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Dog days are over. Tonight we liveblog the Azkals! (Updated with bribes for the cosmos)

Azkals AFP photo. Shorts too long. Make sure you're near a television tonight at 8 when the Philippines takes on Indonesia in the semifinal of the AFF Suzuki Cup. The game will be aired on Channel 23. Visiting Azkals hope to upset Indonesians at home We will liveblog the match! If you're online, join us [...]

Dog days are over. Tonight we liveblog the Azkals!

Azkals AFP photo. Make sure you're near a television tonight at 8 when the Philippines takes on Indonesia in the semifinal of the AFF Suzuki Cup. The game will be aired on Channel 23. Visiting Azkals hope to upset Indonesians at home We will liveblog the match! If you're online, join us in cheering for [...]

Yesterday in haiku form (Updated by Teddy-Wan Kenobi, who is ready for your next round of questions.)

Noel emailed me the day's news in bullets easily tweaked into a haiku. Tuesday in justice: Hubert Webb is acquitted, Hayden's case dismissed. Imelda Marcos Gets her Leyte mansion back. (How did these happen?) All on the same day. * * * * * I asked my Jedi Master Teddy Boy Locsin to react to [...]

You're forgetting Leonardo.

There is a great performance from 2010 that has been overlooked in many year-end lists. Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. (I think the listmakers' memories got extracted.) It is actually two (even three) performances in a single role, a feat so finely-calibrated that it only becomes apparent on hindsight ("Why did his delivery [...]

2010 Tens: Books

You like lists huh? Here's a bunch of lists. First up: My ten favorite books in 2010. Though I wouldn't call Cormac McCarthy's brilliant, horrific Blood Meridian a favorite exactly. After finishing the book in a 36-hour spell I thought, "Goddamn this is a goddamn masterpiece goddamnit" and "I never want to read Cormac McCarthy [...]

Your New Year's resolution for 2011

'Tis the season for that hallowed tradition: Stuffing your face with jamon, queso de bola, lechon and Xmas party food, pickling yourself in alcohol, and then attempting to rationalize your overindulgence with another New Year's resolution you know you won't keep: To go to the gym every day in 2011. All right, every other day. [...]

Yesterday in haiku form

Noel emailed me the day's news in bullets easily tweaked into a haiku. Tuesday in justice: Hubert Webb is acquitted, Hayden's case dismissed. Imelda Marcos Gets her Leyte mansion back. (How did these happen?) All on the same day.

Young Lava

Look what our brilliant elves have unearthed: a photo from the 2006 Under-19s rugby tournament in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The junior Volcanoes won the tournament. That team included three of our Jocks With Books. Behold: Jake Letts, Gaz Holgate, and Matty Saunders at an age when looking at them the wrong way would get you jailed. [...]

Memories of the Vortex

Room at the Picasso Suites My first apartment was at Blanco Center on Leviste Street in Salcedo Village, Makati. Apartment 914. I shared the place with two guys who toiled in the corporate universe. How we (and our respective egos) managed to cram into a railroad flat, I have no idea. For one thing our [...]

My old school Ent

QC school nurtures heritage tree in the Inquirer. Thanks to Fabia for the alert. Everyone who went to St. Theresa's QC knows that acacia tree. You had to take care when walking by at certain times of the year—falling caterpillars. When the fire trees were in bloom the field turned orange. Gorgeous. There was an [...]