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	<description>Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994</description>
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		<title>The sex-comedy as weapon of change</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/25/the-sex-comedy-as-weapon-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of sex in Juana C. the full-length film debut of the political critic/YouTube phenomenon. Kinky sex, sex for pay, boy on boy, girl on girl, group and something called vroom vroom. Why is there so much sex in a movie that wears its advocacies on it XXL sleeve? Because if we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norte by Lav Diaz: &#8220;Finally, an honest-to-goodness masterpiece.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 18:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sid Lucero stars in Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan, Lav Diaz&#8217;s &#8220;short film&#8221; (Okay that&#8217;s the last time we make that joke) which just premiered at Cannes. From Wesley Morris&#8217;s Cannes Diary at Grantland. &#8230;I stopped to check the schedule and saw that a four-hour-and-10-minute Filipino movie called Norte, the End of History was about to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marias. (Updated: Just another day out here in the Hellmouth.)</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/24/marias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javier Marias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koosi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While The Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marias, Php865 at National Bookstores. Bored. Must&#8230;reach&#8230;book. * * * * * For three weeks, I saw them every day, and now I don’t know what has become of them. I’ll probably never see them again—at least, not her. Summer conversations, and even confidences, rarely lead anywhere. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loneliness is lethal.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/24/loneliness-is-lethal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 21:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=23855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Frieda Fromm-Reichmann&#8217;s) “On Loneliness” is considered a founding document in a fast-growing area of scientific research you might call loneliness studies. Over the past half-century, academic psychologists have largely abandoned psychoanalysis and made themselves over as biologists. And as they delve deeper into the workings of cells and nerves, they are confirming that loneliness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The deleted Star Trek shower of evil</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/23/the-deleted-star-trek-shower-of-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/23/the-deleted-star-trek-shower-of-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conan O'Brien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science-fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Trek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conan and J.J. Abrams discuss a deleted scene from Star Trek Into Darkness starring Benedict Cumberbatch&#8217;s torso. Aiiieeee we&#8217;re used to thinking of Cumberbatch as a disembodied voice. Now the voice has pecs.]]></description>
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		<title>James Salter quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/23/james-salter-quote-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/23/james-salter-quote-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Salter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Illustration by Ricky Villabona. Made with Procreate for iPad. From his new novel, All That Is.]]></description>
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		<title>Philippine politics: Game of Drones</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/22/philippine-politics-game-of-drones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/22/philippine-politics-game-of-drones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Song of Ice and Fire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Made with the Sigil Creator. We didn&#8217;t want to interrupt our obsessing with Game of Thrones to write a column on current events, so we did both. Sigil first, column coming up at InterAksyon.com. * * * * * Politics in the Philippines is a family business, emphasis on ‘business’. People take it up as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your day job and work nights.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/22/keep-your-day-job-and-work-nights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/22/keep-your-day-job-and-work-nights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eyeglasses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=23830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photos by Ricky Villabona The other day we ran into Paulo Vinluan, who found these eyeglasses a few years ago when he was working at a thrift shop in Brooklyn. At the time he was clerking to pay the bills and painting whenever he could. Paintings by Paulo Vinluan Paulo is now painting full-time. He&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones: Kill your darlings.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/21/game-of-thrones-kill-your-darlings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/21/game-of-thrones-kill-your-darlings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Song of Ice and Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George R.R. Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lanchester]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=23823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Lanchester, author of Capital, reviewed A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin and HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones last month in the London Review of Books. Good to see that journal of literary and intellectual essays give fantasy novels their due. The article is here. If you have not read the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Etiquette for Cats # 2</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/21/etiquette-for-cats-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/21/etiquette-for-cats-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etiquette]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=23814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Koosi is the Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr of cats. Koosi says: Although cats, being the perfect predators, are clearly the top of the food chain, it is in our best interest to let the humans believe that they are the dominant species. Let them think that we are cute, cuddly critters who give them something to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: This is why you should listen to us.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/20/reminder-this-is-why-you-should-listen-to-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/20/reminder-this-is-why-you-should-listen-to-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rugby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gareth Holgate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stuff happens because we say so. Rugby, front page, above the fold, Holgate. There&#8217;s usually a three to four-year gap from the time we say &#8220;Listen to this&#8221; to the time the general public actually pays attention, but there it is. Flashback: Our first rugby post, not counting the 2007 All Blacks. P.S. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bella Flores has died. (Update: Here&#8217;s a ringtone so you can remember her whenever you get a call.)</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/19/bella-flores-has-died/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2013/05/19/bella-flores-has-died/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bella Flores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photo from Pelikula, Atbp. Bella Flores, the archetypal villainess of Filipino cinema, has died. So now we&#8217;re stuck with inferior copies. We never had the pleasure of meeting Bella Flores, but we think of her every time our phone rings. Literally, because she is our ringtone. Bella Jessica Ringtone 2 Noel worked with her on [...]]]></description>
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