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Auntie Janey’s Old Fashioned Agony Column # 6

March 10, 2011 By: jessicazafra Category: Re-lay-shun-ships 9 Comments →

Dear Auntie Janey,

I am a gay man whose female best friend is getting married in a two months. Last week I was at a bar with my best friend’s soon-to-be husband when he took my hand and. . .let’s just say he propositioned me. The guy who’s going to marry my best friend!

Should I tell her? How do I tell her?

xoxo,
Shokota Fanning

Hmm I thought “gimbatul” was hard G.

Dear Shokota,

After learning that Gandalf had fallen into the shadow, Galadriel said to the Company: “But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true.” A heavy burden was indeed placed on you Ring-bearer when Gandalf fished out the One Ring from the flames and dropped it into your hand. Or did he make you grasp his staff?

It is common belief that the truth shall set one free. That it must be relevant, good and useful. Just look at the walls painted over by the Rotary Club. But when and how do you say it? Since ancient times it has always been the messenger that gets killed. Most of us enjoy living.
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‘My Hollywood’ stars a Filipino nanny

March 10, 2011 By: jessicazafra Category: Books, Philippine Reference Alert 2 Comments →

One of the narrators of Mona Simpson’s latest novel My Hollywood is a Filipino nanny named Lola.

I take Williamo to the post office, seal the envelope, and send my money home. Four hundred fifty this week. A ticker tape of dollars runs now all the time in my head. Last year, I totaled more than twenty thousand – in pesos, three times what Bong Bong earns, and he is executive Hallmark. This year it will be more because my weekend job. Besides what I send, I give myself allowance of five dollars for daily spending. Twenty five go to my private savings, so when I return home there will be some they did not know. Also, I need my account here for shoes or treats for Williamo or if one of the babysitters gets married. When you are working seven days, you need some your own money.

Read the excerpt at the author’s website.

Pop culture trivia: Mona Simpson’s earlier novel Anywhere But Here was made into a movie directed by Wayne Wang, starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. Mona’s parents had a child before they married and they gave him up for adoption. The child was Steve Jobs; she thanks him in the acknowledgements. Mona’s ex-husband Richard Appel is a writer and producer for The Simpsons and he named Homer’s mother after Mona.

Moleskine is branching out into pens, bags, spectacles etc and we want we want we want.

March 10, 2011 By: jessicazafra Category: Design, Notebooks 7 Comments →

Sketches by Moleskine designer Giulio Iacchetti. via Flavorwire.

Moleskine is launching a new product line at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan in April.

Conversation I always have with practical friends:

Practical Friends: Why do you buy Moleskines, they’re so expensive, you can get a perfectly good notebook for one-tenth the price?

Me: I don’t know I just love them.

It’s not rational, I know. Alternate answer: It’s Chus’s fault, he gave me my first Moleskine.

The current Moleskine is a break from the regular black.

The Pac-Man 30th anniversary notebook. Went a little crazy with the stickers.

Girls just wanna survive flight delays

March 09, 2011 By: jessicazafra Category: Music, Places, Traveling 12 Comments →

Watch Cyndi Lauper’s Impromptu Airport Performance of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Girls just wanna have fun—and so do stranded airline passengers. So to ease tempers over delays and cancellations at the Buenos Aires airport on Friday, the 80s icon grabbed a microphone and treated passengers to an impromptu rendition of her greatest hit.

The 57-year old singer was leaving Argentina after performing several concerts there as part of her world tour. Draped in a black headscarf and wearing oversized sunglasses indoors, she clearly wanted to remain incognito. But giving the crowd something to smile about thrust her into the dimly-lit airport spotlight.

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1. She sounds great!
2. Please could she be courtside at Wimbledon during rain delays? If we hear Cliff Richard doing Summer Holiday one more time we may run amok.
3. We have to go to Argentina. Patagonia!

One of our regular topics: Cyndi Lauper and Madonna emerged at about the same time. Cyndi is the better singer but Madonna became the bigger star. Why? Discuss.