

“By now it should be obvious to everyone that there are no safe places,” pro-Kremlin war reporter Yury Kotenok tweeted, adding that Russians could no longer ignore the war. Suddenly, the war that still seems a world away for many ordinary Russians has hit extremely close to home. Saturday’s car bombing followed massive explosions in southern Russia and occupied Crimea this month, as well as mysterious fires in buildings and warehouses across the country. The killing immediately heightened a sense of vulnerability among Russia’s most elite and visible promoters of the war in Ukraine, who now realize that they might be targets and that the government is potentially unable to protect them. The Washington Post ran an interesting piece on the anxiety inside Russia as it becomes clear the war is not merely happening “over there” as televised drama for domestic consumption: This is not an isolated incident, however. Introducing us to the apt Italian word dietrologia, he notes the Russians will blame the Ukrainians but wonders whether there’s more to the story, perhaps the possibility of a false-flag operation to rally Russian support. Andrew Stuttaford has tried to unpack the significance of the killing of Darya Dugina, daughter of Russian ultranationalist Alexander Dugin, in a Moscow suburb. has estimated that 1.6 billion people are “exposed” to some dimension of the “cost-of-living crisis” the invasion stoked.īut the war’s reach may be expanding in other ways.įor one, it has been brought home to Russia itself. And while “Putin’s price hike” was a convenient slogan for the Biden administration and its preexisting inflation problem, the U.N. The impact on supply chains and other global economic factors made that clear in the early months. Russia’s war in Ukraine - setting aside Vladimir Putin’s broader territorial ambitions - was never going to be limited to Ukraine.

One wonders if that's a choice on his part, or if he too experienced follicle failure.Īnd no musician hair discussion is complete without discussing Neal Schon's late 70's afro:Įdit: Gottverdammter! Did I really just post the exact same thing about the B-52's that I did two and a half years ago?! I really need to start reading these things more carefully before posting.Ukrainian servicemen fire a mortar on a front line in Donetsk Region, Ukraine, August 18, 2022. He not only doesn't have that hairdo anymore, he doesn't have any hairdo. Have you seen any recent pictures of Mike Score? And by recent, I mean, like in the last 25 years. There's no pictures of me looking like thisī.

Come to think of it, I think that was before i was getting an allowance, as I had beg money off my parents when I wanted to buy records at Wax Stax (my dad's stock answer being, "Can't you just record it off the radio?".yeah, I'm gonna record an entire LP off the radio).Īnyway, I'm glad I never actually had that hairdo, because:Ī.

I didn't actually know anything about hair styling at the time, so I didn't know that was mostly just hair gel, and something I probably could have done myself, had I been willing to spend all my allowance money on hair care product. I read somewhere that they had to drop the beehives because it was causing their hair to fall out.Īnyone remember A Flock Of Seagulls? When I was 10 years old, I wanted Mike Score's hair do. Cindywilson.jpgThe B-52's were my first thought too.
