The Marocharim Experiment

I don’t blog as often as I used to (mainly because I’m working), so this entry is a rather belated dedication to Sharline Cruz of Misteryosa.com fame.  In her latest entry, Shari says goodbye to blogging.  I hope that in a way, this little entry would fulfill at least one of the following ends: Shari [...]

I was listening to some performances of Shooter Jennings, but “Electric Rodeo” is not the Video of the Week.  I personally would nominate “Sweet Soul Revue” by Pizzicato 5, but I opted against it considering last week’s video, which was “Saigo No Iiwake.” The inspiration for the Video of the Week is a conversation with [...]

On blogging news: you can catch me every weekend at FilipinoVoices.com, a collaborative blog about Philippine politics, news, and social commentary.  I am joined by Nick Tingog, Lester Cavestany, The Jester-In-Exile, Manuel Buencamino, Rom Sedona, and many other bloggers.  Please link to the site, and please visit the site frequently.   It’s a labor of love [...]

Before anything else, I would like to thank Mr. Manuel Quezon III for quoting my blog entry, “Resistance, Now,” in his column in today’s issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.  I am both honored and humbled that my little call for resistance has been picked up by one of the eminent critics, historians, and bloggers [...]

This week’s video comes not from Alice in Chains, who did sing “No Excuses.”  Nor is it the I-wear-eyeliner-and-slash-my-wrists-emo bullshit that I don’t listen to (even if the key is to annoy myself enough at work to actually do some work).  Here it goes… my random thoughts after the video. Yes, Hideaki Tokunaga’s “Saigo No [...]