Let me turn the jargonator on. My brain is a bit hyperactive from cigarette deprivation.
Over dinner last night, the conversation with Caffeine Sparks, MLQ3 and JV Rufino ended up on a discussion on the “resurgence” of John Kenneth Galbraith. Back in college, I borrowed a yellowing copy of Galbraith’s The Affluent Society for reading purposes [...]
Archive for February 22nd, 2009
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I’d like to talk about political issues, about social concerns, things of that nature. Heck, I’d like to work on lyrics translations of Bon Jovi. Uh… no, not today.
For the past few days, I had a rather unhealthy preoccupation with old showbiz. My status message in Facebook began with a bad epiphany: if the name [...]
These days there seems to be some nostalgia for Ferdinand Marcos.
When Ferdinand Marcos fell from power through EDSA I, I was all but seven months old. Since there’s no such thing as a politically conscious infant, I only became somewhat conscious of Marcos when I went to school, when the strongman was gone from the [...]
I’m trying to work on short stories… now there’s a good qualifier: “trying.”
I don’t consider myself a good writer. Whenever I go to work, or whenever I write for my own personal amusement, I always take it as a learning experience. I try to convince myself that there’s a lot to learn, and that there [...]