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We asked readers to help us transcribe our two-hour interview with Mark Millar. Four signed up for the tag-team transcription service. We sent them 8-minute segments to work on. As of today three of ...
The Farglory Hotel seen from the cable car at the Farglory Ocean Park. While trying to fall asleep at the Farglory Hotel (adjacent to the Farglory Ocean Park) in Hualien, Taipei, we found Fierce Peop...
Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow prepare to enter the movie in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. Our top 5 Woody Allen movies in no particular order: Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Tak...
We’re taking a short break from our usual Moleskine journals (We’ve filled up two this year so far) to try the Ciak Duo. Or as we like to call it, the Schizo. It’s fuchsia on one si...
Ricky is in Tel Aviv to watch his mother Madonna for the nth time. He sent us snapshots of the local fauna. They look fierce. Wait, that’s not a cat. Exactly.
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 Time elapsed from leaving house in Makati to arriving at NAIA terminal 1: 40 minutes Drama from cats: None Verdict on Corona impeachment: 20-3, guilty Long queues? Yes, but fas...
It’s the last week of our Pawn Stars book giveaway. Three readers will win signed copies of License To Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver by Rick Harrison, proprietor of...
We went to the opening of Incidental Pleasure, a group show at Mospace curated by Geraldine Javier. Artists Juan Alcazaren, Mike Munoz, Eugene Jarque, Mac Valdezco, Ryan Villamael and Javier were ...
Franco invited us to try ‘Cue, a new restaurant at Central High Street in Bonifacio Global City. “What do they serve?” we asked. “Meat,” he replied. “Say no more, ...
Mark Millar and his collaborators Leinil Yu, Gerry Alanguilan and Sunny Gho met the readers at The Milla In Manila yesterday, Sunday, at the Glorietta 5 atrium. Thanks to jet lag, a re-sked and a goo...
This illustrates one reason tackling climate change at big international conferences has been so difficult. The countries that contribute to the problem reap rewards in the form of economic growth wh...
What are those on the floor of the truck? 2-year-old Philippine crocodiles, wrapped in soft netting. They were being transported by truck, raft and on foot to the lake in Dunoy where they were releas...
An on-again-off-again scandal that the Italian press has called VatiLeaks burst into the open on Friday with the arrest by Vatican gendarmes of a man, identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, th...
Mother Daisy with one of her many critters. Daisy Langenegger has an organic farm, and on that farm she has a lot of animals. But first let’s meet her urban pets. There’s Lucio, a second-generation N...
1.2.1. The celebrity judges on American Idol are styled and coiffed to within an inch of their lives. They’re in show business after all, and image is everything. 1.2.2. The Senator-judges in the imp...
Message from Koosi: We are fine now. We suspect it was a reaction to our human’s horrible furniture. Hate that couch, hate it, hate it. Thank you to all who posted their good wishes for our rec...
Our previous post on tote bags made of vintage inabel fabric got a bit more attention than we’d expected. Thanks to your interest, Rene has been designing more tote bags out of the Iloko textil...
Dear Auntie Janey, I found a picture of his ex girlfriend in his old Hickok wallet. The wallet is slightly tattered, but it is something I would still use compared to the black one he had when we wen...
Here’s Koosi appropriating our dinner for her pillow. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE EATING. OR SQUEAMISH. This morning we woke up to a scene out of The Godfather. The one where the producer wakes...
If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a thousand times. I’m referring to a student’s writing a sentence like: I went to see the movie, “Midnight in Paris” with my friend, Jessie. Comma after “movie,” co...
Michael Stuhlbarg as a resident alien and Will Smith and Josh Brolin as agents in Men In Black 3. Stuhlbarg and Brolin starred in the Coen Brothers movies A Serious Man and No Country For Old Men, re...
Every week this month we’re giving away 3 signed copies of License To Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver by Rick Harrison, proprietor of the World-Famous Gold & Sil...
Have you gotten your priority pass for the Mark Millar signing on Saturday afternoon? It comes with purchase of selected Mark Millar titles at National Bookstores. One pass entitles you to have one b...
We suddenly missed the corner bakeries of our childhood where, apart from the staple pan de sal they sold pan de coco, pan di limon, Spanish bread, ensaymada, mamon, and that bread with red or purple...
Hawke and Delpy in Before Sunset Ernie bought a handmade mosaic cross at a weekend market. Attractive guy selling crosses: Why don’t you buy another cross? Ernie: But…but…but there ...
How to catch, and How to throw. They come bearing gifs. Why is our support group NOT called “Avengers Anonymous”? Because you are not, have never been, and will never be an Avenger. You d...
Fermi Bubbles are massive gamma-ray and X-ray emissions from the center of the Milky Way. (Should we start wearing stretchy pants?) Read Top 10 Mysteries of the Universe in the Smithsonian magazine.
The Disco Era The Martial Law Years Thank you, internet.
Amazing voice. Wish we’d seen her in concert. That is a diva.
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