Posted in Education, Music, Teenagers on October 31, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Leonard Bernstein is annoying you at the moment.
Trying to explain why has proved a bit frustrating. You are blaming a lack of foresight in your teenage years.
They did a test, you see, and decided that despite the fact you had crashed and burned in both the art of playing the recorder and the piano, there [...]
Posted in Marriage, Public Transport, Religion, Russia, War on October 13, 2006 | 8 Comments »
After turning on the TV, the second thing you and B did in Moscow was visit B’s newlywed friend A and his bride. Which was a lot of fun.
About halfway through the evening, A said, giggling, “Do you remember the time we went to the monestary?”
Sure do:
The social call to B’s monk at his monestary had [...]
Posted in Britain, Culture Shock, Drink, Russia, TV, The USA on October 10, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Incidentally, while we are on the topic of Russian TV, it was also nice to see evidence that the Cola Wars are still alive and fighting tooth and nail.
British viewers will doubtless be familiar with the ads that accompanied the launch of Coke Zero recently. The ones with a personable young man striding through a [...]
Posted in Britain, Culture Shock, Russia, TV, The USA on October 9, 2006 | 5 Comments »
You find other people’s television absolutely fascinating. The first thing you’d do on your periodic visits to Blighty when living abroad would be to catch up on what they were showing on the box this year. Most surprising discovery? The time you came back and everybody on TV suddenly had the sort of Saaff Laandaan accent more usually found exclusively on [...]
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