i find the anglophone world to be disrespectable of two things: a. books, and b. food; at school i overheard the english teacher saying: 'i know you treat books as door stops, or bricks' - and in every lifestyle magazine you only get to see books about interior design... **** me! hardly any art books either! in my collection? chagall - m-t. souverbie, the pre-raphaelites - t. hilton, edvard mvnch - j. p. hodin hopper - r. g. renner, moja ziemia (my earth) - edward hartwig, rembrandt - j. jacob... & from russia - too many contributors to cite: let's just say that the exhibition at the RA (royal academy of arts) was pretty spectacular, notably boris grigoriev's portrait of theatre director vsevolod meyerhold - ilya mashkov (the russian cézanne) - martiros saryan - date palm. egypt - nathan altman - portrait of anna akhmatova - again: chagall - the red jew - d'uh, kandinsky - arch-master of cubism - the shards, i.e. the german war by pavel filonov, cf. picasso's violin & guitar to get the picture... isaac levitan - summer evening, ah! and lastly, but certainly not least! philipp malyavin - peasant woman dancing; would anyone really want to be living without a necessary criticism? i hate finicky eaters... and the english are just that... not to mention the h'americans... i remember spending a month in russia and eating whatever was given to me: as long as it didn't move i'd eat it... as i'd **** anything that moves, finicky eaters: picky lovers - both descriptions go hand-in-hand... ukranian beetroot borsch? can i have some more. oh right, forgot to mention - i didn't see a single mcdonald's in st. petersburg, god, i was thrilled with the fast-food chain they have over there, pancakes... and the cheaper orange caviar? can i have some more? for all the "supposed" politeness the english are famous for that the h'americans can't get enough of? sit these ponces by a table and give them food... the so-called "politeness"? goes straight out the window. i probably hate fussy-eaters as much as i hate spelling mistakes; my my, isn't that the zenith of decadence? nope... the h'americans tipped the scale: with food-fights... who the **** invented beer-pong? no wonder alcohol has such a bad reputation, and makes us, the serious un-apologetic / un-repentant drinkers look bad... real bad... lone-wolf drinkers have to scuttle and avoid the general idiocy of group drinking: learning the tongue of shadow.