Archive for June, 2005
Hopes and Fears for 2008
By Sean at 30 June, 2005, 5:47 pm
On Friday, I went to my local photo shop to get some passport sized photos for a library card. While I was waiting I noticed a letter sized portrait of Vladimir Putin on the wall. This was no regular portrait that you see in most government buildings with Vlad looking all presidential and, incidentally, ever [...]
Read More >>100th Anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Birth
By Sean at 27 June, 2005, 6:07 pm
A pause from Russia to note that thanks to the wonderful journalist and francophile Doug Ireland, I found out that this past week marked the 100th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s birth. Ireland is right to draw attention to one of the most famous intellectuals of the 20th Century. Apparently, many people don’t read Sartre any [...]
Read More >>The White Stripes Live, Moscow June 26, 2005
By Sean at 27 June, 2005, 5:51 pm
Two weeks ago, while waiting for the bus at the corner of Sevastopol’skii and Nakhimovskii prospect, I noticed a big billboard of the Jack and Meg White from The White Stripes. To my surprise they were playing one night in Moscow to promote their new album, Get Behind Me Satan. I excitedly noted down the [...]
Read More >>Novodeviche Cemetery
By Sean at 13 June, 2005, 1:27 pm
So they turned off the hot water in my apartment. “They” are the mysterious maintenance people who run the five buildings of my apartment complex. Though I never seen “them”, “they” seem to have their base of operations in a building across from me. Anyway, every summer the hot water in Russian apartments are shut [...]
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