Welcome to the Neighborhood

I'm digging the graffiti of the Sovyetskayas (my hood):

Insert poem about unrequited love and mortality here

Definitely caused a setback in overcoming  my fear of clowns

Russian Cinema

While looking through a bin of movies at a bookstore today I came across several promising titles dubbed into Russian, including this beauty:

Not only was I pleased to know that Russians like a J-Lo flick as much as I do, but I really enjoyed the irony of the film's translated title, "План Б" (that's Plan B in Cyrillic, Eva). Maybe if whoever came up with such a terrible idea for a movie had had some EC nobody (Russians included) would have to sit through such a shitty movie (actually, I never saw it).

Russian Literature

Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Nabokov are so passé. My хозяйка (host mother) loves: 

For those of you who don't read Cyrillic (or are too lazy to), that would be Danielle Steel's The Bachelors' Club. 


 Personally, I'd rather find a Jackie Collins while I'm here.