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March 24, 2011
Azkals, geopolitics, colonialism and dictatorships
The Azkals rejoice at last year's Suzuki Cup. AFP photo from fifa.com. Is Neil the Black Swan or the White Swan? Philippines, Welcome to Earth, my column today in InterAksyon.com. Philippines vs Bangladesh in Myanmar today, cross fingers and toes.
Walang Bola
Remember the fearsome New Zealand All Blacks Skills video we posted last month? Here's another one to refresh your memory. Now here's a parody by Gaz Holgate of the Philippine Volcanoes and his teammates from Rugby Badia in Italy. It has a certain Tito, Vic & Joey-ness to it, no? If TVJ were Filipino, Argentinian, [...]
March 23, 2011
Auntie Janey's Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 8: The Fashionista Boyfriend
Dear Auntie Janey, My boyfriend is a fashionista. Do people still say 'fashionista'? Anyway he works in media so he has to keep up with the latest trends. But lately his fashion choices have become too flamboyant and my friends have been teasing me that my boyfriend is gay. Should I tell him to tone [...]
Elizabeth Taylor, 1932 – 2011
My mother was a huge fan of Elizabeth Taylor, and she liked telling the story of her college professor who was the world's biggest Elizabeth Taylor fan. Every time one of Ms Taylor's movies opened in Manila he would sneak out of class and leave my mom in charge. He didn't have to see the [...]
March 22, 2011
The Weekly LitWit Challenge 5.3: Splitting you in two.
Look what we found on youtube: the 1985 Twilight Zone episode based on Harlan Ellison's killer short story, Shatterday. It stars Bruce Willis. With hair! Ellison has written some amazing stories–A Boy and His Dog, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Jeffty is 5, plus the classic Star Trek episode City On the [...]
Madame Marcos, your car is waiting.
Here is a Car Made Out of a Giant Leather Shoe.
March 21, 2011
Holy winning DNA, did the Philippines break Charlie Sheen?
In an interview Emilio Estevez talks about his troubled early relationship with his father Martin Sheen (who wasn't just America's most beloved president on TV; during the bad years I think many preferred to think of him as THE president of the United States), his brother Charlie Sheen, and a formative experience: the famously crazy [...]
How to follow the Azkals
Photo from Inquirer. How to follow the Azkals without actually following the Azkals. I'm having lunch in Serendra when I get a text from esteemed poet-single malt connoisseur-futbol fan LeK, president of Old Heterosexuals With Little Girl Crushes On Neil Etheridge. 1350. LeK: Is Myanmar game on, live on TV? What na? 1351. Me: Ngek [...]
March 20, 2011
The winner of LitWit Challenge 5.2: Airing out Jane Eyre is…
coffeecrumble for her faux-Victorian Tagalog rendition of the first 770 words of Jane Eyre, Chapter 1. We noted some confusion in the use of "ng" and "nang" but on the whole we think Ms Charlotte Bronte would approve of coffeecrumble's faithfulness to the text. The winner will receive two volumes of Penguin Readers Collected Classics [...]
The Rite of Spring: Housecleaning
Vernal equinox at Stonehenge My druid trained me to regard the vernal equinox as the beginning of a new cycle. I spent the last day of the old cycle doing something my druid would approve of: housecleaning. Begin longish intro. I had the same cleaner for more than a decade. He would come in every [...]
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