our awkward and dericious dinner at pyongyang cafe.
i had cognac with my food, something the late mr. kim would have approved. 
bulgogi.
mandu with a view.
the waitresses were all north koreans (allegedly). there were four of them, skinny and well-dressed, watching the fina world championships while they waited on us. the room was equipped with a norebang machine just in case the cognac got out of hand. 
Пхеньян кафе
the sun also rises in haeundae beach.
vladivostok station, the eastern terminus of the trans siberian railway. 
zolotoy bridge Золотой мост
(wikimedia)
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the book of the great sea-dragons (1840) by geologist thomas hawkins (wikimedia)
see memoirs of ichthyosauri and plesiosauri (1834) and the book of the great sea-dragons (1840) by thomas hawkins.
quetzalcoatl. codex telleriano-remensis (16th century). (wikimedia).
the largest flying animal known (wikimedia)
brunchy.
diy mudbath or poorly covered grave by the creek. photo by elly.
We visited the submarine museum housed in the soviet submarine S-56. the sub was launched in 1939 from vladivostok and spent a few glorious years fighting and sinking nazi ships during the great patriotic war.
soviet s-class submarines (Средняя) a.k.a stalinet-class (Cталинец).
torpedoes and bunk beds.
soviet naval ensign (wikimedia)
naval jack (wikimedia)
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photo of abandoned submarines in vladivostok, 2001.
we visited the museum of the pacific fleet but it was closed. the yard had old, bullet-ridden ordnance. children were climbing all over them as usual. svetlanskaya street. 
Подводная лодка
misplaced nostalgia for movies like the graduate article in the new yorker
see coppola’s one from the heart (1981)
men go to battle (2015) by Zachary Treitz,
josephine decker’s first feature butter on the latch (2013)