It’s very hard to keep getting cooler and sexier year after year, and that’s why I won’t do it

Ang Dota ay isang larong imbento Ito ay libangan ng mga tao Ngunit mag-aral muna nang mabuti para sa kinabukasan mo Upang sa hinaharap maipagmalaki mo

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

Yes, some of you auld acquaintance should totally be forgot

I guess there probably really is something psychopathic about waking up before 6 a.m. on New Year's Day and then doing the laundry

Hyperbole is literally killing me

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

‘Tis gd mf yippee-ki-yay season

From the Far Side collection

ADAM: oh look the McRib is back EVE: stop calling me that

Fur baby? How about my scale infant and my quill toddler and my feather tot and my carapace bundle of joy?

To quote Rosalía, No soy una santa pero estoy blessed

TIL: Someone from Guinness Breweries conceptualized the Guinness Book of Records as a source book to help settle pub arguments.

Palawan, 2017. A long time ago and not too long ago at the same time.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

🎶Feel the rage on your skin, no one else can feel it for you🎶

When I was a rocket child, I spoke as a rocket child, thought as a rocket child; but when I became a rocket man, I started burning up my fuse up here alone

Ferrero Rocher Pangilinan

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Revisiting this week: Rosario Cruz Lucero's short story 'Demons' (from 'Herstory', 1990) and Mario O'Hara's film adaptation 'Pangarap ng Puso' (2000).

Top four reads of the year so far

The continuity and relentlessness of violence, in public and in private, in the very language of the law, in Christine V. Lao's 'Affidavit of Loss'. One of the best things I've read this year.

It happens very rarely, but happy to have finished reading not just one but three books today. I wish for more days like this.

If you welcome book recommendations from a stranger, I urge you to please read Soliman A. Santos’s book of essays ‘Patining’.

Today's weird realization: I have absolutely no memory of my high school graduation, wow.

Yesterday’s quiche was terribly ripped-up filo strips that I needed to use up, sautéed broccoli, bacon, and blue cheese

I don’t remember where I read/saw it but someone suggested the new ‘Wuthering Heights’ is basically Emerald Fennell wanting to be Ken Russell so bad and I haven’t stopped thinking about it

Grand Alumni Homecoming ng mga Nabiktima ng Zesto Gang sa Cubao, venue Araneta Coliseum

I love Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch's glass house in 'Bosch' because it offers a great spot for night-time brooding and photogenically pretending you were a tortured Michael Mann antihero

Weekend reading

The credenza of Dr Caligari

Body horror in pop music: I started counting teardrops and at least a million fell / My eyes began to swell

Col Jessep, did you order the Code Red?

A 'Jurassic Park' prequel, where John Hammond is dealing with depression resulting from the flop opening of Cambrian Park, which featured only trilobites and algae and other weird arthropods

So hooked on this podcast (about people trying to hire assassins off the dark web) that I have been listening to it while I'm out running, sitting in church, attending a children's party

This is owned by a LANlord

Well I'm watching 'Grosse Pointe Blank' again. I'll never get tired of it.

Eksena sa Morato car-free Sunday this morning: sa may bandang kanto ng Rallos, may nagzu-Zumba; sa may bandang de Guia, may nagbabasagan ng mukha.

Before asking 'Ako lang ba...' know that the answer is always 'No'

Buwan ng Wicca

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

I'm done being the Potato Corner, time to be the Potato Center

As an infrequent FB user it took me a while to find out that it _is_ possible to view only the posts of friends you follow chronologically

The IMDB plot summary for a TVJ movie called 'Hot Dog', which, incidentally, premiered a day before the 1989 coup: 'A spectacular movie about a depressed hotdog that has this itch to become the world's coolest hotdog so he can fulfill his father's dying wish to become a professional skier.'

'The girl/The scream', Mahmoud Darwish

In the Mad Max universe my war rig is the Wish Bus

Hulk Hogan, 71, died of Hulkamania

hate the need for it, love to see it

BREAKING: Chris Martin Steps Down as Lead Singer of Coldplay to Begin Career Catching Cheating Couples on Jumbotrons

I've read very little of the Beats so I can't say how 'faithful' it is to the source material (or if faithfulness is relevant to the project at all), but I started watching Walter Salles's adaptation of 'On the Road' last night and what I've seen so far is very good?