April 2009 – Natalia A.

Good Scottish Weather

The sun came out for a few hours today, to spoil me. Neil Gaiman once described the north of Scotland as a place where “the bones of the world show through,” and although I am nowhere near that, brooding in in Ediburgh and overhearing stuffy conversations about art (really now – if you’re viewing aContinue reading “Good Scottish Weather”

Monday Music: the London in Raging Bloom Edition

I’ve got the dirt of Regent’s Park on my jeans, and I am headed to Scotland tomorrow. The music here should be able to capture at least some of that, if my technology is as smart as it claims to be:

London has thrown me on the pavement and ravaged me

In a good way. So far. That’s why I am not blogging; I am too consumed with living life. In these short, brilliant bursts that can’t possibly be referred to as “days,” every detail wants to be noticed and fawned upon, from a silk scarf flapping in the wind like a standard to a distantContinue reading “London has thrown me on the pavement and ravaged me”

Never a Zenit fan, Never an Arsenal fan – but Arshavin? God-daymn

And I mean it. God-daymmmn. That’s it. I don’t think I have anything cleverer to say.

Thanks to Sarah, Matt, Anonymous Donor & Various Others

So if you have been around me lately, you know that I’ve been quite the ray of darkness these days. There hasn’t been a tragedy, nobody is dead or ill, and – inshallah – nobody will be dead or ill any time soon. It’s just that I have found myself in a private little hellContinue reading “Thanks to Sarah, Matt, Anonymous Donor & Various Others”