Posts Tagged “Russia”
I’ve mentioned before that I digitally “clip” portions of books I read on Kindle because I find certain excerpts interesting, funny or insightful and worth sharing at a later date. Here are a few of my most recent clippings. From Pascal Bruckner’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism: “Let us beware of anyone who […]
I don’t know if it’s because I’m prone to ADHD-ish behavior or what, but I generally read two or three books simultanéously. Whichever one is within closest proximity to me is the one I grab and read. Currently on my Kindle or in my own bare hands: Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury; Putin’s Russia […]
Some sort of Russian aquatic Olympics with blow-up sex dolls. (h/t Jackie B) Related articles Celebrity Week for Occupy Portland (bojack.org) The fall in combat of commander Alfonso Cano (english.pravda.ru) Spaghetti Western Orchestra (neatorama.com) Arundhati Roy on ‘Walking with the Comrades’ (3quarksdaily.com) Ohio man fighting charge over rubber costume ax (hosted.ap.org) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — – — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — – — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — –
Another Russian-woman-stores-alien-corpse-in-her-fridge story English Russia: Hostages of the Polluted Land Jonestown: Frozen in time Maps of volcanoes Museum of Talking Boards Prehistoric Moth Colors Subglacial ghost mountains Related articles Suspect held over murder of Russia’s top female entrepreneur (en.rian.ru) Gaddafi’s son captured, scared and without fight — Reuters (reuters.com) An abandoned Russian theme park in Japan [Modern […]
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