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. Sympathy for the Mutant Jessica Zafra (July 2003) When my mother died two weeks ago the general reaction was one of surprise-- surprise that I even had a mother. It is easier to think of me as a product of spontaneous generation, or of some hideous experiment that escaped from a laboratory. I did in fact gestate in a womb and not a Petri dish. My mother¹s name was Araceli. I am told I look exactly like her, although I hope the comparison is based on how she looked when she was alive and in excellent health. My mother always seemed more alive than most people. She fairly crackled with energy; her presence set up a force field that took up every available inch of space. This is why I had to move out of the house twelve years ago: there simply was not enough space. Even when I was alone in my locked bedroom at 3 a.m. and she was asleep in another part of the house, I could feel her reading over my shoulder, making suggestions. She had a gift for vivid description, and a well-developed s

. Faster than a speeding... While hanging out at the studio tonight, I finally saw her! ANGEL LOCSIN in the Darna costume for a grand total of THREE SECONDS! What the heck?! The scene then cuts to a shot of Mambabarang/EddieGarcia swooping down some street. He lets loose his swarm of locusts(?), flies(?), black-spotty-bad-SFX-thingees(?). Then it cuts to a commercial! ARRRGH! Two more bloggers bloggin' about the show... 29 Thoughts About the Apparent Sexiness of Angel Locsin's Darna Ding! Mahiwaga Ba' To?! (Links found thanks to Mark .) I recently installed Statcounter on my blog and I've noticed that several people end up at my blog looking for pics of Angel Locin in the Darna costume. Nope. Not here. Try over here please .

. She's baaack! Anvil Publishing has just released the 7th book of the best-selling Twisted series, written by columnist and TV host Jessica Zafra. In Tw7sted, Zafra writers about her quest for world domination, mortality, art and urban life with her usual acerbic humor. In her piece entitled "Sympathy for the Mutant" she writes: "I hate death by sickness... It is not noble and awe-inspiring... it is as abrupt and banal as the flicking of a switch. This is not what death should be. Death, the reason for religion, the subject of great literature... the giant mystery that looms over everything we do,... should be spectacular, not pity-inducing, a bang and not a whimper. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have." There will be a book signing on April 13, 6 p.m. at PowerBooks, SM Megamall and on April 20, 6 p.m. at PowerBooks, Greenbelt 4.