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Momelia's Kiss-Ass Book Review: It's Hogwarts for Juvenile Delinquents!

Return to Ribblestrop is available at National Bookstores. It may sound like a convenience store for frogs, but it isn't. Ribblestrop Towers is like Hogwarts for Out of Control Youths a sneeze away from juvenile hall. They have 13-year-olds who keep guns under their pillows, chain-smoking vandals who blow smoke rings, "reformed psychopaths" with a [...]

We live on a thin crust on top of masses of molten moving rock.

The Guardian's interactive guide to how earthquakes happen. Our thoughts are with the people of Japan. An excerpt from After the Quake (stories) by Haruki Murakami Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways. She never [...]

Surgery vs Photoshop, Love vs Career, and Other Non-Choices

Read my column in InterAksyon.com.

Facebook is top source of evidence in divorce cases

How Not to Be a Jerk With A Cellphone. How not to be a jerk: there's no help for that. Facebook a top cause of relationship trouble, say US lawyers When Facebook gets involved, relationships can quickly fall apart – as Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi have discovered. But dictatorships are not the only ties [...]

Auntie Janey's Old Fashioned Agony Column # 6

Dear Auntie Janey, I am a gay man whose female best friend is getting married in a two months. Last week I was at a bar with my best friend's soon-to-be husband when he took my hand and. . .let's just say he propositioned me. The guy who's going to marry my best friend! Should [...]

'My Hollywood' stars a Filipino nanny

One of the narrators of Mona Simpson's latest novel My Hollywood is a Filipino nanny named Lola. I take Williamo to the post office, seal the envelope, and send my money home. Four hundred fifty this week. A ticker tape of dollars runs now all the time in my head. Last year, I totaled more [...]

Moleskine is branching out into pens, bags, spectacles etc and we want we want we want.

Sketches by Moleskine designer Giulio Iacchetti. via Flavorwire. Moleskine is launching a new product line at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan in April. Conversation I always have with practical friends: Practical Friends: Why do you buy Moleskines, they're so expensive, you can get a perfectly good notebook for one-tenth the price? Me: I [...]

Girls just wanna survive flight delays

Watch Cyndi Lauper's Impromptu Airport Performance of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Girls just wanna have fun—and so do stranded airline passengers. So to ease tempers over delays and cancellations at the Buenos Aires airport on Friday, the 80s icon grabbed a microphone and treated passengers to an impromptu rendition of her greatest hit. The [...]

Cats are always in fashion

Givenchy fall 2011 RTW Anna Sui fall 2011 RTW

Spot The Evil Twin # 7

The weekly STET is brought to you by Brewhuh. Today's lookalikes: Actor Jesse Bradford (his jock movie: Swimfan) and rugby player Oliver Saunders of the Philippine Volcanoes. - No they don't. - Yes they do! - No they don't. - Yes they do! - No they don't. Repeat until it's time to take your meds.