Totally Retro, Baby
Honestly and truly, it’s not a vanity. No self-PR for Saturday Night Live or Monty Python or whatever. This is just a blast from the TV past. From 25 years ago! Perhaps, at that...
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Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?
Who doesn’t really! Have you ever scratched a big time winner ticket? Have you ever touched a billion dollars? Oh, well – I haven’t scratched or touched a billion dollars but I was touched...
Showbiz Retiree
OK. We are now in 2016. New year means new projects and activities and some reflections on the past. Here goes a mini clip from 30 years ago. Moscow 1986. Soviet broadcast TV features...
The Joy Of Weightlifting
“Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant” Pardon my Latin. “Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you” This is what gladiators were saying before entering the Coliseum Arena in the Ancient Rome. We...
In the Old Gym: The Snatch
I really loved my old gym. By today’s standards, it looked like dungeons. But we loved it. It was located in the basement of our old University building in Moscow. It was dusty and...
In the Old Gym
While looking through our family old albums, I stumbled upon this old picture from our weightlifting gym in Russia. This is me lifting in the last trials before the Championship of Moscow. I am...
Shameless Selfies Digest
OK. Here is some math. There were 1,837 posts published at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. There are 60 posts that include something that can be somehow qualified as “Selfy”. It comes down that level of...
Meaningful Selfie
Absolutely meaningful selfie! Now you are ready for the toughest quiz questions: Who is the best hockey player of all nations and times? What number did he wear on his jersey? Verify the right...
Letter from Russia
In the evening, I got an email from my best friend in Moscow. I finally left that job. Now I am taking some time off and will start looking later… If anyone needs a...
