Murder on the Capitalism Express

[Monte Davis]

I try to resist the temptation to label as Pynchonian every bizarre or
surreal news item that drifts by. But I surrender for this one, from today's
NY Times article by Sophia Kishkovsky, "Engels Would Gasp, and Locals Gripe,
at a Golden Mile." It's about neighborhood disruption by a new-money bulding
boom:

"Ostozhenka (pronounced ahs-TO-zhen-ka), once home to many artists and
intellectuals, is now known in the parlance of real estate agents and their
wealthy clients as the Golden Mile. In the last five years it has become a
Kremlin-view Beverly Hills on the Moscow River. Its winding lanes are now
home to modern multimillion-dollar penthouses, Ferraris, gourmet restaurants
and bizarre crimes: last year a celebrity plastic surgeon was stabbed by
roller skaters, and later died, in what appeared to be a roll-by contract
killing.."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/world/europe/18moscow.html


I ask you, Timofey Pavlovich: is this a great country, oir what?

Monte Davis
monte.davis at verizon.net
http://montedavis.livejournal.com/

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