Archive for March, 2011
Auntie Janey’s Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 7: Stalkers
Dear Auntie Janey,
I have a blog. A reader I’ve never met started leaving poems and song lyrics in the comments. Then flirting. Then he started emailing love letters to the address on my blog and asking me out to dinner. I ignored him because anything I say might be interpreted as encouragement. Like if I say Go away, he might think I’m being coy when all I mean is, Go away creep. Somehow he found my work address and started sending presents. Clothes I would never wear (and his taste is terrible but that’s beside the point). Should I email him to stop bothering me? If I acknowledge that he exists, he might get hope!
What can I do? Are there laws against stalking?
All Creeped Out
Stalker # 1: Jim Carrey as The Cable Guy
Dear All,
When we were growing up, we were told to be nice to everyone. We were told to be courteous. Manners will get you very far and help you maintain good relations with others. But it can only get you so far. Sometimes, we need to put people in their proper place. We have to bare our fangs and snarl.
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Tayo na sa Antipolo
If you need to get away we recommend Antipolo.
Specifically, Dr. Cuanang’s Pinto Art Museum in Grand Heights, Antipolo.
Get some air.
Inhale some art.
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Idleness as a form of motivation
Wake up!
You have deadlines to meet so you decide to stay at home and get work done. This is a bad idea.
Little work gets done at home. You will surf the internet aimlessly even as you wonder why you are surfing when you should be toiling. If you really want to accomplish something, go to a public place and work there.
Get to work!!
You have a pile of books to read and you really want to read them but somehow you manage not to. You have a stack of dvds you’re eager to watch and somehow you avoid them. Instead you sit doing nothing, inwardly kicking yourself for not reading or watching. Desire is overcome by torpor.
Another full day in our quest for world domination. Right, Duck Vader?
Eventually your annoyance boils over and you finish your assignments in a huff. Strangely, they read better than the stuff you write at leisure. So sloth turns out to be an efficient approach. But this is not the way to live.
Today is Jake Letts Day. Letts hug it out!
Bring on the dancing horses and put the champagne on ice, Jake turns 23 today! To mark the occasion we asked brewhuh23 to write 23 questions for the new 23-year-old. And since Jake is adorable beyond human comprehension he made time in his packed schedule (university, job, rugby) to answer them.
1. Is Jake your first name or is it short for something?
Just Jake, not short for anything…..
2. Favourite cartoon character?
Goku from Dragonball Z
3. Favourite sleeping position?
Wherever feels the most comfortable at that specific time, I always change….
4. Weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?
Kangaroo Steak (actually pretty common in Australia – only tasted it once, not too bad actually)
5. What was the name of your best friend in high school?
Had a few, couldn’t name just ‘one’
6. Top or bottom?
Bottom for sure
7. You’re invited to play in a celebrity poker match, who would you like to be up against? Name 4 celebrities.
– Denzel Washington
– Jay Z
– Gaz Holgate
Gareth (Gaz) and Jake, or as we call them, Jareth.
Spot The Evil Twin # 8
The weekly STET is brought to you by brewhuh23.
Jeff Buckley and Jake Letts
A biopic of the singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley is in the works. One of the actors in the running to play Jeff is James Franco, who resembles the late musician.
Jake Letts, scrum-half of the Philippine men’s rugby team, resembles James Franco.
Therefore by the mathematical principle of transitivity, if Jake Letts looks like James Franco and James Franco looks like Jeff Buckley, Jake Letts looks like Jeff Buckley!
What do you think of our math?
Which reminds us. . .
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