Brad’s Pitts

After seeing LMD have so much fun with it, I went and tried MyHeritage.com’s face recognition thing, and I have to declare that MyHeritage.com is the bestest fucking website in the entire universe, bar none: Spitting Image: The other likenessess were of Emperor Akihito and a bunch of Japanese actors, but no Pat Morita Technorati […]

Saint Jack

I read Paul Theroux’s Saint Jack years ago when I was in junior college, and enjoyed it partly because I thought it was banned. I only found out this morning that it was never on the MDA’s banned wagon. (Thank you Rambling Librarian for setting me straight) But if I were to re-read the book, […]

TODAY: When bloggers go to the movies

The word-of-mouth effect – only far more effective When Tan Pin Pin’s documentary, Singapore Gaga (singaporegaga.com), was shown at a “press screening” for a select few in the media, several of us bloggers were a little surprised we were on the invite list. We didn’t ask too many questions at the Q&A that followed, and […]

Reeling

Funny how a day after I blog about the house I used to live in, my mother calls and tells me that the house we’re living in right now, well, she’s just sold it. Twenty-five years I’ve lived here (excepting eight in Australia), and I’ve got a couple of months to decide where to move […]