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By Dashka on Tuesday, April 14, 1998 - 01:35 am: |
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By Ladimir on Tuesday, April 14, 1998 - 01:44 am: |
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By Markus on Tuesday, April 14, 1998 - 12:43 pm: |
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my friend is in kiev. he was thinking of moving to moscow but now says he's reconsidering. this is part of what he said about his recent trip to chernobyl: i'm really sorry about the white album. i really didn't mean to keep it, i already made a copy. i'll take care of everything you've got here, at least until i move to moscow, if i move to moscow. i don't think i will move anywhere soon, actually. [...] as i think about it i feel my philosophy shifting. like, yeah, the politics here is shite, but that's not my problem or any normal person's problem. [...] did i tell you about my silly television experience? it was a scottish gaelic program. we went to chernobyl. [a.b.] interpreted and we went to his old flat. the old family piano was still there. it was the most eerie day of my life. at one point i sat with my gas mask on and my dust suit hood pulled on when i was inside the bus and i must have been practically crying, the reporter came in and saw me and said "are you okay?" i was so fucking angry about the whole thing, the way all these people have to work there every day. and then the driver talking about how we should have eaten lunch at the canteen and not been so distant and special and i just blew up at him, i am not here to fucking make these poor saps feel better about getting blasted every day, i'm sorry, but that's the way it is. actually i only took about four days worth of natural radiation levels in 5 hours. but there are young girls working in a pr office, a pr office for christ's sake, getting about 40 times the natural radiation level all fucking day every day. we also did a story about repression of the ukrainian media that 20 people in the outer hebrides will watch. |
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