February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
11 posts
Drake's Diary: Sixteen Stylish Maxims for the New... →
drakes-london:
Style and taste are a particular sort of intelligence, and vice versa.
Aesthetic judgments rarely transcend the culture of the judge.
The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Which is why Fashion is shallow, but taste is deep.
There’s no right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it...
December 2011
36 posts
LAKWATSERO: The Macaulay Culkin Syndrome →
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE READ THIS CHRISTMAS.
It’s the season of giving, and this piece is meant to be shared.
jeffcanoy:
I have, as my friends call it, the Macaulay Culkin syndrome.
Every Christmas, I dream of not being home alone.
Since returning to the Philippines eight years ago, my December calendar is usually filled with four words – work, work and more work. It’s a way of...
The Christmas Non-Miracle
Before the holidays:
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After the holidays:
The first rule of the Thesaurus Club is that you do not talk, articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one’s tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, soliloquize, speak,...
November 2011
22 posts
Pinoy Tumblr.: Cheaper texting starts today →
pinoytumblr:
The National Telecommunications Commission reminded service providers to lower their text messaging rates, saying it had been receiving reports that consumers continued to be charged P1 for sending messages to other networks. (via)
The rate for short messaging service (SMS) will go down to…