Lana V Lynx
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Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
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I Resign from Housing You
To my former tenants: I cannot even call you tenants now, can I? You started out on an official one-year contract to rent my house through a property management company. By the end of that year, you started to have difficulties paying the rent and accumulated fees and penalties that made it unmanageable for you. My property manager wanted to evict you. She actually started the eviction procedure without my approval and wanted to stick me with a bill of over $1,000 for the eviction.
By Lana V Lynx10 months ago in Journal
An Impossible Hunt
A fiery dragon hunting for a galaxy so far far away. These striking images captured by the European Southern Observatory with the VLT telescope register what seems to be a hunt of truly cosmic proportions. A dark cloud of dust and gas, known as the cometary globule CG 4, appears to be reaching out to gobble up the spiral galaxy ESO 257-19. In reality, they are separated by a chasm of 100 million light-years.
By Lana V Lynx11 months ago in Poets
Oscar Winner: Stutterer
In my last Media Literacy class, I always show this movie to my students as a perfect example of how media content works and affects us at different dimensions. I must have seen this 13-minute movie at least a dozen times, but it still hits me hard every time I watch it. It's just such a simple and powerful human story. Here's my personal analysis:
By Lana V Lynx11 months ago in Geeks
"How Are Your Roaches?"
In the Soviet Union, people had limited ways to get rid of roaches in their homes. The most common insecticide, Dichlophos (a Russian version of the Dichlorvos), was scarce, diluted, toxic for humans and ineffective. Fighting roaches was a never-ending losing battle. Until the late 1990s, when the notorious Chinese Deltramethrin-containing chalk became available. But even that was a hit or miss as roaches adapted to it. Here's a famous joke from that time:
By Lana V Lynx12 months ago in Fiction
Lenin's Birthday portrait
April 22 is the Birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the world's proletariat and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. It always surprises me that Hitler's and Lenin's birthdays are so close, just one full day apart (April 20 and 22, respectively). Here's a Drabble illustrating how serious Lenin's cult was in the former Soviet Union. It is a loose translation of a story by Denis Dragunsky, a wonderful Russian children's books author, who remembered this episode from 1961:
By Lana V Lynx12 months ago in Fiction
