A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

While going through the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Petite came across this: Click for a larger viewOn page 10 of course they meant 'sight' instead of 'site.' It's nice to know that despite the billions of dollars involved in JK Rowling's creation, they still manage to botch things up like proofreading. Good read still though.

Liberté, egalité, fraternité Happy Bastille Day! In keeping with the celebration, I thought I'd dig up some recent protest songs to remind our fellow Pinoys where we were at just four years ago. The message is sadly the same. Just exchange the names involved. Actually, some of them are still right in the middle of it. Launch player.

Updates: More Gaiman fandom at Flickr, links at Babbling Point. If you want to listen to Neil Gaiman at Music Museum: mp3s from the Writer's Forum. (thanks Dré !) "Totally missed the Gaiman activities, so I shall admire him from afar. I dont feel so bad though kasi I'm sure ang daming posers dun! Grabe, been hearing about people who think comics are geeky are suddenly the biggest ...

This may seem like heresy to fanboy & girls out there but I love the Fantastic Four movie. Granted it's not a great movie, but at least its heart is in the right place. I'll go a step further: I like it better than Batman Begins (zipping up asbestos suit for flamers). Sure it's another BLSM -- the acting may not be spectacular (I'm looking at your direction ...

Updates from Manila, so far: * Jove gives us the hustle and bustle at the Palace. Seemed like there's very little of governance and a lot of politics going on. * MLQIII lays-out the story so far - PGMA backed by former Prez Ramos has decided to dig in. Former Prez Cory, Susan Roces, the middle-class and the big businesses have called for the president to resign as VP Kabayan ...

Some days, it's just harder to get out of bed: * Explosions rock London underground and buses * Season's First Hurricane Moves Toward U.S. * Arroyo asks cabinet to resign Oi. It's enough to drive one to Prozac. But Tom Cruise wouldn't approve. Prayers and thoughts to everyone who have found themselves in harm's way today. Especially to the cabinet members who didn't have a "lapse in judgement" and yet found themselves being ...

Now comes the surge in sales of Adidas on Amazon.com. Happy 10th Amazon! Those celebrity deliveries ought to be fun. And what did I order recently? A freakin' radio for the hurricane season. I wonder if Howard Stern would show up to deliver it.