Turtle : I know! The perfect gift.
This Can Heal You: The Navajo Rug
I have been collecting therapies, strange things that are supposed to defeat disease, bring health, stop death. There was Ksenia’s Simoron Prescription from Russia. I saw this new one, the Navajo Rug, late in the evening, after everyone else had gone to bed. It was also connected to Ksenia, her thesis adviser at Penn is one of the Detectives on the program. Thank you PBS.
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This Week In Pittsburgh Love : Grandma Needs a Boyfriend
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The Gorbenko Family Faces
A tribute to my favorite Russians in the whole world! I have been promising them to Ksenia for half a year, and I am finally forcing myself to do something with them.
What are they? Technically, cardboard cut, painted, and lacquered. But in my imagination (though admittedly without the most fidelity to facial realities), they are all six members of the extended Gorbenko family!
I think I will magnetize them on the backs, so she can have them talking to each other on the refrigerator. I will make some thought bubbles that she can stick notes onto… an everchanging interactive cartoon in her kitchen!
My other thought had been to circle them around a seven inch mirror, affixing them to a fabric background and making a large portrait mirror. But it’s better to keep them mobile and in action! Hello to Vologda…
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Postcard : From Vologda : Dyedushka Kompyuter
If Only All Dead Kompyuters Were Like Dead Dyedushka Kompyuter!
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The Buliboo
Relaxation Buliboo
The Buliboo is a dog-monkey-robot-blob creature who is out on parole, under Ksenia’s stewardship. Mostly respectable, but you’ve got to watch out!
- Buliboo Refined
- Buliboo Gone Wild
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Happy Birthday Ksenia!
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- 1: The Beginning on Amtrak
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- 2: Monsters Alive!
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- 3: Full Blown Color: Happy Birthday!
Who knows when Ksenia’s birthday is? It changes every year! So why not just make it every day — and send a robot, monster, or bizarro animal to enforce some birthday wishes in her life!
P.S. You can print out your own uncolored version, color it up, and send it to her yourself. Any and every day you think she deserves it!
