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The Weekly LitWit Challenge 4.2: Something Sensational

"I never travel without my diary," wrote Oscar Wilde. "One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This piece of advice changed my attitude towards journal-writing completely. If you had a boring, uneventful day, why bore yourself all over again by recounting it in your diary? Oh, right, posterity. You're assuming that [...]

Ask Jon #5: The theory of cool (Updated with photos of our columnist getting jumped)

Line of Volcanoes, Borneo 7s 2010. Jon, Ned, Andrew Evro, Patrice, Wolfie. Photo by JZ. geekwad: Do you like reading books? Is it cool for men to read books in public places? I always get odd glances when I prop open a book while waiting in line or riding public transportation. People should start realizing [...]

The Yucch-meter wields red pencil, announces the winner of LitWit Challenge 4.1

Photograph by the Hubble telescope We received ten entries for LitWit Challenge 4.1: An extraterrestrial lands in Manila. Here are the Yucch-meter's findings. #1 Benedict Taft - "lends discretion over my distinguishing feature"??? - The extraterrestrial narrator laughs at the humans for consuming water and wheat and utilizing wheels but does not state what the [...]

This week in earrings

Dangling stars from Raul Gun and handcuffs from Noel Dancing Cats by Ricky We should just open an earrings-and-eyeglass frames shop.

Happy Holidays from the Yucch-meter

You have classes, jobs, lives, obligations, chores, relationships, brats, cats, dogs, friends, parents, sidelines, gym, training, hobbies, ferrets, parakeets, fish, plants, but week in and week out you summon up the time and energy to turn in 1,000 words for the Weekly LitWit Challenge. For what? For a book you could buy yourself, for snippets [...]

Readers' Bloc 2010: the CEO edition

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala is the chair and CEO of the 175-year-old Ayala Corporation. He has been in our Readers' Bloc since 2006 when this blog started.. Jaime at 15, Worth School, England. Standing, second from the left. He was the number 8 on their 15s team. Jaime's list for 2010: The Passage by [...]

Compare and contrast

Rivals: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal Roger picked Rafa up at the airport and they hung out in Zurich before their exhibition match for Africa. Of course the concept of rivals hanging out makes for excellent public relations, but their friendship seems genuine. Rivals: Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi In his bestselling autobiography Open, Agassi [...]

Patayin sa Shokot sa Pebrero

Readers' Bloc 2010: the Ad Men edition

David Guerrero is the Chair and Chief Creative Officer of BBDO-Guerrero. Here he is running the stretch of the croisette during the Cannes Ad Festival. Photo from Adobo Online. If I were David I would not go anywhere near the beach. Twice, on the beach, he has been attacked by wild animals. In Phuket he [...]

This week's Jock With A Book

. . .is stuck in traffic, as are many of our readers. But he'll be here. Feel free to speculate on who he is and what he's reading. In the meantime have a look at Cat With A Book about Jocks. Cat With A Stack of Books. Nerd With Her Optometrist. That's Nella Sarabia, who's [...]