To my Philippine flock,
It is with great alarm that I write you today, on the occasion of the Church’s resumption of services, to order that an Inquisition (Spanish, or local, if costs are prohibitive) be launched in the Philippines.
Dick Gordon, you are not Batman
Anyone who has spent any amount of time around Senator Richard Gordon knows four basic facts about him:
1. That he was the youngest delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention.
2. That his father was assassinated, and that he eventually nailed the guy who did it.
3. That he is an Upsilonian, (just like his fraternity brothers Senators Joker Arroyo and Francis Pangilinan, who have the parliamentary courtesy not to acknowledge the blatant name-dropping in mentioning it in speeches everyday.)
4. He turned Subic into the economic powerhouse that it is today.
Never in his rambling privilege speeches has he ever mentioned that he served in the military, or has ever been in the line of fire, except, I guess, politically.
Which does not stop him from from single-handedly rescuing Red Cross volunteer Mary Jean Lacaba, or acting like some debonair billionaire vigilante (at least, on the phone.)
Syato’s “Tibo”: WTF?
Given that homosexuality is an iffy subject in the Philippines, new rock band Syato (for the children’s game involving sticks and the risk of losing an eye, I guess) tries to up our awareness of lesbian rights with their “salute to the pink community,” a song called “Tibo” (slang for lesbian, derived from another older term for lesbians, T-bird.)
5 stock characters in Pinoy indie films
Independent films try to portray themes and stories that mainstream cinema cannot. Strippedof the artifice, sappiness (and budget) of studio-backed projects, indie films focus on telling a story without necessarily pandering to the box-office bottom line.
That being said, indie films have a tendency to seemingly be made up of th same set of characters, generally taken from Martial Law-era social realist tropes.
Commenting is back up
Our state-of-the-art commenting system went on the fritz lately, as delicate equipment is wont to do. But commenting is back up. Hooray!