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I just saw nine episodes of Game of Thrones in one night. (Updated)

Add the season premiere I saw in May and that means I am done with the series. And I'm alive! Even if many of the major characters are not. Quick reactions (I'm sleepy): 1. My love for Peter Dinklage/Tyrion Lannister is undimmed since the first episode. What a voice! What panache! Appropriately, he gets the [...]

I just saw nine episodes of Game of Thrones in one night.

And I'm alive! Even if many of the major characters are not. Quick reactions (I'm sleepy): 1. My love for Peter Dinklage/Tyrion Lannister is undimmed. What a voice! What panache! Appropriately, he gets the best lines. 2. The series is much better-written than the books. Confession: I hurled the first book across the room unfinished. [...]

A bookshelf you can live in

House of Shelves. Thanks to Jackie for the alert.

Auntie Janey's Old Fashioned Agony Column # 20: If you beg him to come back I will hunt you down and bitch-slap you.

Warning: This post is illustrated with a video featuring men dancing with no shirts on. Dear Auntie Janey, I've been seeking advice from support groups and other so-called relationship experts about this matter. However, nothing seems to help me out. You see, it's been more than a month since my worst nightmare happened. My boyfriend [...]

Don't you hate it when people say, "We have no comment"? Well we have no comment.

And that's the comment.

How ordinary people become monsters or heroes

Here is one of M.C. Escher's symmetry drawings. Look at the white spaces and you see angels. Look at the dark spaces and you see devils. It's like humans. 'Normal' people turn into monsters. The person you least expect to do something courageous becomes a hero. How does this happen? The American psychologist Philip Zimbardo [...]

The finest fairytales are dark and sad.

Arthur Rackham illustration of The Goose Girl. Good people suffer. Bad people reign. Terrible things happen. There is ugliness in the world. Life is scary and it ends in death. The fairytales that really stay with you understand these things, and you believe them no matter how prettily Disney lies. When people say "That's a [...]

Spectacular oracular

I've been wearing eyeglasses since I was eight (Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. Ooh, soundtrack!). The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One BeforePowered by mp3skull.com If you prefer it with horns: Mark Ronson – Stop me (feat. Daniel Merriweather)Powered by mp3skull.com Read my column [...]

Jessica Rules TV Ep 5: Super-short story

Yesterday I had a photo shoot for the Philippine Star. Jay Lozada did my hair and make-up; it took 3 hours. The shoot at Blow-Up Babies took three hours—half an hour posing, two and a half shooting the breeze with Quark, Erwin and Adel. When I got home I was going to take the face [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 6.3: Letter to your ex, part 2 (Updated. "Ex" is the magic word.)

The selection process for the winner of LitWit Challenge 6.2: Recharging Your Brain was a no-brainer. The winner is angus25. Congratulations, angus25, please post your full name in Comments (It won't be published. We don't keep files on your true identities and contact information.) and we'll let you know when your prize has been delivered [...]