This is for everyone who thinks my blog is shallow. Haw haw. OK, I’m beset by evil saber-toothed cockroaches, I dreamed of going to Kiev this month and reading Akhmatova among the tulips, and now that this didn’t work out, I am sad, and have writer’s block, and feel like being vain. I also wishContinue reading “Vanity: pictures of Natalia Antonova (me)”
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Pictures of Beautiful People, the May Edition
May is my favourite month. May is my favourite month in Kyiv, specifically. It’s a month of rain, birdsong, and violets. I am not there to witness rain, birdsong, and violets. Instead I’m busy smashing cockroach guts all over the bathroom floor in Amman. I’d like to say that I am handling this humbling experienceContinue reading “Pictures of Beautiful People, the May Edition”
The Undiscovered Country: Colossal Squid
The New Zealand scientists have an AWESOME blog on their progress with the colossal squid. Not to mention the live webcams! It’s two a.m. in Amman and I am riveted. Screw network television (with the notable exception of “LOST”), and screw sleep. Bill Nye, you weren’t lying when you told my 7th grade self thatContinue reading “The Undiscovered Country: Colossal Squid”
Христос Воскрес!
Я в гроб сойду и в третий день восстану, И, как сплавляют по реке плоты, Ко мне на суд, как баржи каравана, Столетья поплывут из темноты – Борис Пастернак I will go down to the grave and on the third day rise, And, like rafts floated downriver, To my judgment, like barges in a caravan,Continue reading “Христос Воскрес!”
Kyiv At Dusk
Pictures here. Thank you, LJ user ked-pled. This is Kiev the way I see it: brittle around the edges, burdened by its history, a little sleepy, shadowy around the eyes, and shaped like love is shaped – with blunt lines and soft rays of light. On evenings like this, you can smell your neighbours’ badContinue reading “Kyiv At Dusk”
Natalia A. 