Archive for June, 2005
I’ve been too lazy to write – or even too lazy to think up things to write about – and now we’re going away on vacation till the beginning of July.
I’m afraid I won’t have too many chances to blog from where we’re going to be – a place called Assos, on Turkey’s Aegean [...]
I’ve been too lazy to write – or even too lazy to think up things to write about – and now we’re going away on vacation till the beginning of July.
I’m afraid I won’t have too many chances to blog from where we’re going to be – a place called Assos, on Turkey’s Aegean [...]
A nice summary of the economic and political situation in Ukraine in the Economist – The Viktor and Yulia Show:
[...] Parliamentary elections next March are exacerbating tendencies to populism. Under a reform agreed last December, some powers are due to shift from president to parliament and prime minister, though this change may yet be repudiated. [...]
A nice summary of the economic and political situation in Ukraine in the Economist – The Viktor and Yulia Show:
[...] Parliamentary elections next March are exacerbating tendencies to populism. Under a reform agreed last December, some powers are due to shift from president to parliament and prime minister, though this change may yet be repudiated. [...]
I’ve been reading Masha Gessen on and off for the past few days, so here are some links:
- In Granta 88: Mothers, Masha’s writes about living with a hereditary breast cancer gene – Mutations – heartbreaking, enlightening, wonderfully written… Masha hopes this text would become “the kernel of a new book.”
- Masha’s current book – [...]
I’ve been reading Masha Gessen on and off for the past few days, so here are some links:
- In Granta 88: Mothers, Masha’s writes about living with a hereditary breast cancer gene – Mutations – heartbreaking, enlightening, wonderfully written… Masha hopes this text would become “the kernel of a new book.”
- Masha’s current book – [...]
Had an eye exam yesterday – need new glasses badly, not because the old ones are too weak now, but because they look awful, too old and scratched, and I’m too lazy to go looking for the new ones, hate the process.
Anyway, the doctor exclaimed at one point: “The color of your eyes! They’re like [...]
Had an eye exam yesterday – need new glasses badly, not because the old ones are too weak now, but because they look awful, too old and scratched, and I’m too lazy to go looking for the new ones, hate the process.
Anyway, the doctor exclaimed at one point: “The color of your eyes! They’re like [...]
Not my idea of the morning reading, but the New York Times has a nice story about Chernobyl tours – New Sight in Chernobyl’s Dead Zone: Tourists, by C. J. Chivers. The story’s nice in a very chilling kind of way, if you ask me…
[...] The men stepped past discarded gas-mask filters to the [...]
Not my idea of the morning reading, but the New York Times has a nice story about Chernobyl tours – New Sight in Chernobyl’s Dead Zone: Tourists, by C. J. Chivers. The story’s nice in a very chilling kind of way, if you ask me…
[...] The men stepped past discarded gas-mask filters to the [...]
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