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Archive for January 2010
6 comments • Marocharim • January 31, 2010
“That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.” – Popeye the Sailor I’m drinking deep of the well of inspiration and I find myself parched; these are the moments that I don’t feel like writing, and I can’t write anything of value. True, I have a share in things that may compel [...]
1 comment • Marocharim • January 31, 2010
Vetallano Acosta. (cue Spanish guitar strum) Aged in oak barrels, for the finest in Spanish brandy. (cue flamenco dancers) Smooth, sophisticated, every sip comes alive. (archetypal instrumental with guitars, castanets and clapping) Vetallano Acosta, VSOP: Very Special, Only Pilipino. All we know of Vetallano Acosta is that he is a Presidential candidate for the Kilusang [...]
1 comment • Marocharim • January 30, 2010
Yes, my friends: I, Marocharim, am asking for your permission, dear reader, to write in The Marocharim Experiment. It sounds ridiculous because it is: I pay for the dues of this blog, I maintain it, and I write for it. Still, because free speech is stifled so much in the Internet these days, I am [...]
5 comments • Marocharim • January 28, 2010
I found this at the Silliman University website: Call for Submission of Manuscripts to the 49th Silliman University National Writers Workshop The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is now accepting applications for the 49th National Writers Workshop to be held May 3-21, 2010 in Dumaguete City. This Writers Workshop is offering fifteen fellowships to promising [...]
3 comments • Marocharim • January 26, 2010
The presentation of evidence and the sharing of testimony in an investigation or trial are not mere exercises in establishing guilt or proving innocence, but the realization of justice. There is no hiding from – and there is no escaping – justice. The laws of the land, and the institutions that enforce and secure justice [...]
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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