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A Place Where Each Year Has Thirteen Junes

I doubt I’ll ever get married, and it’s not because I don’t want to. It’s probably because I take this love business too seriously, and I’m fully aware of my own shortcomings. I’ve always felt that trying to define lov…
Emotive Uncontrollability

I don’t know anything about Shia LaBeouf that the average thirty-something person would not know. The first time I ever heard of him was almost two years ago when he was on a morning radio program promoting a film calle…
Apartment Photo Friday #2

You can always tell what time of year it is in themanilajones household by looking at the arrangement of my books. During the spring and summer months, my bookslook like this: During fall and winter, the books…
The Deconstruction of A.C. Slater

There was no greater rivalry in the 1990s than that which existed between Zack Morris and A.C. Slater. However, while Zack was universally accepted as the leader of the Saved by the Bell gang, Slater was better than Zac…
Another Sunday

On Sundays many people wake up early in the morning, get dressed up, and go to a building filled with about 200 or so people. At this building (it usually has a giant cross in the front and a bell tower, and it’s almost…
Liz Phair for President

Everything you need to know about Democratic party politics over the last fifteen years can be learned by looking at the career of Liz Phair. Her first album, Exile in Guyville, was released in 1993. Because of its lo-…
Apartment Foto Friday #1

I recently began posting links to my blog posts on myFacebook page, and I’ve been getting some hits on my site from my friends. When I asked one of my friends if he clickedto the link to my Xanga site, he said, “Yea…
The manilajones Show

This is one of the most wonderful times of the year and it has everything to do with one of the grandest of American traditions: the return of the fall television season. Watching new television shows will occupy 90% o…
The Great Linguistics Debate

The Koko: Hey [The Jap], do you think Tagalog is an ugly-sounding language? [The Flip] doesn't think so. The Jap: Uh...? The Koko: It's not as ugly as Vietnamese, but it's pretty high up there, right?…
The (Metro)Link Between Life and Death

The greater Los Angeles metropolitan area has a population of over 17 million people. This population is sprawled across five counties (Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino) which encompass an are…
The Barista and the One (A "manilajones Forever" Epilogue)

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Intersex Internet

In a recent study published in the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy, it was found that one-third of women who meet men on the internet have sex on the first date. Additionally, it found that 75% of these wom…
Non-Virgin Airlines

There was an urban legend that I heard about several years ago that very much piqued my interest. It was something that I had to investigate. The rumor was that there is a particular Southwest Airlines flight that leav…
"Gorgeous"

Yesterday at Starbucks I was waiting at the bar for my drink. Another customer, a 20-something-year old dude, was waiting at the bar for his drink, too. When the barista, a petite 20-year old brunette, handed him his F…

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