Why the hell are you (or, for that matter, this guy agreeing with you) assuming that a highly educated woman would want to marry some millionaire type? Having your own helipad, truffle farm, and earlobe masseuse is the ultimate goal of some people, but if you’ve gone to the trouble of getting a PhD, you’reContinue reading “OK Vox, I’ll bite”
Monthly Archives: April 2008
A few words from Bfp
Can be found here. If you have no idea what’s going on or why I’m linking to this, please see here. A few choice quotes:
A little bit of poetry, because the world is hard
Not from me, but from a much more gifted individual – Mr. Sim Stafford. This poem “Untouched It,” is probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve had the honour to publish so far. Here’s a music video to one of my favourite songs, a song I used to listen to on repeat in theContinue reading “A little bit of poetry, because the world is hard”
A companion essay to “Natasha from Russia” – “The Fist of the Righteous Natasha”
Can be found here. This is still, in many ways, a draft. But I am trying to make it respectable.
“Born in the USSR”
My anthem for this weekend, and, perhaps, forever (I go through phases with this band, DDT – sometimes I worship them, sometimes they strike me as uncool, sometimes they are the nucleus of my nostalgia). And, just because this goes along with that faded, fluttery image of the early days of my childhood, here isContinue reading ““Born in the USSR””
Natalia A. 