“Well, Jim, I’ve got some bad news…” ** “Not to shit on anyone’s riff here, but let me just see if I grasp this concept, ok? You’re suggesting that we take some fucking parking shuttles, and reinforce them with some aluminum siding, and then just head on over to the gun store and watch ourContinue reading “Monday music: “the horror, the horror””
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Beautiful People, the “beauty won’t save the world, but it will come pretty damn close” edition
For Dad. Happy Birthday. The ice outside looks like whale blubber. Nobody is cleaning it up, because that’s something that people in civilized countries do, and it’s not like we can have anyone forgetting where it is they live. It would be vastly unpatriotic, etc. I don’t have any ambitions to prevent myself from fallingContinue reading “Beautiful People, the “beauty won’t save the world, but it will come pretty damn close” edition”
I Blog for Choice, because I am not a broodmare, and neither is anyone else
The title of this post ought to say it all. Also, please see Mor on abortion in Ireland.
Um, I wear heels. And have opinions. Oh, and I have boy friends. And girl friends as well.
In reading this excellent essay on the importance of lady friendships, I was surprised by some of the responses. While I think it’s perfectly valid for a woman to articulate why it is that she doesn’t have many women friends, some of the conclusions that were drawn in the comments struck me as downright depressing.Continue reading “Um, I wear heels. And have opinions. Oh, and I have boy friends. And girl friends as well.”
He’s funny that way
He makes me sit there, as it’s nearing 5 a.m. in Kiev, and write. He’s not here. He’ll be on a plane to New York soon. But his hand is on my shoulder, and I’m writing. “I threw your army tags into the water. A thousand years later, archeologists will dig that shit right up,Continue reading “He’s funny that way”
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