reason is the reason

Finally, Mooj’s monologue explained. Mouseover each link for the definition. “Life isn’t about sex…. It’s about people. It’s about connection. It’s not about tossing salad. It’s not about these rusty trombone, and dirty sanchez. It’s not about rainbow showers and camel-toe slide… and your Cincinnati bowtie, your Arabian goggles or the hot carl and pearl necklace… or pussy juice cocktails, and the jagged-head dildos, and the double-decker pussies. Shit stained balls, and cum swapping, and the hanging brain, it’s not about the rattlesnake wiggle, and the alligator fuckhouse, donkey-punching, the tea-bagging…” “Mooj, just please stop.” (From the 40 Year Old Virgin, in case you didn’t know.)

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I’ve acted on Jessica Zafra’s rave reviews only once – when she gushed over Robert Olen Butler’s collection of Vietnam-themed short stories, I found the book in question at National Bookstore Katipunan and got it for myself. Mind you, that was more than ten years ago, but the book is safely in my collection, and I have no plans of letting it go.

I wonder what Zafra would make of this latest twist in Butler’s life story? His wife, non-Pulitzer-prize winning author Elizabeth Dewberry, has just left him for Ted Turner. Yup, that Ted Turner. As if that weren’t potboiler-worthy enough, Butler writes an email explaining the circumstances and sends it to five grad students, who apparently mistook Butler’s encouragement – “you need not keep this to yourself, if the occasion arises to speak of it to someone” – as permission to copy-furnish the world. Read more…