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?

Not to brag pero tatlong araw ko nang inuulit-ulit 'yung 'Pagkatapos kong mag-MC sa Euphoria nung nakaraang Sabado ...'

Trying to do this exotic thing called ‘reading a book’

Not to brag but my TikTok FYP is currently filled with advice on natural-looking Botox injections

Grok what's the deal with this pop life and when is it gonna fade out?

Feeling the urge to reread James Agee’s ‘A Death in the Family’, which I first read, and loved, maybe close to 20 years ago.

Grok was Annie OK, was she OK, Annie

My high school showed pirate copies of 'Jurassic Park' and 'Philadelphia'

Mom and dad went out to check out some pens today

All ‘Dexter’s Lab’ episodes on HBO Max!

1. Don't snitch-tag. 2. Don't explain to people what they just said. 3. Don't "correct" people's jokes. 4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts. 5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts. 6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know. The rest is commentary.

If I was a vampire and you invited me into your house I still wouldn't come in.

Why call yourself a Traffic Enforcer when you can be a Road Steward

Another bit of 'Pinoy Wrestling' trivia: Macho Franco first fought as Falayfay.

Watched the Merchant Ivory 'A Room with a View' for the first time today (I know haha), and the whole time I was wishing Daniel Day-Lewis did more comedic roles, because he was fantastic here.

It took six and a half minutes and Rob Harvilla repeating Gillian Welch's name at least two dozen times before I realised that no one in this podcast was, in fact, talking about Florence Welch

Three drinks for the end of the world: Last Word—Citadelle Gin, Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, green Chartreuse, lemon juice. A maraschino cherry. Water Lily—Citadelle Old Tom Gin, Giffard crème de violette, Cointreau, lemon juice. Negroni—Citadelle gin, Dolin red vermouth, Campari.

NOAH: [to his sons] Hallelujah! It’s raining, men

How I imagine I'd do it if someone told me to touch grass