Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 324

How to blow P10M in 48 hours

Despondent at losing William? The NY Daily News proposes the following alternatives. HRH Carl Philip of Sweden Juan: I can't believe the top story in all the local news websites is the British royal wedding and not the resignation of the OMG (ombudsman). Me: Because social-climbing is more fun than investigating corruption and the people [...]

An icy dagger to the heart

When we expressed our intention of reading George R.R. Martin's fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire, reader Qsdn posted this comment. "Tip when reading RR Martin: Don't invest too much emotion in his characters. :p George RR Martin does like twisting your heart a bit too much. I stick with Robert Jordan." No [...]

Join us for tea in London?

I'm going to London for work next week, and after that I have a week off. My friend and I are thinking of organizing a meet-and-greet one afternoon between May 15 and 30. Just figuring out the details. If you're in the neighborhood would you like to join us? I can bring copies of Twisted [...]

Paws with heels

by Christian Louboutin

Auntie Janey's Old Fashioned Agony Column #13: Distasteful things

Photo: Susan Sarandon as the Princess Wensicia Corrino in the TV series Children of Dune Dear Aunt Janey, I tried looking for your e-mail but the Internet wouldn't cough it up. The thing is, I have no intention of having children. I also find coitus distasteful so I have to pass on the whole marriage [...]

Thinking of forming an Overthinkers Anonymous. Let the overthinking begin!

It occurred to me today, as it has occurred to me many times in the past, that much of my stress is self-inflicted. Give me the tiniest germ of a thought and I will overthink it to smithereens. And while I am overthinking, I will think of myself overthinking and overthink my overthinking. It is [...]

How is contemporary art like swallowing a live chicken?

I don't know, I just wanted a title with a hook. When one hears the title "Strip 2011: Painters As Photographers", the mind automatically goes off on a riff: Plumbers As Photographers, Undertakers As Photographers, Insurance Agents As Photographers, Nuclear Physicists As Photographers. What the hey. But yesterday I dropped by Silverlens Gallery to see [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 5.5: Yeah, yeah, Yaya

One of the narrators of Mona Simpson's new novel My Hollywood is the nanny, "Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who is working in America to pay for her own children's higher education back in the Philippines." Let's hear from Lola in her own words: I live Sunday in this life. There is a light [...]

Of time and the brain (Where were you when I needed an electroencephalograph?)

David Eagleman photo from NYT "Put this book down and go look in a mirror. Now move your eyes back and forth, so that you're looking at your left eye, then at your right eye, then at your left eye again. When your eyes shift from one position to the other, they take time to [...]

Two households, sort of alike in dignity (or Sex, Violence and Production Design)

We've always associated Lent with movie epics: Stephen Boyd wearing heavy eyeliner as Nimrod in The Bible, Boyd's Messala watching Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur like a matron on a diet eyes a steak, Ben-Hur's love interest—an actress who bore the unforgettable name Haya Harareet, Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea, Anne Baxter as the Egyptian [...]