FALL 2003 EVENTS!
RbcMp3.com, which advertises itself as "the largest Russian music & video store in America" -- and in fact, their offerings are staggering and you may want to purchase something from them -- offers wonderful, free Video Stream previews of its offerings through Windows Media Player! Movie video previews run a very respectable 10 to 15 minutes. You can also get similar previews by looking at individual sales videos and scrolling to the bottom of the ad. In addition, you can preview Music CDs. In any case, explore this site and maybe buy something! We want it to stay online!
Did you know that the
actor Jack Palance was Ukrainian? Yes, indeedee, he was born How about Sigmund Freud? Both his parents were born
in Ukraine.
How about Lawrence Welk, Andy Warhol, Leonard Bernstein, Mike Ditka, Vladimir
Horowitz, and Wayne Gretsky?
The Famous Ukrainians List is a list of over three hundred
people with links discussing their contributions. The people listed were
either born in what are today's boundaries of Ukraine, or were/are of Ukrainian
ancestry. Wayne Gretsky? Don't tell the Belarusians! And how did Pushkin
get on the list?
You say, you're bored? Your roommate is bored? Everyone on your floor is bored. The entire dorm is bored? Well, step right up!! Here's a game everyone can play: Russian Culture Trivia Pursuit!
Well, not really, but you can make this website into what you want: the Russian Language Mentor and his Russian Cultural Literacy Course! Go to "Topics" and start playing. It can be played like Trivia Pursuit but, even better, it explains the answers!! After a week or two playing this game, you can take your M.A. writtens or orals. Amazing!!
You say, you keep losing at Russian Trivia Pursuit? You can't stand your room-mate? Your RA sides with the wrong crowd in your dorm? Your English composition teacher is driving you mad with petty grammar rules? The dean and the president of your school should be fired? And there's that Board of Trustees member who thinks the school should invest in non-Green multinational corporations!
Well, get rid of of them all
forever - EASY, PAINLESSLY, AND WITH NO LEGAL HASSLES!!
That's right!
DENOUNCE THEM to the NKVD as an "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" (The NKVD
was one of the mother organizations of the KGB - and it was worse!)
Disgruntled Russians
turned to the NKVD for years! You like the apartment upstairs with the nice
view of Red Square? Denounce the owner! You don't think Pirogov, your co-worker
should have been promoted? Turn him it! What about your child failing kindergarten
physics? To hell with the teacher!
DENOUNCE ALL THE DAMN BASTARDS, HAVE THEM SENT TO SIBERIA, AND GET YOUR
WAY! YOU DESERVE IT!!
So don't wait another minute,
go straight to the cyber-NKVD website and DENOUNCE ANYONE YOU WANT as an
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
It's FREE, it's EASY, and you DON'T EVEN HAVE to GIVE YOUR NAME! Click HERE
and have the best semester of your life!
Okay, now that everyone
you know is in Siberia, and you're, like, totally all alone -- and bored
to boot. What now?
Well, here's a party theme that works for most Slavs, Tatars, Turks, and
Caucasians -- a Cossack Party!
Yes, you and your fellow Virtual Slavic Club members will be flown all expenses
paid to the Don River basin where you can get together and ,
dress, sing, , dance, and eat with
those darlings of Slavic history -- those loveable, fun-loving COSSACKS!
Just click HERE and you're virtually
on your way!
You'll find all you need once you get there: the history of the Cossacks,
Cossack uniforms, Cossack songs, Cossack dances -- name it, it's there!
"A Russian art tour? Like, what's up with that? Like, dude, we're not, like, in St. Petersburg but, like, here in Foggy Duck, Oregon or, like, in Smoked Ham, South Carolina! "
Listen up people! Ours, after all, is the . So let's follow Professor Alexander Boguslawski of Rollins College, and let's all go to his Russian Painting tour, which provides illustrated essays on Slavic and Russian paintings, artists and art movements -- from the early icons through the 20th century. One of the most beautiful and professional websites on the Internet!
A lot of our Virtual Slavic Club members have been asking us, like, what would have happened if Anna Karenina had never met Count Vronsky's mother on that train to Moscow but ran into Chung W. Leong' mother instead?
"Chung W. Leong?"
Yes, Chung W. Leong!Hungry? What member of the VSL isn't! Here are some of the best recipes from Restaurant 2000 in Prague, from soups, to entries, to deserts. All in Czech, so you can work on your language while you put together "Five Star" gourmet meals. Go to Restaurant 2000, you won't be sorry!
So, you've taken a history course or two and you wish that the professors would focus more on skinny and the dirt than some socio-psycho-anthro-historical theories.
Here's the skinny and all the
dirt (plus facts) that a true Slavic and East European student could ever
dream for! The History
House's articles on:
Catherine and Peter: The Odd Couple: Russia's Catherine
the Great looks on whilst husband Peter plays with toy soldiers;
Peter
the Great: Peter as Frat-boy: drunken orgies, boat building, and dinner
parties;
Russia's Dark Enlightenment: Russia picked and chose from
the Enlightenment. Orgies: yes. Literacy: No;
Peter the Great's Family Values: So you're Peter the Great
and you hate your kid Alexis 'cause he's stupid? Kill him! ;
Balkan Blunders: The bumbled assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand in all its pathetic glory ;
Hangin' with the Peasants: Russian peasants had no need
for well-meaning city-slickers;
Rah
Rah, Rasputin: Rasputin gets shot and poisoned and keeps on tickin'
;
Love a Fez: Part II and
Love
a Fez: Part II: The history of the fez in Turkey ;
Russian Where Angels Fear to Tread: Russians get woefully
spanked in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Admiral Togo snickers ;
Those Burly Finns: Finland puts up a hell of a fight in
the Russo-Finnish Winter War.
There are a lot of great websites in cyberspace. This quarter we're highlighting Little-Russia-in- US.com, the best damn little website in Texas!! Dude, want to see something phat? Click HERE, and then click on Vysotsky's picture!