Because I’ve been in trouble as of late – for serious this time – I thought I’d put together this post, both for myself and for anyone who has wandered by this blog in search of some sort of comfort (I have no idea why you’d look for it here, but it’s true that we [...]
May 26, 2010
Categories: Dork-Out, Harem, I make funny, Pop Culture Essays, fandom . Tags: house, lost, star trek, the beatles, true blood . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 2 Comments
So here’s a coincidence – LOST ran for 6 years, just the amount of time that I had wound up spending with the person I loved and, in a way, will always love. For most of the time I watched the show, I was pretty much sharing it – just like sketchy water in a [...]
May 25, 2010
Categories: Dork-Out, Personal Essays, Pop Culture Essays, fandom . Tags: lost, love . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 6 Comments
But did anyway. I could write about DUKE GOING TO THE FINAL, I could write about politics, I could make vague references to the things in my life that I am really hoping will go right somehow, and I could even write about getting splashed with holy water in the pre-dawn hours of this Eastern [...]
April 6, 2010
Categories: America, Bad News, Pop Culture Essays . Tags: heidi montag . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 5 Comments
For Dad. Happy Birthday. The ice outside looks like whale blubber. Nobody is cleaning it up, because that’s something that people in civilized countries do, and it’s not like we can have anyone forgetting where it is they live. It would be vastly unpatriotic, etc. I don’t have any ambitions to prevent myself from falling [...]
January 24, 2010
Categories: America, Friends & Neighbours, Good News, Harem, Kultur, Pictures, Pop Culture Essays, Ukraine, fandom . Tags: beyonce, lady gaga, love, the hurt locker . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 8 Comments
I admire Chekhov, and not just for his writing, and not just because he was startlingly hot either. To paraphrase Ivan Bunin, Chekhov was not a little bitch. Even when he knew he was dying from TB, he didn’t whine hysterically from the pages of Russian literary journals. He didn’t ask his readers for hugs. [...]
October 8, 2009
Categories: Dork-Out, Harem, I Like To Read, I make funny, Personal Essays, Pop Culture Essays, Ukraine, Writers . Tags: anton chekhov, depression, tolkien . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 28 Comments
I’m wondering how long it will take for some idiot to make a hysterical YouTube video begging the justice system to “LEAVE ROMAN ALONE!…uh uh uh.” Flippant, I know. It’s hard to talk about Roman Polanski’s arrest with any of the gravity it deserves. It’s even harder to keep a straight face when I see [...]
October 1, 2009
Categories: Pop Culture Essays, The F-Word, fandom . Tags: rape, roman polanski . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 7 Comments
I love how the legendary Dead Sea mud glitters on my shoulder here. I love the way my bathing suit carries its fresh, mineral smell now [ETA: I wrote it was "herbal" before. I must have been more tired than I originally thought]. I spent a little too much time at the hotel watching Michael [...]
June 27, 2009
Categories: America, Bad News, Music, Personal Essays, Pop Culture Essays . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 7 Comments
I read this recent piece by Elizabeth Wurtzel with a mixture of recognition, sympathy, fear and frustration. Wurtzel is constantly derided as a pointless narcissist, but she has a lot of texture. Yeah, she’s absorbed in herself, but she submerges beautifully. She gives us something to marvel at in the process. There’s a nakedness to [...]
May 31, 2009
Categories: I Like To Read, Kultur, Pop Culture Essays, The F-Word . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 10 Comments
I’ve been reading the excellent Phonogram. Thinking about music as a kind of amber that can preserve both the beautiful and the bloody. In Kiev last week, I toook a break from Phonogramming away and met a friend for drinks comparatively late one night, then caught one of the newer marshrutkas home. Now this particular death-on-wheels [...]
May 25, 2009
Categories: Music, Personal Essays, Pop Culture Essays, Ukraine . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 5 Comments
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that I’ve no love lost for Tanya Gold’s recent writing on the Guardian. First she labels all beauty contestants as stupid slags who should be used as battering rams and tampons, and now she has decided to compliment the lovely Susan Boyle by calling her a [...]
April 20, 2009
Categories: I Like To Read, Kultur, Music, Pop Culture Essays, The F-Word . . Author: Natalia Antonova . Comments: 13 Comments
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