China, the US and the Trade Deficit
At the point where Saturday Night Live stops being funny and starts being right, that’s the scare point. I wrote previously about China, but this time they are clearly not in the wrong.
»What’s the deal with the Russian New Year Tree?
Yolka in Nizhniy Novgorod, my birthplace Source: Wikipedia user Setaries
Monday Photo Blues
I am completely behind on e-mail, on blog posts, and on life in general. But I am almost done writing my novel. The sanity will return in December, hopefully. In the meantime, enjoy these pictures I’ve taken recently:
»Friday Links for the Doomed
Russian LeTziyon: Ayn Rand
I think it’s really been a while since we’ve had a comic. I promise to get back into normal comic-ing schedule once this insanity (NaNoWriMo) is over and I can have my life back. In the meantime, enjoy. I know it’s not the best. As in, you couldn’t pay me to look at it. But Michael is about to get sunburned and I totally needed to focus on that.
»NaNoWriMo: Day 15
The Great Interview Experiment 2009: Otir!
Finally Friday!
Today marks the confluence of a couple of things:
»NaNoWriMo: Day 11
This is how economists (theoretically) lose weight
NaNoWriMo: Day 9
NaNoWriMo: Day 8
Ringtones in Ramallah or Pelephones in Petach Tikva
One of my pictures from the West Bank. It's one of the most beautiful places in Israel. Or outside of it. Pick your poison.
Pictures from Yaroslavl
I figured everyone would be tired of all the NaNoWriMo reporting, so here are a couple pictures from my home city of Yaroslavl, from of nohobot on Flickr. I hope you don’t mind me using these, because they are gorgeous and evoke a definite sense of longing. The NaNoWriMo Day 4 post is below.
»NaNoWriMo: Day 4