On Why I Became a Royalist

IN SEARCH OF THAT POMP The glory that was the medieval times   THE LIKES OF PHILIPPINE SENATOR Antonio Trillanes should be appla...

Remembering Private Ryan: A Detail

WAR UNDER SCRUTINY  By saving one hapless soldier I WATCHED THAT OLD WAR film again last night,  Saving Private Ryan . I couldn’t help ...

My Dear Beer

LOVING YOU TENDER Despite your bitter tongue I JUST WANT YOU TO know that you mean so much to me. That might be a bit exaggerated, ...

To You, Lady of the Night

REMEMBERING OF THINGS PAST  Through the present WHEN I WAS STILL YOUNG, I used to visit our grandparents in Bansalan, Davao del Sur. ...

The Necessity of Sadness in Art

LONELY BUT NOT ALONE And the art of sadness  I OFTEN WONDER WHY SADNESS is a necessary muse in art. Why is it that every time a ...

My Skirmish with Monosyllabic Words

MAKING IT YOUR BITCH  And taking care of it  THERE IS FORCE WHEN YOU use a word. Some men do not have that kind of thing when it come...

Description of a Hunger

LIKE DIVINE INTERVENTION Tender, Juicy, Tasty SUCCULENT IS A WORD you use when you think of something tender, juicy, tasty. But it leav...

Apolitical Apropos

ALL FOR THE MOOLAH There's no stopping to it (politics)  IT IS A MISERABLE BUSINESS. But people are glued to it like leech on a s...

Between Rock and Chuck Berry

GOODBYE, JOHNNY B. GOODE "To hear you play your music when the sun go down" I FEEL SORRY FOR KEITH RICHARDS. When Chuck Ber...

Why I Left My Mistress (For a While)

READ THROUGH  Sounds more like work for me lately I'M STILL ON MY HAITUS. For two years I have been dealing with words almost al...