Ukrainian baker makes delicious wedding dress for his bride. I also love the following comments he made, in relation to the job-market in Ukraine and his own career potential: “Here you can buy jobs,” he said. “You want to be president, governor, (parliament) deputy, OK. But my job you can’t buy — you have toContinue reading “Sweet”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
There’s a first time for everything
Today was the first time I’d ever leapt to the defense of one Paris Hilton, after this happened. Here is the e-mail I sent to the Countdown team: Dear Keith & Co., The Paris Hilton joke was below the belt. I’m a feminist with real job, and normally I wouldn’t give a rat’s behind aboutContinue reading “There’s a first time for everything”
Tuesday Morning Poetry Club
TWO FIGURES These figures moving in my rhyme, Who are they? Death, and death’s dog, Time. – N. Scott Momaday
“I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar”
This woman did not get emergency contraception on time, and is now pregnant. She already has three kids, and plans on getting an abortion. She lives in a red state, in a red county, which means that in order to have her abortion, she will most likely have to pass through an abusive mob. SheContinue reading ““I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar””
Progressive Russian Journalist
Murdered. I’m shocked and awed. Not really, no. Critically-minded writers are inevitable casualties in iron-fisted pseudo-democracies, with their corrupt politicians in ill-fitting designer suits and beggar senior citizens selling vintage cigarette packs to amused tourists, with their petty conflicts, murdered children, and always, always, the terrible hope that maybe tomorrow everything will finally go right.Continue reading “Progressive Russian Journalist”
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