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July 30, 2011
The Talented MS Ripley
Someone rephrased this in the last Harry Potter movie. Ellen Ripley could've taken down no-nose with far less fuss. Of course they don't believe her. A salvage team finds her drifting through space in a shuttle, in hypersleep, along with a large ginger cat. They have been drifting through space for 57 years. The woman [...]
July 29, 2011
F or non-F: Books about cats
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Dwarves dwarves dwarves
Filming of the much-delayed The Hobbit is well and truly underway in New Zealand. Above, a composite of the dwarves by Peter Jackson in theonering.net. Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, and now these. Dwarves: the new hotties.
July 28, 2011
Auntie Janey is on vacation.
Ooh, Wanton Parlor. Binondo, July 2011. For the second week in a row we can't get our fix of other people's problems. If this goes on much longer we might start paying attention to our own problems. That would be depressing. Does anyone have a problem we can all discuss? Here's an actual text message [...]
Whit Stillman has a new movie.
It's been 13 years since The Last Days of Disco, but it's finally (almost) here. Damsels In Distress starring Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody will be the closing film at the Venice Film Festival. Good, because we're tired of quoting Metropolitan-Barcelona-The Last Days of Disco. Greta Gerwig starred in Greenberg by Noah Baumbach who cribs [...]
July 27, 2011
Poverty without sentimentality
George Orwell's first book Down and Out in Paris and London is supposed to be a novel but it feels like an autobiography (bildungsroman, as first novels usually are). Orwell had moved to Paris to become a writer, but he managed to sell only a few articles and his short stories and novels were all [...]
July 26, 2011
The Hopia Challenge, part 3: Hopia Emporia and the Smackdown of the Majors
Part 1 is here, Part 2 here. In order to understand hopia we went to the motherlode: Binondo, Manila's Chinatown. It's amusing to note that if we spot a fly buzzing around a restaurant in a shopping mall we question their sanitation standards, but if we see a rat in a restaurant in Chinatown we [...]
The Weekly LitWit Challenge 6.5: Make rust beautiful (+emergency handbook)
Last Saturday on our hopia tour of Binondo we saw this. It's some kind of warehouse crammed with chains, hardware and all manner of junk. We found it strangely beautiful. So your assignment this week is to explain why this rust is beautiful. Write us an essay of 500 words describing this picture and post [...]
The Weekly LitWit Challenge 6.5: Make rust beautiful (+ emergency handbook)
Last Saturday on our hopia tour of Binondo we saw this. It's some kind of warehouse crammed with chains, hardware and all manner of junk. We found it strangely beautiful. So your assignment this week is to explain why this rust is beautiful. Write us an essay of 500 words describing this picture and post [...]
The Weekly LitWit Challenge 6.5: Make rust beautiful (Updated)
Last Saturday on our hopia tour of Binondo we saw this. It's some kind of warehouse crammed with chains, hardware and all manner of junk. We found it strangely beautiful. So your assignment this week is to explain why this rust is beautiful. Write us an essay of 500 words describing this picture and post [...]
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