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Komiks as Propaganda You know it's nearing election time in the Philippines again once you have comic books or komiks being printed out by 'private individuals' purporting one expose or another. Like this one. Why komiks? Well supposedly it's easier for the masa to absorb the content if it's illustrated, it's cheaper to produce and sell, and there's no editorial slant like in a newspaper and TV/radio other ...

Rene and Bata Just vegging out on TV. Maalaala Mo Kaya on ABS-CBN and Magpakailanman on GMA are doing TV bio/drama of Rene Requiestas and Efren Bata Reyes. Long Mejia and Anjo Yllana are doing the late comedian and the ace billiard player respectively. Both are sporting awful, obviously fake and ultimately distracting mustaches. (It's a hoot seeing Keempee de Leon doing a take on his father Joey. It's ...

Coffee with a fellow Libran. Working my way up to an interview with Angelina Jolie.

Before Sunrise I mean. Apparently they're making a sequel. (link blatantly stolen from Nic) Before Sunrise is the perfect date movie. I don't mean it's a movie you ought to take your date to (not on the first date I think) rather, the events in the movie is my idea of a perfect date. Sure some of the dialogue might have your eyes rolling sometimes but the ...

Cab drivers who don?t know how to get to the place you want to go.Circle I LimboF4 (or whatever hot boy band there is out there) wannabes.Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy WindPa-"artistes" types.Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & SnowWhiners.Circle IV Rolling WeightsCollege kids mouthing off about everything.Circle V Stuck in Mud, MangledRiver StyxArrogant security guards.Circle VI Buried for EternityRiver PhlegyasChoosy cab drivers.Circle VII Burning ...

I saw some phone chargers installed around the mall where we have our offices. I think this deserved an entry here rather than on the sidebar. Heaven forbid you run out of power when you're *gasp* out of your house! Without your charger! Emergency power for only 10 mins! I don't quite get benefit #3: Mobile phone sanitization. They clean the phone for you? They remove any unwanted phone book entries and ...

Ninoy hindi ka nag-iisa. Ping Lacson mang iisa ka pa. Mike Arroyo may isa ka pa? Magdalo group na-isahan kayo. Erap nag-iisa ka na lang. Makakaisa din kami sa inyong mga mang-oonse! Kris, takot ka ba mag-isa? Tsaka... San Miguel Beer isa pa nga. Chicken Joy isa pa isa pa. (* With apologies to the Sunday Inquirer Magazine's Los Enemigos '93)