” (for “white”)) and Strelka (Стрелка, “Arrow”) spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik-2 (Sputnik 5) on August 19, 1960 before safely returning to Earth.
They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42...
August 2010
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Fiction from Robert Olen Butler →
This is a short story from 1996. For some reason I just remembered it. It’s hilarious and tragic.
JEALOUS HUSBAND RETURNS IN FORM OF PARROT Robert Olen Butler
(from the collection of stories Tabloid Dreams (Henry Holt & Co., 1996); first appeared in The New Yorker, May 22, 1995)
I never can quite say as much as I know. I look at other parrots and I wonder if it’s the...
Unfortunate Profile Pictures, Slavic Style →
Moscow’s White-collar Fight Club →
A Dark View Of Dostoevsky On The Moscow Subway :... →
Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of... →
Scary.
azspot:
No anonymity is the future of web in the opinion of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. He said many creepy things about privacy at the Techonomy Conference.The focus of the conference was how technology is changing and can change society. Schmidt’s message was that anonymity is a dangerous thing and governments will demand an end to it.
Country Battles Heat Wave, Loses (Photos) →
June 2010
5 posts
President Medvedev Follows You on Twitter →
Geo-tagged Map Of Moscow →