Natalia Antonova

IS the world about to end?

“Come on, Scully, it will be a nice trip to the forest.” – Famous last words. Well, almost. If we’re all indeed about to be destroyed by a bunch of mad scientists, I honestly have to say they picked a terrible time to waste us. Sure, the economy’s in the crapper and the environment isContinue reading “IS the world about to end?”

Well, then! Thank you, o feisty abstinence-only group, for letting me know I should have killed myself when I was seven!

Hey guys! Do me a favour. Look at this list and tell me what doesn’t belong on it: VCR’s Diaphragms made of crocodile dung The Macarena “Purity at all cost.” I’ll save you the trouble: it’s that last bit. Why? Because the other three are all out of fashion. It’s true. An entire abstinence-only educationContinue reading “Well, then! Thank you, o feisty abstinence-only group, for letting me know I should have killed myself when I was seven!”

Yet another reason why I won’t be voting McCain/Palin

So McCain goes on Jim Quinn’s show, to court conservative votes. Who is Jim Quinn? Why, he is the guy who told a journalist to “get an American name.” Classy, huh? Now why would immigrants and the children of immigrants vote for this guy after that?

Sex, Immaturity, Britney, Bristol, and Good Old Americana

This post on The Interculturalists reminded me of the one thing that I’ll never get over in regards to the US of A: this tee-hee-omigod-wee-wees-and-hoo-haas attitude toward sex and procreation in our collective public discourse. Now, do I think that all French people couldn’t give a crap about Rachida Dati’s pregnancy (Rachida Dati is unmarried,Continue reading “Sex, Immaturity, Britney, Bristol, and Good Old Americana”

A Mere Woman

“I am no man.” – Eowyn. The femininity debate always brings me back to the summer of 1993, spent at my grandparents’ old dacha outside Kiev. As I recall, when we weren’t melting cheese on sticks by an evening fire, or listening to the radio and petting the cat on the veranda as the rainContinue reading “A Mere Woman”