Archive for September 14th, 2009

Light

Light

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I stood near the floodlights  stared straight at them.  I stared at them like a child would a birthday cake, like a criminal would his victim, like a lover would his swain.  I wanted to ruin my eyes.  I wanted to watch those little glowing dots dance when I close my eyes.

I wanted to go blind.  I wanted to burn in that light.

I stared into the light to enjoy the darkness beyond… then I realized that light doesn’t kill.  Night – the only guarantee of complete darkness in nature – is still bathed in it.

To embrace darkness is to embrace light.  There is no escaping the glow.

September 14, 2009 4 comments Read More
Collaring the Presidency

Collaring the Presidency

There’s a theatrical term for it: gravitas.

Fashion statements are political statements, and political statements always come across as fashion statements.  I don’t believe in dichotomies and binaries, but I do believe that the pool of facts in the realm of the political and social have more similarities than they have differences.  There are more things that bring us together than keep us apart, and for 2010, that has to begin with something usually considered inane, asinine, absurd and irrelevant: collared shirts.

Manny Villar almost always wears an orange-colored collared polo shirt.  Noynoy Aquino’s “smart casual” is the collared shirt.  Noli de Castro wears checkered collared shirts.  Francis Escudero may shed the hoodies and the round-neck tees in favor of collared shirts, too.  It’s all about building the “Presidential image:” to be taken seriously, you have to look serious enough to be the next President.

September 14, 2009 7 comments Read More