A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

What Blogs Are vs What They Are Not (via) So the debate continues: are bloggers automatically considered amateur journalists or are they merely diarists? If journalists mean being professional about gathering and reporting facts, probably not. If it means someone who keep notes of an event via the web for the purpose of coming up with a thorough piece later, maybe. Do blogs inform? Yes, definitely. Are they a ...

My sister sent me this. Some of the stuff are old - Petal Attraction no longer exists at UP Diliman - but there's still a few gems. I'd like to add: CainTaYo, a carinderia located in of course Cainta. There's a Stephen King Carinderia in Cebu. Whether or not it was inspired by the writer or there's a retired WWII veteran behind that name, I will never know. ...

Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing I feel lounge-y today. What better way than to put on some Sinatra, some Tony, and some wicked dames, Ella and Billie? So put on your smoking jackets and raise your martini glasses. They don't make songs and singers like these any more. 1. Tony Bennett - Steppin Out With My Baby 2. Stan Getz - Desafinado 3. Sammy Davis Jr - ...

What's next? Snoop Dogg's Green Green Grass of Home? (via Lynn)

David "Remember me in Red Shoe Diaries?" Duchovny's promo blog for the new movie he has directed 'House of D'. Not so Silent Bob's garrulous real life alter ego Kevin Smith's Boring-Ass Life. He said he got in trouble with his wife when he talked about his sex life on the blog. I mean talking about sex with the wife on a blog called 'My Boring-Ass Life?' Dude, I ...

"Connect The Dots...Connect The Goddamn Dots!" ...which are lyrics from the Ministry song TV II, a nod to a friend who introduced me to the joys and the noise of heavy/death/speed metal. Ironically, I'm tipping my hat today because he just got promoted at his job. Congrats, Taps! Good show, old chap. So anyway, I'm blanking the past few days so this theme is a bit forced. I just remembered ...