Archive for August, 2009

Tethering

Tethering

“Somewhere a vital connection is made.”  – Elastica

I’ve always think of comparisons between a leash and a headset, that’s why I never wear one at work.

To me, the headset symbolizes my generation; we’re tethered to what we do.  The calls made to us, the videos whose words we transcribe, the tutorials we watch to write articles.  Tethered and chained, I guess, responding to orders like protocols and rules, working for what falls off the table of the global village.  An entire world-view, at least in metaphor, can be shaped by cubicles and high-rise offices, the connection between the computer and the ear.

August 18, 2009 0 comments Read More
Bawdy Bards and That Kind of Odd News

Bawdy Bards and That Kind of Odd News

There are two things I like: odd news and schadenfreude.

GMANews.TV reports that last Wednesday, a couple became the talk of the town because of a documented case of penis captivus. You usually read about this malady on humor sites, or you probably watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, or you probably saw two dogs literally stuck to each other after the whole hump is over.  Sophomoric, crude sources of humor?  Probably, but it’s damn sure funny.

I’m sure that it’s not funny for any guy to have his penis literally clamped by the vagina of his kerida (hey, that rhymed)… although I’m betting that some guys wouldn’t really mind being stuck in sex for hours on end, never mind that the end we’re talking about is buried in a woman’s private parts.  It did get me thinking, though, about how these things lend themselves too well for borderline tasteless, gross, and vulgar humor.

So if you’re sensitive or what, if you don’t know what satire is, or if you just keep tossing it around like salads (or a used condom) stop reading right about now.

August 17, 2009 0 comments Read More
Ovaltine or Milo?

Ovaltine or Milo?

I was an Ovaltine kid.  When I was a kid, my mom always prepared a hot serving of the drink in my tall bear-shaped mug (yeah, I owned a bear-shaped mug).  Coupled with some steaming hot sinangag, hot dogs, eggs, and Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, my mom always ensured that we were well-fed with “brain food,” as she put it.  Had she known she was going to raise someone like me, she would have fed me water and gruel instead.  Motherly love and instinct… what can you do?

We Ovaltine drinkers are somewhat in the minority.  Milo has always been the norm in the Philippines, I guess, that the name has become synonymous with the instant chocolate malt drink powder.  Like “Colgate” for toothpaste, “Coke” for softdrinks… and maybe “Anzahl” for car paint.

August 16, 2009 5 comments Read More
Games of the Chairman

Games of the Chairman

He styles himself as “The Chairman.”  Following Mao, perhaps, or that voiceover dude from “Iron Chef” whose memory always serves him correctly.  The edifice at Orense Street stands as a monument to his slogan of “Metro Gwapo,” with footbridges and road barricades and urinals standing as mini-monuments to the magnificence – or perhaps the maleficence – of Bayani Fernando.  The Metro Manila Development Authority, at least in my eyes, is The Chairman’s sandbox for urban development; where an elevated U-turn will do no harm, and devoting entire lanes of EDSA to the sheer influx of provincial and colorum and extended-franchise buses will solve traffic.

A sandbox.  A game; to be exact, the Games of the Chairman.

August 16, 2009 1 comment Read More
Generator Y

Generator Y

If men define their situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

- William Isaac Thomas

No, I don’t have what you need in Mafia Wars.

I’m not interested in when I’m going to get married, I’m not going to harvest your crops, take care of your pets, help you run your restaurant, and I’m not going to be sold to the highest bidder like a sex slave.

I’m not interested in questions of “What ‘X’ are you?” and I’m not interested in how crushable you may be or how crushable I am.  Most of all, I don’t like seeing that you like your own status message.  TMI.

August 16, 2009 0 comments Read More
Marocharim: Uncensored

Marocharim: Uncensored

As some of you may already know, I’ve been having problems with server errors and such. With many possibilities as to what may have caused the problem, I decided to put the Experiment on intensive care for now. Me, my host, and a few friends are still looking into the problem, so don’t panic: everything is fine. Well, sort of; since my blog is not my life, looking for the cause of the problem is not very high on the weekday priority list.

We’ll do that on weekends. There are still some problems with this blog, so I guess that I’ll just leave it alone for a while and see what happens, and if anything goes wrong, it’s back to tech support and tinkering.

August 12, 2009 0 comments Read More