Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 342

Auntie Jane's Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 1

Photo: Keira Knightley as Miss Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Auntie Jane lives in the 19th century and likes telling us what to do. * * * * * Some women have asked me why despite their intelligence, success, decent looks, personality, and openness, they are still unable to have a man. Or if [...]

Sign up for the Daily Gazette

Kong Hei Fat Choy! Welcome the Year of the Wabbit with the Daily Gazette: a picture of Gaz posted every day for no good reason. Witness a vast range of goofy expressions, silly tricks, vanishing clothes, general hunkiness, and declarations of man-love. We provide the photos, you tell us what you think. Yes, let's make [...]

The winners of the Rapunzel 5-7-5 contest are:

# 1 leeflailmarch Rapunzel's long hair too expensive to rebond but great for climbing # 5 listbonne Cellophane sana, pero sabi ng bakla: "Hibang ka ba, 'te?" # 8 lady q Waiting and waiting Locked up high in her tower To let down her hair # 9 din79 Rapunzel, Oh dear! Put your long hair [...]

Missing Jeff Buckley

Been listening to Jeff Buckley a lot. Wonderful singer-songwriter. Then I find that a movie biopic is being planned, and that Robert Pattinson and James Franco are among the actors being considered to play Jeff. * * * * * Something's going on. Before this post went online Brewhuh emailed to say the next STET [...]

The King's Speech: Lovely movie, ugly history

The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human-interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history. Why The King's Speech is a gross falsification. Christopher Hitchens rates the historical accuracy of the Oscar frontrunner in the Guardian. Given that The King's [...]

Spot The Evil Twin # 2

The weekly STET is brought to you by Brewhuh. Brewhuh: Who is the doppelganger, rugby player Harry Morris or former boyband…boy Nick Lachey? Is it too much to ask Harry to sing a few lines of Invisible Man? Visit the Harry and Justin blog. Those pleats better be ironed properly or you'll have to do [...]

News from the Library of Alexandria

The now-famous photo of the protester in Tahrir Square, Cairo by latenightcabdriving. To our friends around the world: The Events in Egypt 30 Jan 2011 The world has witnessed an unprecedented popular action in the streets of Egypt. Led by Egypt's youth, with their justified demands for more freedom, more democracy, lower prices for necessities [...]

Here's a cheerful thought

If vampires despair so much of their immortality they should just die. You can do it, Edward! The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer makes me want to give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Rice. Hell, I'll even watch Tom Cruise camping it up in Interview With The Vampire again. That bad Neil Jordan [...]

Show me the monster

There's a lovely piece on Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Cronos) and his horror iconography in the New Yorker. Read it here. Does this article put you in the mood for a little H.P. Lovecraft? Check out the H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Everything online, don't you love the internets?

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 4.6: Write us a sonnet.

The Yucch-meter has started to get a Groundhog Day feeling about these LitWit Challenges: Have we been reading the same story with slight revisions over and over again for several weeks? Therefore we have devised a plan to keep the Yucch-meter from taking a flying leap out the window only to wake up the next [...]