Notes from a Simulated Underground
Archive for January 2009
1 comment • Marocharim • January 31, 2009
It’s that time of the year again: prom night. It’s that time of the year for suits and corsages, for dresses and tiaras, and when the music of David Pomeranz is the norm, not the exception. Grade school prom nights were early evenings spent in awkward “uuuuy” moments, where you kind of fear the “sitting [...]
4 comments • Marocharim • January 28, 2009
The world is a vampire… sent to drain Secret destroyers… hold you up to the flames. And what do I get for my pain? Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game. – Smashing Pumpkins, “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness* There’s some joke I heard that people have quit tightening [...]
4 comments • Marocharim • January 27, 2009
I do not have profound thoughts to share, other than the sickening metaphor of a friar tortured in the Middle Ages; one of the first men in history to raise his fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy. The Italian martyr Savonarola was tortured in a machine called the “strappado.” It’s a very [...]
Marocharim • January 26, 2009
I’m posting Marian Rivera’s picture here because I feel like it. Anyway, PEP.ph – my source for fair and balanced reporting in local showbiz – reports that on February 2, 2009, GMA-7 will launch its newest primetime soap offering: Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang. It’s an adaptation of a Carlo J. Caparas graphic novel, [...]
7 comments • Marocharim • January 26, 2009
But there is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science. That is the idea that we all hope you have learned in studying science in school -we never explicitly say what this is, but just hope that you catch on by all the examples of scientific investigation. It is interesting, [...]
There are things I'm afraid to tell myself. Instead, I choose to reveal them the world. In sickness, in spite, in all unpleasantness, even in disease. I'm a babbler, a ranter, a writer: neither spiteful nor kind, neither rascal or honorable man. Neither hero or vermin.
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