Travels in Ukraine and other stories
Hello all,
Just a few articles for you this week. I wrote a column on my trip to Ukraine with the writer Charles Coloumbe at The European Conservative: “Travels with Charles.” Charles is, without doubt, one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. An excerpt:
Upon arriving in Kyiv, we find our Airbnb lodgings are extremely cheap, as tourists prefer destinations where sightseeing is uninterrupted by air raid sirens. If sirens sounded during the night, I would not have been able to hear them. The snores emitted by Charles are truly phenomenal—whistles, snorts, and gasps that sound as if he is in a death struggle with a strangler who is large enough to grasp his neck but not powerful enough to finish him off. I cram ear plugs so far into my ear canals that I suspect surgery might be necessary to remove them, and this almost works until Victor shifts on his cot and oxygen shrieks through his nostrils, as well. At one point the pair sound remarkably like a pod of orcas, communicating through otherworldly and disturbing noises. Charles inquires solicitously about the quality of my sleep in the morning. I have nothing to report.
Also at The European Conservative: “The Enduring Power of Shakespeare: 400 Years After the First Folio.”
At The Bridgehead: “Former Navy pilot beheads Satanic idol set up in Iowa Capitol.”
Also at The Bridgehead: “The lazy slander of the pro-life movement.”
A different sort of article, on why your kids should read Jim Kjelgaard: “Why your kids should read Jim Kjelgaard.”
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As always, I’ve got plenty of other short, regular culture updates on The Bridgehead, and you can get a copy of Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield here and here, and my other books here.