Turtle : I know! The perfect gift.

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Posted 1 week, 2 days ago at 2:13 pm. 1 comment

Hapy Birthday Ksenia Dance

Happy Birthday Ksenia Dance

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Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 10:03 am. Add a comment

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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Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago at 11:05 am. Add a comment

This Week In Pittsburgh Love : Grandma Needs a Boyfriend

This Week in Love - Grandma Needs a Boyfriend - Essay Strip
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago at 8:39 pm. 3 comments

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.

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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!

Sasha Cardboard Cartoon Portrait Mama Cardboard Cartoon Portrait Papa Cardboard Cartoon Portrait

Alexei Cardboard Cartoon Portrait Olga Cardboard Cartoon Portrait Ksenia Cardboard Cartoon Portrait

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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Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago at 3:17 pm. Add a comment

This Kind of Russian

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Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 1:13 am. Add a comment

Bush’s Legs Come to Russia

Russia Stories - Bushs legs sympathy meat

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Posted 4 months ago at 9:19 pm. Add a comment

Postcard : From Vologda : Dyedushka Kompyuter

If Only All Dead Kompyuters Were Like Dead Dyedushka Kompyuter!

If Only All Dead Kompyuters Were Like Dead Dyedushka Kompyuter!

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Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 8:27 pm. Add a comment

The Buliboo

Relaxation 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 Refined
Buliboo Gone Wild
Buliboo Gone Wild
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Posted 11 months ago at 7:18 pm. Add a comment

Happy Birthday Ksenia!

 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!

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Posted 11 months, 1 week ago at 11:02 pm. Add a comment