A Story for You to Read and Enjoy!
So here is the greatest story you will read all week. Read it slowly. Just maybe a paragraph, then some coffee, then another, then take a little walk. Anything I could tell you about this latest bit of genius from Ellen Barry, over in Russia, would be to spoil it. Except: there are even bears. SIDEBAR: Barry is, to my mind, one of the best five reporters working today, which is of interest, because when I make this list in my head, I think at least four of them are women! Why are men so untalented and impoverished mentally?
"it was a nice blouse, too,â€
We are children of the asphalt jungle.
I used to go on quiet hunts regularly in college. Never left campus, though. I miss those days.
Is "Irinka" short for "Irina"?
Yeah, it's the diminutive–to show your affection, just add -ka.
HAS MANTOOTH TAUGHT YOU NOTHING???
Seriously, NAC. C'mon now.
(Also, it's one of my faves! Along with Irish (long e sound).)
Also also, one of those people has my mum's maiden name! I wonder if we're related…
Also, one of those towns is called Hot Key.
HAA!
Crimini and Punishment
Every story ought to have a morel.
Holy shitake! I could do his all day. let me pull up a toadstool.
That's because you're such a fun guy.
way to push my button
Civilization does carry a negative side.
The Czechs are crazy about the mushrooming too, they just don't have as much room to get lost doing it. (And the Czechs would not be snide to you if you got lost mushrooming for a month.)
I was about to say the same thing about the Poles. I lived in a
palace
in the middle of nowhere in Western Poland for a month one time, and the staff would hunt the grounds and the woods for mushrooms. No one got lost, as far as I know.
also, I suck at html.
That doesn't even look real! It looks almost like a house MC Escher would build.
It was totally surreal. Especially because the place is a special education boarding school now, and there were all these big paintings some guy had done of the special needs kids, but in a really haunting sort of fashion.
Also, there were packs of wild dogs running about.
Meh. It starts okay, but then wanders off into platitudes about the golden age of no one getting lost (a complete fallacy), and culminates in a salacious story of a woman that has nothing to do with either mushrooms or country/city life. The bears don't even make an appearance, only the fact that bears bury.
Choire, can we hear your reporter-list so we can all disagree?
Oh. I thought they were getting lost because they were shrooming. But really, they're just Russian. Carry on, then.
"law enforcement organs"
You've given me an excuse to link to My Favorite News Story of All Time. Six years ago I read this and it is emblazoned on my heart:
"Russians Lost in Mushroom Heaven"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3122248.stm
There is nothing new under the duff.
"Keep calm, build a fire, and make some tea" is my motto
Wow. That's diligence.