Antoshka has now gone back to Ukraine for good. No, really. Quit laughing. Just to show how sincere he is about this, he has left all his furniture for Richard Bonomo to use... until he comes back. He is shipping one of his two cars over there to be with him and leaving the other one here. Do I understand? Let me put it this way: this is the guy who asked if we wanted to watch a movie in Russian on the internet. We said sure, and he said it was a Charlie Chaplin movie, then he seemed confused when we all laughed at him. Seriously, how do you watch a SILENT movie in Russian? I'll tell you - the ads on the side are in Russian, the dialogue cards in English are not translated into Russian, but a male voice would solemnly intone them... in Spanish. What the hey? But that's par for the course for Antoshka.
He is starting a business in Ukraine. What sort of business, you might ask, and I would say why should I tell you so you can go over and compete with him? Obviously he plans to be successful enough to buy new furniture but not enough to buy a new car, judging by what he took back with him. (He also shipped his mother back over, if that gives you any idea.) He left me a small teapot with two tiny cups, so I can think of him whenever I drink tea. Anyway, now I have a second teapot, besides the one my Archirritant gave me years ago that looks like a demented English cottage with two tiny demented cottage cups. Then again, nothing can compare to the teapot a Polish guy used to have, which looked like a two-headed goose. One head was the spout and the other was tucked under its wing. I remember a bunch of us sitting around at his house one day, having a deep theological discussion, and a priest was saying something about how Plato's "Cave Allergory" is a metaphor for the human soul and not a Socialist state as he poured himself a cup of tea from the two-headed goose. The juxtaposition of the profound discussion and ridiculous teapot was too much for me, and I began laughing hysterically, but nobody else was all that amused. I guess they are immune to the absurdity of two-headed goose teapots.
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Gosh if you collect odd teapots, I would have given you my cat teapot, but I decided it was too cheesy and gave it to goodwill instead.
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