Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 344

Love and Other Jakes. Jake and Other Drugs.

Love and Other Drugs, directed by Ed Zwick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. Reviewed by Bert and myself. Review # 1. In which we inhale all the oxygen in the theatre. Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake! [...]

P-Noy and the Curse of the Buses

Before I forget, two people from our annual "Did You Know They Were Pinoy?" list have been nominated for Oscars: Hailee Steinfeld (A reader pointed out that she is of Filipino descent) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in True Grit, and Matthew Libatique for Best Cinematography for his work on The Black Swan. [...]

Tonight on JessicaRulestheUniverse.com

- When did Jake Gyllenhaal get so gorgeous?!? - The mangkukulam strikes: Ferrer takes Nadal out in straight sets, killing the Rafa Slam. - Our new regular feature: Spot the Evil Twin by brewhuh23.

The winner of LitWit Challenge 4.5: Bed of Nails is. . .

The famous kitchen table scene from The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981). Not #14 miss choi: "The stench of adultery floated past me and travelled down the hallway. . ."?? Not #16 angus25: "Emily stared at the bed with rancor"?? Not #21 wenkebach: "he gave me the keys, a mistake he'd regret for [...]

Your name is your destiny.

Got a text from Tina. The name of the driver whose bus was bombed on Edsa this afternoon is MAXIMO PELIGRO. Seriously.

Dystopias, apocalypses, Penguins

Science-fiction lovers, Penguin collectors, design fanatics, prepare to plotz with joy. Visit The Art of Penguin Science Fiction website. Warning: Strong probability of time dilation. You tell yourself you're going to browse for five minutes. Then your phone rings and you realize two hours have passed.

Harry and Justin have a blog.

This photograph has been cropped to make it safe for your work environment. We are glad we don't work in your environment. At the start of the year Harry and Justin went on a new diet and training program. When most people embark on a diet and training program, their goal is to lose weight [...]

Michael Fassbender bender

Confession: I don't get Jane Eyre. I can't even say I dislike it because I didn't get far enough into the book to form an opinion. Some of my friends swear by Jane Eyre, own many copies of the book, and watch every film and TV series based on it, but I seem impervious to [...]

How to write a sentence

Take the first sentence of David Foster Wallace's story, "The Depressed Person": "The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror." By mixing heightened feeling and unrelenting repetition ("pain", "pain", [...]

The Rugby Chronicles 3: Brutal, but nice.

Dark skies, rumbling thunder, flashing lightning: RP faces Kazakhstan in the bowl final. Photo by JZ. Even if you have seen rugby on TV, watching it live for the first time is disconcerting. It looks chaotic and barbarous; it does not seem to make sense. If you have become friendly with the players your face [...]