– If you think this column is about you, you’re so vain.
One advantage of writing a weekly column is that you have an entire week of possible topics to choose from. No sooner had you submitted your article for editing than another incident popped up on the television screen. So you go, “Shouldn’t I have written about the global credit crunch instead of Gabby Concepcion and the revenge of the 80s?”
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root” – Angela Davis
ang makahatag nako aning libroha akong higugmaon sa tibuok kong kinabuhi.
Tuhog sa Ihi. Check this story out at superman’s urine dot com.
I’M STARTING TO SERIOUSLY DOUBT if this column is contributing anything to the betterment of society. This column’s blog version has been attracting readers whose idea of a life well lived is collecting weird stories from across the globe and emailing them to me. I have become the repository of the world’s odd, stupid and outrageous occurrences. If you think that is helping the cause of the Dalai Lama, then I’m the Queen of Sheba.
This has kept me busy the past weeks. Tsinelas is finalizing a proposal for the construction of a Community Resource Center in one of Cebu City’s remotest barangays – where children go to school on empty stomachs, where classes stop when there’s fog because it grows dark and there’s no electricity and it’s impossible to read, where no elected city hall official has ever set foot, fuck you!
tsinelas has lots of plans for the area… and i don’t mind living there the rest of my life because there’s plenty of preskong utanon and bisayang manok, fuck me!
(photos by CHERYL BALDICANTOS)
I first read this in Pambie’s blog. It’s an old piece. It’s a Commencement Address by Bono, co-founder of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), and lead singer of U2, at the University of Pennsylvania, May 17, 2004. Our new graduates – and you who have chosen to forget what education is for – might want to check it out and get hammered in the head.
BECAUSE WE CAN, WE MUST
My name is Bono and I am a rock star. Don’t get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited. I’d just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only four letter word I’m going to use today is P-E-N-N. Come to think of it ‘Bono’ is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity–I don’t think there’s anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. It’s a bit like when people put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. It’s not natural, and it doesn’t make the dog any smarter.
If you are really proud of your roots, Pacman, do something concrete for the town, or at least for the barangay where your father was born. A small school building or a community training center won’t definitely hurt your pocket.
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