Category: blogs
blogger blues
little more than a handful of pinoy bloggers on my required-reads list have been blogging (and only a handful of readers commenting) on israel’s wicked war in/on gaza, which is a shame because it betrays how insular we can get, … Continue reading
blog ‘n’ brawl
well, we are certainly getting a taste of blogger power. for sure nayanig ang pangandamans, father and sons, by the virulence and volume of the blogging community’s outrage over the alleged mauling of the de la paz father and son, … Continue reading
audacious intervention
intervene – to become a party to a legal proceeding begun by others in order to protect an alleged interest in the subject matter of the proceeding [merriam-webster's dictionary of law] intervene – Law. to interpose and become a party … Continue reading
of intellectual doldrums & filipino voices
in a speech on publishing in the regional languages that poet professor Ricky de Ungria delivered in cebu’s academic publishing fair last july, he dared point out, bully for him, what ails the intellectual life of the filipino, which i … Continue reading
deadly mabuhay kills chikatime
interesante ang nagaganap sa gossip corner of the blogosphere. akalain niyo, napa-shutdown ng isang gucci gang blog-girl ang chikatime.com, the notorious gossip blog that dared cackle in nasty bading-speak at celebrities and other society climbers, and not from some ivory … Continue reading
new kid on the blog
yehey! my daughter katrina has finally steppedout of her multiply closet,it’s about time, as she has a lot to say, too, manang-mana, ‘ika nga. but where i was a sixties college drop-out and learned and earned my credits in the school of … Continue reading
battle of the blogs
si manolo quezon ba ang pinatatamaan ni benignO? one blogger’s citation of another blogger’s work serves the double purpose of also promoting the former’s own blog (at least if the latter sets their blog to allow trackbacks). This eureka moment … Continue reading
ka amado, national artist
does it matter that ka amado was a “commie”? not to pedestrian observer, ligaya, kartunista, and leni whose reactions to my “sassy” posts point to an unexplored facet of the birds of prey column. pedestrianobserver : was it because she … Continue reading
strike two
oh my, the “sassy” one strikes again. how boring. pwedeng di na lang patulan pero on second thought, why not, lalo na’t baka isipin niyang tama siya porke walang response. having trained in psychology, i cannot but read “tyranny of … Continue reading
salamat, “sassy”
dahil sa iyo, sold out daw ang Mga Ibong Mandaragit ni Ka Amado! ang saya naman! at dahil sa iyo, merong nang ibongmandaragit.com dedicated to reading and blogging on the book, chapterby chapter. ang saya talaga!
challenge of the blogs
must read: talk about kettles calling the pots black by dean jorge bocobo, where he takes on media guru luis teodoro, who deserves it for not finding anything good to say about blogs except that they pose a challenge to … Continue reading
sassy: aiming high, hitting low
imagine. complaining about the tagalog of amado v. hernandez in mga ibong mandaragit [now required high school reading, thank goodness, being a sequel to rizal's fili]. that’s sassy? that’s stupid. and lazy. and, really, anti-filipino, i.e., anti everything that filipino … Continue reading