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LitWit Challenge 3.9: Mirror, mirror (The Yucch-meter is baaaack)

You know the drill. Tell us the story of this picture. Extra rule: Your story cannot have a guy looking at himself in the mirror. Hahahahaha. Our model is Matt Saunders of the Philippine Volcanoes, the national rugby team. He is the leading try scorer for the team in international test matches. (It's called a [...]

LitWit Challenge 3.9: Mirror, mirror

You know the drill. Tell us the story of this picture. Extra rule: Your story cannot have a guy looking at himself in the mirror. Hahahahaha. Our model is Matt Saunders of the Philippine Volcanoes, the national rugby team. He is the leading try scorer for the team in international test matches. (It's called a [...]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.8: Sounds like this is…

turmukoy for the split-screen tale. The source of that piece of music is A bout de souffle (usually translated as Breathless) by Jean-Luc Godard. The score is by Martial Solal. Belmondo, Seberg, Paris In the movie the guy steals a car, is chased by a cop, shoots the cop. So he has to get out [...]

Inception Cat!

October's just begun and already we have a backlog

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis is best read in one sitting. It's fast, short (168 pages in 15-point type) and nasty, and though the author tells you how it will end, and it's not exactly a surprising end if you've read the earlier book Less Than Zero, you still want to know how it [...]

Not "a tumultuous affray"

For about five seconds I missed the moshpits of my youth—everyone scrunched into a tiny space gasping fifth-hand oxygen and, yucch, drenched in other people's sweat, the threat of violence present in every water bottle. Then my brain resumed normal programming. Waiting for the iPhone in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Philippine Star.

"Now go away!" "How shall we go away?"

Noel and I were talking about Bernal and Himala and I suddenly remembered this bit from Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Easy.

A belated apology to Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck, we should've done this right after we saw Gone Baby Gone but we had to make sure it wasn't a fluke you know what we're saying? Well we just saw the preview of The Town and now we have to say it. We're sorry, Ben Affleck. We're sorry we laughed at you and [...]

Miss the Inquisition much?

I think they have themselves confused with their professed employer.