Coming to a new city, you (I) somehow manage to notice just about anything, most of which a lot of citizens would ignore. And even though a lot of you, dear readers, sit abroad and don’t read in Russian, fear not: you will be able to understand everything about the posters I am about to share with you.
1. This is an advertising poster for the concert of Butyrka band. Do you think those guys look like they’ve been through a lot together? You’re right: “Butyrka” is a short name for one of Moscow prisons. The concert offers “the best in 10 years” and “only for friends”. You can tell the guys mean business…. show business, that is.
2. Since when have the antique statues begun to hide behind the modern faces? Since when have the guys begun to wear antique bodies instead of their own? Apparently, it’s what women want on a Ladies’ Night. No comments.
3. Ah, look at that! I never thought this famous Russian stand-up comedien looked like the most repulsive person on Earth. I’m sure neither did Mikhail Zadornov know this.
4. I remember reading an interview with the actor I mention here and there on this blog, and the journalist asked him: “Now, you say that you’re not a vegetarian, but animals are in pain when we use them for food” “So what?” the actor replied. “Fish are in pain, too“. The poor fish may be in pain, of course, but in his native city people are really concerned about little rabbits and such like. The poster reads: “Vegetarianism. Because I love animals”.
5. The art of love is nowadays taught at the private sessions, and surely, there is no better person to teach you “what men should not know” than a Geisha. The poster hangs across the road from the Circus.
6. “A Master today – a Minister tomorrow” reads the slogan of the Ural State Economic University. Which reminded me of a scene in The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov: “Money in the morning – chairs in the evening. Money in the evening – chairs in the morning”. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
7. Finally… “Your child spends HOURS in front of the PC? Maybe he is a future HACKER?” If so, then a computer school is there just for you and your kid.
