Cofani Funebri 2011 (Italy) Last year I contemplated the appropriateness of publishing the photos of dead people. And in the last two days I’ve come across something that I find culturally distu...
Some time ago I posted an audio file with my reading of Flying-Ears Love from The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. Since then the site where the audio was originally hosted has shut down, and I decided to ...
I was pleasantly surprised to discover the project by the Moscow photographer Kirill Kuzmin – Bloggers’ Portraits in Black and White. The project that has started a few months ago aims at ...
La Bergamasca, as Britannica tells us, is a lusty 16th century Italian dance; given that it is mentioned in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as bergomask, this can surely be seen as t...
I wrote the essay below in the early 2006 when I worked as a researcher for one British company. While I’m thinking of the different ways to “add value” to the text, I wanted to shar...
Exegi Monument, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. My parents and I went recently to Kuskovo, a Moscow residence of the famous noble family of the Sheremetievs. The father, Pyotr, and his son...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1802-1882), a great American poet and the author of The Song of Hiawatha, had also been an object of parodies. Admittedly, it would be improper for anyone interested in poe...
The post below was written in September 2006 and marks the early days of my infatuation with the French iconic musician. Original post – 28/09/2006 I’ve written somewhere that I adore Mich...
In a post I wrote in Russian I reflected on the fact that in one superstore in Moscow city centre the till operator didn’t even attempt to give me change. It was only 10 kopeks, one tenth of a r...
The song It Don’t Come Easy was co-written by Ringo Starr and George Harrison. It became Ringo’s first UK solo release following the Beatles’ breakup. In this video, however, it is G...