Post May 1 Post

Already posted this quote from Tom Morello. Yesterday's May 1 celebration (?!) reminded me of it.

"...the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."

We'll get there.

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Tulad ng Dati

I didn't catch Tulad ng Dati last night.

Instead, I opted to finish the second book from the Sword of Truth series. Halina recommended the read. I'm really thankful she didn't give up encouraging me to start with the series.

Forget about Tolkien. Goodkind's take on religion, ethics and human nature is refreshing and surprisingly objective. I particularly like this line from the second book, The Stone of Tears:

"It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind."

Haven't started with Eco's, How to Travel With A Salmon, though. (Was I "traumatized" by Foucault's Pendulum?)

I should probably buy a copy as soon as I have the moolah (whatdaf?!). It would really be unfair to Kuya Ben and Halina if I just "wikied" it. Or is it? Hmmm.

It is.

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Feed The Head

Boredom, I surrender myself to thee.

Tulad ng Dati, The Dawn's docu-film will be airing later tonight at ABC 5. What time? I don't know. Hope to catch it.
Here's the movie trailer, courtesy of You Tube.


I don't know what to prioritize, the Stone of Tears (which I think is a good read) or Tulad ng Dati.

Now, if only someone could teach me how to upload videos on blogspot. Anyone?

What Have We Learned So Far?: Synonyms

"Today when I landed, I met a fellow named Irving Hall. Where are you, Irving? Right there -- stand up. Now you can sit down. Irving Hall works for our government at the laboratories, the high tech -- Sandia -- I think you worked there, didn't you, Irving? Yes. He worked there, and came time to retire and his boss said, what are you going to do, Irving? He said, why don't you make a difference -- I believe that's what your boss told me -- what you told me your boss said. See, he met me at the airplane. I'd never met Irving before."

George W. Bush
March 26, 2004
Albuquerque, New Mexico.



Bush is just another word for c(you)nt.
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Where is Jonas Burgos?

It's been a year since Jonas Burgos was abducted.
We could only wonder how Ms. Edith is bearing with the loss of the men in her life to fascist hands.

The paleness of the mask is eery.

I could only flinch. Why?

(The text ain't small enough)

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It was a Dark (, stormy) Knight

Can't wait for the new Batman movie. Yeah, we've all read about Ledger's death. All the more reason to watch the supposed reason.

The image here is chalk art by Julian Beever (who's actually squatting on the sidewalk). The art also reminded me of old Batman comic art.

Nice work with the perspective. How Po Mo!

image taken from http://www.moillusions.com/2006/03/more-sidewalk-chalk-illusions.html

Satanist? Atheist? Agnostic?

Unorthodox.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

~ Thomas Paine

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I Badly Need To Read, Badly...

I was browsing through Frank Cimatu's blog when I came across this list titled "The Cult Classics." I felt small after scanning the titles, having read only a fraction (2 out of 50) of what a "respectable" writer would consider "classics." I don't even have half of the recommended titles.

Something's seriously wrong with my library.

Here's the list.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell (1957-60)
A Rebours by JK Huysmans (1884)
Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1991)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (1993)
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (1971)
Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? by Erich Von Däniken (1968)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1824)
Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health by L Ron Hubbard (1950)
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (1954)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter (1979)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (1982)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (1979)
Iron John: a Book About Men by Robert Bly (1990)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Russell Munson (1970) - read it
The Magus by John Fowles (1966)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
No Logo by Naomi Klein (2000)
On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (1971)
The Outsider by Colin Wilson (1956)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923) - have one, haven't read yet
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (1914)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr by Edward FitzGerald (1859)
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
Story of O by Pauline Réage (1954)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda (1968)
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1933)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-85)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) - read it
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig (1974)

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What Have We Learned So Far?: Earth Day Lesson Number 2

Now we have an idea how Van Gogh did it.
A Post-Earth Day Post brought to you by the letters; s, M, and B.

You Are One Click Away, Or Are You?: Po Mo Made Easy

Want/Need some Po Mo or Po Po Mo? You could get your much needed Po Mo fix right here. And if you think that the article you got ain't Po Mo (or Po Po Mo) enough, just refresh the page. The article even cites sources (the integrity of these sources are yet to be corroborated)



Or you could opt to right your own paper. That's what Terry would do.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
~ Terry Eagleton

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What Have We Learned So Far?: Earth Day Lesson Number 1

Save Our Trees!
A Post-Earth Day Post brought to you by the letters; L, S, and D.

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Mutucianism and the Age of the 4th Dimension

An artist-friend gave me the link to this picture. I heart it (in a weird-meatloafish-sorta way)!

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Baclaran - Monumento - Monumento - Baclaran*

Kung sakaling malupit sa iyo ang kapalaran,
Alalahanin mo ako.
Dahil hindi mapapagod sa paghihintay,
Itong walang-sawang tumitingin sa iyo.
- Luis Garcia Montero. Granada, Espanya

* Para kay Nora Aunor
**mula sa Berso Sa Metro na makikita sa mga piling tren ng LRT. Salin ng Instituto Cervantes

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Ayon kay Nietzche...

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

* Ayon naman kay Amang, "boring" sa langit.
Puro kantahan lang.
Gusto ko kumanta pero ayoko namang puro kantahan lang. hay.

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The Empire Strikes (period)

Stumbling upon this image made me want to grab a green film.

It's witty.

I heart it.

Halina and I used do silkscreen prints. Sadly, time and financial constraints got the better of our then blooming hobby.

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Buryong Series (Un-"Tooned" Version)

Watch out for this guy's blog. He talented. And really bored.

Big Fish

True to Joey Ayala's song, everything is interconnected (ang lahat ng bagay ay magkaugnay). Even politics and the environment.

Sure, we got to start somewhere. However, the question remains - are we addressing the problem holistically?

Stop bullying the small fries. Go for the big fish.


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Panopticon

The question isn't who is. Rather, who defines.

And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
But this little brother's watching you too
- Voice of the Voiceless, Rage Against the Machine

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Why Should The "O" Have All The Fun?

Halina, me, and a friend are forming a reader's circle. I very much heart the idea. It’ll be a productive distraction from the oppression institutions call work.

We named our group the “Maginhawa Book Club.” Pedestrian, yes. But it has a nice, humble ring to it.

Our first book - Umberto Eco’s How to Travel with a Salmon.

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A Refreshing Take On Taxation

I wish I was a cat, a very, very,very fat cat.

photo taken from http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall/tax%20day.gif

Red Alert!

I was watching Unang Hirit the other day when something 'Mareng Winnie' said caught my attention.

Contrary to her claim, efficient tax collection isn't tantamount to conscientious resource allocation.

And yes, I didn't file an ITR.

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According to Ivan Illich...

Expectation: a counterfeit hope

I Like Her Because She...

plays the Blues with B.B. King.

On Patriarchy, The Church, and The Court

"It is interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing dresses."
- Florence Kennedy

I Like Her Beacuse She...

sleeps with butterflies

The Lie is Their Expense

Read. The same might be true with our present "rice crisis."

What should one do when "inside the belly of the Beast?"

Naghahanap ka ba ng sakit ng katawan?

Zen And The Art Of The Mosh Pit:
A Beginners Guide To Slamdancing
by James Cook

Copyright 1995

Reagan-era politics, microwave food, docksiders, Izod, Rod Stewart, Def Leopard, Rocky sequels, Olivia Newton John, Pat Bennetar, aerobics, slimfast, neon colored radio stations, nuclear family theories, The Breakfast Club, Madonna, Polaroid cameras, and bi-level feathered haircuts. Need I say more? Punk rock is the logical reaction to cultural circumstances between the late 70's and early 80's. If I was a young individual who valued having a mind of my own, the prospect of being associated with any part of this would frustrate me to tears. I'd start a band called the Ramones. We may not have any skills but our music would be loud enough to keep our friends slamming into each other on the dance floor at CBGB's. The British might have ska and new wave but punk rock would be just the thing they needed --- one last chance to colonize America. Once they patronized punk rock, it would become legitimate. On both sides of the Atlantic, everybody and their mother would wanna dress like Cindy Lauper and intellectualize about anarchy. How ironic that those bloody scalawags would assume responsibility for inspiring the biggest marketing tragedy in the history of industrialized nations. Fortunately, the one thing that would remain authentic and survive the commercialization, marketization, and dorkization of our MTV nation would be the
Mosh Pit.

Ayun Naman Pala Eh...

Alice Dixson: Mamamatay ako pag kinuha mo sa kin si Alex
Lorna Tolentino: Ipalilibing kita
Alice Dixson: Ate Please...

* sipi mula kay Frank Cimatu

The Pieta And The Pity

The Pieta...

And the Pity.

Ilang Realisasyon... (parte ng Buryong series)

May mga tanong na kaya lamang naging tanong dahil sa tandang pananong.

Unang Patikim

Ang fierce, ika nga...

photo taken from http://gmapinoytv.igma.tv/sidetrip/blog/

“Hot funk, cold punk..."

"...even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.”
- Billy Joel

The surviving few.


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Autismo, Pahabol

"Autism is not a tragedy, Ignorance is a tragedy."
- Autism Society of the Philippines

photo taken from http://www.displaysforschools.com/autism.gif

Remembering Rain Man*

Raymond, do you know what autistic is?
Yeah.
You know that word?
Yeah.
Are you autistic?
I don't think so. No. Definitely not.



Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Taking a few minutes off your time to try and understand the condition would be mutually beneficial. Here's a link to the Autism Society of the Philippines.


" You don't have to be handicapped to be different - everybody's different. "
- Kim Peek, mega savant who inspired the film 'Rain Man'.

On Citation

A recent comment from baklang aj (I swear that this is what he registered his comment with) made me think on internet citation.

Blog hopping, I came across Frank Cimatu's post on internet downloading. It's not about internet citation but I think certain concepts could be adapted. Here's the article.

Reading it made me wish I enlisted in some semantics courses.

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Pamamaalam...

Isang magandang metapora para sa paghihiwalay.



Ilalakip ko sana ang isang (gasgas nang) sipi mula sa "Relasyon," maikling kwento ni Eli Reuda Guieb, kaso nakalimutan ko na ang saktong linya. Tungkol pa ata iyon sa alaala/memorya. Paumanhin. Hay.

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You say you want a revolution...

Let's just stick with a petition for now.

Got this from the (in)famous "The Talented Mr. Montano" blog of Brian Borell. There's this site that sponsors online petitions. Maybe some of you (,my very few/imagined readers) could use it for some other advocacies.

And yes, down with the Gucci Gang!

Lata at mga Latak II: Paa ng Sirena*

Mula sa kaibuturan ng karagatan isang mayuming sirena ang umasam na mabuhay bilang isang normal na tao, ang makapanood ng Darna at Encantadia, ang makainom ng maylo at ang maka-amoy ng Jollibee.

Namuhay kasama ang mga tilapya, syokoy, pusit, tinapa at mga pating... Sa paglatag ng kadiliman, ang dalaga ay pumupunta sa pampang upang tanawin ang mga taong may dalawang posteng ginagamit sa paglalakad at pagtakbo. Hindi nya alam ang tawag dito o kung saan man ito mabibili. At wala rin syang pambayad kung sakali man. Mula sa kanyang kinaroroonan ay tanaw rin ang isang taong putol ang kabilang binti at ang tanging hawak na saklay ang siya lamang nagsisilbing suporta. Kaya naman naisip ng sirena na kumuha kaya ng kahoy at subukang gamitin din sa paglalakad. Tiyempo namang may mga sangang nakalutang papalapit sa kanya. Agad niya itong nilanguyan. Hawak ang dalawang mahahabang kahoy, sinubukan ng dalaganag maglakad. Ngunit di niya nagawa. Tumutulo na ang kanyang sipon at luha hindi pa rin sya sumususko. Makakaya nya ito gaya ng iba! Subalit bigo pa rin ito. Bumalik sya sa laot ng may panlulumo.

Hiniling na niya sa lahat ng bituin at starfish na siya’y makalakad subalit bingi ata ang mga ito, naiintindihan nya naman , ‘mahal ata ang cooton buds ngayon’ kaya bihira lang din makarating sa dagat..

Hayyyyyy ...kelan kaya siya makakatikim ng chippy, mr. chips, makakainom ng emperador, san mig light at makakatira ng shabu? Kawawang sirena, nagpakalasing na lamang sa tubig alat.

Isang araw may nakita siyang lumulutang na tao sa karatig-dagat. Kasinglaki niya lamang ang naturang lalaki. Nasiyahan siya nang malamang patay na ito. At naisip nyang hindi na ito mangangailangan pa ng mga paa...

Kaya sumisid siya at kinuha ang mga nalikom na cutter at kutsilyo sa barkong titanic.

Hiniwa niya hanggang sa maputol ang beywang nito. Mas lalong natuwa ang sirena nang makitang magkahiwalay na ang pang-itaas at pang-ibabang katawan. At ang susunod na lamang nyang gagawin ay ang putulin din ang sariling beywang.

Nang subukan ng sirenang sugatan ang sarili ay nakaramadam siya nang kirot. Pero inisip nyang ito’y normal lamang , at marahil kelangang bilisan nang sa gayon hindi maramdaman ang sakit. Kaya binilisan nga niya ang paglaslas...hanggang sa...nakaramdama siya nang panghihina. Hindi pala siya nakapagdala ng paste! Papaano niya ngayon ididikit ang mga binti sa kanyang katawan? Tuluyan nang nahemorrhage ang sirena. Hanggang sa dumilat ang kanyang mga mata at nalagutan ng hininga.

Mula naman sa di-kalayuan dalawang matandanag sirena ang nag-uumapaw sa tuwa dahil may rugby silang dala at ...mighty bond!!!

(:Para sa isang nakakwentuhan, sana may nekstaym pa ulit para nakawin natin ang mga rose sa garden nyo—na hindi madilim at nagmamadali:)

* Sinulat ng isang kaibigang naguguluhan. Makakaahon ka rin. Pansamantala, alalahanin mo muna ang iyong naging pangarap.

Ngingi Optical Illusion*

Ang ngingi ay butt crack sa inggles. Pinauso ni San Dino ang terminong ito.

* dedicated to San Dino. Forward, brother, forward!

image taken from http://brainden.com/eye-illusions.htm

Tanong ni Bill Bradley,

When was the last time you talked about race with someone of a different race?

If the answer is never, you're part of the problem.


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