Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 65

Spotted at a street corner: What is wrong with this graffiti?

Okay, we just learned a new word, but that’s not it. It should be “nang”! Signed, The Nang-Ng Grammar Police

Hele, the Lav Diaz film that won in Berlin, is Stupendous, and we would watch it Again.

The preview of Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis (Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) at the Dolphy Theatre in ABS-CBN yesterday was called “Take The Hele Challenge”, playing up the best-known fact about the film: that it’s eight hours long. Not that it won the Silver Bear in Berlin. Not that it’s awesome. But that it’s long, […]

Would you watch a travel show hosted by these two?

Me and Pepe Diokno (With our advertising team Crizza and Mick at the back). Yes, it’s an odd combination, but in a good way or a bad way?

The Bibliophibian’s Backlog

BOOK LOVERS go by many names — bibliophiles, bibliomaniacs, bibliolaters, Larry (McMurtry, the Pulitzer and Oscar-winning author who runs a bookstore and has a personal library of 30,000 books). I prefer bibliophibians, which suggests that the species lives partly in the “real” world and partly in books, like salamanders with overdeveloped imaginations. If you belong […]

Making a spectacle of yourself

At the media lunch for the eyewear brand Theo, I found myself staring covetously at the bright orange frames worn by Theo executive Mik Somers. I wanted to buy the frames right there (I couldn’t, they’re from two or three seasons ago, but they’ll be back eventually). And then I noticed that the wearer looked […]

Why do we work so hard?

This goes out to my sister, who is in the office twelve hours a day, is raising three kids and taking her MBA on weekends. Just reading her schedule makes me tired. One possibility is that we have all got stuck on a treadmill. Technology and globalisation mean that an increasing number of good jobs […]

Here’s the new flyer for our Writing Boot Camp

Designed by Anne Tamondong. Please spread it.

The Tarsier looks like Yoda and leaps like a superhero. It should be an Avenger!

Watch this on The Scene. The Tarsier should be an Avenger! Speaking of which: Did you squeal when a certain arachnid made an appearance? We did. Eleven years old forever!

Feline Food Critics: a food blog we can believe in

We don’t believe most food blogs because 80 percent of the time we disagree violently with their recommendations. Also, some of them sound like they just ate food for the first time. Too enthusiastic. We don’t believe Instagrams of food because they just mean “I’m having a fabulous meal and you’re not.” But if cats […]

John Oliver is the voice of sanity for these troubled times

EVERY GENERATION has its voice of sanity. In the 1950s when the McCarthy witch hunts threatened the same freedoms it claimed to safeguard, America had the esteemed news anchorman Edward R. Murrow. In the 1970s when the oil crisis, the Watergate scandal and the unwinnable war in Vietnam shook American self-belief, it was the unimpeachable […]