This kick is coming to you a li’l late in the week, I’ll admit, but you know how these U.S. national holidays can send your temporality, diets, and drinking/smoking moratoriums into a tailspin what with the all-too-early dwindling news of oil spills and an endless array of fourth of July debt relief ads streaming through […]
There are some friends you haven’t seen in awhile with whom the conversation requires a little warm-up. Some superficial chit-chat here, a few perfunctory questions about how life has been going there. And then there are the friends with whom you pick-up as if you’ve never left off–as if the weeks, months or years between […]
They were five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse. Before the day was over, they broke the rules. Bared their souls. And touched each other in a way they never dreamed possible.For a majority of the 1980s, my familys […]
Late last night, passing from the waning phase of my jetlag from the Philippines to the jarring realization that my actual sleep schedule in the States has always been fucked up, I sat in a stupor watching the relentless media coverage of Michael Jacksons death: the prurient repetition of the 9-1-1 phone call; the heartrending […]
This years EMP wasnt the business-as-usual, put-your-peepee-on-the-table and rumble caucus weve grown to love and (sometimes) resent. Just last year, I emphatically referred to it as theschlongfest slow to change. What a difference 365 days make. There are too many reasons for this years bright and airy fissures. Im writing from the road, so permit […]
Today’s quickie is dedicated to America’s “Second Lady,” Dr. Jill Biden, whose hair is so bouncin’ and behavin’ that she could very well pass for a soap diva from ’80s primetime. Some have compared her to Linda Evans of Dynasty. To me,her vibe feels a little more Knot’s Landing (“Back to the Cul de Sac”)–although […]
Experiencing homecoming in the abjection machine of an academic conferenceproduces all kinds of interesting side effects. Some are physical: jeans become torture devices as you try and contain the bloating that comes with too many power bars, sandwiches, New-Mex gut bombs. Concealer edges out blush as the most important thing in the makeup bag. Or, […]
You’ve probably noticed, dear readers, that our very own CBB has been on a hiatus from O!I most of this July, because of herBalikbayan journey through the Philippines with DJ Un-G. Landing back stateside can be tough, as I learned after many depressed, jet-lagged nights following my own trip back (the first in over 20 […]
A quick look at the Beijing ’08 Olympics beyond Michael Phelps’ bling, and Misty May-Treanor and Keri Walsh’s bikinis. Link to the full stories below… Pac-Man leads Pin@y Delegation at Opening Ceremonies He’s not competing, but he’s lookin’ good in the teal Barong and post-Apo Hiking Society haircut. Pinoy Food Services Chef at UCI Caters […]
Summer has always felt like an extended version of Sunday. For those of us in the circus, summers off means writing and more writing (sometimes school really does suck). Creating the private space needed to write can leave you open to being kidnapped by certain ways of sounding, which means certain ways of feeling too. […]