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Entries from February 2010

dj qbert scratches manila’s back

February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Filipino-American DJ Qbert played a benefit gig at LAX behind Mall of Asia last Jan. 15 to help out victims of Typhoon Ondoy in collaboration with Sagip Kapamilya Foundation. Fifty percent of the proceeds went to charity. Qbert isn’t the first celebrity or “name” DJ to spin at LAX. Samantha Ronson launched the club last [...]

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dear threadless…

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · posted by admiralpye

Dear Threadless,
Please please please PLEASE make this design by artist Apol Sta. Maria into a shirt that we can buy:

An ordinary white shirt with a cute-little-guy logo by day; glow-in-the-dark striped shirt at night! And the reveal: the cute-little-guy logo is the one painting the stripes! How can this go wrong?! Even without the voting [...]

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the frazzled cook’s personal touch

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · posted by riot

Nestled snugly in Additional Hills, Mandaluyong is a charming restaurant/bistro called The Frazzled Cook. Occupying the ground floor of a yellow, two-story house it appears to be “a huge living room,” as a friend of mine put it. Tables of varying heights, sizes and shapes fill the space, surrounded by chairs that come from different [...]

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another lucky dog!

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · posted by admiralpye

And yet another German Shepherd mix found himself in a watery fix. The story goes that the dog got trapped on a breakaway icefloe on a river in Poland and drifted helplessly to sea as initial rescue attempts failed. People feared the dog was lost forever when there was no sighting of him for days.
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