February 2012
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excerpts: Consider this post-EDSA kid stirred →
armorhues:
I was born February 2, 1987, the day the 1987 Philippine Constitution was ratified via plebescite, a constitution that probably would not even exist had it not been for the EDSA Revolution.
Yes, I’m that post-EDSA kid, part of the generation that (ideally) is reaping the fruits of People Power…
A commotion erupted at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center(a...
– Cebu Daily News
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Deus Bali’s Dominari on a test run. A continuing argument for Southeast Asian custom bike culture.
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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To make a sweeping generalization, people are afraid to love – to actually say...
– Ned Hepburn: “If the bullet was made of pizza.”
So I guess this makes my mouth a shithole from which glorious things spew forth. Too bad it didn’t really go anywhere and the last time I could have actually meant something by it, I think I punched the guy. And hard.
(via orallymupright)
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It’s not true what they say about going to sleep hungry. Mainly that it can be...
– MisterdeSantos on Wordpress
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It was the Cuba of the future. It was going the way of Iran. It was another...
– James Fenton on Manila, The Snap Revolution, Granta, 1986
Monkey in the Middle: Manny is no Solitaire →
munkieinthemiddle:
What? People are nitpicking over Manny’s victory because it wasn’t the spectacular Pacquiao win they’ve gotten used to?
Seriously. Are Filipino fight fans really that shallow?
I think not. I think that whole argument is a cop-out: a way to more easily explain the virulent and violent reaction…
Not only do I like your blog (haha I found it) but I also am OBSESSED with you...
– Spambots don’t care about my feelings!
The Football War (La guerra del fútbol, in Spanish), also known as the Soccer...
– Wkipedia, but Granta published a great story on it.
Monkey in the Middle: A new collective →
munkieinthemiddle:
In 2008, a website was fired up that featured the writings of some of the most invigorating Filipino bloggers. It was called Filipino Voices, and it was a grand thing.
As best I can remember it - because the site itself is now but a shadow of its former self - FV consisted of a Main Section that…
Travel wide and far. Travel boldly. Travel with full abandon.
– Jeff Goins (via strunkandwhite)
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Handwriting is a personal, intimate thing.
Many believe, without much...
– Handwriting: An Elegy, Ann Wroe (Intelligent Life)
To argue for free speech but not to utilize it to challenge obnoxious, odious...
– Kenan Malik
I think that Danish newspapers should be free to publish insulting cartoons...
– On the Right to Satirise, Provoke and be Downright Offensive, Kenan Malik
The Daily Tangina: THE DAILY TANGINA: BATMAN... →
Please excuse me tooting my own horn.
dailytangina:
Today’s Tangina comes to us courtesy of Mister de Santos, our correspondent who corresponds for a bigger and obviously more serious broadsheet. He has given his kind permission for us to shameless copy and paste a section from his original entry. What a great dude.
Anyway, tangina this!…
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The decibel level in the candy-trading room rivaled that of Wall Street.
The...
– ‘Trade You Snickers For Smarties’: The Economics Of Halloween Candy, Kristofor Husted (NPR)