So I was on the Daily Mail’s website the other day (I know, I know), reading some bitchy comments to an equally bitchy article – and it struck me, how the promise of happiness is used a battering ram in our culture. People look at happiness as a sustainable commodity, which in turn allows themContinue reading “Nobody is owed happiness”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Monday music, the “I really wish I wasn’t sick again” edition
What’s WRONG with me, and WHAT SUPERNATURAL ENTITY have I pissed off? Ahem. Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For a Sunbeam – Nirvana Heysatan – Sigur Ros Get Back – Ludacris Heaven Tonight – Hole The Last Thing On Your Mind – Lights Red Turned White – Architecture In Helsinki Baby’s In Black – the BeatlesContinue reading “Monday music, the “I really wish I wasn’t sick again” edition”
This is why I’m glad I’m currently in Moscow, as opposed to New York
On a completely unrelated note to Jill’s post about parents, kids & public spaces in New York City, these lines about New Yorkers stuck out at me: You don’t chat with people in line at the grocery store; you don’t talk to strangers on the subway; you don’t interrupt or disturb other diners in restaurants.Continue reading “This is why I’m glad I’m currently in Moscow, as opposed to New York”
What can be more beautiful than Kiev in May?
Absolutely nothing. Not even a pretty damn successful reading of your second play is more beautiful than Kiev in May.
LOST: “Jears. Jears on the side of my face.”
I want to say that I haven’t been writing about “Lost” because I haven’t had the time, but if I’m honest with myself and with you, I’ll have to say that I haven’t been writing about “Lost” because it’s like a love affair coming to an end, like something out of Graham Greene, the sortContinue reading “LOST: “Jears. Jears on the side of my face.””
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