tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62012682011-12-27T12:46:40.129+03:00<p><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6983/302/1600/The%20Story%20logo3.jpg"></p> <p>A (semi) daily post spot about living <em>'the life'</em> in modern Belarus and what has happened since Poland.</p> <p>This page is the heart and soul of the Being Had blog.</p>BEING HADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536564388948517817noreply@blogger.comBlogger6021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6201268.post-78610962421281616592011-12-27T12:43:00.001+03:002011-12-27T12:46:40.138+03:00

2011 Birthday movie from Adam Goodman on Vimeo.

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Ok, so what has been happening? That court date ended in a standoff, which was really a bullshit standoff which is to say that there was no reality to the decision. The court did what it wanted by again (surprise, surprise, surprise, Gomer) playing with the evidence and otherwise disregarding the truth of the matter. In the end it is Anya who suffers but is this even worth saying anymore? I mean

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I met a dog I met a dog On the street one day He danced and jumped And wanted to play I threw a stick And watched him swim And thought about if My mother would like him My mother was nice But sometimes not so Would she let him stay with us? Or make him go? The dog was funny I named him “Fleas” Because he was always scratching And he sniffed all the trees. We played all day The dog was a

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It is Sunday morning at about noon. Last night I did some thinking about how this project is supposed to go. The questions I am asking are whether I should ask for another hearing of this case or if I should complain against the previous decision. One of the biggest problems with asking for another hearing though is that I don’t really believe that I am going to get a fare trial no matter what I

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Ok…I guess we can say that this is the 600th blog. I can’t really say that the same sort of pressure that Alex Rodriquez had going for his 600th homer has been on me but I have been thinking about it. And this is really stupid because it is not that big of a deal. I have not been blogging like I did a few years ago. The first 500 blogs came in about three years but it’s been another three years

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Here is the actual speech I will be making today. The real one of course is in Russian, but this is what I started with. I guess I should also mention that this is going to be my 599th blog. That would be a more interesting thing if it had not taken me so long to get from 500 to 600. I guess I lost interest. Anyway, I have to take a shower and clean up a bit and to get all of my materials in

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Ok, here’s the speech for court tomorrow. It is at 3:00 in the afternoon. Understanding that this is supposed to be edited, the basic premise of this speech is an explanation of our situation and to be included are all the details pertaining to the life of my daughter and my time with and without her. The first thing that I decided was that the purpose of this speech should not be to complain

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Well, this is me, Sorry if I have disappointed. I actually started and stopped a couple of blogs. I stopped them before finishing. One is sitting in front of me. It has… about 750 words written. I started it and stopped it and started again but it was just really, really difficult to do because I simply hate having to talk about unhappy things over and over and over. I mean, talking about my

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Rapunzel and her motherI just got back from a bike ride here. It is Sunday morning at about a quarter to ten. This was the first pure bike ride I have been on in about two weeks. As I said I have been resting my foot trying to let it heal and keeping pressure off it. And it has started to heal and looks much better. There doesn’t seem to be any infection anywhere. It looks like I can start to do

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Well, its 8:00 in the morning on Friday. And I wouldn’t actually say I have a busy day planned for today but I have some things to do and a lot of it I am looking forward to. The really looking forward to day though is tomorrow. Tomorrow is Saturday and Saturday is the day I have with Anya. Last week was not such a good day. Usually, we have very dynamic Saturdays. We do a lot of things. We ride

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On a positive note, my friend theoretically started doing some homework. To tell the absolute truth, I really don’t believe in this. Well, I believe but it is not wholeheartedly. I don’t believe in her homework like I believe in religion or like I believe in g-d. This belief is not like believing in freedom or justice or telling the truth over lying. I wouldn’t say that the depth of my belief

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I have been holed up in the house for the last 10 or 12 days. The reason for this is that I have a wound on my foot that I am trying to let heal. The healing process is taking place but it is going really slowly. I have been doing this in opposition to the idea that I should be laying in the hospital, which is something that I didn’t want to do. This is not because I am completely opposed to

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I either had or am having a falling out with one of my students. I want to say here that I never have any sort of romantic involvement with anybody who comes to me for English help. This is not to say that I don’t foster good relationships with students or that we don’t try to talk with each other about different sorts of things, or laugh together. I like a relaxed atmosphere in the classes

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I spent some time today working with the blogspot blog site which, I guess I have been using for quite a long time. Before I started the BEINGHAD website, I used blogger to wherehouse stories, essays and letters from my attorneys and other junk from my Polish situation. All of this eventually went into the book BEING HAD. At the time, I thought all of that stuff was pretty important. Now though,

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Kind of a nice thing to wake up to on a warm summer Sunday morning. Apparently, I have been nominated as being amongst a small group of bloggers hammering away from eastern Europe as tyheir blogger of the year for 2011. Wow! After so many years of virtual anonymity, I can't tell you how this feels! Thank you! Thank you!I got notified by the Eastern European Expat Blog and had a look and sure

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Today, I am trying to somehow find a handle on the course of this book and am sitting here putting together a list of major themes which need to be taken into account for the story. On one level though, I am not really convinced that autobiography is all that interesting really. There needs to be a good perspective on the whole of the account so I could probably better work this as fiction.

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This is exactly my point; actually getting the words out of myself and onto a page. This is something I am having a hard time doing and actually, I have been having a hard time doing this for the last two years. I want to explain this but like I said earlier, I don’t want to explain it. The reason I don’t want to explain it is that explaining it doesn’t mean anything. You either have or you

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I have been teaching English out here in the beautiful and interesting republic of for the last while and lately, some of my students have started talking about doing some kind of a web project. I suggested some possibilities about how to get this started and I guess, they are going to do whatever their going to do. Anyway, I have been thinking about the meaning of this one word, жесть (

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It's Wednesday morning, a little before 7 o'clock. I am going to try and pick up a little where I left off. Tuesday was supposed to be an off day because I actually have students coming today, the first class day of the year. I had a thought that Tuesday was going to be a soft day and that I could use it to do some light things, such as setting up the internet in the office, but as that didn't

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It’s about 4:15 on Tuesday morning. I just woke up. Monday turned out to be effectively my first work day of the year. It was interview day. It ended up to be about five hours of actual table time with people coming to visit me for a first visit. There were a couple of surprises and some old friends who I hadn't expected also passed by and stopped to say hello.I think the interviews went well.

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It is Sunday morning at about 11:30 right now. I finally got those pictures up and I am probably about two hours away from really being finished. It's a beautiful day. When I first got back here we were in the midst of a very tiring heat wave. For me personally the heat made life very uncomfortable and my first few days I found it hard to get motivated to do anything. I mean, I hate to say that I

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I actually did manage to get a lot done yesterday and it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I just simply demanded, first thing in the morning, to get up and start cleaning whatever was in front of me. The job is not completely finished and I managed to get distracted again, something I am very good at, but the distraction turned out to be a very good thing because leaving the house

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Much to do here. Much to do. Too much work really. I don’t know that it is actually so hard to clean up a place with one leg but it is certainly a harder job than I want to do. I’ve been here about a week already- I guess tomorrow is Friday which would make it a week that I have been here and most all of the work that has been done has been done by friends who have come by and helped me. Left

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So, I guess I will take a couple of minutes to talk about my current situation, which, really, I am not very happy with. Specifically, the situation I am speaking about is my stay at the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center and my relationship to the administrative staff and specifically a social worker here who has taken it upon herself to “teach” me a little something about life under her. I

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Ok, so I mentioned last time that there was a wide spectrum of things I wanted to talk about here in this long unused blog space. If I have to pick a first subject to go into before getting into the unpleasantness of my current situation, I think I’d like to talk about some of the projects I have been working on off and on for the last couple of years. I mention these because this is the first

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Usually after I take breaks from writing this blog, I start out with words like: I haven’t been doing this in a while. And I guess that the fact is that it has been a couple of years since I have done this- so, I guess I should start by saying, it has been a long time since I have done this so please, bear with me. At the moment, it is about a quarter after four in the morning and I am sitting in

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Dear readers:Due to inconsistent internet access as well as some rather serious health issues, I have stopped producing Being Had Times and adding stories to the Polish Police and Administrative Corruption pages. I am not sure if this will be a permanent change or if I shall restart at a later date, but as of the current moment, I am not preparing any new numbers. At the end of May and stemming

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Reading about the Polish airline crash which took the lives of the president of Poland and his wife and close to 90 members of the Polish elite, the first thing to come to my mind was that it would be a very respectful and reasonable thing to do to drop the Polish yellow press that I have been publishing in the Polish Police and Administrative Corruption page. And my first thought was that that I

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So, the 500th newspaper. I wanted to take a moment and say a few words about this… event, if this is a good way to call it. 500 Newspapers. 500 Newspapers is a lot. To tell you the truth I had not really realized how long I have been doing this. I honestly thought that it was only three years. It was kind of shocking to notice that I have been doing it for almost five years now. The first number

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I have not been using this space very much over the last while. The reasons have been basically that I have had a lot less time than I did, the teaching being the main deal here. Also, probably, because I was teaching and have been at least marginally connected to the education establishment, I decided not to get in the habit of publicly speaking about the people I am connected to. This was not a

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Here's the new commercial made for Pinsk Television. I like it.

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I like summer. I suppose this is a ridiculous thing to say because everybody likes summer, but I am these days becoming more appreciative of the little gifts we receive from the world and in Pinsk; a truly beautiful, hot summer day is actually a bit of a rarity. The weather is in general not really so harsh as one might think. We are in the south of the country and not that far from Ukraine, and

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Simeon Migelovich, Ukranian-born Jew, and allegedly, boss of the Red MafiaJust a couple of thoughts for the day today. That piece I wrote about Joe Biden and his remarks about the volatility and susceptibility of Russia seems to have been echoed elsewhere on the web. Fox News calls Biden blunt and states that he has "run afoul" of his own advice, given in the same interview with the Wall Street

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“I can see Putin sitting in Moscow saying, 'Jesus Christ, Iran gets the nuclear weapon, who goes first?' Moscow, not Washington.” -Joe BidenI am watching a Russian war movie, a gift from a student who always has a new film as he comes along to his lessons. In the scene I have just seen, a Russian soldier runs down a Chechnya soldier; they have been in a fire fight, the Chechnya has been running,

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Well, this is the 1000th post for the Polish Police and Administrative corruption page. What do you think about that? 1000 yellow stories about Poland and Polish misfits, con artists, swindlers, killers, body thieves, bilkers of old ladies, drunks, back stabbers, killers, bribe takers and of course those from the public trust and the football establishment who seem to always be ready to go the

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Bill Bliech, on of the dispatchers in this article has been a friend of mine for about 25 years and we still talk via internet almost every day. I just though we should congratulate a good worker who does an important job here on May 1st, International Labor Day. Unsung heroes':San Mateo dispatchers awarded for responseBy Dana YatesSan Mateo police Dispatcher Bill Bleich fields calls at the

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I want to pass something along that might kind of mean something. Today, Tuesday April 7th at Sundown or Wednesday at sunrise, there is a special Jewish prayer to be said. It is called Birkat Hachama and it only happens once every 28 years and is sort of a thank you for G-d creating the world or at least the sun. You can check it out on wiki: Я хочу пройти, кое-что по этому могло бы отчасти

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The reason why I am typing right now is because I feel some necessity to say something about another milestone in my blogging history. There are actually two milestones going on here- the Polish Police and Administrative Corruption Page is waiting to have its 900th post posted (I post them in advance to cover my "one yellow story a day" framework) and the Being Had Times is being published for

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I had a bit of a victory today. I don't get many of these, or so it seems. But today I won a couple of battles and this feels good, as such a thing should. But of course it is tainted by the weight of the audacious ugliness that surrounds me. I know that this last was a bit dramatic and believe me, I am the last one to be in search of any extra drama. But it has been a difficult road and the war

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My beautiful and honest face as portrayed elsewhere in my cowardly and deceitful website...Got some flack about posting the last letter, the author thinking intellectual property and such. And I tried to tell him that actually getting intelligent and thoughtful mail was a bit of a blessing. To prove the point, I just got this one about five seconds ago from someone who either is or at least

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From: Gary GSubject: Your bookTo: beinghad_mail@yahoo.comDate: Friday, March 13, 2009, 8:04 AMFranz KafkaHi Adam: I have finished reading your book. I believe you display considerable talent for describing people, their personalities, emotions and situations. Moreover, you accomplish it all with sardonic humor and delicious irony. Your depiction of the Kakfian universe you had entered and the

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A special shout out to Chilly S for sending this gem along...

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I am teaching English here. And though I have really no connection to the Belarusian opposition, I do like to ask my more advanced students more difficult and telling questions. Specifically, I have a new group of students from Polesskie University's school of business and as a test before joining our group/business think tank, I asked several Ethics-type questions relating to business and

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From: Alex RSubject: Belarus...To: beinghad_mail@yahoo.comDate: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:36 AMHey, I would say I am relatively new to reading your blog and find it very useful in finding information and news on Belarus. I am currently studying for a Politics degree at University in the UK and am particularly interested in Belarus as my family were originally from Lida in the east of

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From: Polskie radioPresented by Magdalena Jensen. This week, I would like to draw your attention to a far more serious issue than hipster party scenes and bison grass vodka. Polish media has spent the past week or so bringing to light the issue of human trafficking in Poland.On the 12th of January, the story of a poor Ugandan woman, lured from her country with hope of finding a better life in

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Hello again!I know I have not been posting here much. Lots of reasons for this. But I thought to blog something personal here just for fun and because I wanted to and because it kind of makes Belarus look good as well. Well I mean, I know that Belarus is starting to appear like a normal place to a lot of people and it is becoming standard to think of it as just another (semi) European country. I

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When speaking about the former Soviet Union, and especially when looking at things from the perspective of people who live here, one cannot go so many days without the word exploitation coming into the conversation. Avoiding one sided, money siphoning business arrangements with the west has been a staple of the president's rhetoric since day one and of course, the country's main political

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Note: As of the moment of this publishing, the Polish Police and Administrative Corruption page is already two weeks backlogged with Polish scandal stories. As this obviously creates a problem with timeliness and relevance, if the pace of available Polish scandals keeps up its current pace there might be the possibility of publish two stories a day instead of one. We'll see how it goes.

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Mariusc says not to fight the power: Never retaliate; Always lie prostrate...Hi Adam, My name is Mariusz S. I'm a Polish-Canadian who is currently living in Poland , I will be starting an M.A in American Lit in Krakow this October. I am also a freelance writer. I had just read your story of being had, and I must say, you were completely in the WRONG! I have travelled the word, and one important

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Hi Adam!I have read your website/blog and although I can understand that you do feel very bitter/upset/frustrated about what has happened to you in Poland, I do not understand why you have to publicise just the bad bits about Polish people. Is that some kind of revenge? A bit sad in my opinion... but if it is what you want...Like in every country there are good and bad people. The balance is

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Note: The following was origionally posted exactly two years ago. I was there. I was working as a bike messenger during this time. The photo here is a visitor's pass they used to issue. Possibly in a box in New York there is another of these dated September 7th, the last time I was in the WTC. I wrote this a few days after the event and used the text for one of the original drafts of the book "

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"I felt no pressure. I'm really stable psychologically. I think my Polish colleague was more stressed. I came here to win and break records. It's not just empty talk. I did it." World champion Andrei Aramnau of Belarus after breaking three heavyweight world records in the men's 105 kg snatch Monday to win Belarus' first Olympic gold medal.

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Hello Adam!I enjoyed reading the book (Being Had) - in fact I couldn't put it down...Anyway - i really empathize with you - I got stuck on the polish border recently for about 5 hours - and ended up getting the ambassador on the phone - at which point the border guard gave me my passport back without any explanation for the delay.Anyway - I told him what I thought of him!Yossi G

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Hi AdamI came across your very interesting blog on the net tonight - and read some of your Being Had book.Haven't read the ending yet, but let me guess, you were had? Joking aside, your writing style is great, so maybe something good came from being had.Anyway, the reason I came across your blog is that I was doing some online research on Belarus as I hope to vist the country to document a number

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Just read an article from the Wall Street Journal which deals with Barak Obama's statement that he would meet with leaders of Rogue states:Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden took to the airwaves this week to "help" the rookie Barack Obama out of a foreign-policy jam. Oh sure, admitted Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee had given the "wrong" answer when he said he'd

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I have not been writing lately. I am speaking about this blog. It has probably been several months since I specifically wrote something for here. Today I am though because it is May 15th, and of course May 15th is the anniversary of Zaremba running into me with his car. But there are several real reasons for my having stopped witting blog essays. Firstly, and probably the biggest reason is that I

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We've been reading in the papers about football in PolandAnd how the corruptions and betting have taken their toll andThere've been under-the-table bribes and match fixingIt's a massive scandal, sportsman and criminals mixing;Coaches, players and refs getting bustedEven Football in Poland cannot be trustedAll things Polish seem only theft and lies Having a position of trust means wearing a

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On May 15th 2002, former New York City bike messenger Adam Goodman was attacked on the streets of Warsaw by an off duty cop. When he attempted to confront the cop for driving his car into him, a corrupt Polish legal system took his passport away and prosecuted him on false charges. Despite plain evidence that he was innocent and even more evidence that the police were using the situation as a

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What more can I say...www.whoischillys.comI chatted with Chilly S after I got the notice of this video and I thought I should print the conversation here as well. I want to ask you about making this video and selling the book and all. I appreciate the shout out, but what brought on the inspiration?Chilly S: Listen - you did the first ever chilly s interview - you gave me an outlet to be heard and

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I have a new fan. Mr. Filip Mikolajewski is apparently an extremely well educated gentleman from somewhere in America who has chosen to write me several angry letters over the last weeks. His first two were very political in nature, both attacking the Belarusian government and the first suggesting that my living here was in itself a political statement. I believe he added that he was more

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Just a few minutes ago I posted the 500th Polish Police and Administrative Corruption Story. Interesting accomplishment all things considered. I have gotten a couple of letters lately telling me that I should cease and desist "writing" stories about corrupt, inept or generally evil Polaks who have been abusing or betraying their positions, communities, host countries, clients, spouses, neighbors

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Got a letter from Brianne Lawson, who is the sister of the late Aaron Lawson, a US Marine who was killed under mysterious circumstances in Warsaw, Poland, last January. In her letter, she tells of evidence which would seem to point towards Aarons then girlfriend and her two brothers. Police however, have been either unwilling or unable to move on the case. I am printing the letter here along

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Adam, Your comment about people not knowing how challenging life is in Belarus reminded me of my father's description of life in Pinsk in the old days. Hunger. Difficult to find a job. Low paying jobs when found. Shortages of heating fuel. He said in winter mornings the frost covered the heads of the nails in the floor. This was during Polish times. Then came the regime who preached that

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You could be a Rock and Roll Jesus of Vitebsk!I got a letter from another long-time musician friend who suddenly had the idea of bringing his band to Belarus. I don't know, maybe the Chilly interview inspired him to want to come around and see what the Beautiful and Interesting Republic Of was really all about. But as usual, I started to get the feeling that his perspective and/or understanding

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I did an interview with a friend of mine and thought I would share it here. If you will notice the advertisement at right with the guy in this gas mask, this is Chilly S. I first got hooked up with Chilly when he sent over some money a couple of years ago after reading my blog. I guess my deal sort of resonated with him and we have been bantering back and forth and playing internet chess ever

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I would just like to say a quick word of thanks to all of the people who have read the BEING HAD Weblog this week. According to the stat checker, this last week has been the most successful since it was started more than three years ago. Since last Saturday, there have been over 500 readers each day for the blog group as a whole and on Tuesday the BEING HAD Times came within 15 visitors of having

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Adam,As usual, I enjoyed reading your blog recently. If you don't remember me, I'm Matthew, I wrote to you last year. I too have a wife from Belarus, and now two daughters. We live in Northern VA, but go back to Minsk, nearly every year.I laughed at the youtube video you posted and the whole cake episode. As much as I love that country and visiting there, there are times when all you can do

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I am just now working on the new BHTimes and I came across this story from the Earth Times: Formerly atheist Belarus embraces religion The parents of Misha, 10, and Pavel, 12, were appalled. According to stern police escorting the shamefaced youngsters home, the two Belarusian boys had been actively practicing religion. Both sons of solid middle-class families in the Belarusian capital Minsk, the

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It has been a long time since I have written an essay to any court but I had the chance to do so today. The opportunity came as a result of my bike being stolen back in May. About nine days ago I was invited to come to the courts to hear the arraignment of one bicycle theif who, at least according to his story and the courts, was the fellow who grabbed my red Schwinn back in April. At that

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So what happened that day? I am of course talking about the little war I started with the bread shop around the corner…Ok, if you don't know (or don't remember) the story, it goes like this: Back in late November I sort of flipped out when the local bread shop sold Egor a stale cake for Tanya's birthday. After, I stopped going to them entirely and started frequenting another shop a little

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The Pinski Vesnik, a local Newspaper came out today with an interview with yours truly as a sidebar on Page three. Svetlana Petrovna, the lady who wrote the piece came out to the Dome Tvorchstva last week and asked questions about how I came to arrive in Pinsk, what I had been doing, my opinion of the town and other such topics of interest. As you can see by the headline she chose and

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Have not been blogging have I? Well, the real reason for this is that I simply have not had the time or the energy to sit down and hash out the themes. I guess this also means that I am sagging as to the necessity of actually maintaining the blog. I don't want to make excuses but I have always been a "reluctant" blogger and the purpose of all of these words has always been to try and make my

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There has been a lot of talk going around about the intended meeting between Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin this week. The intrigue has been that there is a possibility that the proposed Union State merger between Belarus and Russia is finally at hand. As usual there has been a lot of tongue wagging, accusations and denials about what the merger might actually mean and whether or not

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Egor checking out the leader boardsThe news as of the moment is that our Egor has managed to find his way into the Republic Chess Championships which will be held in Minsk next March. Our 12-year-old played in last weekend's regional tournament up in Baranovichi and got 4.5 points from seven games and finished 9th out of 31 places, a result good enough for a ticket to the state finals.

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Network's Howard Beal: I'm Mad As Hell and I'm Not Going Take It Anymore!You have to understand that I do in fact have a temper. It is not a wildly uncontrollable temper; I don't fly into psychopathic rages- this despite our lying son-of-a-bitch friend Zaremba and his friends in the Polish justice system. But I can and do get angry. I am also not so dense as to disbelieve that my physical state

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The McD's on Francisco Skarera prospect; doing the job it was intended for since since the wall came downI had planned to go on with the story about the cake this morning, but I spent my morning writing a response to a letter I got from Mike Averko so I decided to print it instead. By the way, please take the trouble to read Mr Almond's article as well. I think doing so would be a real eye opener

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Amongst the things that bother me sometimes about the beautiful and interesting Republic of Belarus is that there never seems to be anything fresh or new here. Maybe this is just the jaundiced view one acquires after some time actually living in such a place as this, or maybe it is just from my own getting-older-every-day perspective, but inevitably it does get to you after a while. Certainly it

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Say, its only a paper moonSailing over a cardboard seaBut it wouldn't be make-believeIf you believed in meThe flag reads:We demand peace!I was over at the typographic office earlier this week. We have a couple of places where you can get Xerox (pronounced kserox here for some reason) copies made, but the Pinsk Typographic office is the place that does the "professional" or maybe "official"

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• уроки • репетиторство• подготовка к экзаменам • индивидуальные и групповые Помощь студентамс английским языком С 1 декабря 2007 года Государстенный областной дом технического и художественного творчества организует кружок английского языка.Преподавать будет сотрудник Адам Гудмануроженец США, в совершенстве владеющий языком. В связи с этим производим запись всех желающих независимо от

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The president taking a meeting on cooperation with the Leviev GroupI saw something interesting while riding my bike yesterday morning. I was going around the block a couple of times, just my usual morning routine, but then as I was passing the synagogue, I saw that one of the ladies who cleans up was outside on the sidewalk cleaning something from the side of the building"What happened here?" I

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A balck and white photo of Walter Russel MeadRead an interesting article the other day. I am not sure if it was interesting reading per se, but what the article spoke about or even how the author spoke about the subject struck me as being interesting. The article was called Jews and Wasps and was written By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD for the New York Sun. The original article can be found HERE. The

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Good morning. Been a while I know. Have not been blogging this week but rather paying some attention to different areas of my life. Sorry about that but, you know, it was nessasary. I am not complaining but sometimes blogging can get on your nerves especially when you do it like I do. I mean by this of course that trying to make a single, cohesive point while at the same time trying to hold to a

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I got my papers this morning. The bureaucratic issue seems to have been resolved and I am now recognized have having sufficient education to teach English on the territory of Belarus. I like irony and ironically enough, I got the phone call from Minsk saying that they have approved my status literally within 10 minute of publishing the previous blog. I can't tell you what a relief it was, how it

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So, what had been going on here? A lot I suppose. Well a lot and nothing. I can't sleep. I took something last night hoping it would allow for sleep but just the same I was up at 3:00 am and here at the desk, not a damned other thing in the world to do. I so want a good night's sleep. I feel like I am infested with leeches. With ugliness. It comes from everywhere. It is kind of hard to gauge life

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From: Wiki The October Revolution in Russia, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, is a coup d'état traditionally dated to October 25, 1917 (November 7, N.S.). [1] It was the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution of 1917, after the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by

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An amazing thing happened today. I was on the way out to go and take Anya from the kindergarten and at the moment I was at the door, a parade of cops came around the corner leading a guy in handcuffs by a chain. They stopped at the front door and made the guy stand there with an officer on either side of him while another uniformed officer took his picture with a digital camera. Nobody said

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, left, and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) meet at midfield after the Patriots beat the Colts, 24-20The weather was cold this morning. When I was out on the bike with Egor my hands hurt, a good sign that we were below freezing. I asked Egor what he thought the temperature was but he said it was above zero by at least ten degrees. I

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The Ministry of Education in MinskIt's about 3:00 in the morning and I am here at the computer trying to make sense of things. I had a hard time getting yesterday's blog out which is probably why I printed that excerpt. Sometimes it is hard to think of what I want to write about for these blogs. Writing about things personally is one thing, but what to share publicly is another. I remember

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Have been doing some work on the new book which is about living The Life in Belarus. Here is an excerpt: None of this was necessary. I should never have had to have been on this train, the fight that morning that put me on this train never needed to happen and the extra money I was spending to be on this train would have been much better spent elsewhere. I was not at all happy. Eventually this

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The trial of Alexander Pichushkin was not really a contest of guilt or innocence because basically, they had evidence and he agreed with pleasure that he had in fact bashed in the heads of between 48 and sixty people after inviting them to drink with him in the park. So basically the purpose of the trial was to make a public display of the man's endeavor, to show that the state had in fact

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A standard crank puller; better quality tools always make the job easier thoughBoy, I have a lot on my plate to talk about. The problem is that even though it seems there is absolutely nothing getting accomplished, there are tons of incidents in and around the lack of activity which, in a perfect writer's world, would not only have a place to be written but enough energy and patience to write

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