Russia

The Internets has changed how we think about people.

November 30, 2011

I’ve always been under the assumption that I’m very leery of trusting the internet, because, everyone on the internet is a creep murderer and that I would never want to give up all my data to Zuck and the Gootch, but a couple of events recently have convinced me otherwise. The first thing that happened is that a couple of weeks ago, my grandpa discovered a long-lost relative merely from the fact that he goes to a pharmacy, she’s a ...

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Book Review: A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

November 8, 2011

  Nowadays, everything Soviet is cool again. But, growing up, everything immigrant that my parents did was horrifyingly embarrassing. They packed lunch for me not in Ziploc bags, but in the plastic bags you get from the grocery store.  They didn’t pack Mac n Cheese, and they would NEVER let me buy Lunchables, but there was Russian food. How do you show up to lunch when you have a kelbasa sandwich with Russian rye bread and all your friends have BP and ...

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A guide to trolling Jewish organizations featuring my grandfather

October 26, 2011

Mr. B and I were visiting my grandpa, last weekend. After he was done telling us that one Rabinovich joke where Rabinovich is dying and his cheap family in Russia sends his family in America a telegram.  ”Rabinovich is dead.”  ”Oy,” comes the telegram reply, he turned to us and asked if we wanted any shmendrickeli. Shmendrickeli is not a real word, but one my grandpa made up to refer semi-scornfully to stuff he doesn’t like.  Shmendrikevich is the human ...

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How We Learned American

September 21, 2011

I am so excited about this NY Times article about American kids learning Russian and going to a Russian school in Moscow.  Because it’s about time those hipsters get a taste of their own medicine. And by hipsters I mean American parents and teachers that teach their kids that each one is a special snowflake. More Americans need to learn how the rest of the world works. Here’s a video where Mr. B and I recall our memories of learning ...

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Short Notes on Strawberries

June 6, 2011

It’s strawberry season right now. So, we went strawberry-picking with friends in New Jersey.  Because if you’re going to eat food straight out of the ground, go all the way and eat food straight out of the ground in the most chemically-laden ground in the United States. In New Jersey. Mr. B was slacking, because he ate more than he picked.  ”They don’t weigh YOU before and after…only your containers.” Afterwards, as we picked, we eavesdropped on the conversations in ...

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