Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 348

Dakar: the collected crashes

The Dakar rally, the most grueling road race on earth, is on now. It used to start in France or Portugal and head on down to Africa but with increasing terrorist threats they moved to Argentina and Chile. - Who are we rooting for? - The bike race is almost always between the top two [...]

Happy Birthday, Patrice!

Patrice Olivier of the national rugby team is 21 today. Bon anniversaire, cheri! See you in Manila in April for the test match against Hong Kong. Save the dates, everybody, April 14 and 16 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Of course he's levitating, are you saying Patrice can't float on air?

Cats with scarves

How dare you make me wear this, this is not an Hermes. I like skulls.

Project: Unmentionables

Justin, Patrice and Harry are wearing a shower curtain while we define the perfect underwear. James my genius designer friend and I have been thinking about underwear a lot. We like underwear. We have very strong opinions on underwear. We love shopping for underwear. In fact we like underwear so much we want to know [...]

Househunting

We'd let him have one of the floors, but Noel, Joey and I haven't bought this building yet. Jon our straight guy columnist is looking for a place to live in Makati in the P10K a month range. Material comforts are next to no object. Sharing is an option. If you know of a place, [...]

The last thing he ever saw

Early in the morning on New Year's Day, a Philippine politician took a snapshot of his family outside their home. Seconds later, he was shot and killed by a gunman, who was also captured in the picture aiming a pistol. . . Murdered Philippine Politician Snapped Photo of His Assassin I wonder how many idiots [...]

Rugby lesson: The Scrum

The scrum is a means of restarting play after a stoppage which has been caused by a minor infringement of the Laws (for example, a forward pass or knock on) or the ball becoming unplayable in a ruck or maul. The scrum serves to concentrate all the forwards and the scrum halves in one place [...]

So Roger said to Rafa. . .

Photo from Busted Racquet Two weeks ago Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal shared a private jet from Zurich to Madrid, where they played a second exhibition match. Here they are on the plane. They can take a private jet but they don't have a proper camera? Is that a gift-wrapped box Roger is holding? Why [...]

Boogie Nights: A family in the arts

My first movie for 2011: Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and one of the greatest ensembles ever. A spectacular way to begin a new year of movie-watching. I hadn't seen it in years but remember it fondly—as a serious movie. I saw it again [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 4.3: Metamorphoses

I was still wearing my scarf but I wasn't quite myself this morning. metamorphosis noun ( pl. -phoses ) Zoology (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. • a change of the form or nature of a thing or [...]