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In the days of the dictatorial Marcos kleptocracy, inspired reformist Ninoy Aquino was a beacon of hope for a crushed and suffering nation. His brutal assassination at Manila International Airport sparked the flames of revolt, culminating in the 1986 People Power movement which drove out the Marcoses and restored democracy to the Philippines. Today, nineteen […]
I couldn’t catch the Havalina gig, because I had to go to Hechts’ and buy a pillow before catching the MARC train back to Bawlmer. :( Anyway, now that Bene D has granted me the title of Honorary Canadian, I wonder if I’m entitled to wild Canadian rants like this one. “Ya bunch of stupid […]
I’ve been wondering all day about that HBO logo. It’s a classic cable ID that we’ve all seen for years: the one where the p.o.v. flies over houses and streets into space, and a giant computer-generated HBO logo comes out of the stars, with a melodramatic sci-fi theme blaring over the whole scene. But since […]
Screen on the Green last night was fun; we joined thousands of people on the grass by the Washington Monument to watch Elvis in Viva Las Vegas. Silly, shallow, classic movie fun. What really cracked me up was how some people actually danced for the “HBO in Space” logo. On the down side, I overdosed […]
Update, 2005: Eugene Peterson on spirituality. Now I have a newfound respect for him, more than enough to overshadow my annoyance at “The Message.” Eugene Peterson’s The Message gets gentle treatment from Bible scholars, mainly because it isn’t presented as a Bible translation. It had better not. I’m not a very big fan of The […]
You know those people who go around pretending to be vampires? Well, it’s a bit of divergent cultural fanaticism that can go waaay too far. (via MeFi)
Ah, World Youth Day. I still remember the first — and last — time I attended World Youth Day, when the Pope came to the Philippines in 1995. I was still Roman Catholic at the time, an active choir member at Mary The Queen. Our parish was host to several international delegates, the largest group […]
Can we clear up a minor ethnic spelling concern that occasionally pops up every now and then? People from the Philippines are Filipinos, spelled with an “F” and not a “P” or a “Ph.” (Actually, it was “Pilipino” until recently, and I think some traditionalists still prefer to use the older spelling, but that’s a […]
Anonymous Nietzschean Commenter says: In any case, at the end of the day, I really cannot fathom how anyone can live with such cartoonish drivel: some criminal rabbi died 2000 years ago and you think he did it for you – a little bug momentarily alive on a rock in space – so that you […]
Rummaging through some old pictures, I found several photos of the Ateneo de Manila campus which I had shot for The GUIDON graduation issue in 1998. Those have been combined with a few other old Ateneo pictures in the nostalgic Ateneo album. A DC photography skating spree, this time with my Pencam, has yielded more […]