Tag: Moscow
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More Bad Times Ahead?
One event that has sustained emotional resonance is that evening on the outskirts of Moscow. I was a kid of six or so. It was 1995ish and my mother and I were ferried to some bestial monument to Brutalism in a creme colored Soviet Era drandulet. As we approached the long low apartment complex shrouded…
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UPS Dirt Shirt, Muscovite Immunity, and the dangers of Suburbia
I’m marinating in grime from around the world every workday and they think giving me a surgical mask is gonna help. What probably helps more than anything is the fact that I swam in rivers that glowed green Fallout style as kid in 90’s Moscow. This suburban denial of death and risk is deadlier than…