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	<title>JessicarulestheUniverse &#187; Philippine Reference Alert</title>
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	<description>Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994</description>
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		<title>The Filipino Way of Whoopass</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/11/02/the-filipino-way-of-whoopass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Filipino Martial Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barung, swords made in Mindanao. Photo by Jay Ignacio. History tells us that when Ferdinand Magellan sailed onto these shores in 1521 not all the natives who would later be called Filipinos were impressed at his global circumnavigation project. Nor were they lining up to get baptized. Instead of saying “Mabuhay!” and hanging garlands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Jesse Eisenberg&#8217;s (onstage) brother  brought home a Filipino wife</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/10/28/how-jesse-eisenbergs-onstage-brother-brought-home-a-filipino-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Eisenberg, Camille Mana, Remy Auberjonois and Justin Bartha. Photo by Sandra Coudert in Playbill.com. Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, The Squid and the Whale) has written a play about &#8220;a college kid consumed by white guilt, his multiculturalism-obsessed pothead mentor and roommate&#8221;, and how &#8220;their relationship is complicated by the sudden arrival of Edgar’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pulitzer-winning Fil-American journalist outs himself as undocumented immigrant</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/06/24/pulitzer-winning-fil-american-journalist-reveals-he-is-an-undocumented-immigran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/06/24/pulitzer-winning-fil-american-journalist-reveals-he-is-an-undocumented-immigran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philippine Reference Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Antonio Vargas is a former reporter for The Washington Post and shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He founded Define American, which seeks to change the conversation on immigration reform. He also wrote that New Yorker profile of Mark Zuckerberg that we linked to here. My Life as an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;My Hollywood&#8217; stars a Filipino nanny</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/03/10/my-hollywood-stars-a-filipino-nanny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/03/10/my-hollywood-stars-a-filipino-nanny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mona Simpson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the narrators of Mona Simpson&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>One of The 99</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/02/07/one-of-the-99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/02/07/one-of-the-99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine Reference Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graphic novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superheroes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: The 99. You can download a preview at their website. At the NYU campus in Abu Dhabi my friend stumbled on an exhibit of a Kuwaiti superhero comic book that is sweeping the Arab world. The superheroes are called The 99, and one of them is from the Philippines. Widad—The Loving.]]></description>
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		<title>CSI defines &#8216;aswang&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/10/25/csi-defines-aswang/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/10/25/csi-defines-aswang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budj alerted us to a CSI episode in which Langston refers to a monster out of Philippine mythology. In the first place it&#8217;s pronounced asWANG, not ASSwang. At least he didn&#8217;t attempt &#8220;manananggal&#8221;. I learned my Philippine mythology not from my folks, other kids, or yaya (Hala ka kung hindi mo uubusin yan, kukunin ka [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sugar Pie de Santo née Umpeleya Marsema Balinton</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/08/04/sugar-pie-de-santo-nee-umpeleya-marsema-balinton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/08/04/sugar-pie-de-santo-nee-umpeleya-marsema-balinton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sugar Pie DeSanto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rhythm and Blues pioneer Sugar Pie de Santo was born in Brooklyn in 1935 to a Filipino father and an African-American mother and christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. (Umpeleya from &#8216;ampalaya&#8217;?) As a kid &#8216;Peliya&#8217; hung out with a neighbor named Jamesetta Hawkins, who became the R&#038;B legend Etta James. Peliya took to entering singing contests [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What about &#8216;Ashes to ashes, dust to dust&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/05/28/what-about-ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/05/28/what-about-ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Carell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Vulture in New York magazine: Steve Carell has shown off his musical pipes on film many times, whether crooning &#8220;Age of Aquarius&#8221; in The 40 Year Old Virgin, or harmonizing with Dane &#8220;voice of an angel&#8221; Cook in Dan in Real Life. But does he have what it takes to play an international pop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>We&#8217;re building a rocket to Mars.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/12/24/were-building-a-rocket-to-mars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/12/24/were-building-a-rocket-to-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philippine Reference Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Who]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Michael P: I was watching Dr. Who today and there was a reference to the Philippines. The year is 2059 and the Doctor shows up at the first Mars colony Bowie Base One. Nobody knows who the Doctor is, and one of the crew speculates he may be from the Philippines since it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Yaya Diaries</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/11/21/the-yaya-diaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/11/21/the-yaya-diaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that movie Lukas Moodysson shot in the Philippines, starring Gael Garcia Bernal? Mammoth. It just opened in New York. Manohla Dargis&#8217;s review in the NYT.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Naming your characters</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/09/17/naming-your-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/09/17/naming-your-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a real sense in which we are what we are called, at least from the Old Testament onwards, when God renamed Jacob Israel, which means that he struggled with God. Tolstoy, with his usual practicality, wrote an early draft of War and Peace in which Count Rostov was simply named Count Prostoy: prostoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenager with saxophone</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/09/teenager-with-saxophone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/09/teenager-with-saxophone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my continuing search for post-Soviet novels written by Russians (Victor Pelevin!), I chanced upon Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Its blurb mentions that part of the book happens in St Petersburg. So I started on Ghostwritten, which is every bit as exhilarating as the later Cloud Atlas. The novel consists of nine parts featuring nine [...]]]></description>
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