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Or In Which Our Protagonist Finds Himself in a Theater With a Movie He Must Absolutely Watch *No spoilers* Okay. I just got back from watching League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I love the comic...er...graphic novels by Allan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. The LEOG is witty, groundbreaking (at least for the medium) for the use of characters from literature and whose illustration is as smart as its writing. It is ...

I wanted to try to listen to something new this weekend but unfortunately I wasn't within reach of any malls or record bars. I checked out this article on Salon about mash-ups where DJs would take a vocal track of one song and lay it over another song. I guess it's a step up from sampling. It makes for some quirky yet strangely appealing cuts. The songs can ...

One of the chairs at Cafe Papelmeroti. Click to read what's written on the back rest.

I always complain that there aren't any venue for good movies here. This time though, Cinemanila's sked is a deluge of must-sees. Can I just camp inside the theater? Where's that cloning machine when you really need it... *sigh*

This month's Wired Magazine just mentioned Shaolin Soccer which is about to hit theaters in the US on August 8. I heard of this movie from Gerry A. who was raving about it since early last year. Of course it has been shown in the theaters. It's available at your suki Greenhills dvd pirata. It's even been dubbed in Tagalog by a local cable channel (I think by ...

You have to try the gelato at Pagliacci over at the Podium, Ortigas.

One of my favorite writer's back online. Please do drop by and say hello. Check out our intrepid global adventurer Nic's mobile posts from his T610. Also, more reads! Found a collection of Filipino recipes being run by a very sassy lawyer. One of these days I might get off my butt and try out one of those concoctions. Inquirer's Dean Jorge Bocobo's commentaries are also online which I found through ...