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Martian dessert

Mike brought some Ube Calamay from Bohol. It was so dense and sticky it could not be sliced. Then the utensils got stuck in the calamay. They could not be extricated. This would make a great snack for astronauts in space.

Are we bipolar yet?

Lash year see died in a sipwreck. Dish year see died in a car crass. – Bakla movie joke Last night the Philippines was riveted by a hostage drama. This morning the Philippines was riveted by the Miss Universe pageant. Are we bipolar yet? And yet these disparate events had the same problem. KATANGAHAN. I'm [...:]

LitWit Challenge 3.4: I love the movies.

All photos from Uro's Abandoned Movie Houses series. This LitWit Challenge is for people who love the movies. I don't mean people who view the cinema as a two-hour escape from "real life" or something to do on their downtime, I mean those who regard the movies as extensions of their lives. I'm from the [...:]

Know your neighborhood crazies: Ex-cop hostage takers, ex-satanic cult member taxi drivers, etc

At noon I was sitting in a taxi, effectively held hostage by radio coverage of that hostage-taking incident. According to the breathless radio reporters, a former police officer had taken a busload of tourists hostage. At first the hostages were thought to be Korean; later they were revealed to be from Hong Kong. Apparently the [...:]

Know your neighborhood crazies: Ex-cop hostage takers, ex-satanic cult member taxi drivers, etc rant

I remembered this as I was sitting in a taxi, effectively held hostage by radio coverage of that hostage-taking incident. According to the breathless radio reporters, a former police officer had taken a busload of tourists hostage. At first the hostages were thought to be Korean; later they were revealed to be from Hong Kong. [...:]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.3: Your dramatic emergency exit strategy is…

Nobody. I didn't care for the (very few) entries—not enough fury. My instructions must've been vague. Ah well. We still have that copy of Roberto Bolaño's 2666 to give away, so stay tuned for LitWit Challenge 3.4, which starts at midnight. Apart from the shot at the prize, your entry to LitWit Challenge 3.4 could [...:]

Today in earrings

Things I didn't know were available at SM Department Store: Betsey Johnson earrings at 70 percent off. Obviously not these ones, since I've bought them, but there's more in the ladies' section.

But who's going to do the dishes?

You can't buy this yet, it's still in development. Photo by Amit Zoran in Discovery News. All the fuss about "molecular gastronomy" has somehow failed to address the most basic issue in food preparation and consumption: Who's going to cook? Despite the relentless Martha Stewartification of society, there are still some of us who cannot [...:]

While the war over the National Museum rages…

We still haven't visited the Maitum anthropomorphic jars, created around 110 BC by unknown artisans and used as burial vessels. These jars were discovered at the Ayub cave in Maitum, Saranggani Province. A page from 10,000 Years of Art by Phaidon Books. When at brunch I heard that former National Museum consultant John Silva had [...:]

Meanwhile, as the war over the National Museum rages

We still haven't visited the Maitum anthropomorphic jars, created around 110 BC by unknown artisans and used as burial vessels. These jars were discovered at the Ayub cave in Maitum, Saranggani Province. A page from 10,000 Years of Art by Phaidon Books. When at brunch I heard that former National Museum consultant John Silva had [...:]