Late to the fray again — playing gigs as much as I can before I bid Manila adieu — but as I’ve always maintained, there can be no statute of limitations on outrage. So after finally catching up on my RSS reader, I came across this little tidbit about an article published in People [...]
Because it is there
Speaking in front of reporters for what would seemingly have been the thousandth time, George Mallory gives the almost snide, immortal response to the question “why climb Mt. Everest”: because it is there. Now, 84 years later, one man looks back at what Mallory must have faced when attempting to tame the wildest frontier known [...]
It’s like Matrix, only more surreal
That’s how I’d describe the state of the nation under GMA.
Congress has just doubled it’s Pork Barrel allocation — with some 3+ billion pesos being diverted from the retirement funds of government employees.
Hundred thousand peso desktop machines that my old Sempron can run circles around.
Fifty thousand peso lampposts.
An apathetic middle class.
An opportunistic upper class.
A [...]
Chiz Escudero Real Ultimate Facts!!!
It’s ridiculous, really, that as busy as I am with work and the band, I can still take the time to do silly things like this: The Chiz Escudero Real Ultimate Facts!!! site.
Then again, it’s good practice: you’re looking at my first fully OOP site.
Kierkegaard would have loved this administration
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher who once defended faith precisely because it is absurd, would totally appreciate the actions of the current administration by GMA. In fact, the basic premise of Absurdism, that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation [...]
