Author Archives: Natalia Antonova

Happy 4th of July, let’s break out the mansaf

… Or at least that’s what we did. Because we’re cool like that. Mansaf – Jordanian national dish. Comes with a sauce you can drink out of a glass, if you want. Which I did. Even in the heat. I wish I was home, though. Watching the fireworks. Few things better than fireworks on aContinue reading “Happy 4th of July, let’s break out the mansaf”

“…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie”

I shit you not, my fair friends, someone has actually posted the line above. I had a sarcastic response lined up, and then I thought, why bother? Why bother with someone who’s invested in the idea that Star Trek belongs to a noble subculture of dudely doodz whose responses to it are so much moreContinue reading ““…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie””

Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers”

‘Only ideas are perfect. People never are,’ Joel would tell her. ‘When you’ve lived a bit longer, you’ll be more forgiving.’ But Rosa had scorned these attempts to modify her wrath. For a person as deeply offended by injustice and inequity as she was – as committed to changing the world – a degree ofContinue reading “Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers””

Monday Music: the Boy with the Thorn in His Side edition

Here’s Michael Jackson in Mexico, past his prime and yet still able to bring the house down while wearing what appears to be a ladies’ one-piece bathing suit over a pair of short black pants, no less. It has been a crappy few days in pop culture, don’t you think? Now, because Drew tagged meContinue reading “Monday Music: the Boy with the Thorn in His Side edition”