The intro to this song always wakes up some deeply buried associations with my childhood – it was used as a theme for a popular…
Nathan, who often said in the past that he hates memes1, has actually created a meme of his own, listing the places that he resided…
I haven’t done one of them meme things in a while, so I am happy to pick one from Jason. The meme is centered on…
I only went back to Russia once in the years since I emigrated. Did not like that journey much, for a number of reasons. The…
Having watched Across the Universe a couple of days ago, I find myself constantly humming my favorite Beatles’ tunes. All You Need Is Love is…
All pretense of being seasoned travelers aside, Natasha and I only started to make regular trips abroad in 20021. Our first voyage was to France,…
As I mentioned in 25 things meme and probably elsewhere, I defy stereotypes of a Russian being a hard-drinker. I’m very partial to red wine,…
In the last couple of years before my emigration from the USSR, I used to frequent the sole Rostov synagogue. Not out of any sort…
Even a person who never seeks thrills, always drives under the speed limit and avoids the smallest possibility of appearing adventurous can probably name a…
I first heard this song not in its original form but as a Russian language “remix” by Sergej Minaev, whose repertoire in late 80’s consisted…
It’s a story that long begged to be immortalized in writing, and I finally decided to give it a try. I might even start a…
Around the time that I was entering high school, breakdance was all the rage. The guys my age were always trying to outdo one another…
Back to obscure European pop of the 70’s and the 80’s for this series. I’ve been hearing this particular song fairly regularly over the last…
One of my camp summers happened after I just turned ten, on the Black Sea coast near Anapa. For reasons not exactly clear to me,…
I mentioned a few times in this series the notion of my own very first cassette tape. In fact, there were two of them. Both…
I’ve only noticed in passing that I am not a very willing dancer. At any given party, when the dancing floor becomes the focus of…
Towards the very end of the 80’s, the Soviet television started incorporating little bits of Western culture into its late-night programming. Among the teenage crowd,…
One of the most important dates in my life is the day I met Natasha. We were really young then, yet somehow managed to recognize…
This is not, as it were, a memory. I am a singing person. I sing when I walk, hum when I’m idle, and frequently burst…
The other day we went with friends for a dinner to a trendy place in Mayfair. The meal itself was exceptional, the company was extraordinary,…