‘Tis gd mf yippee-ki-yay season
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
‘Tis gd mf yippee-ki-yay season
Palawan, 2017. A long time ago and not too long ago at the same time.
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Palawan, 2017. A long time ago and not too long ago at the same time.
Revisiting this week: Rosario Cruz Lucero's short story 'Demons' (from 'Herstory', 1990) and Mario O'Hara's film adaptation 'Pangarap ng Puso' (2000).
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Revisiting this week: Rosario Cruz Lucero's short story 'Demons' (from 'Herstory', 1990) and Mario O'Hara's film adaptation 'Pangarap ng Puso' (2000).
Plus the current reading pile
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Plus the current reading pile
Top four reads of the year so far
September 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Top four reads of the year so far
The continuity and relentlessness of violence, in public and in private, in the very language of the law, in Christine V. Lao's 'Affidavit of Loss'. One of the best things I've read this year.
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The continuity and relentlessness of violence, in public and in private, in the very language of the law, in Christine V. Lao's 'Affidavit of Loss'. One of the best things I've read this year.
If you welcome book recommendations from a stranger, I urge you to please read Soliman A. Santos’s book of essays ‘Patining’.
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If you welcome book recommendations from a stranger, I urge you to please read Soliman A. Santos’s book of essays ‘Patining’.
Yesterday’s quiche was terribly ripped-up filo strips that I needed to use up, sautéed broccoli, bacon, and blue cheese
September 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Yesterday’s quiche was terribly ripped-up filo strips that I needed to use up, sautéed broccoli, bacon, and blue cheese
I love Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch's glass house in 'Bosch' because it offers a great spot for night-time brooding and photogenically pretending you were a tortured Michael Mann antihero
September 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I love Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch's glass house in 'Bosch' because it offers a great spot for night-time brooding and photogenically pretending you were a tortured Michael Mann antihero
Col Jessep, did you order the Code Red?
August 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Col Jessep, did you order the Code Red?
So hooked on this podcast (about people trying to hire assassins off the dark web) that I have been listening to it while I'm out running, sitting in church, attending a children's party
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So hooked on this podcast (about people trying to hire assassins off the dark web) that I have been listening to it while I'm out running, sitting in church, attending a children's party
Well I'm watching 'Grosse Pointe Blank' again. I'll never get tired of it.
August 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Well I'm watching 'Grosse Pointe Blank' again. I'll never get tired of it.
The IMDB plot summary for a TVJ movie called 'Hot Dog', which, incidentally, premiered a day before the 1989 coup:
'A spectacular movie about a depressed hotdog that has this itch to become the world's coolest hotdog so he can fulfill his father's dying wish to become a professional skier.'
'A spectacular movie about a depressed hotdog that has this itch to become the world's coolest hotdog so he can fulfill his father's dying wish to become a professional skier.'
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The IMDB plot summary for a TVJ movie called 'Hot Dog', which, incidentally, premiered a day before the 1989 coup:
'A spectacular movie about a depressed hotdog that has this itch to become the world's coolest hotdog so he can fulfill his father's dying wish to become a professional skier.'
'A spectacular movie about a depressed hotdog that has this itch to become the world's coolest hotdog so he can fulfill his father's dying wish to become a professional skier.'
'The girl/The scream', Mahmoud Darwish
July 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
'The girl/The scream', Mahmoud Darwish
Trying to do this exotic thing called ‘reading a book’
July 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trying to do this exotic thing called ‘reading a book’
Mom and dad went out to check out some pens today
July 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mom and dad went out to check out some pens today
Another bit of 'Pinoy Wrestling' trivia: Macho Franco first fought as Falayfay.
July 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Another bit of 'Pinoy Wrestling' trivia: Macho Franco first fought as Falayfay.
Three drinks for the end of the world:
Last Word—Citadelle Gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, green Chartreuse, lemon juice. A maraschino cherry.
Water Lily—Citadelle Old Tom Gin, Giffard crème de violette, Cointreau, lemon juice.
Negroni—Citadelle gin, Dolin red vermouth, Campari.
Last Word—Citadelle Gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, green Chartreuse, lemon juice. A maraschino cherry.
Water Lily—Citadelle Old Tom Gin, Giffard crème de violette, Cointreau, lemon juice.
Negroni—Citadelle gin, Dolin red vermouth, Campari.
June 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Three drinks for the end of the world:
Last Word—Citadelle Gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, green Chartreuse, lemon juice. A maraschino cherry.
Water Lily—Citadelle Old Tom Gin, Giffard crème de violette, Cointreau, lemon juice.
Negroni—Citadelle gin, Dolin red vermouth, Campari.
Last Word—Citadelle Gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, green Chartreuse, lemon juice. A maraschino cherry.
Water Lily—Citadelle Old Tom Gin, Giffard crème de violette, Cointreau, lemon juice.
Negroni—Citadelle gin, Dolin red vermouth, Campari.
So I watched this again today: Sidney Lumet's 'Running on Empty' (1988), an absolutely devastating movie, and one of my all-time favourites.
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So I watched this again today: Sidney Lumet's 'Running on Empty' (1988), an absolutely devastating movie, and one of my all-time favourites.
*TikTok AI-generated voice* POV—first person plural!
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
*TikTok AI-generated voice* POV—first person plural!
Although these two are a closer match
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Although these two are a closer match
