Natalia Antonova

Conversations of the last few weeks

[Context: I want yoghurt at 2 a.m.] “Please don’t get yourself arrested on your way to the store. And don’t get into any fights either.” “Don’t worry, if there’s five of them, I’ll run away. If there’s three, I’ll fuck them up. If there’s four, I’ll improvise.” [When considering a role in a bad TVContinue reading “Conversations of the last few weeks”

BREAKING: Crappy landlady continues being crappy

The thing about our landlady is that she’s one of those old school people who never evolved past the Soviet Union – and thinks she’s the shit because her husband (who, to be fair, is a nice old man) is a retired army colonel. And because they have a dacha. Or something like that. SheContinue reading “BREAKING: Crappy landlady continues being crappy”

False labour

Is like a constant series of goddamn teaser trailers.

Too tired to attempt a clever blog post, so here’s a pregnant photo

I have never been this tired before *in my life*. I imagine that after The Globe is born and we’re back home from the hospital, I will be *even more* tired. The mind boggles. How do people survive? How has the human race been propagating itself all of this time? Oddly enough, the only thingContinue reading “Too tired to attempt a clever blog post, so here’s a pregnant photo”

Tom MacMaster: an even bigger jackass than previously thought?

If this is true (check the comments), then, uh, yeah. You know, having lived in Dubai and Amman, there’s not way I could even begin to speak with any authority as to what is going on in Syria, so maybe that’s why I’m so shocked as to how this guy appears to just calmly impersonateContinue reading “Tom MacMaster: an even bigger jackass than previously thought?”