April 14, 2007
Revival
Hi, everyone. The internet seems to miss these little pages and the Google bots just won't let them go. So they're going to stay up as a little museum of frivolous stuff I thought and said about Russia from Feb '05 through Feb '06. Enjoy.
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February 17, 2006
Three Parts Vulgar, Seven Parts "Wow"*
Have you seen Boris Artzybasheff's illustrations?
(* My rating.)
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February 14, 2006
Old Families, Shiny Things
You can be the most committed republican in the world (I use the label in its original sense, not to indicate GOP sympathies), but then a princess will come along in all her elegance and finery and you'll be as helpless and worshipful as the rest of them. I have been looking at a German presentation of the Russian Imperial Jewels. Oh! The gems themselves are, well, shiny rocks that I can't afford, but the pictures of the women who wore them are spectacular:
Her mother, Ksenia Aleksandrovna. What a wonderful headdress.
Zinaida Yusupova and her pearls. She's breathtaking.
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February 12, 2006
100% true story
At various points in the night, I was woken up by a man (men?) looking for "Katya".
At 8 am I finally screamed, "Stop calling me!!!" I wondered why he was being so doggedly persistent, as though if he redialed enough times, Katya would eventually appear at the wrong number. I wondered what cruel woman had given him a made-up number.
And then a few minutes ago, another number I didn't recognise showed up on my cell phone.
"Hello. I am replying to your ad on craigslist."
"Uh, what ad?"
"The ad about domination."
"Wrong fucking number!"
So I put two and two together, run to the computer, do a search for "Katya" under Craig's List Erotic Services, and lo and behold: my number is one of two listed in a posting advertising that an "Extreme Russian Dominatrix is Ready to Make You Her Bitch".
THE MINUTE YOU ENETER MY ROOM, I will kick your balls so badly that your eye will get red. Then I will grab you by your small pathetic cock , and will make you scream for mercey.SPECIALTIES INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
-BONDAGE
-COCK AND BALL TORTURE
(ball busting, crushing, cock whipping, cock cruching under my heels, stretching, forsking torture , branding)
I called the other number listed and got a woman with an obviously Russian accent, who denied everything. Well, she knows now that a typo is costing her business, whether or not she wants to admit to it.
Kind of wimpy for an extreme dominatrix, don't you think?
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Simpatichno!
I particularly like the roadwork on the eclair.
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February 11, 2006
Meet Sveta and Olya Olsen
(click to enlarge)
I've developed a new, and slightly pejorative, online game.
1. Go to Paper Doll Heaven.
2. Select your celebrity victim.
3. Using the available wardrobe, construct the Russianest possible outfit.
4. If it's really definitive, send it to me and I'll post it.
Have fun!
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February 10, 2006
Oh, the biting, biting irony of it.
The 'What Language Should You Learn' Quiz tells me that I should learn... Russian.
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