Irrelevant rantings about food, films, and everything
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Now that I have two identical cards from Tampere, the second one arrived with two proverbs, obviously to compensate for the non-proverbized first one. From there we get to know that “Ken kuuseen kurkottaa, se katajaan kapsahtaa” that means “Who reaches for the spruce, falls down onto the juniper”, and “Parempi virsta väärään kuin vaaksa vaaraan” that stands for “Better a verst into the wrong [direction], than a span into danger”. “Verst” is obviously an old Russian measure of distance.
This was an unexpectedly nice film for a weekend night. With no Jim Carrey to overfill the screen, as was the case with Bruce Almighty, Steve Carrel manages to show that he can play. Everyone does a decent job at playing, even the kids, and there even are some nice cameos like the neighbour (was it Will and Grace I saw her in before?).
Somewhat awkwardly, the film also deals with another aspect of humanity (the previous being finding G-d in oneself): finding G-d in the others. They don’t overdose on the morals too much, fortunately.
I only wonder, why were all these animals needed if not to attract more kids to the show?
The great moral of the story is, of course, If you want to make G-d laugh, tell Him your plans.
Прошло всего чуть больше года, а я таки научился изымать фотографии из телефона оптом, и теперь предлагаю вашему вниманию подобие репортажа с Огненной пуджи мандале Калачакры, проходившей 25 июня 2006 года в Санкт-Петербургском дацане.
Кажется, у меня до сих пор где-то лежит ладанка с песком от этой мандалы.
Волынщик 2007 таки состоится, и сделает это в посёлке Ольгино под Петербургом (есть подозрение, что добираться туда ничуть не сложнее, чем в Приморский Парк Победы, просто с другой стороны города =).
Заявлены в разные дни Dartz, Птица Си., Башня Rowan, Помело, Драконь, Tale projeсt, Вереск, Остролист и гвозди программы/отцы-основатели фестиваля Степан Печкин и Р*ждество. Должно получиться не хуже, чем в прошлые разы.
On a card from Alabama here arrived a Creole proverb (are there indeed Creoles in Alabama?): “Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are”
On a multi-view card from Lorraine comes a bit of ancient wizdom. Here’s a French version of the Latin saying: “Diviser pour mieux reigner”, meaning “Divide and rule”.
