The first date. The first hangover. The first viewing of “Fellowship of the Ring” And now, I bring you the first time I got my period whilst running on the treadmill.
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Kurt Vonnegut was the original P.I.M.P.
I don’t really have anything else to say that hasn’t been said already.
Bonfire of the Vanities… Burning Out
It’s been over a year, and a long and weird year it was, but today the lax charges were dropped in full. Hate-mail, as well as other expressions of “jubliance,” is still pouring in, mainly from outside the Duke community, or so I’m told. There are trolls still calling for Richard Brodhead’s, well, head. AndContinue reading “Bonfire of the Vanities… Burning Out”
And for dessert we have… Drunken pseudo-intellectualism next door!
What happened last week was the sort of incident that made me hope, with every tiny atom of my physical being and with every little metaphysical building block of my immortal soul, to leave Durham, North Carolina very soon. In a restaurant that serves good wine, it’s inevitable that some people should get a littleContinue reading “And for dessert we have… Drunken pseudo-intellectualism next door!”
Why did I subject myself
To Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? I could have been sticking needles under my nails. I could have been snorting crushed glass. I could have been eating a week-old ham-and-mayo sandwich that had been left out in the sun. This is not to say that the book is not good. Quite the opposite actually – theContinue reading “Why did I subject myself”
Natalia A. 