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Auntie Janey's Old Fashioned Agony Column # 14: Ice cream sandwiches

Our question is: If you got six of these, would you give them away? A few days ago I riffled through my credit card receipts and discovered that I was entitled to some goodies. The choices were pizza, ice cream and tacos. So off I went to the mall to make more purchases with my [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 5.6: Situation Room

Yesterday the White House released this photo of US President Barack Obama and State Secretary Hillary Clinton watching the live video stream of the raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden. Your assignment for the Weekly LitWit Challenge 5.6 is to tell the story of this photograph in 500 words or less, from the [...]

Killer accountant menaces Chris Hemsworth in Cash

On my last visit to my dvd. . .dealer, I picked up a movie called Cash. I'd never heard of it but it starred Sean Bean. Practically everything I know about the Napoleonic Wars (until War and Peace) I learned from the Sean Bean TV series Sharpe, in which he played a rifleman in the [...]

Out to lunch with Overthinkers Anonymous

After way too much thinking, Mike decided where we would have our voucher lunch. I call it a voucher lunch because every morning Mike scours the internet for deals and discounts (our buffet lunch was 50 percent off) and snaps them up. Then he realizes that he's bought too many vouchers and they're about to [...]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 5.5: Yeah, yeah, Yaya is. . .

Ogie Alcasid as Angelina and Michael V as Yaya in the Bubble Gang sketch, Ang Spoiled one of these five candidates. # 8 Yaya ni Lily Author: rice_cooker Location: the United States Summary: Youngish, separated from husband she describes as mama's boy, and from her daughter Nene. The husband has "filed for infidelity", according to [...]

George R.R. Martin's editor swears that A Dance With Dragons is finished.

1547 pages! First line: The night was rank with the smell of men. Tyrion, my darling dwarf!

The Learning Curve of Jaime Urquijo

L-R: Jaime Urquijo, Justin Coveney and Kenny Stern at training camp. Based on the empirical evidence it is safe to say that the universe likes Jaime Urquijo more than it likes you or me.   Jaime Urquijo is over six feet tall, with thick brown hair and brown eyes. He is broad of shoulder and [...]

Thor: In which we get hammered by love

I confess I always found Thor the superhero ridiculous: the costume, the high elocution, the relationship with that creepy Loki, the hammer, the theme song of the ancient Marvel cartoons ("You behold in endless wonder/The god of thunder/Mighty Thor!"). So what if he's the god of thunder—thunder doesn't have the destructive force of lightning, it's [...]

The Learning Curve of Jaime Urquijo

L-R: Jaime Urquijo, Justin Coveney and Kenny Stern Based on the empirical evidence it is safe to say that the universe likes Jaime Urquijo more than it likes you or me.   Jaime Urquijo is over six feet tall, with thick brown hair and brown eyes. He is broad of shoulder and muscular of build, [...]

Seen on billboard, overheard on train

Photo by cesarcambay from Panoramio. Overheard by Anna on the MRT as the train passed a giant Belo billboard on Edsa: "Ano ba naman yang billboard ni Ruffa, Body Ti-teh." Anna's thought balloon: "Oo nga naman, dapat ang spelling T-y-t." (Apologies to non-Tagalog speakers: humor untranslatable.)