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It happens often, references that you recognize, and know you would not have recognized a few days earlier. Let's call them coincidental references. I had one coincidental movie reference happen recently. I saw The Maltese Falcon, and two days later I was watching Broken Flowers, where the main character asked a girl if her probing father is Sam ( Read more... )

Today at brunch, once everyone accepted that we did not find a proper brunch place in Arlington, and made peace with lunch-dinner food choices in Not Your Average Joe's, Masha was telling about the game called "Assassin". They played it with people from her lab in Princeton over a course of a few weeks. There were different rules, one of which was ( Read more... )

This is used as a club in what city?


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Thanks to a thoughtful present from Dima, I'm now joining the progressive ranks of my contemporaries who have read "The Da Vinci Code". I'm listening to an abridged version on the CDs and I am about half way through. It's fun, it's easy, and the CD version does not leave any space for guessing, so far I din't feel like there were places where I ( Read more... )

If you enter the word "Holocaust" in Google, it comes back with 6 million hits... I've seen this number before, it's an estimate of the number of Jewish lives lost.


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В предверии рассказов об Италии (все быстро скрестили пальцы), надо бы закончить рассказ о поездке в СФ ( Read more... )

Мама приготовила вкусные артишоки с сырной начинкой, я съела три на завтрак и насытилась ( Read more... )

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Four guys in my car, repeating phrases with a faked Italian accent after my "Italian for beginners" tape. I was rolling, literally!