Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

So there’s this NYTime article, right, about the people behind trolls (strangely enough, the original article was titled “Malwebolence” and has since changed - I think the editors realized how very 6th grade corny that title was). It’s a long but really interesting read, if only because when you’re provoked by these kids you very [...]

The result of too much Battlestar Galactica - although I must say, that whole “frakking” business is grating to say the least - whenever pop culture consciously attempts to create its own subculture it always just sounds too presumptuous. (Like I’m not, haha, but that’s a discussion for another day, let’s just get over the [...]

Saw this today. Bunch of Chinese cadavers with their skin peeled and their muscles strawberry-pink. I remember when I was maybe three and I went with my aunt to her office, which was then in the Med School part of UP Manila; right outside her office was an anatomy lab. That day some med student, [...]

I’m not going to apologise for it: I’m a quitter and a coward; I have an extraordinarily low threshold for pain. If the world should ever be reduced to a grey, bleak, horizonless rock I have no qualms about offing myself in the quickest, most convenient, way. The whole shtick about never losing hope, about [...]

Obviously it’s been busy — December is bound to be busier, what with all these year-end reports to do. Goo thing I don’t have many distractions here, no mall open after 5pm that I can waste time in, no friends to hang out with drinking sweet, cold beer after work, no pirated DVDs to rot [...]

Oh this is sweet…
So I wrote an article a couple of years ago or so about why I believe that something created the universe, and it’s not necessarily god or some god-like creature (for all I know, we may just as well be a cosmic experiment, sort of like in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide…”), but [...]

Really, goddamn this catholic guilt. It’s making me crazy it’s fucking me up in ways that I am unable to articulate. You know how in movies they always make it out that the serial killer was abused as a child by his mother, who made him kneel on a bed of salt and pray out [...]

In Kat Krautkramer’s 2005 essay “Roadkill”, she talked about being pregnant and taking teeth off roadkill she would find in the highways of the northwest US. The teeth she would use to generously decorate her papier mache fishes; the baby she would describe generously with the anticipation expectant mothers always have. There was something cathartic [...]