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Is the modern man an endangered species?

"Manthropology," a tongue-in-cheek look at the science of maleness, examines what recent discoveries in the fields of archaeology and anthropology can teach us about the state of modern masculinity. Ice Age aboriginal tribesmen, he discovers, were able to run long distances at approximately the same speed as modern-day Olympic sprinters. Classic Grecian rowers could attain [...]

Chosen by your chosen

A couple of weeks ago I asked you to choose from among the designs you yourselves sent in for the official Jake Letts, Letts Hug It Out fan club T-shirt. As expected, chaos ensued. So we asked Jake himself to pick the design and he demurred, adding that he'd be happy with whatever you pick, [...]

Q&A with the author of Q&A, Vikas Swarup

On Wednesday morning I interviewed the Indian author Vikas Swarup, author of the novel Q&A, which was adapted into a little movie called Slumdog Millionaire. In the evening I emceed the Q&A at his book signing at National Bookstore in Glorietta 5, Ayala Center, Makati. I learned among other things that Vikas Swarup wrote Q&A [...]

Want one?

The Pac-Man 30th Anniversary Moleskine notebook. Coming soon to the Weekly LitWit Challenge. Now available at National Bookstores.

If you're guilty it's not pleasure.

So here's Matt Cardle from X-Factor UK singing Baby One More Time. And we are not ashamed to love it. And Matt. var myvidster_embed="myvidster_embed_526868";

Teddy-Wan Kenobi demonstrates his Jedi mind-tricks and answers your questions, The Conclusion.

It's Wednesday, time for our weekly Jock With A Book. We were going to put up a photo of a rugby player in his underwear, but we received this hologram from our Jedi Master Teddy Boy Locsin in New York: Dear Jessica, I have a near-naked photo of myself in football shorts though I can't [...]

Teddy-Wan Kenobi demonstrates his Jedi mind-tricks (and answers your questions, part 2)

It's Wednesday, time for our weekly Jock With A Book. We were going to put up a photo of a rugby player in his underwear, but we received this hologram from our Jedi Master Teddy Boy Locsin in New York: Dear Jessica, I have a near-naked photo of myself in football shorts though I can't [...]

Today is a non-working day, you can go see Easy A!

Reasons we love Easy A. 1. We want Emma Stone to play us in our biopics. The only thing in the movie we didn't buy was her alluding to her "lack of allure". Essentially she is too hot for the role, but we love her anyway. 2. It is the wittiest adaptation of a work [...]

Trese: Mass Murders is Best Graphic Novel.

Budjette and the winning book Trese: Mass Murders has won the National Book Award for Best Graphic Novel of 2009. Congratulations to Trese's author, Budjette Tan! Budjette could not attend the awards ceremony because he is currently in England, but here is the speech he would've read if he'd been present. To the National Book [...]

It's my Jedi Master's birthday. Today Teddy-Wan Kenobi is the Oracle. (Updated with Ted's answers)

Photos from the book, Heroes. My Jedi Master, publisher and surrogate parents (both of them) Teodoro Locsin, Jr is 62 today. Happy Birthday, Teddy-Wan Kenobi! I was leading a quiet, one might say idyllic existence, plaiting my hair in Naboo or chasing whomp rats in the deserts of Tatooine, when I met the Jedi Master. [...]