Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 382

LitWit Challenge 3.3: Your dramatic emergency exit strategy

The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.2: Talking Animals is. . .Cacs for the death of a celebrity chef as witnessed by 800 eyes. Congratulations! There were several fine entries in this batch; in the end we picked the funniest. Cacs, you can pick up your prize any time starting today at National Bookstore in Power [...:]

Mat is 9! Today he is the Oracle.

Happy Birthday, Matthias Eomer Octavian Federer-Urban! Look at that beautiful face. Such a sweet cat—he doesn't mind getting hugged, unlike Koosi and Saffy, who endure it for ten seconds before bringing out the claws. Thanks to his tireless work during his career as neighborhood stud, the cats in the area have gotten bigger and purrtier. [...:]

Racing the moon across the South China Sea

This is a piece about sailing that I wrote for High Profile magazine in March 2009. I also edited the book Chasing Moonlight: My mid-centennial victory by Vince Perez. Green Water, White Lather Vince Perez and Subic Centennial race to victory in the South China Sea By Jessica Zafra When most men turn 50 they [...:]

Random snapshots of my week

Ricky didn't have a vase for the eucalyptus so he put them in a briefcase. Ige appears to be auditioning for Hamlet. The following day he shaved. I bought this tote bag for 100 pesos at Aldevinco in Davao. Rene was looking for Theodore Rex, the biography of Teddy Roosevelt. It was no longer available, [...:]

The Ancient Brat Pack

In the Eighties there was a Hollywood Brat Pack consisting of the stars of coming-of-age movies by John Hughes and others (Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, etc), and there was a Literary Brat Pack made up of trendy, critically-acclaimed young writers. The three most famous members of this pack were Jay McInerney, [...:]

Gatsby himself would've bought these. A set for every room.

Coming in November from Penguin Classics: F. Scott Fitzgerald's books with Art Deco-ish covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, who also designed Penguin's beautiful Clothbound Classics.

Before the dramatic exit: "I hate to be a bag nazi"

He warned you. More on Steven Slater, the flight attendant who freaked out and made an emergency exit from the flight he was working on. Gawker has unearthed the messages Slater had allegedly posted on airline message boards warning of new pressures on cabin attendants. "The airlines have created a monster. Lousy bagggage handling, theft, [...:]

Tales of the blank page

Taken with the Cartoon setting of a Samsung Galaxy S phone camera. Wednesday, 11 August. Having finished proofreading a book on Spanish colonial church architecture, I embark on the writing of a 100-page manuscript that requires a working knowledge of Japanese pornography. Zealots and perverts, the theme of the week. I love my job.

Air Rage: I understand this guy.

Photo from Steven Slater's MySpace page. Sukdulan na, wis niya na ma-take. On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said. After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from [...:]

This is a white bag.

White tote bag from Muji, defaced with acrylic paint by Ricky Villabona. I should open a shop called Niyurakan.