NB! · Faith · Art · People · Humour

Yet Another Cringeworthy Work by Maurizio Cattelan, Entitled La Nona Ora, Shows Pope John Paul II Felled by a Meteorite

Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Old Hottabych's Slippers by Bottega Veneta

Full price: 1.100 €

Aristocracy · Observations · Humour

I do love the eighteenth-century Russian language for such charming feminine forms as “baronsha”

None of your refined baronesses, mind you, but a proper, solid, genuine baronsha

Black-and-white photograph of a man in a hat with a briefcase and a woman in a coat running hand in hand along a street with skyscrapers behind them.

NB! · Observations · Humour

A wish for the new day with a photograph of a man and woman running hand in hand

This is you bounding into a new day, certain that today you will keep every promise you made to yourself. Don't mention it

NB! · Observations · Humour

We fuss about, fixate on the weather forecast, dig ourselves out of the snowdrifts

We fuss about, fixate on the weather forecast, dig ourselves out of the snowdrifts. Meanwhile, in Palermo:

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

At last I remember what that music show on Rossiya-1 reminds me of, the one where the judges for some reason start singing along with the contestants while Sergei Lazarev runs up and down the aisles pressing buttons

NB! · Archaeology · Humour

He lay there quietly, tucked under a blanket of centuries of sand, and then all these people turned up with their spades

Observations · Humour

Ira Mops, Tikhon, Mr Darcy, Zarema

Ira Mops, Tikhon, Mr Darcy, Zarema. Which is the odd one out? But considering that the barista called my Mr Darcy an abuser who makes other people feel like nonentities, it is hardly surprising that Zarema in the end left without even collecting her order, though she did take Tikhon

Art · Observations · Humour

Limited edition prints by Mikhail Shemyakin in a dental clinic lobby

Rubric. I happened to notice that the waiting room of my dental clinic is hung with limited-edition prints by Mikhail Shemyakin. Yes, they are not cheap, and they show that money was put into the interior. But why Shemyakin, of all artists? To put it mildly, few people come

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

I cannot decide whether this bulldog in a gentleman's suit wounds my feelings for Churchill or, on the contrary, gladdens the soul

Art · Mores · Humour

A Handyman by the Hour, 1772 Style: The Lady of the House Feels a Sudden Yearning for the Chimney Sweep

Imagine watching this scene while gnawing the last of a beef bone at the bottom of the fireplace

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Humour