Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 357

Lit Wits Live: Cacs and Momelia

As promised, we met with the winners of LitWit Challenge 3.11: Stabbed In The Heart to present them with their prizes. The prize was a hardcover Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. As two winners were declared, we needed another copy of the Collected Lydia Davis. Unfortunately the bookstore had run out of copies (I had [...]

It's Roger.

Roger Federer defeats Rafael Nadal 6-3. 3-6. 6-1 to win the year-ending ATP Tour Final for the fifth time. This is only their second meeting of the year. Nadal won the previous match, in Madrid.

The week in earrings

It has been an extraordinarily good week for the acquisition of earrings. Our taste in earrings is very specific. We are not interested in expensive jewelry. We like odd, eccentric, bizarre. Like these Scrabble tiles. My name will beat yours at Scrabble, unless your name is Jessiqa. . Recycled tubes of instant glue. It's a [...]

The Love is a Dog from Hell Oracle

While wandering around the bookstore I spotted a stack of books by Charles Bukowski. Charles Bukowski*. In National Bookstore. Will wonders never cease. They had Slouching Toward Nirvana; Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way; Pulp; Women; and others. This title jumped off the shelf. I opened the book at random [...]

And we're back to regular programming: Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal tonight!

Roger Federer trounced Novak Djokovic 6-1, 6-4 while Rafael Nadal beat Andy Murray 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(6) to set up the dream final at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

LitWit Challenge 3.12: The Yucch-meter wonders if you could stop congratulating yourselves long enough to write a conversation about Something.

For this LitWit Challenge, Conversations in restaurants, we asked you to write a story in the form of a dialogue with the young man in the photos. The Yucch-meter wants to know when you plan to submit your stories because she has not found a real one among the entries posted so far. She sees [...]

Watch the first half-hour, then forget about it.

My Amnesia Girl, a Star Cinema production directed by Cathy Molina Garcia, starring John Lloyd Cruz and Toni Gonzaga The first 30 minutes: An engaging romantic comedy. The next hour and a half: Filler. With no characters to develop or plot lines to reveal, the filmmakers use up the time with jokes. They are cute [...]

This is almost too much power for a single person to wield. But I'll take it.

To my shock and awe I have just realized that I am in the wrong profession. I should be running an extortion ring. The world's first wish registry at Adora? I picked out the presents I wanted, sent out the postcards, and voila. It worked. My friend gave me the Ray-Ban Colorized Wayfarers I had [...]

Shokot!

I am in training for the holidays. This week so far I have hauled my antisocial self to two parties. And no body count! Last night: The Shokot Wrap and One Month Before Xmas Party. This just wrapped: Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington, the gay zombie horror-comedy written by Raymond Lee, Michiko Yamamoto and Jade [...]

"Alchemy" and genetics: About children who are way more beautiful than their parents

This is line with our discussion of beauty and Darwinian theory. My friend Michael P the genomics guy was in town recently. We remembered to ask him the question which has boggled us for many years: When a Filipina who is not particularly good-looking* has children with a foreigner who might be downright unprepossessing**, why [...]