There are no words for what happened just now. No good ones, anyway. This is a tragedy overlapping another tragedy (Katyn, that is, in case you don’t realize). I don’t even understand how something like this can be possible. This sort of thing belongs in screenplays. It shouldn’t happen to people. Nor should it happenContinue reading “Oh, Poland”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Not “just sex.” Just life.
There is green grass growing outside my window in Kiev. There are new puppies in the street. This isn’t exactly an spring-themed post, but this is nagging me, therefore… A couple of people forwarded this post to me in the last few days, and I’ve been mulling it over. As I understand it, the gistContinue reading “Not “just sex.” Just life.”
“Every day baby, I bleed blue”
Poet Sim Stafford and I were in high school together, and then we both went to the same university, and one time, during my freshman year, when I was having a moment, he said, “once a Dukie, always a Dukie.” He wasn’t talking about school spirit – he was saying that my life had changed,Continue reading ““Every day baby, I bleed blue””
Monday music: dear, incredible Duke
Dear Duke – Anthem Gone to Croatan – Jah Wobble The General – Dispatch The Other Side – the Twelves Hand in Glove – the Smiths Souvenir D’iti – In-Grid Oblivion – Patrick Wolf Close to Me – the Cure Back to the Old House – the Smiths Come On, Come Out – A FineContinue reading “Monday music: dear, incredible Duke”
The Heidi Montag post that wasn’t going to happen
But did anyway. I could write about DUKE GOING TO THE FINAL, I could write about politics, I could make vague references to the things in my life that I am really hoping will go right somehow, and I could even write about getting splashed with holy water in the pre-dawn hours of this EasternContinue reading “The Heidi Montag post that wasn’t going to happen”
Natalia A. 