Repost from a dead blog.
Honesty Is Not an Internet Meme
Like almost everybody else on the blogosphere, we have chosen to hide our true identities from the rest of the world. Despite whatever issues we may have had with our parents, they were not cruel enough to give us the names we now write and draw under (they did, however, give us long and more cruel Catholic names.) We actually chose these aliases. Why do we do it? It’s funny you should ask, Blog Awards Challenge and random readers. Funny in the sense that it is timely because we are about to answer the question and not funny as in slipping on a banana peel.
Why would a grown man choose to hide behind an obscure reference to Philippine mythology or a punny take on a stock Filipino folklore character?
Things That Can Keep You Going Despite High Gas Prices
The Sun
Steam
Electricity
Bio-gas
Hatred
Keeping Eyes on the Prize
Anger
Desire For Revenge
Groups That Hate The Gucci Gang
Bench Brigade
Secosana Squad
Hawk Gear Horde
Penshoppe Pals
McJim Mob
Y.C. Bikini Youth Club
Blowing Bubbles Battalion
Burger Times They Are A-changin’
With the fast-food industry under attack from the rapidly-changing tastes of consumers, it had to innovate or continue to lose business in a post-Fast Food Nation world.
McDonald’s kicked it up a notch with the McCafe. With affordable fancy(ish) coffee, dessert and walls of glamorous photos of glamorous people having a good time, it’s sort of like a Starbucks for people who like the smell of melted cheese and french-fry grease.
While McDonald’s may already have cornered the market in semi-classy-coffee- at-a-burger-joint, other fast-food places could still rebrand and offer something more than burgers and fries. All they have to do is keep an eye on the pulse of the masses.
Here are some fast-food make-betters that will make fast food fun again:
A Handy Tip
To remind you why you hate work: Actually do it.
Your creative juices will flow for a while, and then it’ll just be sweat and a steady stream of curses as you realize that you are, essentially, a monkey in front of a keyboard being paid to be a monkey in front of a keyboard.
Morning: it has broken
Like revenge, snooze-button sleep is best served cold.
Those nine or so minutes of burrowing under the sheets and bargaining with the outside world to stay away might as well be the highlight of your day.
Top 5 Things To Thank Spain For
Let’s face it. Bad as they were, our Spanish conquerors did not spend all day dreaming up ways to make us miserable. They made us miserable by their very existence, milking our labor and resources to feed their empire. Still, we have to admit that their centuries as our overlords left us some good things too.
Here are five things that may just wash the bitter taste of subjugation from our mouths.
5. The Battle of Mactan
Alright, they didn’t really give this to us, per se, but it’s on the list anyway because it’s one of the few military victories we have.
Our war chiefs were not the best in the world, relying more on passion than any actual strategy or tactics, but this time, natives armed with spears, blades and bows won the day against one of the most formidable fighting forces of the age. Sure, they raped us for the next few hundred years,but on that day, we laid the smack down and made the Spanish our bitches.
4. Education
Spain did not really feel the need to educate us indios, but they did need to teach our elites a bit of literacy. After all, there was no sense in having collaborators who couldn’t send you written reports of native uprisings and friar gossip, or couldn’t read orders demanding more slave labor.
This came back to bite them in the ass when our educated elites started the propaganda movement, and began agitating for equal rights and representation in the Cortes. It was all done politely, to be sure, but it planted the seeds of revolution, and taught us to write the Spanish equivalent of fuck you.
3. Beer
Fermentation is a natural process, and it doesn’t really take a rocket science to make hooch: our ancestors were getting drunk on rice wine and coconut toddy long before Magellan’s dad had his first wet dream. Anyone who has had tapuy, lambanog or basi knows, though, that novelty aside, they’re pretty vile drinks that trade potency for flavor.
Beer brought us to the threshold of civilization when the first brewery in Southeast Asia was established 1890, promptly taking us away again within hours. If there’s any doubt that beer is the manly man’s drink, consider that Bonifacio and his band of brawlers ignited the Philippine Revolution six years later.
2. Siesta
Come on, it’s a cultural excuse to be unproductive after lunch. What’s not to like?
This Spanish habit of taking a midday nap is such a part of our psyche that parents enforce it every afternoon, threatening their children with spankings with various implements like rubber slippers and leather belts.
Nobody ever whipped a kid to force him to attend Sunday Mass, but parents will readily flay a child within an inch of his life if he doesn’t lie down and pretend to be asleep for at least an hour after lunch. That is how important siesta is.
1. Puta
Not prostitution, obviously. We’d have figured that out for ourselves, but the word itself is a thing of beauty.
No word can resonate across our hundreds of ethno-linguistic groups and convey so many different emotions than puta. It’s the glue that holds our society together. When at a loss for words or unsure how to react, this is generally a safe route to go (in terms of expressing emotion, though, and not actual safety.)