Ukraine by SMS

"Oh my. It's hideous"
"I just saw a guy open a bottle on his teeth. This is that kind of place"
"I was doing a drugs lesson yesterday, and ... Dima walks by and shows me the drugs he has in his pocket. Outstanding. Happy Thanksgiving by the way."
"I'm on the bus, someone has some kind of food that smells like a sausage mcmuffin with egg. It is driving me to the point of murder and theft. Is that wrong?"
"Know what I love about cable tv? Elvis live in concert. The ... King."

Book List

Books I’ve read in no real order. Heard it is a good idea to keep a list. So here is at least a partial list of what I’ve read. By author:

George Orwell
1984
Animal Farm

Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451

Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Matarese Circle
The Icarius Agenda
The Aquitaine Progression
The Gemini Contenders
The Osterman Weekend

Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation

Pierre Boulle
The Bridge over the River Kwai

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked

Jack Higgins
Sheba
Hell is Always Today

Stephen Hunter
Hot Springs

Jared Diamond
Collapse
Guns, Germs and Steel

David Zucchino
Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Bagdad

Joseph Conrad
Nostromo

John Eldridge
The Journey of Desire

David Michaels
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell

Al Franken
Lies, and the Lying Liars who tell them

Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated

Slavenka Drakulic
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans

Marina Lewycka
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Thomas Cahill
How the Irish Saved Civilization

Milton Friedman
Capitalism and Freedom

William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Cradle to Cradle

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises

Pascal Khoo Thwe
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Oddessy

Cornell West
Democracy Matters

Joseph Wilson
The Politics of Truth

Larry Bond
Vortex

Orhan Pamuk
Snow

Frederick Forsyth
Avenger

Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Cormac McCarthy
The Road

Dan Simmons
Ilium

Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club

Bruce Sterling
Distraction

Khaled Hosseini
Kite Runner

Asne Seierstad
The Bookseller of Kabul

Philip Roth
The Plot Against America

Paulo Coelho
Eleven Minutes

Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man who would Cure the World

Larry McMurty
Lonesome Dove




Updated 01 March, 2008

Cabbage blog

I just saw this on myspace (yes I'm reposting, oh well) and thought it was funny because there was a reference to cabbage, which is extremely popular in Ukraine. So read and enjoy.

http://www.o-sf.com/ppc/diet/diet_menus.php?ppc=google+o-sf.com&cpn=cabbage+diet+blog