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October 28, 2010
More information than you need, Day 1 (updated constantly)
Today I was reminded of something I discovered four years ago in Paris, when I spent ten straight hours at the Louvre because I felt compelled to see everything. Beauty Is Exhausting. After spending the whole day with the best-looking, most ridiculously fit guys I've ever met, what I really wanted to do was crash [...]
More information than you need, Day 1
Today I was reminded of something I discovered four years ago in Paris, when I spent ten straight hours at the Louvre because I felt compelled to see everything. Beauty Is Exhausting. After spending the whole day with the best-looking, most ridiculously fit guys I've ever met, what I really wanted to do was check [...]
October 27, 2010
The Philippine Volcanoes in Borneo: Coverage begins Now. (updated constantly)
Team manager Phil Gittus, Justin Coveney (with earbuds), and players who were asleep because they've been training almost continuously since Tuesday afternoon. Justin is a lawyer in Sydney. He does civil suits; mostly they represent insurance companies. Does that mean you're evil? I asked. He said they had to deal with a lot of ambulance [...]
The Philippine Volcanoes in Borneo: Coverage begins Now.
Dispatch from moving bus. We're on the way to Clark airport to catch the flight to Kota Kinabalu. On board: 11 members of the national men's rugby team, Coach Matt Cullen, Manager Phil Gittus, and trainer Damian Raper. The 12th member we pick up at the gas station after SM North. More on him later. [...]
Homage to Kubrick
Today's vision of surpassing beauty is a painting by Geraldine Javier. "Red is the Color of Life, and So is Black" is based on that scene in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. For a week after I saw The Shining I had a fear of long hallways. Geraldine's painting won't be exhibited in Manila—it's going straight [...]
October 26, 2010
The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.10: Manila's Finest…
Will be announced after we take you through the judging process. To refresh your memory, here are the entries. Photo: Sari-sari store we spotted one afternoon on our way to the Quiapo cinematheque. Marx and Engels? Our guest judge for this LitWit Challenge is Butch Perez, who's read every detective series we can think of. [...]
Molecular Gaztronomy
It's Wednesday! You know what that means: Scan the horizon for your boss/teacher, and if the coast is clear, continue reading. This week's Jock With A Book is Gareth—Gaz—Holgate of the Philippine Volcanoes national men's rugby team. Gaz is Filipino-Welsh and an architecture major. He recently moved to Italy, presumably to play rugby and look [...]
A visit to "the Messiah"
"We're doomed," I told Noel as the van crawled through Saturday afternoon-long weekend traffic on Ortigas Extension. "We're late for our interview with the Messiah of Philippine Cinema. I expect hellfire and brimstone, something out of Patayin Mo Sa Sindak Si Barbara." Celso Ad Castillo at his house in Siniloan, 23 October 2010. Photograph by [...]
October 25, 2010
We're doing live coverage of the Philippine Volcanoes at the Borneo 7s rugby tournament, cue exclamation points.
On Thursday the Philippine Volcanoes national men's 7′s rugby team flies to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to compete in the Borneo 7′s rugby tournament. Last year the newest, fastest-rising team in Asia shocked the established rugby powers with a runner-up finish in the Plate final (6th overall in a field of 12). This year they intend [...]
Juana Change on the RH bill
Tell them, Juana Change. (Note to my readers: Since you won't cough up 300 little reading pledges I guess you don't want to see jocks reading books in the altogether. Enjoy the video! It has matrons in it.)
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