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Have the cyberwars begun?

Hackers Attack Those Seen as WikiLeaks Enemies By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA LONDON — In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization [...]

Woof! The Azkals are in the semis

Congratulations to the Azkals Philippine national football team for making it to the semifinals of the Suzuki Cup! Woof! The region's football underdogs drew with Myanmar to advance to the next stage. (Another victory for the diaspora and my Theory of World Domination, megalomaniacal laughter.) The way is shut. Neil Etheridge! The Philippines will face [...]

Cross fingers, cross toes, advance copies of Twisted 9 to arrive today. (Updated: They're here!)

My book publisher says the printers will deliver the first batch of copies of Twisted 9 today, Thursday. Yay! If you posted your orders here, you will receive your confirmation email in the next couple of days. If you haven't ordered your books yet, we accept orders of ten copies or more here. As of [...]

Cross fingers, cross toes, advance copies of Twisted 9 to arrive today!

My book publisher says the printers will deliver the first batch of copies of Twisted 9 today, Thursday. Yay! If you posted your orders here, you will receive your confirmation email in the next couple of days. If you haven't ordered your books yet, we accept orders of ten copies or more here. As of [...]

Other words for "Horror"

The current issue of Words Without Borders, the online magazine of international literature, is devoted to Horrors. Included are works from Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, France, Serbia, Spain and Brazil, newly translated into English. I've never associated the work of Edward Hopper with horror, though one could say isolation is a form of horror (Not [...]

Warning: Avert your eyes.

This is your final warning. If you get into trouble, if your humorless employer glances at your screen, if your ultraconservative teacher wants to know what you're engrossed in at the back of the classroom, if your girlfriend sees what you're looking at and begins to ask uncomfortable questions, don't whine that we didn't warn [...]

I won a raffle!

And I swear it was not rigged. Round 5pm I got a text from Noel: I won free graphic novels from the raffle at National Bookstore! I said, Wow and you never join raffles. At that exact moment I was at National Bookstore in Glorietta 5 for the opening of Work Station, a new section [...]

Letts Active (Updated)

Bulletin of the Jake Letts, Letts Hug It Out Fan Club, Volume I, No. 1 Jake Letts, photo by JZ. There's an article on the national rugby players, particularly the Letts and Saunders brothers, in the December 2010 issue of Lifestyle Asia magazine which now on the stands. The piece was written in July. Since [...]

Letts Active

Bulletin of the Jake Letts, Letts Hug It Out Fan Club, Volume I, No. 1 Jake Letts, photo by JZ. There's an article on the national rugby players, particularly the Letts and Saunders brothers, in the December 2010 issue of Lifestyle Asia magazine which now on the stands. The piece was written in July. Since [...]

Who will take over the Dennis Hopper roles? (Updated)

The other day I had lunch with my old friends Michel and Bernard-Henri (not French, just snobs). We were discussing Amigo, the movie set in the Philippine-American War, written, edited, produced and directed by John Sayles. I saw an early cut months ago and the finished version last week. - After seeing it again I [...]