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Recently I've donated a vintage boombox with AM, FM, SW radio (among many other facilities). Of all the features it had, it was radio that I'll miss the most.

Recently, a friend sent me “spring greetings” on WhatsApp consisting of a photo of flowering trees. Immediately, to my mind sprung two Romanian songs consisting a “tree flowers”.

I’ve discovered a list of 25 best Romanian movies, songs and festivals and I am quick to build upon them, before they disappear.

If you were wondering why did hotel prices jump to 3-5000 RON/night yesterday, it was obviously because of the Metallica concert.

Inspired by the multiple suggestions of great monologues in English, I was up to no good searching for the same in Romanian. I’ve gotten a few, but at least at first, they’re mostly hallucinations.

I recently published a short trying to summarize some TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) measurements of drinking water in Romania, more precisely in Iasi. Since the video was cut by TikTok to some less relevant bits, it became necessary to (re)publish the results here.

Babardeala cu bucluc / Loony Porn is a movie meant to shock the viewer into understanding that there are far worse ethical lapses that we accept on a daily basis than the porn between married people and other NSFW material we generally consider below us. We discuss the movie in detail so a spoiler alert is necessary, and if you plan to watch it (you might as well), make sure you have the subtitles on for part II at least.

Having found on Facebook the list of goods allowed under food rationing in 80’s Poland, I search the Romanian Internet as well as my own memory for fading images of the queues (called lineups in Canada) for food and how that happened in communist Romania. I discovered that it happened twice: first post-WWII, under Soviet occupation and again in the 80s, while Ceausescu paid off the external debt.