tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68173285012384137472024-02-19T09:02:16.487-08:00moscow doesn't believe in tearsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-52110457497388267132009-04-28T00:56:00.000-07:002009-04-28T00:57:12.459-07:00Hi, everyone. Cow dead. Send milk. <div><br /></div><div>-MDBIT</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-47217099766179252152008-11-03T12:16:00.000-08:002008-11-04T06:21:40.588-08:00The Holiday Formerly Known as HalloweenIn the midst of a grave world-wide economic crisis shaking Moscow like a Yahtzee box, my greatest fear was still a lackluster Halloween. In some ways it came true, though I’ve taken the noose down out of the closet. A little bit of history: Halloween is traditionally a big freaking deal on the club scene, up there with New Year’s in terms of fireworks-and-glitter related fatalities. Call it a litmus test for how good things really are in Moscow.<br /><br />Results came back mixed. The parties seemed fun and people dressed up, but none of them looked like the world was ending, which is the going standard for Halloween in Moscow. Club XII’s annual bash was full of people who cared enough to rent nice costumes, even if it meant taking out a loan. Thanks for giving a damn, guys.<div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBG5MvKSjI/AAAAAAAACe0/s3Uc0nKZoqM/s1600-h/gaudi4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBG5MvKSjI/AAAAAAAACe0/s3Uc0nKZoqM/s400/gaudi4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264785912881629746" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBF-_mNcaI/AAAAAAAACek/adFn5WFMQ3g/s1600-h/clubxiii2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264784912922014114" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBF-_mNcaI/AAAAAAAACek/adFn5WFMQ3g/s400/clubxiii2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBG5BvP3YI/AAAAAAAACe8/WJyKmFdZXPk/s1600-h/gaudi2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBG5BvP3YI/AAAAAAAACe8/WJyKmFdZXPk/s400/gaudi2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264785909929205122" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBF-1PMPhI/AAAAAAAACes/QslY2VQ_q4k/s1600-h/clubxiii.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264784910141111826" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 266px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBF-1PMPhI/AAAAAAAACes/QslY2VQ_q4k/s400/clubxiii.jpg" border="0" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">“Freak International 3” also had a strong showing, despite being held at warehouse club Gaudi Arena, a long, cold marshrutka ride away from civilization. But that’s kind of cheating because candy ravers already dress like it’s Halloween and probably didn’t even realize it was a holiday.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgb8mx_I/AAAAAAAACfs/_2ru6EXzSWI/s1600-h/gaudi9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgb8mx_I/AAAAAAAACfs/_2ru6EXzSWI/s400/gaudi9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264787686491080690" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHtVx8_BI/AAAAAAAACfk/QCOMwAhByZ0/s1600-h/gaudi7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHtVx8_BI/AAAAAAAACfk/QCOMwAhByZ0/s400/gaudi7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264786808662457362" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHsjVctjI/AAAAAAAACfE/SyLpDU1IjD0/s1600-h/gaudi3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHsjVctjI/AAAAAAAACfE/SyLpDU1IjD0/s400/gaudi3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264786795121129010" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJCP-GLaI/AAAAAAAACgU/3XNq-iFKcAg/s1600-h/gaudi8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJCP-GLaI/AAAAAAAACgU/3XNq-iFKcAg/s400/gaudi8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264788267391659426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHtAwaMBI/AAAAAAAACfU/sNvNLsMEIIs/s1600-h/gaudi5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBHtAwaMBI/AAAAAAAACfU/sNvNLsMEIIs/s400/gaudi5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264786803018838034" border="0" /></a>Look! Zhenya's going as your bored girlfriend<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Pretty much all the other big name clubs didn’t, ahem, <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/search/label/rai">Rai</a>-se to the occasion. The party was there, but barely distinguishable from any other night. Those bitties who did come in costume looked like they were headed to SAE Theme Thursdays, an uninspired assortment of skank nurses, slutty brides and promiscuous policewomen <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/10/ochen-horrowshow.html">we've seen before</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkXDfsnI/AAAAAAAACgs/nMLEIwgAP3s/s1600-h/5408610.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkXDfsnI/AAAAAAAACgs/nMLEIwgAP3s/s400/5408610.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264788853408903794" border="0" /></a>Kappa Theta Ikra<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkXI9fLI/AAAAAAAACg0/ue6fffK9xpk/s1600-h/5409511.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkXI9fLI/AAAAAAAACg0/ue6fffK9xpk/s400/5409511.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264788853431827634" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know, America is bad, right? Gotta spank it<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.labelfucker.ru/">Labelfucker</a> was supposed to have a good Halloween thing going on. In fact, so good that it was shut down by the police before midnight last year. At least, I think that’s what the wasted people streaming out seemed to be screaming about. When an overgrown schoolgirl with vomit on his chin barreled at me, I didn’t stick around to find out. Unfortunately this year Labelfucker held its party at the clinically depressed <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/08/justo-banya-death.html">Justo Banya Douche</a>. Might as well have sprayed it with Party-Be-Gone.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgwCaqII/AAAAAAAACgE/05rxPFHhNto/s1600-h/n590998652_1558114_1744.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgwCaqII/AAAAAAAACgE/05rxPFHhNto/s400/n590998652_1558114_1744.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264787691884161154" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgtWCtwI/AAAAAAAACf8/dq-ZN11NyaU/s1600-h/lf1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBIgtWCtwI/AAAAAAAACf8/dq-ZN11NyaU/s400/lf1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264787691161171714" border="0" /></a>But if history has taught us anything, it’s that the spirit of Halloween can overcome anything, even a shitty venue. Clubs are just the container, man, what really matters is the people. Making Halloween costume pie takes equal parts creativity, enthusiasm and willingness to act a fool. Which brings me to the main point -- feis control goons, where are you when we need you? For pete’s sake, stop letting people in without real costumes. Four dudes should not be able to ride in one on hat they bought off a malnourished 17-year-old soldier for 100 rubles.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjaIGtrI/AAAAAAAAChE/y1TKE5mhElY/s1600-h/5409767.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjaIGtrI/AAAAAAAAChE/y1TKE5mhElY/s400/5409767.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264789936565302962" border="0" /></a>FAIL</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUMlSK1I/AAAAAAAAChk/sHCBZYSBYYk/s1600-h/5409975.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUMlSK1I/AAAAAAAAChk/sHCBZYSBYYk/s400/5409975.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264790774743182162" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Haha. <span style="font-style: italic;">Prokhodite</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjIMmmpI/AAAAAAAACg8/1vafCtMXQYA/s1600-h/76025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjIMmmpI/AAAAAAAACg8/1vafCtMXQYA/s400/76025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264789931752331922" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Nyet<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjqDjGYI/AAAAAAAAChM/uYgIM3FPiGQ/s1600-h/TM4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBKjqDjGYI/AAAAAAAAChM/uYgIM3FPiGQ/s400/TM4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264789940841159042" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Pass. And run for your life</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUKTg4FI/AAAAAAAAChc/vscyENziY6E/s1600-h/5409718.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUKTg4FI/AAAAAAAAChc/vscyENziY6E/s400/5409718.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264790774131777618" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Borderline. At least they didn't go blackface<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUZqTROI/AAAAAAAAChs/FsAZrdWpw9U/s1600-h/5409952.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBLUZqTROI/AAAAAAAAChs/FsAZrdWpw9U/s400/5409952.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264790778253886690" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Ooh. Tough call. I feel like someone is going to Hell for this, but they did take a concept and run with it<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkEOgkzI/AAAAAAAACgk/PF4QVNX-N94/s1600-h/5389077.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBJkEOgkzI/AAAAAAAACgk/PF4QVNX-N94/s400/5389077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264788848354825010" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></span></span></p>I don't care if she just spent too much time on the bed at Mesto Pod Solntsem, She looks rad, let her in<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It's not like Moscow don’t know how to dress up. In fact, the scariest costumes of all weren’t seen on October 31 but a few days before at the Moscow Fashion Week closing party. The punch line is that there wasn't even a Halloween theme, but I guess you already got that.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNARkZGQI/AAAAAAAACiU/9DsKrx7LJ24/s1600-h/img145707.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNARkZGQI/AAAAAAAACiU/9DsKrx7LJ24/s400/img145707.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264792631507491074" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNAEJ5QJI/AAAAAAAACiM/VQbIFqklMtE/s1600-h/img145695.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNAEJ5QJI/AAAAAAAACiM/VQbIFqklMtE/s400/img145695.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264792627906691218" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_5EDT3I/AAAAAAAACiE/_GwTFlnWueM/s1600-h/img145688.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_5EDT3I/AAAAAAAACiE/_GwTFlnWueM/s400/img145688.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264792624929394546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_t1zVdI/AAAAAAAACh8/rqpmaXIlhKQ/s1600-h/img145687.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_t1zVdI/AAAAAAAACh8/rqpmaXIlhKQ/s400/img145687.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264792621916837330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_iDd_5I/AAAAAAAACh0/0-85Zekm4Tk/s1600-h/img145684.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBM_iDd_5I/AAAAAAAACh0/0-85Zekm4Tk/s400/img145684.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264792618752933778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXkTQ76I/AAAAAAAACis/IBFxC-gAhMg/s1600-h/img145675.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXkTQ76I/AAAAAAAACis/IBFxC-gAhMg/s400/img145675.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264793031672917922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXUsV8iI/AAAAAAAACik/ekFhSpBS-S8/s1600-h/img145702.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXUsV8iI/AAAAAAAACik/ekFhSpBS-S8/s400/img145702.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264793027483136546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXRjhfwI/AAAAAAAACic/nDqe0_HBhi0/s1600-h/img145726.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SRBNXRjhfwI/AAAAAAAACic/nDqe0_HBhi0/s400/img145726.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264793026640838402" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Just tell me these people don't drink the blood of the living.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;">Photos: 44100.com, geometria.ru, labelfucker.ru, adensya.ru, mainpeople.ru</p></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-7033452975099827852008-10-14T13:28:00.000-07:002008-10-14T13:59:07.608-07:00Der Untermost, or the Day the Shitty Techno DiedThe global economic meltdown has claimed another subset of victims -- Moscow elitny clubgoers. At least that's according to the Telegraph, which reported of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/01/do0105.xml">a half-empty Most</a>. Even if it's not entirely true, when the golden club is letting in pasty British reporters, that's a sure sign times have changed.<br /><blockquote>Falling into conversation with one patron, an impeccably dressed man in his late thirties who introduced himself as the owner of another nightclub, I asked him where everybody was.<br /><br />"They are sitting at home drinking cheap vodka and thinking about killing themselves," he replied.</blockquote>In other words, doing what MDBIT does on Friday nights anyway. The reports of Moscow nightlife's death have been greatly exaggerated though. While the $32,000 VIP booth above the waterfall at Rai may be going at a slight discount, there's no shortage of people lining up for 800 ruble Long Islands at The Most, as these photos from October 3 contest.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwmCYBGI/AAAAAAAACdU/xgWa9JLqg3E/s1600-h/img139512.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwmCYBGI/AAAAAAAACdU/xgWa9JLqg3E/s400/img139512.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257112273404036194" border="0" /></a><br />What do you think: is this self-delusion or deserved confidence? Are they playing the fiddle while Moscow burns, or just trying to have fun after a £400 billion stock market dive?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUcQ1WQI/AAAAAAAACcc/c1W5rcA_6aQ/s1600-h/img139345.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUcQ1WQI/AAAAAAAACcc/c1W5rcA_6aQ/s400/img139345.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111789743986946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUtD0_YI/AAAAAAAACck/z5A1VQJVsCU/s1600-h/img139358.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUtD0_YI/AAAAAAAACck/z5A1VQJVsCU/s400/img139358.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111794252840322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUuJCo6I/AAAAAAAACcs/qmx-BBs4MzI/s1600-h/img139363.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDUuJCo6I/AAAAAAAACcs/qmx-BBs4MzI/s400/img139363.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111794543141794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDU9K7rPI/AAAAAAAACc0/X9eUYnrmu3Q/s1600-h/img139365.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDU9K7rPI/AAAAAAAACc0/X9eUYnrmu3Q/s400/img139365.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111798577605874" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDVNrg2OI/AAAAAAAACc8/VT86ClJt2jE/s1600-h/img139382.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDVNrg2OI/AAAAAAAACc8/VT86ClJt2jE/s400/img139382.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111803009226978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwXIRlJI/AAAAAAAACdE/kKvDBf9qUlY/s1600-h/img139388.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwXIRlJI/AAAAAAAACdE/kKvDBf9qUlY/s400/img139388.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257112269402248338" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwjZxI0I/AAAAAAAACdM/tOFqnRTcFUI/s1600-h/img139403.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SPUDwjZxI0I/AAAAAAAACdM/tOFqnRTcFUI/s400/img139403.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257112272696845122" border="0" /></a>Yaaaaaaaa! Kill it! Kill it!<br /></div><br />To be honest, it kinda reminds me of the last days in Hitler's bunker. But if the world capital of excess goes on the dole, what are all of us parasitic nightlife bloggers going to do? Move to Istanbul and start ghostwriting college apps for rich kids? Waaaaaaa!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: mainpeople.ru</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-13337591215908617812008-10-03T07:43:00.000-07:002008-10-03T08:53:27.435-07:00It's a Very Zverev WorldEveryone hearts Jocelyn Wildensteinian reality television star, singer and man-about-town Sergei Zverev. Broadly speaking, Russians hate and fear gays on the street, but love their celebrities camp as a row of tents, and so Zverev floats above homophobia, a shining silicone he-she. He even melted the heart of thugtastic Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who stated he finds the anthropoid creature "companionable" and gave him a 100 thousand euro watch. (Read all about it the <a href="http://www.gq.ru/exclusive/person/85056/">GQ interview</a> between Kadyrov and...Ksenia Sobchak, proof that reality is much stranger than fiction.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY_3XWXv7I/AAAAAAAACbk/BFZqK1S8W6Q/s1600-h/ads%C4%B1z.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY_3XWXv7I/AAAAAAAACbk/BFZqK1S8W6Q/s400/ads%C4%B1z.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252956235767463858" border="0" /></a><br />You read so much about Zverev's extracurricular pursuits, like recieving wristwatches from scary tyrants, that you may have forgotten his original calling – male hairdresser. September saw the grand opening of his Celebrity beauty salon, which, given the popularity of the tranny aesthetic among biological women in Moscow, will likely do quite well. I except to see an army of Zverev lookalikes take over the world just before Armageddon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cimKM3I/AAAAAAAACZ0/icC6Dedoh5c/s1600-h/realphoto_11706_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cimKM3I/AAAAAAAACZ0/icC6Dedoh5c/s400/realphoto_11706_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252952476395123570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cuoNFjI/AAAAAAAACZs/WyaWhtYTj0g/s1600-h/realphoto_11807_006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cuoNFjI/AAAAAAAACZs/WyaWhtYTj0g/s400/realphoto_11807_006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252952479624926770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cdMLMSI/AAAAAAAACZk/LJllrnmsjTw/s1600-h/img138800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cdMLMSI/AAAAAAAACZk/LJllrnmsjTw/s400/img138800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252952474943959330" border="0" /></a><br />To celebrate the opening, here's MDBIT's tribute to the many looks of Sergei Zverev, because no one embodies the spirit of retarded fabulousness better than him. Good night, and God bless.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NC_DhtI/AAAAAAAACaU/pa1AEXthYJ4/s1600-h/img91344.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NC_DhtI/AAAAAAAACaU/pa1AEXthYJ4/s400/img91344.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252953309723199186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZmvioYI/AAAAAAAACbU/G9IZaF88AV4/s1600-h/szverevv48.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZmvioYI/AAAAAAAACbU/G9IZaF88AV4/s400/szverevv48.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252954624991863170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8c4GyKGI/AAAAAAAACaE/e-C7O4DT7-Y/s1600-h/img72531.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8c4GyKGI/AAAAAAAACaE/e-C7O4DT7-Y/s400/img72531.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252952482169104482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NaBEMjI/AAAAAAAACas/dn3Imx1PW_8/s1600-h/szverevv3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NaBEMjI/AAAAAAAACas/dn3Imx1PW_8/s400/szverevv3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252953315905647154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NN5vn6I/AAAAAAAACac/Z1tsNZ13sqU/s1600-h/img104824.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NN5vn6I/AAAAAAAACac/Z1tsNZ13sqU/s400/img104824.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252953312653713314" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NMRr8aI/AAAAAAAACak/QHlEAeANeBw/s1600-h/LSHE8666.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9NMRr8aI/AAAAAAAACak/QHlEAeANeBw/s400/LSHE8666.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252953312217264546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZRcvoeI/AAAAAAAACa0/L9wGRA5SIys/s1600-h/szverevv12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZRcvoeI/AAAAAAAACa0/L9wGRA5SIys/s400/szverevv12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252954619275878882" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZQ5HuzI/AAAAAAAACbE/WdQB5MFk9AY/s1600-h/szverevv38.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZQ5HuzI/AAAAAAAACbE/WdQB5MFk9AY/s400/szverevv38.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252954619126463282" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZhA7FJI/AAAAAAAACbM/bXU1Vt5hL2o/s1600-h/szverevv45.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY-ZhA7FJI/AAAAAAAACbM/bXU1Vt5hL2o/s400/szverevv45.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252954623454155922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cqEI0vI/AAAAAAAACZ8/Zm6Gzx9ptq0/s1600-h/sergeizverev300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY8cqEI0vI/AAAAAAAACZ8/Zm6Gzx9ptq0/s400/sergeizverev300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252952478399910642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9M4JaeCI/AAAAAAAACaM/d-mVLFwL6Dg/s1600-h/img91105.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SOY9M4JaeCI/AAAAAAAACaM/d-mVLFwL6Dg/s400/img91105.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252953306813855778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Celebrity</span>, 10 Nikolskaya Ulitsa, Metro: Lubyanka, Tel. 721-3524<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: mainpeople.ru, blesk.ru</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, the deep recesses of the Internets</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-11584812998050064312008-09-25T01:59:00.000-07:002008-09-25T04:46:43.500-07:00Freakonomics, or In Defense of Fair TradeIt occured to me recently that the Moscow bar scene is a perfect example of "race to the bottom," a trade theory usually applied to sweatshops. That is to say, competition between countries (the women attending the bar) over attracting investment (male attention) leads to the reduction of regulations (standards of social conduct). Ultimately, it is those who abandon all vestiges of dignity who survive.<br /><br />This is not an uncommon scenario: You rock up to the bar with Lena and Katya from work and predictably, there are about 3 eligible bachelors in the place.<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UKMDsuMEw4S3iyXqwCEP7LD_lWpDNEoP_dUX3qyjyrm4-wRxi5ZPR_SABtFwSvqdfSzUBotJgYX3QAG2Pu1HOY0Ngi7JOy6MRtriFWvzP2vq8SrmxgKqUTvTzHIx_OHPR8f2cLP3LcJG/s1600-h/img135843.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249887135221500338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UKMDsuMEw4S3iyXqwCEP7LD_lWpDNEoP_dUX3qyjyrm4-wRxi5ZPR_SABtFwSvqdfSzUBotJgYX3QAG2Pu1HOY0Ngi7JOy6MRtriFWvzP2vq8SrmxgKqUTvTzHIx_OHPR8f2cLP3LcJG/s400/img135843.jpg" border="0" /></a>Sasha, Sasha and...Sasha<br /></div><br />The female-male ratio standing at 25-1, the air is thick with tension. Women start nervously preening and bending their bodies with unnatural rigidity to display their sexual organs. Conditions are bad, but they're about to get much worse.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0rvbbOYm-LEZdwVWMCC83c4D_gCaghtexH2y98SD2Ov_QDqMyBppEvwgMgA9PH3UAm_ciX74xZvjQ21I6xOIcqIDyQk7_p2ZgreXlUWx-JE1bDC9ZilB1_1hGAhDeqa9GaxrRtAAtq41/s1600-h/img135852.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249887137914970050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0rvbbOYm-LEZdwVWMCC83c4D_gCaghtexH2y98SD2Ov_QDqMyBppEvwgMgA9PH3UAm_ciX74xZvjQ21I6xOIcqIDyQk7_p2ZgreXlUWx-JE1bDC9ZilB1_1hGAhDeqa9GaxrRtAAtq41/s400/img135852.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeh3X3_Ej293GBnsWeTqkDH-9iIlZmvT7BjI8HzK0hf-0PDy1GQclGoadL44CrKLt_GP7tuDbhu5td0-V37XlUH5yTlaPskNjEB7lAIolGRhkXZoa0dOHeNzg57wmf2qu1ElwAMmUpVVm/s1600-h/img135892.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249887150424991746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeh3X3_Ej293GBnsWeTqkDH-9iIlZmvT7BjI8HzK0hf-0PDy1GQclGoadL44CrKLt_GP7tuDbhu5td0-V37XlUH5yTlaPskNjEB7lAIolGRhkXZoa0dOHeNzg57wmf2qu1ElwAMmUpVVm/s400/img135892.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KOjVvUQTdQQvAqhrBHQQqYj3l0Z8iMTlHHVmBQe0D2E-eDyplvYidpB4pCo1N7tqxo2IHLTq63vd5unjRgRiR8T9RBD7rfYAhbSZ7AsCHKdht6YUksW57YVBePeQlCfz21ZYmyyClF7X/s1600-h/img135850.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249887146262689842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KOjVvUQTdQQvAqhrBHQQqYj3l0Z8iMTlHHVmBQe0D2E-eDyplvYidpB4pCo1N7tqxo2IHLTq63vd5unjRgRiR8T9RBD7rfYAhbSZ7AsCHKdht6YUksW57YVBePeQlCfz21ZYmyyClF7X/s400/img135850.jpg" border="0" /></a>Enter topless go-go dancers, the match to the gasoline. When these lithe animals start shaking their ta-tas on the bar, you lean over to Katya and Lena to suggest "fuck this place, let's get the fuck out of here" only to find that they have taken to the dance floor. To keep up with the go-go dancers, they are doing some sort of freaky deaky kick dance.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRFBi454jGLYBrgPxyRNEzHl2e_D4OfWiUDjCk2JFLvEeVDLqvSYkUkyip5dzeBXSwQurUnyL2woY5aMA7EZ9I7Y5B-FxzTZtqtjE259TIHKzV0_0zMLAGq6kHzrgFJcglDVmgFiBBRd3l/s1600-h/img135854.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249888707876869730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRFBi454jGLYBrgPxyRNEzHl2e_D4OfWiUDjCk2JFLvEeVDLqvSYkUkyip5dzeBXSwQurUnyL2woY5aMA7EZ9I7Y5B-FxzTZtqtjE259TIHKzV0_0zMLAGq6kHzrgFJcglDVmgFiBBRd3l/s400/img135854.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNteNLSSakI/AAAAAAAACZE/RoO_oxsDKG0/s1600-h/img135880.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249893371091249730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNteNLSSakI/AAAAAAAACZE/RoO_oxsDKG0/s400/img135880.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />When it becomes clear that the naked chicks are still recieving far more attention, rather than give up, Lena and Katya become more and more determined. By the time you finally drag them off of each other, they're already... doing THAT.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtejbNAhBI/AAAAAAAACZM/kMJlnpJGF8Q/s1600-h/img135869.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249893753321194514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtejbNAhBI/AAAAAAAACZM/kMJlnpJGF8Q/s400/img135869.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AqyuD9RDMUq_fRe7n0H0661FDPPEOaOeBfOXvxsoCyQ9kgE37Av1puPHGkVwfV2BtTwize_IlMrWZWL_vS-yWUzXsYGgtRFwvGqK-FQdnck7EN_x236LfuArtmulkYAAyPXIjrYzAfEW/s1600-h/img135868.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249888710949919570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AqyuD9RDMUq_fRe7n0H0661FDPPEOaOeBfOXvxsoCyQ9kgE37Av1puPHGkVwfV2BtTwize_IlMrWZWL_vS-yWUzXsYGgtRFwvGqK-FQdnck7EN_x236LfuArtmulkYAAyPXIjrYzAfEW/s400/img135868.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtZ-BMVhKI/AAAAAAAACY4/7cWmmWgbyjE/s1600-h/img135877.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249888712637383842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtZ-BMVhKI/AAAAAAAACY4/7cWmmWgbyjE/s400/img135877.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Throughout all of this, Dima continues calmly smoking his kalyan, bored, trying to watch football on the plasma screen.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtejWLPfaI/AAAAAAAACZU/Y3rhQ7xfEGY/s1600-h/img135864.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249893751971610018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNtejWLPfaI/AAAAAAAACZU/Y3rhQ7xfEGY/s400/img135864.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The point is that in this economic model, no one wins: not the desparate chicks lezzing out on the dance floor, not the guys who have become dizzy and nauseated of women as if they ate too much sugar, and certainly not the MDBITs who go home to write about it in their blogs. However, with a little solidarity, some grassroots organizing, it can be overcome. <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Si se puede!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNthR1Pwp8I/AAAAAAAACZc/_YnEsE-Iu-0/s1600-h/solidarity_031207.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249896749609297858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yc6lB765bQY/SNthR1Pwp8I/AAAAAAAACZc/_YnEsE-Iu-0/s400/solidarity_031207.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Photos: mainpeople.ru</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-82333988233159494292008-09-10T05:04:00.000-07:002008-09-25T01:54:59.825-07:00Bright Lights, Big MoscowIt’s snowing hard in Paparazzi Bar, the heir apparent to <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/05/mbit-in-mix.html">Mix</a>. Good, because scruffy Moscow club kids were lacking in recreational options beyond alcohol and cough medicine. The rich and fabulous can get <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">yayed</span> up ten ways from Sunday at their <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/search/label/dyagilev"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Dyagilevs</span></a> and their <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/search/label/rai"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rais</span></a>, but what about the little people? Can’t they get theirs?<br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4IFmQMzOtSTY298qx9iWMy5SdwFGesfN7iH6DSJm3zyXgw_SNohYd2xd7fUG8NxQrv3LEeXBJCfSs4uPRS-KmvRdRhmfxbFFfYzsEQxy4TcB4AlakRgrRr4ZN8CpVZN7CAfmtQm9IZbA/s1600-h/p-85064-gallery.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244363557562471330" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4IFmQMzOtSTY298qx9iWMy5SdwFGesfN7iH6DSJm3zyXgw_SNohYd2xd7fUG8NxQrv3LEeXBJCfSs4uPRS-KmvRdRhmfxbFFfYzsEQxy4TcB4AlakRgrRr4ZN8CpVZN7CAfmtQm9IZbA/s400/p-85064-gallery.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;">"OMG, I'm falling in a k-hole"<br /></div><p>Drug proliferation is the perhaps the greatest testament to the existence of a Russian middle class, you know, that great void between Roman Abramovich and the pensioners farming beets in permafrost with plastic McDonalds forks. If the unwashed hipster masses can afford narcotics and nice places with chairs and doors in which to do them, then things might not be so bad after all.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDvRzGzqDZ6cpV7y-7Zgy2fJAtPMOlmMS_cF6mYoaNH-MD2pYQ76igG8KxQ0xUIto4_XtI7G9XqzcuXs2jFeIkDl0W7Op_ezTPlaWSqJZ9SX7rTlUne0ygMksSQKZslkb4i6a5yjfXU9hb/s1600-h/p-87779-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDvRzGzqDZ6cpV7y-7Zgy2fJAtPMOlmMS_cF6mYoaNH-MD2pYQ76igG8KxQ0xUIto4_XtI7G9XqzcuXs2jFeIkDl0W7Op_ezTPlaWSqJZ9SX7rTlUne0ygMksSQKZslkb4i6a5yjfXU9hb/s400/p-87779-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249588470732571506" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The nods<br /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244363560730144866" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSbqaMNe8EkkT4tgS-ZjvkmV_gyRLitMOzemFjbrbWHvVog6qnPIqmk1RSsIl0x49qmqFKW__hGCdAJdKj5ruKSDYfbQlUUNEhOVdH9nIB_RaUqVjwo1Hc_TUZqPwUlqykS_wUs2cUOhR/s400/p-85067-gallery.jpg" border="0" /></p><div style="text-align: center;">Bono and Naomi Campbell love Paparazzi Bar<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYL7MOfOjYXAr9TQWcrzwt_uHkMfAq9azq_ig-GFNBGHetf_xDX8K2B50wEeYJXl78YcGMrdc2dyRlaZawmSQ7WoY5t93TCU9ZL7NUCYt3zdbkqWufX6K2LlgDuVhxIwHdt6onFYeM0HE_/s1600-h/p-85083-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYL7MOfOjYXAr9TQWcrzwt_uHkMfAq9azq_ig-GFNBGHetf_xDX8K2B50wEeYJXl78YcGMrdc2dyRlaZawmSQ7WoY5t93TCU9ZL7NUCYt3zdbkqWufX6K2LlgDuVhxIwHdt6onFYeM0HE_/s400/p-85083-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249588448424446434" border="0" /></a>This kid sold drugs in my junior high PE class<br /></div><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6WKYtP1nNy8WFQceMcifBBMS1X_LQtJOsZFDGgfkoMZGNPor_rMMIjn6T8tyhv0JmLttF9hJJOcZW_Xt0c8lMjHTwwDuJtKQ9LX5OssZSQOgLtwlQDy4MQnrK5ic73rpuvWidr5NcWQz8/s1600-h/p-85055-gallery.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244363553087608898" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6WKYtP1nNy8WFQceMcifBBMS1X_LQtJOsZFDGgfkoMZGNPor_rMMIjn6T8tyhv0JmLttF9hJJOcZW_Xt0c8lMjHTwwDuJtKQ9LX5OssZSQOgLtwlQDy4MQnrK5ic73rpuvWidr5NcWQz8/s400/p-85055-gallery.jpg" border="0" /></a> Kurt Cobainov</p><p align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg127fYDmZH_fcLnFCc1ruL5tmvjvgE6_uIFZu3gSShrZtGqJqijSkEPoMLFdWY2iUQ6GryZFncWBUDj4v9ucOQM0jb7910WbqMJG7jDdrM9WQndHYnDS9lDBarrPwHiMPaze1hLcNgKq3/s1600-h/p-85088-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg127fYDmZH_fcLnFCc1ruL5tmvjvgE6_uIFZu3gSShrZtGqJqijSkEPoMLFdWY2iUQ6GryZFncWBUDj4v9ucOQM0jb7910WbqMJG7jDdrM9WQndHYnDS9lDBarrPwHiMPaze1hLcNgKq3/s400/p-85088-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249588459997913522" border="0" /></a></p><div align="center">Don't forget to hydrate!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt0PyHGWWZtQGnD95AvrHHMV7tx36V7Ju4AihBPadVXN6SOB2-qdiJJw-WrdFRyaHo7Pa3VfA9oxRnttWMGHTCtE53MmEIN0j3dMoKi1s7_0AblNb5ctyhb824bABw5o3w4xDwH5xb33l/s1600-h/p-85046-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt0PyHGWWZtQGnD95AvrHHMV7tx36V7Ju4AihBPadVXN6SOB2-qdiJJw-WrdFRyaHo7Pa3VfA9oxRnttWMGHTCtE53MmEIN0j3dMoKi1s7_0AblNb5ctyhb824bABw5o3w4xDwH5xb33l/s400/p-85046-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249588445386598546" border="0" /></a>Return of <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/10/wazzup-rockers.html">Abnormal Circus</a>! Kids...don't do drugs<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdMGLqAAuat-mi5HkHSC7LrU9uRhstTBRUHayARn_W3CDDdvfpNF-2PbCkvwEn_eoUlAyTJpszqGdfozYuTCFG_AyQs3PLkJZN18PY2dwKmO5mTMHsQMgO-YUeqYH8NWx4c5Dw1Viwvdw/s1600-h/p-84880-gallery.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244363547537335602" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdMGLqAAuat-mi5HkHSC7LrU9uRhstTBRUHayARn_W3CDDdvfpNF-2PbCkvwEn_eoUlAyTJpszqGdfozYuTCFG_AyQs3PLkJZN18PY2dwKmO5mTMHsQMgO-YUeqYH8NWx4c5Dw1Viwvdw/s400/p-84880-gallery.jpg" border="0" /></a> “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">OMG</span>, I love everyone!!” </div><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244363551865051458" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwuH8QfhITGWJbHUAOyBpOL00Tyj0aUVgT5sMALkWTBDazg4ThvffivmrQes8uW0tHXeW0VEk2xkw19BWYFqJ3aoqXgMu7YZSyJRtPVRhdXBJ5rqYhFYQO2t_bobcTjN_d1ksZK1sDSxNw/s400/p-82988-gallery.jpg" border="0" />"<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Shaddup</span>, you don't know <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">meeeee</span>"</p><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Paparazzi Bar</strong>, 3/4 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Pyatnitskaya</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Ul</span>., Bldg. 1, Metro: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Tretyakovskaya</span>, Tel. 953-1620<br /><br /><em>Photos: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">lookatme</span>.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">ru</span></em></div><p align="center"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-11540971279033565092008-08-22T08:45:00.000-07:002008-09-01T03:39:25.060-07:00Rai'd or DieSexton was founded by feared Soviet motorcycle gang the Night Wolves in the mid-nineties. Ten years and change later, it continues to party on, Wayne. Who'd have guessed the hog & hiefers lifestyle, with its binge drinking, violent beatings, down-for-whatever chicks and white pride, would resonate so well in Russia? Just doesn't add up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoiSebNtxLd8Ecfcbp2l5LIhXjTjgPjaN7WGkPtbWSxXprBtVKohU04YVALGKW2fKRptDtF-ly3jHIN-tUXvsd443k3GYxJ4uifCda591PUqT6_NqWxDt7hU7y5vj2kAIzXw0RQ6fdgqY/s1600-h/4851191.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237386394090054002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoiSebNtxLd8Ecfcbp2l5LIhXjTjgPjaN7WGkPtbWSxXprBtVKohU04YVALGKW2fKRptDtF-ly3jHIN-tUXvsd443k3GYxJ4uifCda591PUqT6_NqWxDt7hU7y5vj2kAIzXw0RQ6fdgqY/s400/4851191.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tQQMhaddYAs1q4q96VOEmGoosukPjoyY_vaISzADeiMNbjY0AoE59E9XWScXVdGdNY9FceanGj2nA0PkwQ7mJxDsudPQ0K6pfBIDUcVEZJecWyZ_LUuhf1mN2tbPlCRzcjzyPIfQIQV7/s1600-h/4851235.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237388903269969666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tQQMhaddYAs1q4q96VOEmGoosukPjoyY_vaISzADeiMNbjY0AoE59E9XWScXVdGdNY9FceanGj2nA0PkwQ7mJxDsudPQ0K6pfBIDUcVEZJecWyZ_LUuhf1mN2tbPlCRzcjzyPIfQIQV7/s400/4851235.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kISdW34krUVnIoYLMC_CkiLF5jtPTj3HG8MiDy-N89SQjA29EiYO-JsZ5WbAXEDbiw8Fg2aykpnqTAFTx0tqkTjw-DnzsVDqO-HTk3uKyAYu9KbdRN8QS6x9lfgsAMCd-R-tQ5x2gVBR/s1600-h/4851172.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237386388697618546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kISdW34krUVnIoYLMC_CkiLF5jtPTj3HG8MiDy-N89SQjA29EiYO-JsZ5WbAXEDbiw8Fg2aykpnqTAFTx0tqkTjw-DnzsVDqO-HTk3uKyAYu9KbdRN8QS6x9lfgsAMCd-R-tQ5x2gVBR/s400/4851172.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />At any rate, three cheers! Sexton is a welcome breath of stale beer from the tired elitny club scene. No where else can you breeze through feis kontrol in a pit-stained Kiss t-shirt -- unless it's <a href="http://www.denissimachev.com/">Simachev Bar</a> or <a href="http://s-11.ru/">Solyanka </a>and you are firmly, visibly, unequivocally steeped in irony.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-1Ja3cjTVhzWRlfTnkrTpUJ7a87KRA_UJwMDYtS0P7epk-sO27WFFOW6AgfjJfmNZAvKTwRoTmlsaGCLl81jXbOTU3Sz40FOBwfYDCal93X6mJ1TOywLjvBadkulQ7MYRBXqBOLIEgyn/s1600-h/4851205.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237386390117637362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-1Ja3cjTVhzWRlfTnkrTpUJ7a87KRA_UJwMDYtS0P7epk-sO27WFFOW6AgfjJfmNZAvKTwRoTmlsaGCLl81jXbOTU3Sz40FOBwfYDCal93X6mJ1TOywLjvBadkulQ7MYRBXqBOLIEgyn/s400/4851205.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Normally, biker bars are a good place to get your head bashed in <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">non-ironically</span>. But now that the Night Wolves are <a href="http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0828/angels.html">upstanding middle-aged Putinites</a>, there's much less chance of gang rape, much more chance of fun.<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVt-58IStfRbN_fStKMhGiJ5VThsSOxGyrcRfqzX8SEMHY959vhfsW7NYMn-wcaaNyOL3Y9fFuYsqv-FZKuqfyEX59-4gdCnUZM5m4DCwqPWIkrZbwhwXJVAzXKTq5zfcQwt4hepVRo5c/s1600-h/4851150.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237386385302515234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVt-58IStfRbN_fStKMhGiJ5VThsSOxGyrcRfqzX8SEMHY959vhfsW7NYMn-wcaaNyOL3Y9fFuYsqv-FZKuqfyEX59-4gdCnUZM5m4DCwqPWIkrZbwhwXJVAzXKTq5zfcQwt4hepVRo5c/s400/4851150.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm9KlQyUDSqD8O4TBowK7grECaSkYkFruQ7UFHXyYpg7SUBc6Xz4GRk4G8UsLyI-qZ7MIMe-5-x2xJTuP9ZGGcHhBq0Urnn0EtCnKtoAQkeSqWIGPALx5xgT6VxhKOnU97jWUA839XUdQ/s1600-h/4851131.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237391362329841442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm9KlQyUDSqD8O4TBowK7grECaSkYkFruQ7UFHXyYpg7SUBc6Xz4GRk4G8UsLyI-qZ7MIMe-5-x2xJTuP9ZGGcHhBq0Urnn0EtCnKtoAQkeSqWIGPALx5xgT6VxhKOnU97jWUA839XUdQ/s400/4851131.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdgEl4fFhR_rHjIZM8IKAQbP6Sdki4zVlxyr1vhjCzkAeT3iuhMtoC3D4Y5GS9pB-NEmTlR4yGI5IdWY3Oj0lyGPCTfojlbF3AFgLfGTRIXQKNl8UZcvAXdG4BTp4QfEq-lPOlF8Vz4rw/s1600-h/4851208.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237391362172838818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdgEl4fFhR_rHjIZM8IKAQbP6Sdki4zVlxyr1vhjCzkAeT3iuhMtoC3D4Y5GS9pB-NEmTlR4yGI5IdWY3Oj0lyGPCTfojlbF3AFgLfGTRIXQKNl8UZcvAXdG4BTp4QfEq-lPOlF8Vz4rw/s400/4851208.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCcBDUKbaJVDkZ7KRmjKHhP6IQOuCHsUO0cFjsXHO9mxByQmc2KXWHrFmdIdYNbidzjbxgPTCrjNCuu3toPUNCRy-wnKZB2XMQZfYFNf4nDleHm0k0A7UYkDg1VDiBd0BRnG1tLPjmlHTt/s1600-h/4851214.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237388903209023282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCcBDUKbaJVDkZ7KRmjKHhP6IQOuCHsUO0cFjsXHO9mxByQmc2KXWHrFmdIdYNbidzjbxgPTCrjNCuu3toPUNCRy-wnKZB2XMQZfYFNf4nDleHm0k0A7UYkDg1VDiBd0BRnG1tLPjmlHTt/s400/4851214.jpg" border="0" /></a>Viva la Lucha Libre!<br /></div><br />Predictably, <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/05/its-andrea-time.html">Rai</a> saw how much fun Sexton was having with biker kultur and wanted in on the action. From the looks of their 2,000 euro Ducatti jackets and gleaming D&G belt buckles, it seems something was lost in translation.<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqdx8vkTz4IauioHkE-OQ1wGHlVSmh1obk9IYPQYh9Il4i-7F2SkC65sMYxjst7LHMBC932-MV4_WjHPZWrs0BAlJH4oepm33189L-jnxuy6JdzNxvhvYglCcDwnlf5fkLh17n1IL781q/s1600-h/img128756.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237388906901327570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqdx8vkTz4IauioHkE-OQ1wGHlVSmh1obk9IYPQYh9Il4i-7F2SkC65sMYxjst7LHMBC932-MV4_WjHPZWrs0BAlJH4oepm33189L-jnxuy6JdzNxvhvYglCcDwnlf5fkLh17n1IL781q/s400/img128756.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfr-l6uby97D-j527GKH7ZkftUfk1K0NFUGdzqfXnj17PedUtZcVEu0ZnEXv0zGfmqmjdmO_8qaJ8BfnaBQvWUn2B2CQ8r6v9oZIfaLjxANP0V4MYniSpaKMyvZt7ZYJKUJ0V4cD14gEoW/s1600-h/img128758.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237388913994744690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfr-l6uby97D-j527GKH7ZkftUfk1K0NFUGdzqfXnj17PedUtZcVEu0ZnEXv0zGfmqmjdmO_8qaJ8BfnaBQvWUn2B2CQ8r6v9oZIfaLjxANP0V4MYniSpaKMyvZt7ZYJKUJ0V4cD14gEoW/s400/img128758.jpg" border="0" /></a>It's not the size of your bike, it's how many Rai hoodrats you can fit on it.<br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgUcyV7GGjBUz8XaA_4_AZhdHNNjx9GW0-JYZZN4e0FWWR6AV0JWndZxMOp25G-9ijbxJDcTurfOX31lF1nZ2jYClEPxRwqjm16CGFhZ3PX88taSXevBSna2G2kVaCisogg2aendcQzdy/s1600-h/img128762.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237388914997822722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgUcyV7GGjBUz8XaA_4_AZhdHNNjx9GW0-JYZZN4e0FWWR6AV0JWndZxMOp25G-9ijbxJDcTurfOX31lF1nZ2jYClEPxRwqjm16CGFhZ3PX88taSXevBSna2G2kVaCisogg2aendcQzdy/s400/img128762.jpg" border="0" /></a>"The South will Rai'se again!"<br /></div><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sexton</span>, 110 Nizhniye Mnevniki, Metro: Oktyabrskoye Pole, Tel. 8 926 4097149<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Photos: </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">geometria.ru, mainpeople.ru</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-75039530723367662962008-08-21T12:43:00.000-07:002008-10-14T13:47:06.742-07:00Step Back from the LightYoung man, do yourself a favor and don’t attempt <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/03/return-to-modesty.html">Soho Rooms</a>. I mean, you won’t get in anyway and, moreover, they’ll publicly humiliate you at the door for having the gall to try to breach <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>’s magical elitny club scene in A+F. (What the fuck?! This is the biggest day of your life and you’re wearing army print cargo shorts!)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyynbMISdpspej8LfsKjBDDND2FbF4pg5PwT1OdwTLLWiNg58A7ekQzPniiW9ZZf723d5scZYbn48HKuUzioce5AtWqA_RPdZRwBMe0gEG4DlN7pRdMGlZgo6tJ88R9TPg_u1NxAMy_cy/s1600-h/img129989.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237063850355865906" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyynbMISdpspej8LfsKjBDDND2FbF4pg5PwT1OdwTLLWiNg58A7ekQzPniiW9ZZf723d5scZYbn48HKuUzioce5AtWqA_RPdZRwBMe0gEG4DlN7pRdMGlZgo6tJ88R9TPg_u1NxAMy_cy/s400/img129989.jpg" border="0" /></a>"Come towards the legggggs"<br /></div><br />But, on the freak chance that you do speak the correct incantation to Pasha Feis Kontrol, before rushing forward towards secrets kept since the dawn of time, ask yourself, “What good will it do for my life?” <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9QsPHXv7msy8VNPLQIYQt88g48karPEljls8gsU_CYSkvluhDno0Vg965MRsKxAg6bFoQz7GUpQykLOvxrh1FkjoXwM1yjsv5jex7ie-vbdi4lpGzyhy-5PWgidN4Ol6FZJSQw704Nur2/s1600-h/img130017.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237060479897752034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9QsPHXv7msy8VNPLQIYQt88g48karPEljls8gsU_CYSkvluhDno0Vg965MRsKxAg6bFoQz7GUpQykLOvxrh1FkjoXwM1yjsv5jex7ie-vbdi4lpGzyhy-5PWgidN4Ol6FZJSQw704Nur2/s400/img130017.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><div style="text-align: center;">Gurgle gurgle<br /><br /></div>What lies beyond: Hyper-sexualized nymphs rolling on top each other. Supermodels eating up every awkward drunk thing you day like it’s the Holodomor famine. Zero competition by other menfolk. <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CUu_FeMmEBVF4rSXd7qLq_-s_LJxm-4ysfPwcFfzyyPvFJP54n3C7GAFh3-WEvf1KWnqdwT4oY2TEmJnLwjrRAv0dB2fWJ361HTeMwnRr4euysRAoHZvnGOBpcmMbl1JG9v1YV534YHU/s1600-h/img129981.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237059840497520146" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CUu_FeMmEBVF4rSXd7qLq_-s_LJxm-4ysfPwcFfzyyPvFJP54n3C7GAFh3-WEvf1KWnqdwT4oY2TEmJnLwjrRAv0dB2fWJ361HTeMwnRr4euysRAoHZvnGOBpcmMbl1JG9v1YV534YHU/s400/img129981.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNclDOVrEb2twwqUdXigWvO6WVXLE7wxeAzI2tvAUm3JpfwELshkX-JTZqo_m07Tf5AoiOF6CwLpJ7TGMnjzHHjEG3Fv5zctTiGtP2g-soaK6arOYLAyVYASyMIkr0sloQq0khz7Rh91Xc/s1600-h/img130018.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237059849576983106" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNclDOVrEb2twwqUdXigWvO6WVXLE7wxeAzI2tvAUm3JpfwELshkX-JTZqo_m07Tf5AoiOF6CwLpJ7TGMnjzHHjEG3Fv5zctTiGtP2g-soaK6arOYLAyVYASyMIkr0sloQq0khz7Rh91Xc/s400/img130018.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8PLBLBprOo47OeuKVtUxP_3eBsdg1FP63uTmDevBYpoXaRTL7YGQ9TrjQU8lTPBmza1lrEm_HlIm697qRJlqjUeZwgaGtX7j6P6TLxKcACHEVFRcYFsShqK351zEojlr7izE-q8O131T/s1600-h/img130004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237059847510285970" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8PLBLBprOo47OeuKVtUxP_3eBsdg1FP63uTmDevBYpoXaRTL7YGQ9TrjQU8lTPBmza1lrEm_HlIm697qRJlqjUeZwgaGtX7j6P6TLxKcACHEVFRcYFsShqK351zEojlr7izE-q8O131T/s400/img130004.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal">Is this real life? Have you finally arrived at a place where beautiful women appreciate your natural worth and charm, and reward it with sexual favors in the bathroom? Or is it an alien race, punishing the hubris of man?<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrrGLETrcVv5-78OMRToZ4JKYera2yMO5u-ZCSxzO8cBT3_7s6VLk_9nuIWmEjCSAuEAeA9xvjRL1wW5_P24eomqFR6WzXDwcKM8ZkYTEKqMI7QrbNFjafpxzmUkYkhT8Vxs5A7SzyIsq/s1600-h/img129967.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237060475867259522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrrGLETrcVv5-78OMRToZ4JKYera2yMO5u-ZCSxzO8cBT3_7s6VLk_9nuIWmEjCSAuEAeA9xvjRL1wW5_P24eomqFR6WzXDwcKM8ZkYTEKqMI7QrbNFjafpxzmUkYkhT8Vxs5A7SzyIsq/s400/img129967.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">"Auggh she's mind-melding!"<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Some people’s faces melt off on contact with Soho Rooms, like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Those are the lucky ones. The rest have to go on living knowing that a place like this exists in the world and they can’t live there.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvZqLVOE3CaBpkOZikpkZQTZnkI7ha_3xYX_c8lnhefsm2fzzRz5GzjQwY1EOS43FuumTFlVJzsxklejSrfeNVH-9U9x0NX2MkufJYYNiWH0AWc6qvn_w9rMcWF9tfP5JpNqwmq13ulvG/s1600-h/img129985.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237059839758030370" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvZqLVOE3CaBpkOZikpkZQTZnkI7ha_3xYX_c8lnhefsm2fzzRz5GzjQwY1EOS43FuumTFlVJzsxklejSrfeNVH-9U9x0NX2MkufJYYNiWH0AWc6qvn_w9rMcWF9tfP5JpNqwmq13ulvG/s400/img129985.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Neenu Neenu<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Having to live among uppity, pear-shaped women with memories of Soho Room still fresh in the mind, they eventually drives awls into their own eyes. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9rYny1XvAS3IiBlQjtGXHZLBRU5Nn7cXm4adjFr-pMEhHsShQTWGyk6C-KzvuALzo9vep9PcnPkTiA0vx-MNhvQTPC8tMt14y9TwQgQL-tu2PZYCsgwtK_bxoAz2HvSCDI6B3qdwugdB/s1600-h/img129992.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237059835104230034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9rYny1XvAS3IiBlQjtGXHZLBRU5Nn7cXm4adjFr-pMEhHsShQTWGyk6C-KzvuALzo9vep9PcnPkTiA0vx-MNhvQTPC8tMt14y9TwQgQL-tu2PZYCsgwtK_bxoAz2HvSCDI6B3qdwugdB/s400/img129992.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">You flew too close to the sun, killa.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><strong>Soho Rooms</strong>, 12 Savvinskaya Naberezhnaya, Metro: Sportivnaya, Tel. 988-7474, sohorooms.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: mainpeople.ru</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-37290077725602821982008-08-04T14:38:00.000-07:002008-08-26T05:06:51.475-07:00Justo Banya Death<div align="left">Sauna-turned-apathetic nightclub Justo Banya Dush seems to have fallen in with wrong crowd in the past year. That is to say, no crowd at all. After a <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/11/banya-of-douches.html">mega-impressive opening</a>, Justo rested on its laurels as one of the самый закрытый (most closed-est) clubs in Moscow, never deigning to do the one thing it was supposed to do -- bring the party. Sad, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232088220160389698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_rB7itfM648u3L2MH8Fs3ivSDlxwE0scMxidCUuE8xx2Ix7sVltWC_MunFUjFbbuJUhLVQZwkl7PVHAAYq5F2Qv1yJpbeq7psm7UcyHcRzcMLThsSmy65sWaIvO5CN7aAKolBnCkqziY/s400/img123882.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">Gave it enough rope to hang itself with<br /><br /></p></div><div align="left">We went out of our way to find its silly unmarked door. We stood in the cold when they couldn't find our name on the list. We paid 3,000 rubles for tables in an empty club. We made excuses to our friends for Justo's failure to perform. We all believed what we wanted to believe -- that it was the harbinger of new generation of Moscow clubs, cool not corny, where hoodies reigned supreme and hoochies were kicked to the curb.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230787939440466226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncU2K-B4gu0rKfLY8z2qrZDJhm4SiGf4-6JOlICWwp0D0QHQGA9D-If1TcAqr8iGS0EfwnGu1NQGz2qKyNK7kXsOC0NmN8-JDjm8REFtsKeNRkx1kV9TpHth47EjWdus7Dz1NXRI90QIj/s400/66512.jpg" border="0" />Head tattoos? Really? As Chris Rock said, you can drive a car with your feet, that doesn't mean it should be done! (Also, you can't catch a crackhead in a footrace)</div><div align="left"><br />But alas, shuttered behind a steel door, the Great Hip Hope has turned into a haunt for pasty freaksi. Even TimeOut, a cheerleader for Moscow's elitny club scene, described the vibe at Justo as "<a href="http://www.timeout.ru/journal/feature/1941/8">melancholy</a>." A great place for, like, wristcutters meetings. </div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230787947645231218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf11shEcYl1LWIm4xwYlsbqxvejbhAykn3J5D6WmVYbL1Y37Qr6BVN04H-fjxVK3edSE5L2wfQrXpL_DNDgQ0qBo4RqtmCC98oN_rQBr7xaedsHlX9jQw18x_Zo_5OSLSAZil-We2u4tdR/s400/66516.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">"Down the road, NOT across the street, guys"<br /></p><p align="left">So these are photos from a White Trash For Cash party night at Justo. Now ask yourself, would you rather be drinking here, or in Bittsevsky Park, killing grounds of the Bittsevsky maniac? At least the latter don't have men in formal shorts.</p><p align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230787933459925362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPE-ehdvKF4KPI7wO9sY15wrsZaWHbkYI49j6y3QCdetbPqW01bzmjZ_jA1MXB_671ExJfaTyGsfRg27ONGlBOiklocMfxxaNMZX3g6C8X8AlIKJUhHs0FGkKMqYHN7eD0psppZwLGcIbu/s400/66503.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230787937109483074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXy-DzpobjJOSaID6ezc4pRdB2lZS18pZCqrW4m2MX55TMVcdU-aoBY1XR-mmDD_v17SvyNrEsPSjuCuNpNhfsg30t3ueBZ3h4Bpf3r-8XwGv5OUzRXstE36Fw_EHgcUwk22IUlyge5vCr/s400/66491.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232088215978257090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQBdVdzWCytbIel9SOoKIi-2nvl4XQheIXGjBRl9Hcg4dtD-DB6lRpCYec7ZpuwGJzTbt7yG5ZsVyHfoZUYioaQ_hqc_H5cy0dTxuIiTLvLDNuFkCN-QrSX9SPTfV6aNw8xevGuXprhCb/s400/66520.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232088217714556962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhHjvP-D5MPK8w6uTz0nYcZdhB5EVW1kxbrmuNeRIz7xnCWoZdMR_r_plyGUSLZS86wb4CGlvPzX22Oj-RfSnLlfh1HGStc3XcSKEfY8mHaOOeOUhsplJ4MHDX75MPWoixUOXotRBayIX/s400/img123893.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230787943501857602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxNTfYrv9PUDSsWu-0tCFdKRD8mmnipaXrNhFh7n-WjB-6zupkpwBTWYmwSp3PS_mjeSBit9KviGkuseEtfraI-cGuuujhn_uY1KlmTvzRD-EdDZBooyfNoD-XBbSk4n1a36qCoSqZRga/s400/66514.jpg" border="0" />"Rater, cruer worrd!" -- Justo</p><br /><p><br /><strong>Justo Banya Dush</strong>, 3 Teatralny Proyezd, Metro: Teatralnaya, Tel. 625-6836</p><p><em>Photos: adensya.ru, mainpeople.ru</em></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-91668497221885093022008-06-13T07:04:00.000-07:002008-06-13T08:31:37.329-07:00Sic Semper Tyrannis<div align="left">Every once and a while there comes a club that humanity is so much gayer for. This time it’s Famous, from the promoters who did yesteryear hotspot First. It was known for being a) opposite the Kremlin and b) really douchey.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211368624950284514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDe0TPmQ2VlvjKnQfBwyLO5-N8AIyyAxzLpc70NArddGi6oLeXIRLY22lALSGsBdRyBz7UqEzIvn9XyITVAA7tBMh54ESeipa_lylDCCXy8Sauy979NZAciTXZz9XHBvmizq-HU2So1l6p/s400/img110784.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="center">Gaymous</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">I like to think that Russian nightlife is moving in the right direction – towards democracy and good fashion sense, albeit following a different beat (shitty techno). But with developments like these, it seems that's just a bedtime story told to little bloggers. </div><br /><div align="left"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211375215673892754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFJfcoREeC1HKq4pi0qZynQeO1xIsYyR87MXDuVfS3nTRbpCUQCHhE2dbgi4AznBaa9RMRXBr5RJAPiOrQPq7VYX4u2_3Kz9h2pEGfdtLF5QCpOXt5B2B6wX0uJOCjNkGb5hrQyPLC54H/s400/img114604.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">There are reasons Moscow clubs have <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/02/dyagilev-self-immolates.html">fire problems</a></p><p align="left">Questions abound. How did a club this mid-'90s cheesy survive into the 21st century? Were we lulled into a false sense of security by a string of respectable openings? Is this our punishment for getting too cocky? </p><p align="left">While positioning itself as elitny megaclub, Famous lacks the self-introspect and playfulness of Rai and Dyagilev which could push it over the brink to pure camp pleasure. So it’ll just carry on being fascistically exclusive, pointlessly expensive, criminally tasteless and ultimately joyless -- except for, I guess, 1990s club nostalgists. </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211375184940669826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YZISwt3HgGRWBnwrZ5LSNYJuuFH7CZWS3wnz-dHa3KF2TzjTMgenSEgmrCzxRjYn2nZtoplHOkIEfGQswmTod9bWTtwqypemqlCGUxELh0GGcmOMhqLenmQvBW6PTYUgQvxfOqZ4XbMe/s400/img110717.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Klaatu Barata Nikto, man</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211375193770625394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQhHD1ZewbswJIk81bQCKeUACWrrbheZYDpoh00X8HXzhTHhecnMyu3ZQC_fwye8ZPSoMNxss7kTGXgT4O6y1XOoX_t4VJ8RkSaP4z6czaQZ2ujYNBGLvS4_A6kxRbZGHrgXPF-RUqMuQ/s400/img110740.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">80s cokehead power couple -- this is complete atavism!</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211367925631375346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3wmHSotOY7Q3pSgemdUCOt8km3bP7nsIIT1APqXqwpTP43KCdACyG_Lp0NYIVzoaqDQuShCy37BCE7P8Da_F_bEgHFqWqVldUZpTWV1Xr84sC_tHPwRQyxZRmqStawJ9-g1g0kFTuZQ9R/s400/famous2.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">Sadly, he is in her league at Famous</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211367979333487922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8WF-izSrA3a23ibHWJeSOmH455Mhdp0trQT7S6CZTQiTNBW6eJZmPeCLS_p4aIUBo7JfrHgOMwLnMqKf9CNP5ovOox7wRHA_IN4lVb0TWRKg_2O7OqZzu-iYyDTYhYTx63Kwc6zo9jjCY/s400/img110767.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">It's Teeeeeeeeeeam Date Rape </p><p align="left">As the first big club to open in the Medvedev era, Famous could be a harbinger of bad things to come. Perhaps under that friendly liberalist chipmunk façade, he's an even badder bitch than Putin.</p><p align="left"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211375219964670098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDRipKn1Hreq3Q4_98x8Lb3qtd9id2GLMq3v7d6nQFHy1KwIxLQJdChrxaTD8vSV6_NGt3sQJ8bCorLYCQcfSqrLZjHzFIjjRKbqk_GvAMGfgnlfXIKDCftnZzzPAE9giveIZX17k_8uzG/s400/img114608.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p align="center">Oh no! Make way for Crazy M</p><p align="left">Every cloud has a silver lining, I guess, as the Famous photos have a little something to increase your chances for a successful clubbing experience. Listen up: The wiseguy with the cigar is Alexei Gorobiy, who started the wildly decadent Zima/Leto/Osen franchise. (<a href="http://www.brettforrest.com/articles/midnight-in-moscow-2/">Read more about him in this indispensible Vanity Fair piece</a>.) And the one doing the devil fingers is the fabled <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-sex-is-no-good-here.html">Pasha Feis Kontrol</a>. By day he's a dentist who lives with his mother (unsubstaniated rumor I chose to spread as fact). By night he wields the God-given authority to deeeee-ny your ass. Combined, these two men have the absolute power to make or break your night, so tread carefully. The guy in the middle, disregard.</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211375204385836578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsG1DXZQ94IELQcQfAgDu_5iBP4M_3fnyFGRBIcDZVR2nu64RK2yO-TzK5Ok-femtZCi_85d697PclCV2dz4FwHdzdyH9dpZq2Ggvzm8cK0TWLAZc-6TTch0Ey3NAKNXE426jY4vQ0OMSb/s400/img114218.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">"You scuffed my Puma! You'll never club in this town again!!!"</p><p align="left"><strong>Famous</strong>, 15 Rochdelskaya Ulitsa, Metro: Krasnopresnenskaya, Tel. 255-5354 </p><p align="left"><em>Photos: mainpeople.ru</em></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-43766617952411710972008-06-02T07:08:00.000-07:002008-06-03T10:49:44.529-07:00Kheppi Byerthday, Mr. Simachev<div align="left">The Moscow club scene suffers from an alarming infant mortality rate. Remember <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/09/one-about-feis-kontrol.html">Versus</a>? Neither do we. After a gradiose opening last September, it quickly faded into relative obscurity. Even my mother could get into Versus now. If the right backs aren’t scratched, bureaucratic brouhahas over liquor licenses, building permits, pool permits, etc. can easily suffocate a baby club . And “accidental” fires (RIP Dyagilev), the preferred means of solving shareholder disputes, claim an unsettling number of victims. </div><div align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTP5Ou1ynqFDXS7jdrDVioWq97lcdlk3WZvvVBDoqYpBETJt7UeOwfYUSx0WKXOf-Ix7hYxNIT2tLgRyfSRHYn4rCvQC7WQ6mk7eLKCz5tV77KQq2WEn9oGeRn0hFKcwjcc6NcEX-W6zqa/s1600-h/1202725157_6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207296605313666098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTP5Ou1ynqFDXS7jdrDVioWq97lcdlk3WZvvVBDoqYpBETJt7UeOwfYUSx0WKXOf-Ix7hYxNIT2tLgRyfSRHYn4rCvQC7WQ6mk7eLKCz5tV77KQq2WEn9oGeRn0hFKcwjcc6NcEX-W6zqa/s400/1202725157_6.jpg" border="0" /></a>Burn, baby, burn<br /></div><div align="left"><br />With this depressing backdrop, cheers to club survivor <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/04/sim-nightlife-edition.html">Denis Simachev Bar</a>, which celebrated its 1st birthday in May. Maybe it’s the new photographer I’m working with, but the bar also seems to have morphed into a happening place you’d actually want to be in. Back when it opened it was the target of severe anathema from, uh, <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">me </span>for using a hipster disaffected veneer to hide a terminally New Russian heart. That is to say, monstrous feis kontrol, overpriced cocktails and golden youth club kids hiding under cardigans. And above all, Denis Simachev’s facial hair is a bit too Megans Law for my taste.<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQN7PCI5Kb4d-ClwgV_S6PyAVikXBeTQxi3lkXN2RlYxwEB_jceNFvnkVolCdNboAtWBxC5gBkQAGplI55ceukCtnSNNY5mcz4bZ7XUQQBwF0EkdtKxJtqeBaH4sKSaYRAz-wjKvdiUN3/s1600-h/img49156.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207297408316457474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQN7PCI5Kb4d-ClwgV_S6PyAVikXBeTQxi3lkXN2RlYxwEB_jceNFvnkVolCdNboAtWBxC5gBkQAGplI55ceukCtnSNNY5mcz4bZ7XUQQBwF0EkdtKxJtqeBaH4sKSaYRAz-wjKvdiUN3/s400/img49156.jpg" border="0" /></a>Hide the kids<br /></div><div align="left"><br />So it's hard to place why Denis Simachev Bar seems so appealing these days. The photos from the birthday party verify that the place is still very small and very congested, like partying in an ironic shoebox.<br /></div><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhyNNBlxbJFZZ5ZMWumxOy2Lr7iUe6GmdD5NJi-M42bJcVJAqDtZe6Xoh-VHHhh-CqMmiL2HaBiJXAThG-l4pboR2pPYYVqdw5-FirIAwnE4ezL-SJsO0AuTJCHcCdhlQaR7PTauN4dbg/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207287355471493090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhyNNBlxbJFZZ5ZMWumxOy2Lr7iUe6GmdD5NJi-M42bJcVJAqDtZe6Xoh-VHHhh-CqMmiL2HaBiJXAThG-l4pboR2pPYYVqdw5-FirIAwnE4ezL-SJsO0AuTJCHcCdhlQaR7PTauN4dbg/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuADF2c6VJOHDYUHjTfAhcMS6DizYnIgyTQOap-u54-I1lmcZY9ew8GQhnk-DLZKrN1Zh8tap9kDhOzKzSJH0noBo7pseWjNBE92ynXNmmHK_fv4AgEtLvbURondNESxrVa9psFwGCzEb/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207296634483743970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuADF2c6VJOHDYUHjTfAhcMS6DizYnIgyTQOap-u54-I1lmcZY9ew8GQhnk-DLZKrN1Zh8tap9kDhOzKzSJH0noBo7pseWjNBE92ynXNmmHK_fv4AgEtLvbURondNESxrVa9psFwGCzEb/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QtPTv3PwzsTvjavlFntRraECefBvzXWin1d9zv6MTdGmRXXCijvGWgmb54c_5C4wsYFgvgv15dBlzd52X-kjcyxOXBtJMaJeLsV8alAh9pSZYGiM1ULRBzStU1xiw7y3Z2IXYPPCyTJo/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207296661623414642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QtPTv3PwzsTvjavlFntRraECefBvzXWin1d9zv6MTdGmRXXCijvGWgmb54c_5C4wsYFgvgv15dBlzd52X-kjcyxOXBtJMaJeLsV8alAh9pSZYGiM1ULRBzStU1xiw7y3Z2IXYPPCyTJo/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Also, what kind of Russian club doesn't have this waiting to slice you open on the dance floor with her razor-sharp pelvic bone. (Sounds of people across the world booking flights to Moscow.) Boring.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTAGmWGF0x6_Esanf-J2tsQ_n4JUcvRKVcD_3ADoIFTdHsCAEic2V0XrP8pY6KxSusiFqzSMvaa97WMZPdAObayfL9zb7U2u7yUKaDgRW1Uo3ud9QuVwWYy-ziVtNUzW4fkYMvmbeJE7fx/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207287362464180642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTAGmWGF0x6_Esanf-J2tsQ_n4JUcvRKVcD_3ADoIFTdHsCAEic2V0XrP8pY6KxSusiFqzSMvaa97WMZPdAObayfL9zb7U2u7yUKaDgRW1Uo3ud9QuVwWYy-ziVtNUzW4fkYMvmbeJE7fx/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I guess its only real acheivement (but one that can by no means be denigrated) is they have hot Russian men, a mythological species. And not just one, but <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">several. </span>I've been at this game for a long time and have yet to see more than two attractive men in the same club. Once, it seemed true, but there was just a mirror in the room.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QMzXy0NMcxpFHz_T8CuI4d9oTI2-FbOoA2nTtCZuDwoZfsJ31iPik__DEb_TfiX9ey_xdh2iGFL-Zkb8A7n2rD5w34qWRIU0aTVm7Sg1TA8noeVYVcfsc3VFiqkg15MvtHyzORoQOosO/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary12.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207287349616671106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QMzXy0NMcxpFHz_T8CuI4d9oTI2-FbOoA2nTtCZuDwoZfsJ31iPik__DEb_TfiX9ey_xdh2iGFL-Zkb8A7n2rD5w34qWRIU0aTVm7Sg1TA8noeVYVcfsc3VFiqkg15MvtHyzORoQOosO/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary12.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBZARBqv245FtNzH8cjKL9B2IeGm6Hi3htWc4Y26UNGlFdZwY0ip3m2EOg_4KAlg81e37eqNj_q4np5FVkpfwdORwh9C2ls6iuGmeMZguSlXXAcyEcV7qxaQd1zZmv8OXeE5upFZ1reja/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary10.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207287353978969890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBZARBqv245FtNzH8cjKL9B2IeGm6Hi3htWc4Y26UNGlFdZwY0ip3m2EOg_4KAlg81e37eqNj_q4np5FVkpfwdORwh9C2ls6iuGmeMZguSlXXAcyEcV7qxaQd1zZmv8OXeE5upFZ1reja/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary10.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfBcNkeDpz3qGPwtLeE44KAQm3QFkaJ7HfiilRNfYShYNHIB1vL8U7YzZG4vQfIJ4Yw8Wiud1AtoSH9fa5ShQBLAfb_Djo2VGaD9tY5V1mNo7IJw-THAhbnn-QEHM1G1JKIc1SXQOGUgs/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary7.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207287361156583826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfBcNkeDpz3qGPwtLeE44KAQm3QFkaJ7HfiilRNfYShYNHIB1vL8U7YzZG4vQfIJ4Yw8Wiud1AtoSH9fa5ShQBLAfb_Djo2VGaD9tY5V1mNo7IJw-THAhbnn-QEHM1G1JKIc1SXQOGUgs/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary7.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p>And if you think that's unusual, get this: They also managed to snag a lesbian for indie street cred. Not a Girl Gone Wild (those are falling out of trees in Moscow), but a real Sapphic powerhouse. </p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fNV9cKo8TN_WC-MLum8FHT6PoU-wi4VBI9DOxiWPXo8FZb7E4saKC6MQ9_EYVaZ6aUj7Yvqs1z5xGpU8NSUBI8x2PgFWggHXxy-JBMvnnSXTLLP26SSF0b7-s62wdu6ymWIZMU4oMKuI/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207296618488570274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fNV9cKo8TN_WC-MLum8FHT6PoU-wi4VBI9DOxiWPXo8FZb7E4saKC6MQ9_EYVaZ6aUj7Yvqs1z5xGpU8NSUBI8x2PgFWggHXxy-JBMvnnSXTLLP26SSF0b7-s62wdu6ymWIZMU4oMKuI/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary4.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><p>Finally, the man on the left is a Grade A asshat for not letting me in with my cupcake print rainboots. But be nice to him because he mans the door at Simachev Bar. </p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHc3vk3uiQggb1hu-nmBGi2zcp68vI5JWn8d2htYbyPacPMqICJKRBc73L6pq6AS_1giaO6xjWn0kE7Sr1ubnlWRj5TgYzOQLa_St4PIHCHW7FYiKmcHjDtaDb1Bxp5BXKdO-XoIihDS6/s1600-h/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary11.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207296650127026322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHc3vk3uiQggb1hu-nmBGi2zcp68vI5JWn8d2htYbyPacPMqICJKRBc73L6pq6AS_1giaO6xjWn0kE7Sr1ubnlWRj5TgYzOQLa_St4PIHCHW7FYiKmcHjDtaDb1Bxp5BXKdO-XoIihDS6/s400/Denis_Simachev_bar_1_Year_Anniversary11.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Photos: uaixblog.com, mainpeople.ru, mixtura.org</em> </p><p><br /><strong>Denis Simachev Bar</strong>, 12 Stoleshnikov Per., Metro: Teatralnaya, Tel. 629-8085 </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-58346753528525043412008-05-30T16:06:00.000-07:002008-06-01T09:27:22.237-07:00If You Bring Shoes, They Will ComeSo Marc Jacobs visited his boutique on Petrovka for 45 minutes.<br /><p class="MsoNormal">In the words of Adam Sandler, "Whoopity-doooooooooooooooooo."<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Who cares about the fey American designer and his beautiful, beautiful shoes. What’s really important here are the colorful human fauna an event like this brings out of the woodwork. And not just the skeezy hipster fashionistas! Also the ones who are married to billionaires and lezz out on MTV and stuff. If you can't get excited about this, the world doesn't hold much more for you.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Let’s have a look.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fwIOOfwFGV7lyFF-gd0UpX-AJmVjd3rEFM8TvQ1sGib4G6dm9nMT-oo6c1KhSneWXiPxdRPmBUpyyjRUtH7b7umRqSKYaZWWgRrnQt9eO-hrMWOOnST2sxuYHnfOP1srorEHfGKWzHpr/s1600-h/img107769.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206313529251932738" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fwIOOfwFGV7lyFF-gd0UpX-AJmVjd3rEFM8TvQ1sGib4G6dm9nMT-oo6c1KhSneWXiPxdRPmBUpyyjRUtH7b7umRqSKYaZWWgRrnQt9eO-hrMWOOnST2sxuYHnfOP1srorEHfGKWzHpr/s400/img107769.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Whoa, a rare live sighting of Darya Zhukova and Polina Deripaska. These bitties landed Forbes’s second and first richest Russians, respectively. Curious that they still shop at Zara.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejTwTPE6HYMg1_Ck3jaTc6cZ9mfVMiNNPaquAA3xiB_HnQZUjLAZaOskSQuwW3rO4IEpONXoyXOKcGxOVgsOM9du32YCIcHU0ObLGVub_G1NFsLKry7y3xLTbRKaWrAAhlwbdqIYfdHox/s1600-h/img107850.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206313533546900050" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejTwTPE6HYMg1_Ck3jaTc6cZ9mfVMiNNPaquAA3xiB_HnQZUjLAZaOskSQuwW3rO4IEpONXoyXOKcGxOVgsOM9du32YCIcHU0ObLGVub_G1NFsLKry7y3xLTbRKaWrAAhlwbdqIYfdHox/s400/img107850.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Tatu’s Julia Volkova: At least she wore underwear. Note the interestingly hardcore shin tattoo. Does she work at a junkyard?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The real stars of the show were the slim princes, those slips of gay men with a gleam in their eyes and a glass of champagne in their hands.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxFQ9E93Ld5OFcAluouorsGpR22YSVLdg5ABtOwo068-EZ2-fG5hboXw6lzA53ZQojssBwmPqOlfMm4JW1D6syykxifKoGmIesXQqE7a3Qlxq95EGtDoW6GcUeXi2Y_clQ6pPlDbeOkha/s1600-h/img107868.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206313533546900066" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxFQ9E93Ld5OFcAluouorsGpR22YSVLdg5ABtOwo068-EZ2-fG5hboXw6lzA53ZQojssBwmPqOlfMm4JW1D6syykxifKoGmIesXQqE7a3Qlxq95EGtDoW6GcUeXi2Y_clQ6pPlDbeOkha/s400/img107868.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/07/red-or-dead.html">Danila</a> cut his hair! How cute is he with his little flourecsent tummy showing<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPp_x3BlCbGM2gu0Ftrz0uxHPYZ2LxxXuJRJvDUFUYATZDGiPjYPT820XuwnoCRpUVQINyvjpSFOO0WCsu4l4lupYZVTyIGrRrPZc-dUCoh879LdUw4M0jjdKJyhY7FRuN03BmMPGcwu-/s1600-h/Marc_Jacobs5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206873914673265170" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPp_x3BlCbGM2gu0Ftrz0uxHPYZ2LxxXuJRJvDUFUYATZDGiPjYPT820XuwnoCRpUVQINyvjpSFOO0WCsu4l4lupYZVTyIGrRrPZc-dUCoh879LdUw4M0jjdKJyhY7FRuN03BmMPGcwu-/s400/Marc_Jacobs5.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;">Eerily Dorian Grey-ish MTV Russia VJ Vlad Lisovets<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLr9yTbmaJCtiQ5bkgQqx4Ku_8duY2JwQzqjHLKW6I6NcFwphRmThIQd5RpGFbCQaRYU57WUJeCAucVBoW0Ah-y478TsuEH_voZzbs05MD3br6rumjUE9JOfhyY6ccWwRnid2i9GunmDR/s1600-h/Marc_Jacobs3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206873898774498994" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLr9yTbmaJCtiQ5bkgQqx4Ku_8duY2JwQzqjHLKW6I6NcFwphRmThIQd5RpGFbCQaRYU57WUJeCAucVBoW0Ah-y478TsuEH_voZzbs05MD3br6rumjUE9JOfhyY6ccWwRnid2i9GunmDR/s400/Marc_Jacobs3.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Designer Dima Loginov, who looks like a Kraftwerk Michael Ian Black<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWpbPsG40wePchr-bXr6k0V9Y-vnkqv2wPFPSMA3G8lcOLrQoaHvFWuSqrk5LRkKqiy-yGrteKx5GtChvhNdUyS5iXuMJu3j5W_6Cb0tDgpWnLHpWmPHDjXc6Q4mMoqB-Ak9Hxptip_cl/s1600-h/Marc_Jacobs6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206873919136321090" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWpbPsG40wePchr-bXr6k0V9Y-vnkqv2wPFPSMA3G8lcOLrQoaHvFWuSqrk5LRkKqiy-yGrteKx5GtChvhNdUyS5iXuMJu3j5W_6Cb0tDgpWnLHpWmPHDjXc6Q4mMoqB-Ak9Hxptip_cl/s400/Marc_Jacobs6.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-less-than-three-dj-anton-ms.html">Vogue's Most Fashionable DJ</a> (whoops, I mean <span style="font-style: italic;">Vogue Russia</span>) in his element. As you can see indoor sunglasses are in, in, in, my friend!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaDUxwmgpZtd_9e2yXX2yYk8ViQkOBsMxEDK7S6mwklxTxee62_b900VaZgRb6ybzXNn5QoSRqhXF61kl7dncrou9BZjzeoygdQs3pIoNlMJxcAC-RfjDRuLLNwfj61tQ9ZkC_OFSvwba/s1600-h/img107749.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206313524956965426" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaDUxwmgpZtd_9e2yXX2yYk8ViQkOBsMxEDK7S6mwklxTxee62_b900VaZgRb6ybzXNn5QoSRqhXF61kl7dncrou9BZjzeoygdQs3pIoNlMJxcAC-RfjDRuLLNwfj61tQ9ZkC_OFSvwba/s400/img107749.jpg" border="0" /></a>Marc Jacobs was excited about it all as we were<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2EJQuWoxkxj-pJTnwjEQv6pEVDcgqSRcXG0M42KspKdDGper6BC16IXJoelpP6x1EfOQJgsY-PRzj8SKHZ0k31TIedhc4ap9AqeA2M2Xn5ecOQcbQ4pSRhKvWl8uQIv6VY5kWE4C1_fF/s1600-h/Marc_Jacobs1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206313537841867378" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2EJQuWoxkxj-pJTnwjEQv6pEVDcgqSRcXG0M42KspKdDGper6BC16IXJoelpP6x1EfOQJgsY-PRzj8SKHZ0k31TIedhc4ap9AqeA2M2Xn5ecOQcbQ4pSRhKvWl8uQIv6VY5kWE4C1_fF/s400/Marc_Jacobs1.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p><div style="text-align: center;">Who let the freaksi in?<br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0TYHWBSTA_M1iDG51RhOUg_AJ2J7LaAQSxptjagtIXBLIWBNbMpDVIcGjFzGlwp3vCg9llifKGAFVVqI9Ct2ioAUHs9xaC5G5VQKn2EaL-eCEyLMF5GfTg53Hii4sxpCNvR2OWNUAiR1/s1600-h/Marc_Jacobs2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206873885111393634" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0TYHWBSTA_M1iDG51RhOUg_AJ2J7LaAQSxptjagtIXBLIWBNbMpDVIcGjFzGlwp3vCg9llifKGAFVVqI9Ct2ioAUHs9xaC5G5VQKn2EaL-eCEyLMF5GfTg53Hii4sxpCNvR2OWNUAiR1/s400/Marc_Jacobs2.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Mwah mwah! Air kiss<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">On a related note, all it takes to win my heart are size 38 Marc Jacobs flats. What size? 38!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: mixtura.org, mainpeople.ru</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marc Jacobs</span>, 16 Petrovka Ulitsa, Metro: Kuznetsky Most, Tel. 624-2023<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-30223715226086782092008-05-22T07:02:00.000-07:002008-05-23T06:35:15.470-07:00One Night in MoscowBig ups to Paris Hilton, who appears to have made Moscow her second home. She was just in town last month to visit roosky BFF <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/03/fashion-weak.html">Kiira Plastinina</a>, the heinously rich teen-cum-heinous fashion designer. (I wonder what that last sentence will do for my Google hits…) This week Paris came back with that guy from Good Charlotte to promote her sexy new fragrance Can-Can Cocktail. (Again...)<br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJOUUT0_k5HXDVaAno6b3f6m4ukTJ5I9HcV75gug7yNVpONOdt0BJwxZQpV-Op1iAygbn5PB4hjmWMONQN7p6A8iG0K_yYhodYmBJy_hKnuTgBSlsdIa6Nt3a7h_-k5IvxqMNGrQ3ho-d/s1600-h/08IMG_1919p.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203207797927550642" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJOUUT0_k5HXDVaAno6b3f6m4ukTJ5I9HcV75gug7yNVpONOdt0BJwxZQpV-Op1iAygbn5PB4hjmWMONQN7p6A8iG0K_yYhodYmBJy_hKnuTgBSlsdIa6Nt3a7h_-k5IvxqMNGrQ3ho-d/s400/08IMG_1919p.jpg" border="0" /></a>Paris and Kiira ride <strike> the short bus</strike> the elevator at Yevropeisky shopping mall<br /></div><div><br />Most Western stars are far too prudent to venture east of Cannes, and with good reason. A bad night in France ends with herpes and a sugar hangover, not missing organs and a ditch in Butovo*. Also, many customer service mainstays we take for granted in the West have not yet reached the former Soviet Union. Like human rights. And TiVo.<br /><br />But I guess some people have a taste for extreme tourism. And you better believe Paris is getting real paid every time she shows her face in these parts - $1 million a night, if you read the Russian tabloids. Ow, ow! For that money, few people would kick Moscow out of bed for eating crackers. Certainly not me, with Long Island Ice Tea prices at 500 rubles and rising.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgynZnArqKEWsY5Dz7RMzHlYI7AwpHVy8YmKpn9D7gxSlQw16_FRURUnvCVFDa2RrzGwxgNvf-NhjeCOgX4x-Gbksm1VuCRAEx3jWipTrGQZToNScqvXt2UBDRag185tdxek5lEbnUYDX_w/s1600-h/0--44705-600.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203207793632583314" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgynZnArqKEWsY5Dz7RMzHlYI7AwpHVy8YmKpn9D7gxSlQw16_FRURUnvCVFDa2RrzGwxgNvf-NhjeCOgX4x-Gbksm1VuCRAEx3jWipTrGQZToNScqvXt2UBDRag185tdxek5lEbnUYDX_w/s400/0--44705-600.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3f_cghcBvlID9-dQ7iIh5XuztAiRAP49Yxx3Oxz8Aq6kP_LJ-_QE0A9zbtwfmAsxn7raCiM3ILJJ3rQlVudS5OZop1nzV9fgNiArlx1wBV3CFgpxVRXcQtPZgfWqU8Wi35_r0cxZZ2KU/s1600-h/img109318.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3f_cghcBvlID9-dQ7iIh5XuztAiRAP49Yxx3Oxz8Aq6kP_LJ-_QE0A9zbtwfmAsxn7raCiM3ILJJ3rQlVudS5OZop1nzV9fgNiArlx1wBV3CFgpxVRXcQtPZgfWqU8Wi35_r0cxZZ2KU/s400/img109318.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203217895395663666" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UGE2oURRTajRGyHcPoSlLmuxtKwdVLl0sm1O0huwUVPePlxbRzBNVYKlzAe_KWabGvOaypRKHOzJpyqu9hQq7A7w2cAM7MtYrrNR5EFjOGyhOld__XGDQxTQQXvCaQqF_wC7nYTDC_Ni/s1600-h/FROL8569p.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UGE2oURRTajRGyHcPoSlLmuxtKwdVLl0sm1O0huwUVPePlxbRzBNVYKlzAe_KWabGvOaypRKHOzJpyqu9hQq7A7w2cAM7MtYrrNR5EFjOGyhOld__XGDQxTQQXvCaQqF_wC7nYTDC_Ni/s400/FROL8569p.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203215984135216914" border="0" /></a>Paris about to get feised at her own party<br /><br /></div>Paris was last spotted at Wall Street Bar, the new and thoroughly weird conflation of all things English speaking. <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/03/return-to-modesty.html">In the neo-modest tradition started by The MOST</a>, it is touting itself as a not entirely depraved place for serious businessmen to meet other serious businessmen and stupidly attractive women. Seriously, looking at the girls in these photos, Paris Hilton comes off as about a 7 and me a feral gypsy child.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLRwvgGy-uvhs0I_MWYnOvakrMJSn0Ne302yZwHM_AGf0JasSrXSFe84d6xrPBJ5k3mZuVEz7oPSs3Ytw_efRyoIwaapO2zHdBjQpttNuYvr53UZtKnEC3sD21v8gI9yFuvH8sCRTQvFi/s1600-h/0--44686-600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLRwvgGy-uvhs0I_MWYnOvakrMJSn0Ne302yZwHM_AGf0JasSrXSFe84d6xrPBJ5k3mZuVEz7oPSs3Ytw_efRyoIwaapO2zHdBjQpttNuYvr53UZtKnEC3sD21v8gI9yFuvH8sCRTQvFi/s400/0--44686-600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203214974817902290" border="0" /></a>The Russian PH knockoff -- plastic smells weird, causes headaches<br /><br /></div>Wall Street Bar frequenters work hard and play hard. And get paid hard and pay hard (450 rubles for a mojito). There’s Bloomberg TV on the plasma screen cuz the Asian markets open at 3 am. Buy! Sell! Buy! Jackpot!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EhWY4I1NnWTdpL8SjlngAS1IOZwJ2pYUweprYNtZxptynKGMHBElhp_SWhEwKnaMchzCXCYKzV1KqTZohxmSObaCaJo-psOY133ERpYp0sjcf4j90RZKe-hT0_ZCiIA-yutJ8lvcepkz/s1600-h/img109305.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EhWY4I1NnWTdpL8SjlngAS1IOZwJ2pYUweprYNtZxptynKGMHBElhp_SWhEwKnaMchzCXCYKzV1KqTZohxmSObaCaJo-psOY133ERpYp0sjcf4j90RZKe-hT0_ZCiIA-yutJ8lvcepkz/s400/img109305.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203216941912923938" border="0" /></a>Checkin' her stocks<br /></div><br />The ol’ co-opting-a-famous-name-sans-any-connection trick reminds of a scam language school Garvard Inglish which operated in Moscow in the early naughties. <a style=""></a>They flew in hordes of teachers from the First World then kept them as indentured servants in Russia, raking all the dough without paying the help. I knew some of these forgotten victims -- Americans and Brits who came with a dream to see the world and exploit innate language skills rather than get a real job. They were left destitute and malnourished, without enough money to cover the rounds at Silver’s. Since the <a href="http://www.expat.ru">expat.ru</a> servers crashed, there’s no one left bearing witness to this atrocity but MDBIT. </div><div><br />But anyway, unlike that naughty Garvard, we trust Wall Street will provide refreshing beverages and invaluable business connections.<br /><br /><em>*Moscow suburb you never want to end up in. May as well be Afghanistan, because there’s no sushi and kalyan.</em><br /><br /><strong>Wall Street Bar</strong>, 9/1 Volkhonka Ulitsa, Metro: Kropotkinskaya, Tel. 7(495) 916-5731</div><br /><em>Photos: Paparazzi.ru, elite.ru</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-53348858711772390962008-05-09T05:15:00.000-07:002008-05-09T08:24:17.436-07:00Twipster 'Do-'DoMysteries of Russian indie steez revealed! Twipster (Third World Hipster) internet portal <a href="http://www.lookatme.ru/">Look at Me</a> now has <a href="http://www.lookatme.ru/hairlook">step-by-step instructional videos</a> on how to do your hair like a Moscow club kid. Featured are the vaguely Latin "Idalgo", the ironic '90s throwback "Luke Perry" and the "Decembrist," named after revolutionaries who tried to overthrow the tsar and were exiled to Siberia. History remembers both their revolting and their revolting hair. Noticeably absent from this hair collection is the mythological mullet. Perhaps it was all just a bad dream?<br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.lookatme.ru/hairlook"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198366906996390226" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_pteXMhyphenhyphenBMk2wXXlwBxt5XFSVG0XtB4NJXvBLUz6QcAHbzROjyc76K97kAQwcC9nEsGxFTn5x2XwwFCZBtJwJnWydjbmP06h5eMaRijQEABpAq38t6z34lVITW1GrU8H8kAtHAPzjTx1u/s400/hair.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div>Eagle-eye readers will recognize this крутой stylist from a previous episode of MDBIT.<br /><br /><div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoiIQs2RemFwR8RwOLVR8WxMKvOVSMJQyPeEqop0zvP3X8nKRwnOpeM1J6YW5JwWJTzfMkVKDYu1_vKqoY6irOsGFYiwtDlQGjd2rwtQIbh0niTKvtSBAkdJ6b_5Mmb8AUUm6H_JWybjw/s1600-h/p-793-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoiIQs2RemFwR8RwOLVR8WxMKvOVSMJQyPeEqop0zvP3X8nKRwnOpeM1J6YW5JwWJTzfMkVKDYu1_vKqoY6irOsGFYiwtDlQGjd2rwtQIbh0niTKvtSBAkdJ6b_5Mmb8AUUm6H_JWybjw/s400/p-793-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198394746974402914" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>That's right, it's the Karl Lagerfeld impersonator from <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/07/look-at-me-no-over-here.html">last summer's Thriller party</a>! Thanks for playing.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: lookatme.ru</span><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-7029477868697544202008-05-06T07:50:00.000-07:002008-05-07T07:52:45.942-07:00Firsto de MayoOnce upon a time, Oleg Gazmanov was the lone ranger waxing nostalgic about the CCCP. Senile as he is, he kinda has a point. Some of my favorite people were born in the Soviet Union (then fled immediately). If you filter out all the bad shit, you come up with a pretty neat set of things: chess, cosmonauts, torpedos, spies, “big science” (our favorite, too). We’d add that ambisexual Mickey Mouse knock-off Cheburashka and those medical bars for kids made of dehydrogenated cow blood to the list, as well.<br /><br /><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uW6BhGYrhuXEQvkNMRV-f0zM27kfpSVoYSJn1jC55zce6cxa2ZUHe69dnx6-Ssxk_n3V14m8gHP0ZR1ImZgfbVgjNzYRXk606mLXedYWlDuwAk-6cOsY2VuXDdNYEBbQBnY_eG7ALRd/s1600-h/image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uW6BhGYrhuXEQvkNMRV-f0zM27kfpSVoYSJn1jC55zce6cxa2ZUHe69dnx6-Ssxk_n3V14m8gHP0ZR1ImZgfbVgjNzYRXk606mLXedYWlDuwAk-6cOsY2VuXDdNYEBbQBnY_eG7ALRd/s400/image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197646225715977202" border="0" /></a><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">The original O.G.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nowadays, when journalists are accidentally getting deaded and history textbooks are giving a more patriotic look at the past (Stalin was a great micromanager), nationalism is just the safest hand to play, even on the club scene. Opera’s Pervomaika (1st of May) party resurrected that old proletariat spirit, and showed the world that a monstrous regime is a pretty sexy beast when it lets its hair down.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFhZDHZR4C2rBVZPbzSbSxy9S0yIvOVYrsDZO5BCoHjmDqEBt3GwbAba5Hjy5hU3WEU6evVznhIrWsMBKyHy73E1uRPp4LlA5QymUjAlQezFQeEhr7fZU4FihF4M6zXazdM8vMzbFHf3d/s1600-h/4149055.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFhZDHZR4C2rBVZPbzSbSxy9S0yIvOVYrsDZO5BCoHjmDqEBt3GwbAba5Hjy5hU3WEU6evVznhIrWsMBKyHy73E1uRPp4LlA5QymUjAlQezFQeEhr7fZU4FihF4M6zXazdM8vMzbFHf3d/s400/4149055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197645126204349410" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcguSrtlm-ntChyphenhyphenYEIKHpfQo6iT1HxF8_P-dXgdObQPdlwHH34ZjYgUF3eZFP9oaUr0pxXcgr26stNWwoHkge_M2WIR9vjJm5e7DDIx6i94PIxcuDMkdAzh-QGmPXl_l3GneU79LQXrAM6/s1600-h/4149066.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcguSrtlm-ntChyphenhyphenYEIKHpfQo6iT1HxF8_P-dXgdObQPdlwHH34ZjYgUF3eZFP9oaUr0pxXcgr26stNWwoHkge_M2WIR9vjJm5e7DDIx6i94PIxcuDMkdAzh-QGmPXl_l3GneU79LQXrAM6/s400/4149066.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197646230010944530" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsb2ZI-b8oKvvZJO8QWngYwbmw1LsdpqdsJVwV9ApwxT3OKRwJo4PiUy9JHUTbjT7vZ5HbKKvGJAjulQV7Ep4CNN-qlemGk8Oiw6SS3mgwJwGZ-ZjugZHJsr5nU6rBJmj7am32pgj9zCBJ/s1600-h/4148989.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsb2ZI-b8oKvvZJO8QWngYwbmw1LsdpqdsJVwV9ApwxT3OKRwJo4PiUy9JHUTbjT7vZ5HbKKvGJAjulQV7Ep4CNN-qlemGk8Oiw6SS3mgwJwGZ-ZjugZHJsr5nU6rBJmj7am32pgj9zCBJ/s400/4148989.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197645121909382098" border="0" /></a> </p> Now most Opera frequenters were born in the Yeltsin era, not the Evil Empire. Having never been forced to endure long queues and pointlessly circuituous beauracracy for basic supplies (unless you consider sushi and kalyan basic supplies, in which case every weekend at Etazh), they have a somewhat glamorized version of the not too distant past. It's less about Lenin and Marx, more about free vodka shots and STDs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0GAWybRUzyVgAyLTeiUf30UHLntDVVniZaz30UligP9DMFyK8BbMmK7i5fEMFPBGcFOCrdN7w0L20lMhLRzHGTF1ekmwEliqgAUzxk5iMhHG0uB7Q-n0VWvFBDi96jL70oUl0hCJD2Xe/s1600-h/4149141.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0GAWybRUzyVgAyLTeiUf30UHLntDVVniZaz30UligP9DMFyK8BbMmK7i5fEMFPBGcFOCrdN7w0L20lMhLRzHGTF1ekmwEliqgAUzxk5iMhHG0uB7Q-n0VWvFBDi96jL70oUl0hCJD2Xe/s400/4149141.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197646225715977218" border="0" /></a>I survived 80 years of oppression and all I got was these stupid rigger grandkids?<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2daYL0Qu3EzrHYJx9YId6hxKsYvNLwPKagyNEUFTPkMuXLXzwCJJFYAnDSzHnFQIl-ySQrLR_9Cg1iMgp2bAzmd7uGYViSeZRBToFud_MafqIlwTI5C2iqB9WoHdT-nkzv45tAzjgXh9/s1600-h/4149007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2daYL0Qu3EzrHYJx9YId6hxKsYvNLwPKagyNEUFTPkMuXLXzwCJJFYAnDSzHnFQIl-ySQrLR_9Cg1iMgp2bAzmd7uGYViSeZRBToFud_MafqIlwTI5C2iqB9WoHdT-nkzv45tAzjgXh9/s400/4149007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197645109024480162" border="0" /></a>Keeping it really real: gulag chic<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ24n1JRGc40Inj6zUWpa_XQPZFrEO4wbhGcpCOCWAMZY5jUNWjm-yzFtoreppjNankgc0tCB-9xjsLBhEHojdUGM6IAcA2KdwXse1k6x06QttwgI0SMwdPJvYj1eN-o2-VY6uDIIL_JcL/s1600-h/4148988.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ24n1JRGc40Inj6zUWpa_XQPZFrEO4wbhGcpCOCWAMZY5jUNWjm-yzFtoreppjNankgc0tCB-9xjsLBhEHojdUGM6IAcA2KdwXse1k6x06QttwgI0SMwdPJvYj1eN-o2-VY6uDIIL_JcL/s400/4148988.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197645121909382082" border="0" /></a>Surely the Soviet Union wasn't this bad<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGE-5C7L2UzsJZbjihxjo_rWNRylcjqznjE0q4l18wNjrRMlUDq0uV-3jhtuBVNHdII8PZAOEn15j899kvFwZQ2w667QaKxMhy7GkRRcf0fI-JjYzsEi19FVgUoX-7YMVL721Rjwzj7C_c/s1600-h/4148987.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGE-5C7L2UzsJZbjihxjo_rWNRylcjqznjE0q4l18wNjrRMlUDq0uV-3jhtuBVNHdII8PZAOEn15j899kvFwZQ2w667QaKxMhy7GkRRcf0fI-JjYzsEi19FVgUoX-7YMVL721Rjwzj7C_c/s400/4148987.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197645117614414770" border="0" /></a>If you want a vision of the Moscow future, it's a stiletto stamping on a human face. Forever.<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: geometria.ru</span><br /><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-70018206207354903162008-04-13T12:16:00.001-07:002008-04-21T14:08:46.452-07:00Faster, Stronger, Bigger Veranda<div align="left">Ah, spring. It doesn't get any better than this. The snow's thawed to reveal all sorts of interesting animal, mineral and vegetable. All the metro dogs have that special look in their eye for you. And you've just got out of paying any taxes back home because you made waaaay below 84K this year (damn you, flaccid dollar). </div><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191749008234214578" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1f07x7bMefycv0GTQKldlGXXLd17Arnc1k_lJFS6LVF0hy9cJPp4kJPlAEBm1YwInWpvpdtscgHLNUQlyfgdSbDvcYqQWx7S5tWVvYYk5PqazAqHcnzyDbwpS1UzUxprIFGtILN0mDQ33/s400/img100953.jpg" border="0" /> Oh deer. It's this time <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-on-hell.html">again</a>.</p><p>Moreover, just surviving the brutal spiritual washboarding of a Moscow winter is thrilling. Like winning a Darwinian marathon. The weak of spirit all gave up ages ago and went back home or to Eurasian safety zones, like Turkey. It's called the Great Winter Sucka Dropping. The strong remain in Russia to get the spoils of good weather: verandas. </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191748999644279954" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRoWjxEEzJ5zsb-HUdSwajOrVmD23xCGY9QYCs-aFMsU0oSXFc34Fzaj4OWoPq6RB6RHLOShnGtsZQQrakcd-jcnfTDIG9POQvgVuXSpIvoAXkZFAeOZScB5rLh6f8nR50BFoSeKdALgxh/s400/img101001.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">Pagan spring veranda goddess</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191753831482488018" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWvWykPcQpJsd1oQODYJner3XgZuBGZmIIVfi2s5OdsJ1-Q5fNApB8h0rjzZrzoWMPUvjDiFcvysAi1ZzCVc87K4r9Usmznxl_5a5B0aYSN38rhUh_uF55P2rRMLJOcQFV7T88QEAYx-w/s400/img100998.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">"Suck it, Zimaaa!!!" Ubermensch</p><div align="center"></div>There's no happier time on the club scene than "Goodbye Winter" party season. For one, greeting spring is a testament to the human will. And with thinned out crowds, there's more room to get freaky deeky. These photos are from a Vesna party at Emporio Cafe, where the beautiful and seski Survivors emerged from the tundra to take what's theirs. RWARRRR!<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191753835777455346" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmr_IaI7CWkheoIi9WMS6RbnpNM-E2uMpk9Tn-DiK3w5NAYlT53ZAOkkheV80AUFyDXgdhVQrQR3-zwU1MWv1U2v2cUkyD3wr6hT6OPK83TuaheQA4pBmgdVfLCbBsSJMbMKv57FO0Vjic/s400/img100987.jpg" border="0" /><br /><em>Photos: Mainpeople.ru </em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-51074280813634075922008-04-04T08:04:00.000-07:002008-04-06T09:30:44.988-07:00The Friksi Come Out at NightBeing a freakazoid is tough goings in Moscow, where not wearing the right seasonal stockings is enough to put a babushka's panties in a firm knot. Drinking vodka at 4 p.m., demanding exact change, answering your cellphone during dinner/symphonies/sex -- all socially acceptable. But exposing your legs before June 1? You degenerate.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzs_KsW8MUfzaPuKaechRnIQ8x8BH28xRaw7QVacdPfS5IVqfU9uAghf7I4RTp2awI0Us-hbrPQS4ax41yeNxe6j2zEyIEyEcJCbOW2NANGvkoivtZBpgVs6BEgDPYEzxe7TnOh8RuWW4K/s1600-h/s640x480.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzs_KsW8MUfzaPuKaechRnIQ8x8BH28xRaw7QVacdPfS5IVqfU9uAghf7I4RTp2awI0Us-hbrPQS4ax41yeNxe6j2zEyIEyEcJCbOW2NANGvkoivtZBpgVs6BEgDPYEzxe7TnOh8RuWW4K/s400/s640x480.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185426850308264466" border="0" /></a>Luckily, Moscow's subaltern experimental hipsters have a voice in photographer/party orgainzer/super attractive man Ja'Bagh Kahgado, who is coming out with a CK1-y photo book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Moskva Raw</span>, of all the skinny tatooed people with weird hair you'll find perculating in the mix at the city's underground clubs (all three of them). His company <a href="http://www.brainstormmanagement.com/">Brainstorm Management</a> throws/helps throw/threw <span style="font-style: italic;">Idle Conversation</span>, which kickstarted, love it or hate it, the <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/08/rave-new-world-ii.html">Novy Rave</a> movement in Moscow (RIP); <span style="font-style: italic;">New Wave Fridays</span>, where it was finally cool to be gay, or at least dress like it; and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.labelfucker.ru"><span style="font-style: italic;">Labelfucker</span></a>, which makes homesick expats feel less bad about a terrible life decision (Moscow); as well as bangin' secret parties that weed out all of the unattractive freaks and leave just the freak babes. Once, a few years ago, I got into one, but it was definitely an accident.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDm3h7DNDmV-Pe7FI3N-57Qg9SONm0CJl5SKXqLRFF3lP5ggp73Yi0f4HfA6fwFlpylTQjf6bMrpDBQIVOPGO0nK3XtCfJxsYyHKLhtqYONY-4jh1ipR_0GCjHfaJOTHi-YoBoJ_fK2ar/s1600-h/INVITATION_MSK_RAW.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDm3h7DNDmV-Pe7FI3N-57Qg9SONm0CJl5SKXqLRFF3lP5ggp73Yi0f4HfA6fwFlpylTQjf6bMrpDBQIVOPGO0nK3XtCfJxsYyHKLhtqYONY-4jh1ipR_0GCjHfaJOTHi-YoBoJ_fK2ar/s400/INVITATION_MSK_RAW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186166851698528834" border="0" /></a><br />This last photo of Ja'Bagh's, it's not from the book, but enjoy anyway.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9DXgajPeFKqq3IrfJ0qSnE2MzdW-skcnGWs_tHdbDpV4iSGSnqqRpHNLdmKXM1Zq11iudOn2yADiJ6VvDaOcB8Sw1gSXxKDNhx3kwQjTteEibgDb1N-wRSJ67gtaNMbwY3PM43n8pbSI/s1600-h/77.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9DXgajPeFKqq3IrfJ0qSnE2MzdW-skcnGWs_tHdbDpV4iSGSnqqRpHNLdmKXM1Zq11iudOn2yADiJ6VvDaOcB8Sw1gSXxKDNhx3kwQjTteEibgDb1N-wRSJ67gtaNMbwY3PM43n8pbSI/s400/77.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185426858898199090" border="0" /></a>Bumping caviar -- something we've all wanted to do for a long time.<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: Brainstorm Management</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-23199320642569833072008-03-29T12:32:00.000-07:002008-04-04T04:13:08.731-07:00The Weekest LinkMoscow fashion -- no longer an oxymoron? Places like <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/03/return-to-modesty.html">The MOS</a><a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2008/03/return-to-modesty.html">T</a> created a new market demand for dignifıed, pretty things you can wear on the street without your lady pieces falling out. At this year's Russian Fashion Week, designers Alena Akhmadullina and Terexov spearheaded a revolution in sartorial understatement, forgoing peacock colors and FM boots for gray tweed and sensible shoes.<br /><div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHSla-GjLyV7rLPV7MLz_wmvP3QAedmrmdDOmCGm0DrSeTbgqOamdilwk0Hj-ayFIlGoHJ9h5x-iGRXpcvAKfpzzKPRkbNefDksqUC7HhlfL0vENN6hWFTU38aoyQtXIRXkp1m7C0chsW/s1600-h/3869176.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256491664445698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHSla-GjLyV7rLPV7MLz_wmvP3QAedmrmdDOmCGm0DrSeTbgqOamdilwk0Hj-ayFIlGoHJ9h5x-iGRXpcvAKfpzzKPRkbNefDksqUC7HhlfL0vENN6hWFTU38aoyQtXIRXkp1m7C0chsW/s400/3869176.jpg" border="0" /></a>The new rank-n-file dyevushki -- elegant, timeless, boring as fuck.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRerIcZ7CI9FiBrHi30Y5_sGoTXxg_Zb7Zw08zk_DaUkcGhueq8967Q8Bs9paHlt2Bcoid8qp6nZi6Xkz6w830qu-qH3Sx0YOTMSMymNj9wIxMEKx3a93hD73Rd3WRhJfRTC1Vmkd_WR4/s1600-h/3868489.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRerIcZ7CI9FiBrHi30Y5_sGoTXxg_Zb7Zw08zk_DaUkcGhueq8967Q8Bs9paHlt2Bcoid8qp6nZi6Xkz6w830qu-qH3Sx0YOTMSMymNj9wIxMEKx3a93hD73Rd3WRhJfRTC1Vmkd_WR4/s400/3868489.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184971661084299666" border="0" /></a>Goodie Sveta in Akhmadullina's Pilgrim collar.<br /></div><br />But who cares about them. Certainly not MDBIT, who cares only for the zeniths and nadirs of human achievement. And for every Terexov and Akhmadullina, there's ten more Russian designers pushing the bill on what can be worn in public.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_Y1VfF79Ij9o5mj8CCxIaUAIh9aCS9n-tzsuVx3TcMY2nprLbLKE3aZ2rwoucEVaTwo5gR1oXNGNoRuUSpabAAAoiWmjBWzP3DfF_rmDtyONI5Iw7FxincbAke8cqDHNO9qqLcN4DofB/s1600-h/3844140.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_Y1VfF79Ij9o5mj8CCxIaUAIh9aCS9n-tzsuVx3TcMY2nprLbLKE3aZ2rwoucEVaTwo5gR1oXNGNoRuUSpabAAAoiWmjBWzP3DfF_rmDtyONI5Iw7FxincbAke8cqDHNO9qqLcN4DofB/s400/3844140.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184991447998632418" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCBiduuycl_0DIiZf9d0zV_43A1Lk3e-ZjthHVqqre1N9gvyEruIeA3lgTqndqepegTI5MA4jXsTSVo3dcFGopuX5IruaxRKUmlgujfsxbQz8-dgYGBsIay6txT4C9tTr2J5wlOsobwqQ/s1600-h/3844188.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256491664445682" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCBiduuycl_0DIiZf9d0zV_43A1Lk3e-ZjthHVqqre1N9gvyEruIeA3lgTqndqepegTI5MA4jXsTSVo3dcFGopuX5IruaxRKUmlgujfsxbQz8-dgYGBsIay6txT4C9tTr2J5wlOsobwqQ/s400/3844188.jpg" border="0" /></a>Sergey Zverev for Ilya Shagin. Schwing!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIBiQcv208jRBiq44hs8KfgI3mpJrMssLXJvZazQ3SmDCEUrmNM9ogFl-Myrdq4xLLuT6_PWai1-slHTOYj_t0YFo01NgzJfe-ntVTphZCbGpYVkTaTYfi5ge37Z7JABbD5CLSeUwheOX/s1600-h/3854193.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIBiQcv208jRBiq44hs8KfgI3mpJrMssLXJvZazQ3SmDCEUrmNM9ogFl-Myrdq4xLLuT6_PWai1-slHTOYj_t0YFo01NgzJfe-ntVTphZCbGpYVkTaTYfi5ge37Z7JABbD5CLSeUwheOX/s400/3854193.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184971656789332354" border="0" /></a>Nationalism sellz: Two Gun Towers' flag cape will be the season's hit<br /></div><div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rShz6TulOOUHpn7O_phlZ7hhGsRqpnV7sy7_B0oNIyUHoK1IvpoVByB3X8SxdhNUc14AM5FwTwkpH1QoUjCEhPwMrEgdrTii9OFLKhwQSXrMm0dazt9FftzLhD3BlviPSyeMUqFKyC38/s1600-h/3879422.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rShz6TulOOUHpn7O_phlZ7hhGsRqpnV7sy7_B0oNIyUHoK1IvpoVByB3X8SxdhNUc14AM5FwTwkpH1QoUjCEhPwMrEgdrTii9OFLKhwQSXrMm0dazt9FftzLhD3BlviPSyeMUqFKyC38/s400/3879422.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184971665379266978" border="0" /></a>Sergei Efremov Doesn't Believe in Pants.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7EAEwfdXZw7v15IBqi4Dt7itgZJdezfqb0drhvcWKg80BSdeoeCRV2lRqm1zxrUpo3EorZE9_9qpzs8YdRPcByWGupR8YU1tP28I1cXC1gvZn6vwMdsDNA6D4xs3GgatPKLdKD7QT0yjE/s1600-h/3844166.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7EAEwfdXZw7v15IBqi4Dt7itgZJdezfqb0drhvcWKg80BSdeoeCRV2lRqm1zxrUpo3EorZE9_9qpzs8YdRPcByWGupR8YU1tP28I1cXC1gvZn6vwMdsDNA6D4xs3GgatPKLdKD7QT0yjE/s400/3844166.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184971656789332338" border="0" /></a>Carnie chic<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowfLeynEXeMcRKAD5VjMoei2zuWrprj-mcEYncueMdNXgLCq79LU4IVrNj7d5np23AumVPlsR9wWvWCH9R_4UZ8owz647vz2zq8UDYHGB9X0P-zdC7iP8hU6ch2IxLgWMURnvjO8PW-J7/s1600-h/p-gallery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowfLeynEXeMcRKAD5VjMoei2zuWrprj-mcEYncueMdNXgLCq79LU4IVrNj7d5np23AumVPlsR9wWvWCH9R_4UZ8owz647vz2zq8UDYHGB9X0P-zdC7iP8hU6ch2IxLgWMURnvjO8PW-J7/s400/p-gallery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184991452293599730" border="0" /></a>Fuck.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvr6YhOpyUKwF6CYX3Ox1Tn5SlXNEMJhyphenhyphentr4JCqllBGfMsXLpRH7ogB4v70JXpSi2i2Bu_ag33DSBQURCj3iQTzQGIqsP11KLG9pBgmTWUUTYhWb2Eel68yx5LZlQ3v1JMuJgdQGmltV9b/s1600-h/p-gallery2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvr6YhOpyUKwF6CYX3Ox1Tn5SlXNEMJhyphenhyphentr4JCqllBGfMsXLpRH7ogB4v70JXpSi2i2Bu_ag33DSBQURCj3iQTzQGIqsP11KLG9pBgmTWUUTYhWb2Eel68yx5LZlQ3v1JMuJgdQGmltV9b/s400/p-gallery2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184991452293599746" border="0" /></a>As an amateur social anthropologist, Konstantin Gayday's Russian folk print ghoulie faces Muslim keffiyah just made my head explode.<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>Honorable mention: After all that bad press they got for being rapey, Slava Zaitsev makes being a Cossack cool again.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65MXcn198KEEw9cgL9rbKeFruYK1SBDRiICUa7sfHKMtjoNFFFyJsFqDuq2esE1l3_cz-HGMz5YVpt1XWa9n8ls-z5ISCPbq3cYTYD0SHMTXQXYz7ZdRDPlh1MykZYi3-Ko6QxASV09NE/s1600-h/3836206.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256483074511058" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65MXcn198KEEw9cgL9rbKeFruYK1SBDRiICUa7sfHKMtjoNFFFyJsFqDuq2esE1l3_cz-HGMz5YVpt1XWa9n8ls-z5ISCPbq3cYTYD0SHMTXQXYz7ZdRDPlh1MykZYi3-Ko6QxASV09NE/s400/3836206.jpg" border="0" /></a>Good evening, bitties!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kQQxGKGxnuv7-n_nHgAhUWpL8rF1iVGQXIcMTwvH3I2DvtDm_LAlclILZ2426VHEdLNTX9s7C3qXsSZykw-YCGVWKYulr-6dwqITsj08k8dLUCCXTHprzhgPy3XAV_uQd2A1k2ni1Oj_/s1600-h/3843991.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kQQxGKGxnuv7-n_nHgAhUWpL8rF1iVGQXIcMTwvH3I2DvtDm_LAlclILZ2426VHEdLNTX9s7C3qXsSZykw-YCGVWKYulr-6dwqITsj08k8dLUCCXTHprzhgPy3XAV_uQd2A1k2ni1Oj_/s400/3843991.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184971652494365026" border="0" /></a>Recess tip hats<br /><br /></div> <div></div><div>Taking the fug cake is the 2008-2009 fall-winter collection of Kira Plastinina, the teenage daughter of dairy magnate Sergei Plastinin. A high-powered corporate father and an independently sucessful daughter -- so much talent in that family, it's not fair.<br /></div><br /><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRMa2XBfbmCXCGlPl5J1s90KFNOo-V3PjL21uScbgE-rv25fn1bdqTbvVWF25xCDIYXjk0bALCeh91UNt0vEn20dYc3YREInCFpLM8My1gz4icphYXz8m9334tk3BdTHqsuLRjdt2lAAx/s1600-h/3879505.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256727887646994" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRMa2XBfbmCXCGlPl5J1s90KFNOo-V3PjL21uScbgE-rv25fn1bdqTbvVWF25xCDIYXjk0bALCeh91UNt0vEn20dYc3YREInCFpLM8My1gz4icphYXz8m9334tk3BdTHqsuLRjdt2lAAx/s400/3879505.jpg" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256732182614306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNl8rXTCy0pFdBGfi5QRQ_uGxBXnRIzY02CpCWoXAUoLe-KLnPIC5yMzdkqrSARSlXHINgnVRaun_rap8qWpQ1EXwcP9DbTcEf1CeiprvdtbpYH7eWCR1wkk3tbC7AKMs5OrxmZxfwdNP/s400/3879523.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256736477581618" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUonDd209Top79lFE-Ic8lqTeeuLR30BZALasK2W-yCv9LfPhpjMQUCm-Kdn4nsgfmQvRdQTAczxAnwbUG4bTlNAw1vM4Jvjcp7K9X59y2RHoJu3HQECKaZdkhoQELYm6khJoZnR0jheF/s400/3879563.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256740772548946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtat6-Vevsz-0azeoCcwieSNbDGd6az16r4GWSs_ZoxIUpF80rojqHHz50XDYOqyu0I7N01-EzEGCbP_8YnjoYlGa7L5a6SnZ1VIp27mMlcgcr2ZVpQhiAYKnI2gnr6EaXsi4ooI9Rv5BB/s400/3879584.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVa6sRtWNB7KwjgAGfPMnybFMY5rMTRKfc-D9NdIcnUqHkOBcS51xZoPjmQa78h9yMFgyccsA75Jar_zZIgZYUIvsIEZcwUPaChTH1IKh1vHgWkPQeNO0VpLIM4vUvMAkxuaiRk6a5_R8Q/s1600-h/3879582.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183256740772548930" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVa6sRtWNB7KwjgAGfPMnybFMY5rMTRKfc-D9NdIcnUqHkOBcS51xZoPjmQa78h9yMFgyccsA75Jar_zZIgZYUIvsIEZcwUPaChTH1IKh1vHgWkPQeNO0VpLIM4vUvMAkxuaiRk6a5_R8Q/s400/3879582.jpg" border="0" /></a>Ma'am! You dropped your vag.<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: Geometria.ru<br /></span><br /><div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-83108952119748185482008-03-26T00:06:00.000-07:002008-03-26T04:34:04.002-07:00No Oirish Need ApplyThe Oirish have a right to drink. Not only has the proud Celtic culture been reduced to Lucky Charms and theme bars, you have places like Rai in Moscow Effing Russia co-opting their sacred holiday of the apostle St. Patrick saving all the potatoes from leprechauns. And making it really skanky. Jameson, you Uncle Tom!<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182005964691574866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlGsMLFC5AmXA92-hpeYkPM6rCfpWBIGxN67keB2sxmvWxHcl2TNy_ysq-sSUB63NlYteUTzgdSixegknW6HvKBJVx74cC4EUsVRfCRnThsu7wLTpY_2u88P-37Pg845G_TrOpLCvD0e2/s400/img93405.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Riverskank<br /><br /></p><br />You think that everyone loves the Oirish but look how many of them made it into Rai. A sea of Slavs without an O'Drunky in sight. What the hey, Rai. The Oirish are fun, too. So cute you want to feed them cereal out of your pocket. Moreover, now they're all at Silver's, feeding me Long Islands and making me sing folk songs about hating the Engrish until I can't stand anymore.<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182005964691574882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrLisPtBHlrCONPTEMOg-APMk4m9wwEAfwHgAHGCcf5BELuHrSZ01TrfpV3ea-eaBhyphenhyphenlEDoE3Ejqa-mVot0vEwIcSUKOTHvhgPcabkrviaTjobvnjCHNSTctjln7dtiUg2eFnulpkGTBQ/s400/img93409.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Barman! I'd like a refreshing beverage...</p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182005968986542194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltgW3q4uahAEcaphoOQFAmFKzasSfJaCgd-HT3Atpx-HxhGFHK5KasQdyrTPrXTaJoD0U64v3nEmrZuGlCrJUu4_zELjBvdk1wFnqWF8miW51b74hfm8Oq47A_rIC_gVE3VMcxe_iZrv5/s400/img93410.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center">Can you recommend anything?</p><p align="center"> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182006544512159890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4KPy5leuDh8Pw-DV2w_duZ7nuvtyMIa2hy4NsuDhAVhYvwxTEw9BlD_W-cH2Ic-AeArz0jv1qhjsu8M3rrq0GumxPSZblM7TsTBWZAd6uzgq6oRPZytbZRQ8aremEX9mn8cmrlLF8oxCO/s400/img93412.jpg" border="0" /><br />Just to wet my beak.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182006535922225282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOt22nmjz06NXd6Jf4I7qCcibmtbAF0xVU-N6DzE4u7uITlfylhUDY2hY6AvMKt2p9Lsg0ahaAafz8TxOvjemoEejHB-yZNpiuSfYI-fluXzK0LTNTCHejvRngxtRNFB1m_zHRzdaJvwM/s400/img93411.jpg" border="0" /><br />What to have, what to have...<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182005960396607554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirNL5yLva4xfwNdni0wzBpkFKUszD8z1Aco-LTYIFT-gKPE1sDt1AfK7yqIDrbr9EMegXsfQXGnyG00fkbHEeQsB1jlgLj9M4mPBdTetPPWofBWIuxi-GH6PoguudM832_NxAPzWCDLRb9/s400/img93221.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">What am I here for again? </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182005956101640242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH8WS7OG7bsaefTErfcDvEKeGWbuFSG-g11C1ggDryRW9sCn_ahPV2c6wk2jyCD2MQWwc1uGhgfjpPB2OEMcYVQvzT4kG8-EhxpYSIR3pG-12RJFpp_Vj5Tg5RlMxLzIfv28N-VrZ8H2Bu/s400/img93198.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">I'd recognize that dewy Northern European alcoholic facial slick anywhere. An Oirish slipped inside -- get him!<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182006548807127202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStUTyR2g25wT6IIC3-cUUtw2eKeh7k6ICTAOTycDQdzWdtOlaFmCDtHJVLNjQxOGm7r24SE4SVxMlpIBe8j36eS-lt1Bfr3e11oHnRp7jUtlUUR-wDMvDzSTV_3U5Y9vk9ayKy5tqcgFZ/s400/img93414.jpg" border="0" /><br />Don't be fooled. That elephant always has green lasers coming out of its eyes.<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182008249614176434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0yhy1LuDdND73IFljC-8pXWZhLvgGUifdty-66nBADzH73T42XtsJMCRDMhdJQh62ukU29VKdA3-pDoumRal4Ws275JqrVU_wd9wPEAEb-ui6MgC_OsKu5VvDIG3V0FeBWRUAd1a-N48/s400/img93394.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">As usual, <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/05/its-andrea-time.html">Andreas<span style="font-size:+0;"></span></a> takes it completely beyond the Pale with his fashion choices. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-53729936829638902652008-03-07T11:37:00.000-08:002008-10-14T13:48:33.692-07:00"Boobs," the Opera<p align="left">In light of the insiduous Puritanism of Soho Rooms and The MOST, thank Bog there are still places like Opera, where funky-ass hos can roam free.</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175087845801352770" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPSxN3oJFZ9b_3tpKSjVQTZFYP4huFdWASY82VgUyx4YeE5Np5p0M8ptFG1GKGe-n6cmnqC_Vkhm46PI01Uf8QKIN2_axXw_DSuj8mjY0DDEObHLaFNlk_i2ygjEgNpQ_qfVTUitHjE9XU/s400/image001.png" border="0" /> <p align="center">You forgot your....nevermind.<br /></p><br /><em>Photo: Geometria.ru</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-3613508581136957382008-03-05T15:14:00.000-08:002008-10-14T13:48:06.503-07:00A Return to Modesty<div align="left">Watching the Moscow nightlife scene has always been morbidly fascinating, like watching a large bruise change colors, but this current shade of yellow-green is particularly unbecoming. What happened? Is this the last stage on Moscow's teleological journey? Before it goes straight? Before it abandons pleasuring you in the bathroom for high-necklines and non-alcoholic beers, like the rest of the world?<br /><br />I'm talking, of course, about the advent of The MOST and Soho Rooms. These places, now dominating the elitny nightlife scene, are cast from the same mold: sophisticated, uber-exclusive pick-up joints that cut out all of the fun stuff, namely lasers, midgets, glitter and hoochies a go-go. The MOST boasts a "no hos" door policy and Soho Rooms claims not to be interested in anyone under 25. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">It seems reasonable that oligarchs don't want to wade through all the carnival trash and tubby Americans before they find a diamond. But that's all the fun. Sure, you can meet Roman Abramovich at The Most. But will you be able to wear your favorite FM boots? No, sister. </div><div align="left"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174411326801257298" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPKi3ZHoMrtr-_jbcplksfeImTQyRn-JqQaZNyESlccMzH9_5XYrjjBbfb6YdZKwlIaYlYHQw0XhIkL1TLXDIcwK89WDL0Qs7NV19ppnl4QXv1TXyBsAWP9TtqClCBGUunSVy8vKihqrf/s400/img90637.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">After a few raspberry cordials, a tender embrace with a bosom buddy at Soho Rooms gets out of hand.</p><p><span>It's not like the options are getting better. For the girls, that is. Rather, it's stripped the fabulously degenerate, all-or-nothing club scene to its most basic porportions: smokin' babes, malformed men and shit music. Boo. </span></p><p>SOHO ROOMS -- a place where Nastya, achingly beautiful Nastya, can finally find her sponsor and be home by 11 pm. </p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174408487827874562" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iXB26UyTRB-1mDaPEieWDx1KJgIHO1KC36NbXRWLNkYXbkebkkG80o6y5-grjDkWjHJF_idwG9ZKeEmy79oPuyQ1BfkV1x9xQ-rWWCeDZdu9R5ucN560KG-czJa4d88r_4xK_9mrYeCs/s400/img90616.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174408492122841874" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgynhpFdilqbrnxxeb39VDaJdLwBI2qrFoB3rGwI0l-PpD1tcRXIJF_PzK-4CJDAAKIDlU9hyCrUAsJ15CFNq10nYL8N8gZCT9HNyPloksKZ3nQ0hNl1VcOP8YVsUevmdSMO_oKWWLPeu-6/s400/img90617.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><span>SOHO ROOMS -- where a genetic failure can buy Katya a mojito and still be 90% sure she'll respond to his text messages by next weekend because she's 28 and can't be arsed with this club shit anymore.</span></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174409943821787938" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTs79Jw8hialEGDTFb0KmqS1KIWrgTVgfo26WawGKXjTjjGg3HS_FaL9s5yN6-2cyRe1L_6JcAPIRg6pndLVLPRROd13MjF0eteNg9xCAvRzLIK-byNWxjasFXpb3BNjgxMEJayEhk6g-/s400/img90613.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174409952411722546" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsuhnN33TKs9T1MRREllFndQ139VIS6tz50Pt_o0ZKGa-LxxZbc0MinbXaCwPL9yI_ENTqkWrUmClEuA0hdSK2WfHrUgTF7o17k7LYDVf4WjFsEW7ZPFxKxXXkNgSwZjiYr56VuscPexN/s400/img90620.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p></p><p><span>Call it disillusionment. Call it growing up. Call it Medvedev onset. But Dyagilev will always be the President of my heart.</span></p><p><span><em>Photos: mainpeople.ru</em> </span><span><br /><strong>The Most</strong>, 6/3 Kuznetsky Most Ulitsa, Metro: Kuznetsky Most, Tel. 660-0706, themost.ru<br /><br /><strong>Soho Rooms</strong>, 12 Savvinskaya Naberezhnaya, Metro: Sportivnaya, Tel. 988-7474, sohorooms.com</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-12871380386004672292008-02-21T10:28:00.000-08:002008-02-21T11:48:11.078-08:00C-Rai-Mes of FashionRussian clothing line <a href="http://www.orby.ru/">Orby </a>designs clothes for kids with young, hip parents. You know, the kind who aren't afraid to leave them in the Hummer with the driver while they get their drink on in a club. Like Britney Spears. So it makes sense that Orby would debut its collection at Rai, where the laws that govern adult behavior (and fashion) in the rest of the world do not apply.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbWJ-syVG6XQAIQb5hYZ0ldoZoVIgZ7ynXUX9TVBK07MCbisw1tQSBD2XYDcSb8IEoCxbxtvj1NzNVZhMmIh8VhjJr4PvMsedFj0_aTOsVW_tA9hfNFTE2iLbtaC0b7eTjA-Uls0w1ccZ/s1600-h/big_73872.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbWJ-syVG6XQAIQb5hYZ0ldoZoVIgZ7ynXUX9TVBK07MCbisw1tQSBD2XYDcSb8IEoCxbxtvj1NzNVZhMmIh8VhjJr4PvMsedFj0_aTOsVW_tA9hfNFTE2iLbtaC0b7eTjA-Uls0w1ccZ/s400/big_73872.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169520227477431986" border="0" /></a>Irresistible and confusing urge to punch a child.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmc8_VEov1KgJHl5AHFalfa8opOpozlACnfOzSlUn0lUmNLEhzhlvZRksGh6iyVNIrkJSehwkDf_jMO7KNqUxKKml_dx6fbyA-jdUDW6CiNmQLGyv3ec-vQrmyoZT72zYKGj7GmESsKw-/s1600-h/big_73870.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmc8_VEov1KgJHl5AHFalfa8opOpozlACnfOzSlUn0lUmNLEhzhlvZRksGh6iyVNIrkJSehwkDf_jMO7KNqUxKKml_dx6fbyA-jdUDW6CiNmQLGyv3ec-vQrmyoZT72zYKGj7GmESsKw-/s400/big_73870.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169519304059463298" border="0" /></a>Girl, they wanted a cat.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjSo2sUYvFv1ZnmIAcMwNQEKbH_yjTAglkyZxAfhxIl-1rTSNAB5FQ9hjWc8itJ0hlSp_VDmxhOu0IsETBl9RT19rcB9LZ44VgIesdDWR5xsUi1GzU7KeKzHPjowx5_iuJ1nctTI-ANKW/s1600-h/big_73869.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjSo2sUYvFv1ZnmIAcMwNQEKbH_yjTAglkyZxAfhxIl-1rTSNAB5FQ9hjWc8itJ0hlSp_VDmxhOu0IsETBl9RT19rcB9LZ44VgIesdDWR5xsUi1GzU7KeKzHPjowx5_iuJ1nctTI-ANKW/s400/big_73869.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169519299764495986" border="0" /></a>Did you know you were gay before they dressed you?<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM84BA8FgBwfpaUye3tiZI-2CcWtowTiwOV1C0kfX2e43EStnfdtaFAzsme4z-9OI8nrijjYM5A0W4ra-48lTojsGzihru-F4SkfxzLJXOTzQzmNxUs9U-Ye2r1DRqPCRd7RJehmOZ_VQA/s1600-h/big_73868.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM84BA8FgBwfpaUye3tiZI-2CcWtowTiwOV1C0kfX2e43EStnfdtaFAzsme4z-9OI8nrijjYM5A0W4ra-48lTojsGzihru-F4SkfxzLJXOTzQzmNxUs9U-Ye2r1DRqPCRd7RJehmOZ_VQA/s400/big_73868.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169519291174561378" border="0" /></a>Sometimes when Mommy drinks she makes bad decisions. Mommy's sorry.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjrrCMS5KYInqBjhgccFYO4EzBAgVFSWQ2GTqfxbYmqI3HQRwWHCH8drbh2cXZmhTrN-DBl3fg9NkyMt0rdmyCcJqpgEVlG8SphZ3X8DC20XWwqYYpuZfpKbx68QOq3qICmsSnIIdoWxZ/s1600-h/big_73878.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjrrCMS5KYInqBjhgccFYO4EzBAgVFSWQ2GTqfxbYmqI3HQRwWHCH8drbh2cXZmhTrN-DBl3fg9NkyMt0rdmyCcJqpgEVlG8SphZ3X8DC20XWwqYYpuZfpKbx68QOq3qICmsSnIIdoWxZ/s400/big_73878.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169519316944365218" border="0" /></a>Yea, your jeans are cool, but your girlfriend has horsey face.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW66CKix4yMoYOYYO57MNYqsOpdykZok-viygceyfB3PLT18-aqS7LxzHKerMwO4hcDmhkUuIKCdfsoTRcAttOAwIusaekq2Y7cf3WWmkJXeOnM92gScUMV2fT4FVX0OAZ-DobDxTZwHJm/s1600-h/big_73876.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW66CKix4yMoYOYYO57MNYqsOpdykZok-viygceyfB3PLT18-aqS7LxzHKerMwO4hcDmhkUuIKCdfsoTRcAttOAwIusaekq2Y7cf3WWmkJXeOnM92gScUMV2fT4FVX0OAZ-DobDxTZwHJm/s400/big_73876.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169519312649397906" border="0" /></a>Forget the silly clothing. Your parents left you alone with Sergei Zverev? They must really hate you.<br /></div><br />Say what you want about belittling children, the fact of the matter is that all these fuckers got into Rai, and we didn't. Waaaaaaa!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: fashiontime.ru</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-45581222060788378972008-02-07T06:24:00.000-08:002008-02-08T03:57:35.473-08:00Dyagilev Self-Immolates!Contrary to popular reports, I was not playing the fiddle while Dyagilev burned, nor did I have any hand in it. I am not even in the country anymore, an issue I will address at a later date when there are not nightclubs to eulogize. At noon on February 6, Interfax reported that Dyagilev, the city’s legendary elitny mega-club in historical Hermitage Garden, the one that sadistically split up groups of friends between the club and the showers, the one that told supermodel Natalia Vodianova to home and change at the door (she did), was en fuego and not in the Corona-sponsored Spring Break sense. In the end, they managed to evacuate <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/03/free-anka.html">Anka </a>and all the acrobats, giraffes and midgets in ass-less chaps from the premises, but Dyaga itself shuffled off this mortal coil. (No, actually, the fire was started by welders doing set decorations during the day.) Nightlife photography website Geometria.ru responded by immediately posting images of the smoldering club on its society photos page. <span style="font-style: italic;">Klass</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBqxmfuyixFj0vRnCeYwfLS4yhiwiyUl-0QnySwjaDwMT8Gc-KZRfmc1R-6v0ZN0B-z0MnsKwx_TnxsLFtiCLaRaVRmEAZJgtTZrOg078fEyFbrIw1p8czss5DJ2XGABhv5V4e7wDwAAG/s1600-h/3501304.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBqxmfuyixFj0vRnCeYwfLS4yhiwiyUl-0QnySwjaDwMT8Gc-KZRfmc1R-6v0ZN0B-z0MnsKwx_TnxsLFtiCLaRaVRmEAZJgtTZrOg078fEyFbrIw1p8czss5DJ2XGABhv5V4e7wDwAAG/s400/3501304.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164287644106594034" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpI_-PcANDtBExbZysHWMrVMal5SLkb_EcDk1FSEFljklP6C3-pWprHzStSUO9fScMr0MluG_gA5e1JZjvYt4KRkVXqDUsYq3jf1Jj0w11bzsWjG49thnx3EIdWhI2cRuiCZ4lGHwOBc7/s1600-h/3501309.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpI_-PcANDtBExbZysHWMrVMal5SLkb_EcDk1FSEFljklP6C3-pWprHzStSUO9fScMr0MluG_gA5e1JZjvYt4KRkVXqDUsYq3jf1Jj0w11bzsWjG49thnx3EIdWhI2cRuiCZ4lGHwOBc7/s400/3501309.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164288322711426834" border="0" /></a>Yet many had long expected the demise of this particular nightclub. At two years old, it was a toothless crone in a city that continually defects to the fresher, hotter and more fascistically exclusive. On the down-for-anything front, Rai had it <a href="http://www.virango.pl/files/images/pwned.jpg">pwned</a>, and new oligarch clubhouse The MOST had siphoned away all the truly sophisticated beauties looking for husbandry. Which meant that all Dyagilev really had left going for it were <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-land-of-make-believe.html">obscure theme parties</a>, <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/09/top-five-plastic-surgery-disasters.html">impressive silicone artistry</a> and <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/03/whores-of-dyag-ylon.html">carnival hoochies</a>. In light of these physical facts, it’s not hard to believe any number of conspiracy theories. Did <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/05/living-in-sin.html">Sinisha Lazarevich</a> torch his own place for insurance money? Or had the nightclub sensed its own demise and courageously choose to go out in a blaze of glory rather than jump the shark? Or did someone just leave the fire torch on? In that case, Dyagilev died as it lived -- fabulously retardedly.<br /><br />History will remember Dyagilev for raising the bar for human humiliation with $40,000 tables and people with the surname Feis Kontrol posted at the door. Katie's panties will remember Dyagilev for being ditched in its bathroom at the behest of a minigarch. We'll all remember Dyagilev for learning us good what it means not to believe in tears.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUzolxjDkdmyp7yGXS36179PDNmmFh8XI1r_TogJ8fnNIRIExLQUpI8OMof0HZaWN-C-FOSDszPm5i1D2e5um1JViCN5p4D2aN7UCBxypyWVn_FjG3s5U9YC-C2wIP6NRBsbW2Iet1jBk/s1600-h/gfoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUzolxjDkdmyp7yGXS36179PDNmmFh8XI1r_TogJ8fnNIRIExLQUpI8OMof0HZaWN-C-FOSDszPm5i1D2e5um1JViCN5p4D2aN7UCBxypyWVn_FjG3s5U9YC-C2wIP6NRBsbW2Iet1jBk/s400/gfoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164249113954981506" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiasoHxQ7dA9xPp_f4MwWVbvWcy8WoEUdv8VAYWGgLGWDEkIX7Ia81qdJ6jJ0GW5Mm4QGL02EitMwtw517rikHp1qSt_RvdY7ZtPBZNPXo4bfqb-dV8YhQMIHhvYz5Fbp0MKJYwxHi3G5l-/s1600-h/gfoto2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRhFdYiVlrHewS4409qqbiF64jCu4XN7S2BqGpXwaUcwiHmr8mWv9pgpC9juCad_2HSGudXcolBuBjl_dsVYQEhQ_vGTlsliL9tfodPcIpERsBJfVZ249D_xy4_MfFQyxQe63H5SK-ywL/s400/gfoto4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164249131134850738" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-81VxoL8YlTv-VD5PFezmBheM3TC9inW6WmeKrLqA5rGfM5nLCk8taBVmXcNmo3tESpSlb5Imy56D3XuKU10laVnT6_RChBLBYiGR9A_54k-2vn5RI7mvr7Po1znaPWSOvLzv7qtnX-Pl/s1600-h/gfoto5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-81VxoL8YlTv-VD5PFezmBheM3TC9inW6WmeKrLqA5rGfM5nLCk8taBVmXcNmo3tESpSlb5Imy56D3XuKU10laVnT6_RChBLBYiGR9A_54k-2vn5RI7mvr7Po1znaPWSOvLzv7qtnX-Pl/s400/gfoto5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164249131134850754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: kommersant.ru, 44100.com, geometria.ru<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-22616795871638008662008-01-28T22:34:00.000-08:002008-01-28T22:54:28.961-08:00Peddler of Russian Flesh<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Good morning. Google Analytics informs me that the majority of MDBIT visitors arrived at my blog for reasons less pure than an interest in nightlife anthropology. Unfortunately, the searches for RUSSIAN WHORES and WHERE TO FIND WHORES IN MOSCOW and with alarmingly increasing frequency, SERGEY ZVEREV NUDE, usually come up empty-handed. (See that little trick right there? 40 more visitors a day.) But, this time I'm pleased to be able to give the huddled masses what they actually want — SMUT. For your homoerotic viewing pleasure, here are DIMA BILAN'S BUTT and DANILA POLYAKOV STRADDLING A PUSSY. Enjoy.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibN0yL7F1ij-9j90bKdoYyzPqv_PaFXT1AGxMJ_dtqZtrGwXl6NBNPyX2_SfJ3wCvdA_bG2DrD-K3Dus0fhwhVwh14K9Zwi0PY9mYPPkSYQ1SY_e7kD4Xpio5vu83o57iPTjcxVcwo5_sZ/s1600-h/dima-bilan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibN0yL7F1ij-9j90bKdoYyzPqv_PaFXT1AGxMJ_dtqZtrGwXl6NBNPyX2_SfJ3wCvdA_bG2DrD-K3Dus0fhwhVwh14K9Zwi0PY9mYPPkSYQ1SY_e7kD4Xpio5vu83o57iPTjcxVcwo5_sZ/s400/dima-bilan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160787477688587874" border="0" /></a>Exhibit A.<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uhY-4nXj-iwVY2_7ZzW57mrDd1gW-tJvxrmiXEmPrWt_wX5lyp02-onNTE0H4W8xkWBPYhck0iRgdTOWwVedzvIpQyyeo7a3AvgICZS_KzTMPT49N1kljKXiPNPBqhoVo_-Nz_1m6el0/s1600-h/med.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uhY-4nXj-iwVY2_7ZzW57mrDd1gW-tJvxrmiXEmPrWt_wX5lyp02-onNTE0H4W8xkWBPYhck0iRgdTOWwVedzvIpQyyeo7a3AvgICZS_KzTMPT49N1kljKXiPNPBqhoVo_-Nz_1m6el0/s400/med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160787481983555186" border="0" /></a>Exhibit B.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: Brian's Myspace, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;">community.livejournal.com/nespat</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817328501238413747.post-81256723906255498702008-01-25T05:39:00.000-08:002008-01-25T06:41:02.608-08:00Your Sex Is No Good HereAs I reported <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/03/best-of-2006.html">before</a>, Moscow takes its leisure very seriously, and its annual Nightlife Awards is about as important as the Oscars. At this venerable ceremony, it was officially decided that no one can manufacture the oontz oontz better than DJ Smash.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoVWoGSdJp5MqwcSIgGP4q6bX5zJkunbveUQvk4rr-L0ftHb1UFINb3iuBX4kWIcBUYv_liWW6JlA1PMTPmx45TUFfomnLOH2i2ZvkCFLmriMZFqKM67Moqkm0_W8zdjAvUNIWbccbKML6/s1600-h/dj_smash1_nla.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoVWoGSdJp5MqwcSIgGP4q6bX5zJkunbveUQvk4rr-L0ftHb1UFINb3iuBX4kWIcBUYv_liWW6JlA1PMTPmx45TUFfomnLOH2i2ZvkCFLmriMZFqKM67Moqkm0_W8zdjAvUNIWbccbKML6/s400/dj_smash1_nla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159409540510881362" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There’s no love lost between me and shitty techno. Nonetheless, DJ Smash smashed into my heart like the fist of an angry god. Because he knows how to pick a theme that’s dear to the hearts of Moscow clubbers, condense it into a phrase and then loop it endlessly. It’s a formula for success I've even copied. When Lochamer and I briefly DJ’ed as <a href="http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/2007/05/mo-for-your-money.html">I Hate Your Endomorphic Girlfriend</a>, it was just that over and over.<br /><br />DJ Smash's first hit was “<a href="http://ks.siza.ru/poly/mp3_small/rus/d/Diskoteka_Avarija/Diskoteka_Avariya-Pasha-face_control_%28remix%29_3.mp3">Pasha Face Control</a>,” after the legendarily dick door control guy at Leto. Have a listen. He concisely sums up the capital’s club entry policy: “Sex Nye Predlagat” (Don’t Offer Sex.) Ditto for tears, ‘cuz Moscow doesn’t believe in them.<br /><br />His new joint is called “Moscow Never Sleeps,” and it’s pretty much just those words sung like a Soviet anthem, which works like a charm for rousing city pride. It even inspired two kids to shoot a video about how much they like Moscow. Look for one flashing the killer M around 2:35, then go home and practice.<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YSF3VHwocx4&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YSF3VHwocx4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />I love this silly clip because it recreates the thrill of zipping suicidally around Moscow by gypsy cab at night. The only thing that’s missing is the hand creeping up your thigh, even though you’ve told the driver repeatedly you’re a pregnant leper nun whose husband is waiting at home with a shotgun.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos: djsmash.ru</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1