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08-Sep-2024
Victor Paz, archaeologist
15-Jul-2024
Media crisis: Eating out of the Dutertes’ hand
21-Jun-2024
Notes on Another Country: Inday Sara and opposition suppositions
07-Jun-2024
Notes on Another Country: Unimagined communities
15-Apr-2024
Literary cliques, patronage politics, and the publishing mafia: The Philippine Book Festival
30-Jan-2024
InSecurity Bank #bankingcrises
29-Jan-2024
Disquiet #2024
26-Dec-2023
“Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world” #FreePalestine
22-Dec-2023
Ponder propaganda: Fueling the Duterte machine
31-Oct-2023
Drag Them! The case of Pura Luka Vega, conservatism, and us
24-Sep-2023
Legit bulaga: TVJ gets its groove back
11-Aug-2023
Beauty and gold #CulturalCrisis
02-Aug-2023
Icing on the cake: MTRCB, censorship, conservatism #CulturalCrisis
24-Jun-2023
Run Barbi(e) Run*
24-Jun-2023
Growing up with Joey*
17-Jun-2023
(Middle Class) Crisis: Why rising from May 2022 has been difficult
07-Jan-2023
Four cases, one justice system
02-Jan-2023
PH airspace shut down, overseas dev’t assistance projects, and asking better questions
30-Nov-2022
The poet is alive
13-Aug-2022
Badoy, banned books, and the Marcos challenge
06-Aug-2022
Thinking of FVR
28-Jun-2022
Pointed appointments (Part 2): Bring on the women #MarcosV2
01-Jun-2022
Pointed appointments (Part 1) #MarcosV2
19-May-2022
Robbed #Halalan2022
16-Apr-2022
23 Days: Words, class, final push #Halalan2022
13-Apr-2022
26 days: Kawomenan sa #Halalan2022 #LetLeniSpeak
23-Mar-2022
47 days: Bring Back Leni #Halalan2022
14-Mar-2022
56 days to go: Polarization, battle of narratives, class divides #Halalan2022
09-Mar-2022
61 days: content wars, elitism, fandoms, radio silence #Halalan2022
07-Mar-2022
63 Days: Elections in a multiverse #Halalan2022 #Demokrasya
14-Nov-2021
White knight #GracePoe #Halalan2022
30-Oct-2021
The women of the Philippines VS Julian Ongpin
17-Oct-2021
Leni and the Liberals
02-Oct-2021
Grace #Halalan2022
16-Sep-2021
Toni, Bongbong, history and #Halalan2022
29-Aug-2021
More heads should roll: The IATF, Duterte, and StaySafe #CovidCorruption #CriminalNegligence
29-Aug-2021
Criminal negligence? The IATF’s contact-tracing app #StateSurveillance #StaySafe
01-Aug-2021
State of OUR nation #SONA2021 #Halalan2022
14-Jul-2021
Generation Exhausted #Halalan2022
07-Jul-2021
What We Know Of Darkness*
05-Jul-2021
The problem with boomers #Halalan2022
17-Jun-2021
Divided, dispersed, delusional #IndependenceDay2021 #Halalan2022
13-May-2021
The Propaganda War: The case of Nayong Pilipino and the mega-vax center
10-May-2021
The propaganda war: Lessons from the ABS-CBN closure
24-Apr-2021
Privilege, pantries, and the poor
21-Apr-2021
Risk-taking in the time of red-tagging
09-Mar-2021
Duterte’s killing it #Talk2022
08-Mar-2021
Ma’am Lilia #LQS
13-Feb-2021
The battle for thought
11-Jan-2021
Driven to exhaustion: Privilege and possibility #2020
10-Oct-2020
Survey Says: Fear
18-Jul-2020
Kumusta? #TerrorLaw #Covid19 #Freedom #Protest
24-May-2020
Meralco’s heartlessness #OldNormal
17-May-2020
Sir Edel
11-May-2020
Defending a rapist? Sobriety and hunos-dili, please!
07-Mar-2020
DOH, #Covid19, public information: crisis and gov’t distrust
28-Feb-2020
Duterte winning: The VFA, timing, divide & conquer
28-Dec-2019
Desperation: Cracks in Duterte propaganda
10-Oct-2019
The tale of an online mob #NachoDomingo
04-Sep-2019
Escalate, Raze, Trigger, Exhaust: Dealing with Duterte propaganda (2)
04-Sep-2019
Divide, Undo, Tag: Dealing with Duterte propaganda (1)
12-Aug-2019
Institutional, nervous, and other breakdowns
30-Jul-2019
George Ty tales: One estate, two names, five children
28-Jul-2019
#SONA2019: Unpacking Duterte’s propaganda strategy
19-Jul-2019
Portrait of a pro-Duterte cultural worker; or how to be director of #SONA2019
13-Jul-2019
George Ty’s estate, Ramon Ang’s airport, Dennis Uy’s city, Ayala’s casino: Duterte sides with the wealthy
09-Jul-2019
Duterte chooses charter change #CongressPH #NoToChaCha
08-Jul-2019
George Ty’s estate: How the wealthy can get away with anything
05-Jul-2019
Duterte’s children, lust for power, and a discredited Congress
29-Jun-2019
Why this silence surrounding George Ty’s estate-in-crisis?
24-Jun-2019
China, Duterte, and Philippine democracy
19-Jun-2019
Sitio Malipay and the Villars: a story of landgrabbing
05-Jun-2019
How We Lost The 2019 Elections #Halalan2019
22-May-2019
Kin Misa, visual artist
20-May-2019
Incredible Elections #Halalan2019
20-Apr-2019
Last three weeks #Pagasa2019
20-Apr-2019
Throwback #Duterte (Part 2): Beyond bad words
19-Apr-2019
Throwback #Duterte (Part 1): Deserving Duterte
10-Feb-2019
Notes on the intellectual in the time of Duterte
31-Jan-2019
Is this still a whiff? Bato and Diño, FDCP and tax rebates
17-Jan-2019
Rappler, tax evasion, Duterte, dissent #MediaCrisis
17-Jan-2019
On Rappler, Ressa, “independence,” and global attention #MediaCrisis
23-Dec-2018
Where were the teachers?
22-Nov-2018
On “Mula Sa Buwan” #theaterPH
07-Nov-2018
Winning VS Duterte: Stand against #ChaCha
22-Oct-2018
Nora Aunor, National Artist
18-Oct-2018
Populism, the Liberal Party, and a new campaign strategy: Winning VS Duterte
10-Oct-2018
Giving Duterte his multiple exits #EndGame
04-Oct-2018
Duterte distractions: Manufacturing an ouster plot #RedOctober
02-Oct-2018
A reckoning: #Rappler and #MediaCrisis (Part 1)
11-Sep-2018
#Duterte to address the nation: here’s what to expect
09-Sep-2018
Duterte talks coup d’etat, weaves fiction, forgets the people
06-Sep-2018
The revelation of Robin Padilla
09-Aug-2018
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino and the creative spirit
04-Aug-2018
Oca Villamiel, art and magnitude
21-Jul-2018
ChaCha: Duterte’s endgame #SONA2018 #NoToChaCha
17-Jul-2018
The refusal to give up today
20-Jun-2018
When gender allies are enemies: Liza Diño defends Duterte
11-Jun-2018
ENOUGH
17-May-2018
The right questions about #BuhayCarinderia: and some hope for DOT
08-May-2018
Damage control, the Tulfos, and returning the P60M pesos
07-May-2018
#WandaTeo, the Tulfos, conflict-of-interest: What innocence?
03-May-2018
Mocha, diplomacy, and the reckless endangerment of our OFWs
01-May-2018
Wanda Teo, a P60-million ad placement, and the stench of corruption (Part 3)
18-Apr-2018
Refusing accountability: Liza Diño and PPP Year 2
18-Apr-2018
Duterte rages against fact-finding missions
10-Apr-2018
Portrait of Spocky Farolan as UP Regent (Part 2)
08-Apr-2018
Portrait of a Duterte appointee as UP Regent (Part 1)
07-Apr-2018
Wanda Teo and the tale of the traveling “little people” OR, a whiff of corruption (Part 2)
06-Apr-2018
Wanda Teo and a pair of designer shoes OR, a whiff of corruption (Part 1)
16-Mar-2018
Duterte VS the ICC: A timeline of a man digging his own grave
13-Mar-2018
Sacred cows in Duterte’s drug war: Peter Lim
08-Mar-2018
Doing CJSereno In: Her SALN VS Duterte’s Men
07-Mar-2018
CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 3: 2018)
07-Mar-2018
CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 2: 2017)
06-Mar-2018
CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 1: 2016)
24-Jan-2018
Asec #Mocha is correct …
09-Jan-2018
State of blogging, microblogging, media #crisis
05-Jan-2018
Putting out fires
16-Dec-2017
A Duterte debut: thoughtlessness and excess
13-Dec-2017
Why say #NoToMartialLaw in Mindanao
24-Nov-2017
Pinay call-out culture: the good, bad, ugly
08-Nov-2017
This Mocha catastrophe #StandWithMedia
08-Nov-2017
When the #DDS can do no wrong: victimizing #HarryRoque
06-Nov-2017
A hooray for Harry, a test for Duterte
31-Oct-2017
A Battle Against Exhaustion
13-Oct-2017
Crazed tirade against EU: #DutertesMen doing him in
06-Oct-2017
Name the enemy: #FakeNews
03-Oct-2017
Sotto VS #SilentNoMore, fake news VS opinion, anonymity and double standard
28-Sep-2017
Ressa, Amnesty International, Duterte, words
26-Sep-2017
Two Mochas too many
19-Sep-2017
Unity, protest, cultural work #Sept21 #Luneta
17-Sep-2017
Duterte spins the #Sept21 protest #Luneta
13-Sep-2017
How we lost our rights in 15 months #Duterte
10-Sep-2017
Sabotage, malignant elements, damage control
04-Sep-2017
Ghosts of August and Duterte’s drug war
24-Aug-2017
Mocha and the end of troll discourse
19-Aug-2017
This is on you, President Duterte
16-Aug-2017
Common sense dictates: Confirm Judy Now!
13-Aug-2017
Andanar’s PNA train wreck
11-Aug-2017
#Andanar’s learning curve, social media user accreditation, #PCOO’s downward spiral
09-Aug-2017
Andy-Tish, smoke-mirrors: who gains from this teleserye?
07-Aug-2017
Emily Alvarez: The case for dissolution of marriage
28-Jul-2017
Writing, criticism, hope
25-Jul-2017
Everything I needed to learn about writing, I learned through blogging
12-Jul-2017
A whiff of corruption at DoT
11-Jul-2017
The question of Bracken
08-Jul-2017
Political insidiousness, public complicity
08-Jul-2017
MMFF, transparency, big words
07-Jul-2017
Welcome to hell
05-Jul-2017
A year of candidate Duterte
28-Jun-2017
Truth, fake news, propaganda
27-Jun-2017
A year of anti-information
19-Jun-2017
Terrible tourism
16-Jun-2017
Death of culture (3): Lizaso’s vision for stagnation
12-Jun-2017
Death of culture (2): Cultish leadership for CCP
09-Jun-2017
Lizaso at CCP: Death of culture (1)
07-Jun-2017
A portrait of a Tourism Secretary as failure
06-Jun-2017
Andanar sa PCO: Isang kasaysayan ng kapalpakan (2)
02-Jun-2017
Andanar sa PCO: Isang kasaysayan ng kapalpakan (1)
01-Jun-2017
The Senate disappoints #MartialLaw
29-May-2017
Out of control
26-May-2017
Driving distractions
22-May-2017
Duterte, Manay Judy, Ka Paeng
20-May-2017
Demeaning human rights
15-May-2017
Duterte, Lapanday
08-May-2017
What mining lobby?
04-May-2017
Dear Smart,
01-May-2017
Elitism in the time of Duterte
01-May-2017
Ressa, Mocha, Fake News
28-Apr-2017
Torre de Manila: a review
21-Apr-2017
TIME 100 and Duterte’s communications
19-Apr-2017
Duterte chauvinism: Sino bang walang babae?
03-Apr-2017
Portrait of a UP teacher as mining lobbyist
03-Apr-2017
London Biennale Manila Pollination: The Revolution Loses Steam
31-Mar-2017
That New York Times documentary: the photographer as hero
31-Mar-2017
The Singapore Biennale 2016: An Excess of Rhetoric
27-Mar-2017
The VP’s missed chance, the President’s opportunity
25-Mar-2017
From neglected houses, to homes for the poor
20-Mar-2017
Losing Leni
17-Mar-2017
‘Madam Secretary,’ politics, gender
13-Mar-2017
The embarrassment of mines, the fortitude of Gina Lopez
10-Mar-2017
Unwell, unjust: #NoToDeathPenalty
09-Mar-2017
Mines are ours
06-Mar-2017
Oceana Gold: history, abuse, mining
03-Mar-2017
STRIKE!
27-Feb-2017
Tweeting EDSA1986
26-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: Freedom in independence
25-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: Silencing the critic
24-Feb-2017
Andanar imagines destabilization, drowns in own false claims
24-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: Living EDSA
23-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: EDSA on repeat
23-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: A daughter of uncertain times
22-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA: Silent in the State U
22-Feb-2017
Owning EDSA
20-Feb-2017
The party’s over
17-Feb-2017
Zambales mines: A history of questionable practices
14-Feb-2017
Bad romance
13-Feb-2017
DENR’s daring, mining’s crisis
12-Feb-2017
HTI fire: Cover-up?
11-Feb-2017
Dear Miss Canada Siera Bearchell,
10-Feb-2017
Who will benefit from the jeepney phase out?
30-Jan-2017
Portrait of a communications secretary as failure
27-Jan-2017
Taxes, freelancers, cultural work: Amnesty and kindness
23-Jan-2017
Good news, bad news for culture
20-Jan-2017
RH push overshadowed by Sotto, Leni condom-talk
16-Jan-2017
Who’s afraid of a yahoogroup?
16-Jan-2017
Social class before beauty
13-Jan-2017
Selling relevance, using current events
05-Jan-2017
The Uncritical Subjects, Or How The Empire Strikes Back
05-Jan-2017
Beyond the horror
02-Jan-2017
The noise of 2016: lessons for 2017
02-Jan-2017
Attempted rape as teenage dream?
29-Dec-2016
The septic tank as critique
23-Dec-2016
Film, art in a time of change
12-Dec-2016
Andanar, VP Leni, De Lima: Taking the public for fools
05-Dec-2016
Protest culture VS troll discourse
25-Nov-2016
No color, no politico, no party
18-Nov-2016
From misinformation to confusion: Dysfunctional communications
14-Nov-2016
Is silence Andanar’s communications strategy?
08-Nov-2016
History #MarcosNotAHero #November8
04-Nov-2016
Media, gov’t comms, #LawinPH
02-Nov-2016
Sacred cows, criticism, and the media as enterprise*
21-Oct-2016
Brutal: the police and the President’s public
10-Oct-2016
OVP versus NAPC: poverty, aid, vision
07-Oct-2016
Rein Them In
07-Oct-2016
#EveryONE: A call to protect human rights and uphold democratic principles
03-Oct-2016
Stop right there, congressmen!
27-Sep-2016
Killings, resignation, out of context (pa rin!)
20-Sep-2016
A Senate coup #Sept19
13-Sep-2016
Dear President Duterte,
08-Sep-2016
Liza Diño, FDCP workers, martial law #culturalcrisis
06-Sep-2016
Stand against a Dept of Culture
02-Sep-2016
Who does #NoPlaceForHate displace?
02-Sep-2016
Notes on an arts and culture agenda: a lack of representation
31-Aug-2016
Notes on an arts and culture agenda: A situationer
30-Aug-2016
Notes on an arts and culture agenda: Freddie, Liza, Cecile, Nick, Irene
13-Aug-2016
A sense of cultural history #BriccioSantosAtTheFDCP
07-Aug-2016
Wanda, Yedda, Miss Universe: Pomp, pageantry, pretense
04-Aug-2016
Freedom of anti-information
28-Jul-2016
Media madness #DuterteSONA2016
20-Jul-2016
From #WestPHSea dispute to … impeachment? #mediacrisis
14-Jul-2016
From Luneta to the Hague: a timeline of the #WestPHSea dispute #mediacrisis
02-Jul-2016
Inauguration day #Du30 #Day1
29-Jun-2016
ridiculous #MediaCrisis
12-Jun-2016
Dreaming of a People’s TV
10-Jun-2016
Possibilities for a (real) People’s Television (finally!)
10-Jun-2016
COMELEC rules, the Liberal Party, #mediacrisis
23-May-2016
a shred of truth?
24-Apr-2016
The urgency of the environment #Eleksyon2016 #EarthDay2016
23-Apr-2016
Climate change and matuwid na daan #Eleksyon2016 #EarthDay2016
23-Apr-2016
Environment, development, cities #Eleksyon2016 #EarthDay2016
22-Apr-2016
Leading by example #Eleksyon2016
21-Apr-2016
Divorce and freedom #Eleksyon2016
20-Apr-2016
The Lumad and mining #Eleksyon2016
12-Apr-2016
House On Fire
06-Apr-2016
Tungkol sa kultural na paggawa
03-Apr-2016
#Eleksyon2016: Rage
31-Mar-2016
don’t believe those surveys #Eleksyon2016
29-Mar-2016
Social / media bias #Eleksyon2016
15-Mar-2016
#womensmonth2016: censoring our words, our bodies
13-Mar-2016
#womensmonth2016: those darn shoes
17-Feb-2016
Pacquiao self-destructs
31-Jan-2016
Art Upstaged: The National Gallery Singapore opens
28-Jan-2016
Ai Weiwei, beyond Western claims
25-Jan-2016
Blaspheming against the bul-ol
04-Jan-2016
Tita Baboo, 1948-2015
04-Jan-2016
15 from 2015: kultura
04-Dec-2015
december 3: count
29-Nov-2015
Deserving Duterte
24-Nov-2015
Cultural crisis #APEC2015
15-Nov-2015
Of silence, Paris, the Lumad
05-Nov-2015
Lumad, first
30-Oct-2015
Meet the Lumad
06-Oct-2015
Poe and Pinoy cinema #Eleksyon2016
20-Sep-2015
letter from China 1
11-Sep-2015
#StopLumadKillings
27-Aug-2015
Women. Freedom. Rakenrol.*
27-Aug-2015
The portrait of a columnist as plagiarist
17-Aug-2015
The Mar Roxas site does an EDSA Uno #Eleksyon2016
14-Aug-2015
The real state of the nation*
11-Aug-2015
Identity crisis #Eleksyon2016
05-Aug-2015
The burden of the unexplained #Eleksyon2016
30-Jul-2015
Jim Paredes: The burgis as bastos
22-Jul-2015
Parental guidance #OhNoGracePoe
18-Jul-2015
Traffic!* #LiberalPartyGovt
16-Jul-2015
Say Chiz #Eleksyon2016
28-Jun-2015
Success: #BuhayMedia
16-Jun-2015
the F question #mystealthyfreedom
08-Jun-2015
on Rai Cruz’s Urban Modifications
26-May-2015
#Katakot2016: Duterte
14-May-2015
Mary Jane #donotforget
07-May-2015
third world tech conundrum: or where do old printers go to die?
05-May-2015
beyond boxing
19-Apr-2015
download NOW #HiMaamSir #IWBTSBNQTS
18-Apr-2015
A case for creative critical engagement #OnLiteratureMonth
12-Apr-2015
the voice of celebrity: love and alex gonzaga, life and bianca gonzalez*
09-Apr-2015
yaya meals and the sushal indignation
06-Apr-2015
Against divorce #WomensMonth2015*
04-Apr-2015
Game over
21-Mar-2015
competition* #WomensMonth2015 #IAmNotMyShoes
19-Mar-2015
different women* #IAmNotMyShoes #WomensMonth2015
16-Mar-2015
relationships and freedom* #WomensMonth2015 #IAmNotMyShoes
15-Mar-2015
motherhood in a time of war* #SAF44 #WomensMonth2015 #IAmNotMyShoes
13-Mar-2015
the decision to be alone* #IAmNotMyShoes #WomensMonth2015
13-Mar-2015
the violence of choice* #WomensMonth2015 #IAmNotMyShoes
12-Mar-2015
the violence of words* #WomensMonth2015 #IAmNotMyShoes
12-Mar-2015
#IAmNotMyShoes Redux #WomensMonth2015
07-Mar-2015
I Am Not My Shoes #WomensMonth2015
15-Feb-2015
Love, deceit, man, woman
10-Feb-2015
the President’s confidence level: the Mamasapano clash
10-Feb-2015
The failure of capture
29-Jan-2015
the tale of the absent President: the Mamasapano clash (updated)
28-Jan-2015
taking stock: Mamasapano clash
23-Jan-2015
The end of the (art) affair*
16-Jan-2015
#DearPopeFrancis*
04-Jan-2015
Marian’s freedoms*
15-Dec-2014
The human rights report card
01-Dec-2014
review: on ICON the concert
26-Nov-2014
the last of kolchor for 2014
08-Nov-2014
Kuya Joseph, Brgy. Burayan, San Jose, Tacloban City
05-Nov-2014
Balangiga, Eastern Samar
03-Nov-2014
Quinapondan, Eastern Samar
01-Nov-2014
Guiuan, Eastern Samar
16-Oct-2014
Justice for Jennifer
13-Oct-2014
Failing the figurative, a review of Bwaya
08-Oct-2014
The National Historical Omission!
04-Oct-2014
the Marcoses’ embarrassment of riches
10-Sep-2014
Storytelling and Dani Girl
04-Sep-2014
No Junk In This Trunk*
02-Sep-2014
thank you!
14-Aug-2014
CinemalayaX: the year of self-indulgent film and creative conceit
04-Aug-2014
The Fluid re-write
21-Jul-2014
Kleptomaniacs*
03-Jul-2014
Downward spiral*
14-Jun-2014
Freedom*
09-Jun-2014
notes on Gawad Buhay, democratization, and the anxiety of smallness
05-Jun-2014
#YesAllWomen
13-May-2014
for Joelle: how are these days?
23-Apr-2014
Lola Nita, 1923-2014.
14-Apr-2014
Fight the fakery (The beauty deception Part 3)
06-Apr-2014
rising to the occasion: on “Cock” and the text as king
04-Apr-2014
The Rappler-Pantene partnership (The beauty deception Part 2)
01-Apr-2014
Activism* (or what is wrong with the STFAP and STS)
01-Apr-2014
Rage* (or what is wrong with the STFAP and STS)
01-Apr-2014
The beauty deception (Part 1)
30-Mar-2014
12 Pinay celebrities to be thankful for
28-Mar-2014
dear UP Manila,
13-Mar-2014
slow and disjointed: on August Osage County
27-Feb-2014
not everyone can make a rom-com: a realization from watching Starting Over Again
25-Feb-2014
remember by reading: EDSA Revolution 1986
19-Feb-2014
space for troubled youth: on Toilet The Musical
16-Feb-2014
on friendship and sisterhood #beforeiforget*
08-Feb-2014
the anxiety of rain: on Rak Of Aegis
04-Feb-2014
Criticism: not (fun) in the Philippines*
28-Jan-2014
some waiting required: on “Wait Until Dark”
27-Jan-2014
Dolphy, national artist*
20-Jan-2014
powerless
17-Jan-2014
kim chews their heads off
14-Jan-2014
in defense of Enteng Kabisote*
12-Jan-2014
beyond 13: last hurrahs for Pinoy theater in 2013
10-Jan-2014
about those bunkhouses #typhoonHaiyan #reliefPH
08-Jan-2014
neither spectacle nor escape: a review of “Grease”
06-Jan-2014
Pinoy social and online media 2013 (Part 3)
05-Jan-2014
missing the point
04-Jan-2014
Pinoy social and online media 2013 (Part 2)
03-Jan-2014
Pinoy social and online media 2013 (Part 1)
02-Jan-2014
13: Pinoy theater’s highs and lows in 2013 (part 2)
01-Jan-2014
13: Pinoy theater’s highs and lows in 2013 (part 1)
12-Dec-2013
(not) back to business
09-Dec-2013
silence / absence
30-Nov-2013
Credibility
20-Nov-2013
si Andres Bonifacio
20-Nov-2013
rage, still
17-Nov-2013
nothing else matters
17-Nov-2013
Criticism
14-Nov-2013
Words
14-Nov-2013
#YolandaPH #reliefPH
04-Nov-2013
on “I used to be able to talk to myself. Now we just argue.”
31-Oct-2013
PNoy and that legal card
26-Oct-2013
people before buildings
15-Oct-2013
miracles
14-Oct-2013
the unedited “Closer” review
12-Oct-2013
on “Der Kaufmann” … and on an editing fail
09-Oct-2013
OTC: on the contrary (OTJ, Transit & the indie)
06-Oct-2013
freeze
27-Sep-2013
not a Santi Bose
24-Sep-2013
on “Ang Kwento ni Mabuti”
23-Sep-2013
faith
21-Sep-2013
on “The Mind’s Eye”
10-Sep-2013
dear Harvey Keh
03-Sep-2013
in the midst of relief and rallies, i wrote about art
29-Aug-2013
first #ScrapPork rally lessons
27-Aug-2013
one post-#ScrapPork rally reflection
24-Aug-2013
why should you go to the august 26 rally?
18-Aug-2013
let us PLAN THIS MARCH!
10-Aug-2013
No deception: “Babagwa” in 500
08-Aug-2013
Give up that pork!
07-Aug-2013
online journalism fail 3: the “i-was-first!” syndrome
06-Aug-2013
Long-drawn & non-instant: “Instant Mommy” in 500
02-Aug-2013
this happy nation*
01-Aug-2013
The risk of “Katy”*
29-Jul-2013
the calm in “Owel”
23-Jul-2013
#SONA2013
17-Jul-2013
dear Bistek,
14-Jul-2013
The epic fail that is “Pramoedya”*
06-Jul-2013
the Virgin Labfest 9 haul
29-Jun-2013
WTF KWF! or what is wrong with Pilipinas?
25-Jun-2013
online journalism fail 2: rappler’s churnalism!
20-Jun-2013
online journalism fail 1: c’mon rappler
17-Jun-2013
on words
06-Jun-2013
on Charice
03-Jun-2013
Vice Ganda’s false apology
24-May-2013
hell is here
20-May-2013
strike
18-May-2013
post-election blues
15-May-2013
partylist-fail
02-May-2013
Why Teddy
29-Apr-2013
#DearPH
26-Apr-2013
Cheers to “The Graduate”!*
23-Apr-2013
on Lola Nena*
08-Apr-2013
(mis)handling heritage
02-Apr-2013
12 Pinay celebrities to be thankful for
21-Mar-2013
Rage
20-Mar-2013
explaining Kristel away
18-Mar-2013
Frolic and fun in “No Way To Treat A Lady”*
18-Mar-2013
black monday: mourn the StateU
14-Mar-2013
Tourism and the poor Filipino face
10-Mar-2013
on Robin and the Sultan
28-Feb-2013
on Bam Aquino and social entrepreneurship
22-Feb-2013
the 2013 kick-off
03-Feb-2013
on Of Love and Other Lemons, v.1*
01-Feb-2013
Where’d your glam rock go?
27-Jan-2013
see you University of Baguio!
19-Jan-2013
the media creatures in our midst
16-Jan-2013
dear NBDB,
20-Dec-2012
a letter to Secretary De Lima: justice, please.
28-Nov-2012
on pinoy pride
27-Nov-2012
#SpeakUp about the violence against the Pinay
22-Nov-2012
on the working artist, on artistic labor
20-Nov-2012
Salvatus for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize! :)
18-Nov-2012
a quickie: prostitution ain’t witty
15-Nov-2012
i have no specific expertise
07-Nov-2012
you indie? we BLTX.
19-Oct-2012
Mario O’Hara’s swan song
18-Oct-2012
Desire and disappearance in “Stageshow”*
17-Oct-2012
on kabastusan and Akbayan
04-Oct-2012
wanted: cyber righteous indignation
02-Oct-2012
Cybercrime ba ‘to ser? Rally: October 2 2012!
29-Sep-2012
Enrile’s memoir, and defamation
28-Sep-2012
historical significance? cultural capital!
27-Sep-2012
#AnonymousPhilippines rocks my world
23-Sep-2012
independence is a dangerous thing
21-Sep-2012
no freedom
04-Sep-2012
Cinemalaya 2012: youthful excess & indie on overdrive
01-Sep-2012
Some wishin’ for original Pinoy music and musikero*
28-Aug-2012
buddha blues you, baby!
28-Aug-2012
Notes on OPM: Lea & Anne, and the curse of celebrity
28-Aug-2012
Notes on OPM: Music by the tingi
28-Aug-2012
Notes on OPM: Re-considering pop
28-Aug-2012
Notes on OPM: the fact of celebrity
28-Aug-2012
Notes on OPM: The reality talent sings
27-Aug-2012
click for project stitch!
10-Aug-2012
puso, hindi plastic
09-Aug-2012
10 out 17 Cities in a State of Calamity
29-Jul-2012
the emperor’s new what?
25-Jul-2012
ang saklap maging Pilipino
17-Jul-2012
this book Of Love and Other Lemons
14-Jul-2012
Dolphy, national artist
27-Jun-2012
cynthia and the narrative of leaving
12-Jun-2012
independence, not just freedom
08-Jun-2012
Bid Bad Bayo
29-May-2012
convicted #cjtrial
24-May-2012
today: indie books!
10-May-2012
Claudine’s cojones
09-May-2012
rage
05-May-2012
so late but still valid: on “In The Heights”
04-May-2012
beyond that house: compass & mt.cloud
23-Apr-2012
burn baby burn: criticism, jargon, power
22-Apr-2012
burn baby burn: the falsity of FB engagement
05-Apr-2012
criticism, feudalism, freedom
30-Mar-2012
rappler and the enterprise of spin
27-Mar-2012
on #noynoying & Rocamora’s failed response
22-Mar-2012
before the auction
20-Mar-2012
read those contest rules, read them well (UPDATE)
17-Mar-2012
on racism, in the meantime
15-Mar-2012
i’m-an-artist stereotype in Bacolor’s “Leavings”
06-Mar-2012
Dear Pinay,
03-Mar-2012
BLTX TALX today!
01-Mar-2012
Independent life is good for you.*
28-Feb-2012
WTF FHM!
24-Feb-2012
on Repertory Philippines’ “Leading Ladies”
22-Feb-2012
on Lirio Salvador’s “Sandata”
19-Feb-2012
february in fact, is national arts month
17-Feb-2012
On New, Gaga, Enteng
15-Feb-2012
poverty, human rights & PNoy’s devt plan
14-Feb-2012
on Caringal’s “Status/Hiatus”
11-Feb-2012
the death of us all
06-Feb-2012
Malacanang’s miscommunications team strikes again!
02-Feb-2012
criticism interrogates, questions, shatters
31-Jan-2012
in the end, it is just about love
27-Jan-2012
declared absences in nothing to declare
24-Jan-2012
silence
20-Jan-2012
love & clothes & western kawomenan
18-Jan-2012
Picasso at The Met: sex to begin with
16-Jan-2012
on ignorance and vampires: self-/auto-plagiarism
12-Jan-2012
Tito Jorge
11-Jan-2012
going to the dogs
09-Jan-2012
the dangers of fun
05-Jan-2012
Optimistic about the Pinoy indie: Graceland campaigns for pledges
04-Jan-2012
yearenders and firestarters
03-Jan-2012
grace in the land of Pinoy film
02-Jan-2012
on (the) line: credibility, the academe, journalism
01-Jan-2012
on self-help and the Pinay
30-Dec-2011
on Asiong Salonga, from one of the few Tunay na Lalakes i love
26-Dec-2011
on volunteerism, and the disaster of a government
26-Dec-2011
the question of CareDivas*
22-Dec-2011
#sendong relief drive!
21-Dec-2011
take it personally
20-Dec-2011
and just like that…
19-Dec-2011
nasaan si PNoy? or where’s the party?
18-Dec-2011
nasaan ang pag-asa?
15-Dec-2011
in fairness to the president
12-Dec-2011
the Marge and Jeremy show
11-Dec-2011
for Dr. Margie Holmes, an apology
11-Dec-2011
when pop pervades
07-Dec-2011
why free Ericson Acosta
03-Dec-2011
reputation, credibility, disclaimer
02-Dec-2011
Dear Teddy Boy Locsin
02-Dec-2011
because you still wrongly think that Cobonpue-Layug-Pineda were not given this project by govt
27-Nov-2011
bad vibes for NAIA 1 rehab
24-Nov-2011
on PNoy’s 1% of Hacienda Luisita
24-Nov-2011
lives were lost
23-Nov-2011
The (Un-)Worth of Words*
21-Nov-2011
machismo according to Malacanang
18-Nov-2011
Rodel Tapaya WINS!
16-Nov-2011
on Manolo Sicat’s Matayataya
15-Nov-2011
Notes on TEDx Diliman: ideas worth sharing? #4 & #5!
11-Nov-2011
Aquilizan-loving!
10-Nov-2011
notes on TEDx Diliman: ideas worth spreading? #3!
10-Nov-2011
Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo & Jett Pangan FTW!
08-Nov-2011
on “pseudo-history” & the end of discourse
07-Nov-2011
notes on TEDx Diliman: ideas worth spreading? #2!
05-Nov-2011
notes on TEDx Diliman: ideas worth spreading?
04-Nov-2011
admitting to class differences, the dream of readers at home: Butch Dalisay and Phil writing
28-Oct-2011
because literature IS serious business
25-Oct-2011
on Digging In The Dirt, an exhibit
25-Oct-2011
ingress
24-Oct-2011
poverty ain’t a blessing
23-Oct-2011
do something
23-Oct-2011
considerations
17-Oct-2011
on naming Ballet Philippines as the Phil Nat’l Ballet Company
17-Oct-2011
celebrating the production of Peter Pan
16-Oct-2011
composition
10-Oct-2011
Kuya and OPM
09-Oct-2011
exigencies
07-Oct-2011
the writing responsibility
05-Oct-2011
Luisa Mallari-Hall, teacher
04-Oct-2011
Tinarantadong Asintado FTW!
02-Oct-2011
give Ate Guy a break, or what’s wrong with that cig?
30-Sep-2011
PAL, PALEA, PNoy
28-Sep-2011
egress
14-Sep-2011
careless banter: PNoy’s speech problem
11-Sep-2011
coming up for air: notes on criticism 1
01-Sep-2011
beyond the penis, do we care about Pinoy art?
24-Aug-2011
on The Manila Hostage Massacre, a documentary
23-Aug-2011
no apologies, no excuses: on The Manila Hostage Massacre*
20-Aug-2011
Kulô before/after the hysteria
17-Aug-2011
the path for Revolutionary Routes
17-Aug-2011
media & mideo
13-Aug-2011
Kulo: before/after hysteria
09-Aug-2011
boiling over: Kulo
03-Aug-2011
the industry of offense, art as sacrificial lamb
01-Aug-2011
Soxie Topacio FTW!
30-Jul-2011
the brilliance of two left feet
28-Jul-2011
the gay gaze & the men in briefs
27-Jul-2011
death and comedy at the Virgin Labfest 7
20-Jul-2011
Rizal as someone who lived
19-Jul-2011
notes on OPM 1: celebrity versus talent
18-Jul-2011
Chris Martinez, FTW!
11-Jul-2011
two plays: Virgin Labfest 7
08-Jul-2011
have cemetery, will thee wed
05-Jul-2011
too much Torre 3: on 100 days to heaven
04-Jul-2011
Jose Rizal: simple pero rock
03-Jul-2011
too much Torre 2: on Sam’s twang
01-Jul-2011
on class, the indie film divide, and what unity must mean
29-Jun-2011
A script that took forever and a day
26-Jun-2011
too much Torre 1: on Amaya
18-Jun-2011
Walang K ang K-12
10-Jun-2011
the gift of elsewhere*
10-Jun-2011
Balut and pinoy pride in Reamillo exhibit
26-May-2011
Lolo Ding
20-May-2011
pacquiao, the pits
17-May-2011
too much, in the name of love
12-May-2011
Cebu, Still
06-May-2011
notes of a TV junkie: the cultural elite & pop TV
26-Apr-2011
urban culture as national discourse
24-Apr-2011
popularizing the way
20-Apr-2011
jesus as pepe smith as rakenrol
13-Apr-2011
are we forgiving plagiarism?
11-Apr-2011
plagiarism apology as can of worms
05-Apr-2011
pinoy rap lives!
01-Apr-2011
Kilig down pat in Catch Me I’m In Love
31-Mar-2011
release Ericson Acosta, now!
28-Mar-2011
why it won’t matter to Willie
22-Mar-2011
on Mga Kuwentong EDSA
21-Mar-2011
Revisiting EDSA ’86, failing the revolution
17-Mar-2011
camera creative 1: notes on the 2011 Singapore Biennale
13-Mar-2011
no, being hospitable ain’t cutting it anymore
03-Mar-2011
dear Jim Paredes,
03-Mar-2011
OPT: original Pinoy talent
18-Feb-2011
unexpected romances
15-Feb-2011
this saturday, art in the park!
13-Feb-2011
dear Manila Contemporary,
12-Feb-2011
entangled and powerful
09-Feb-2011
plump and pretty and political correctness
08-Feb-2011
art art art!
02-Feb-2011
dear Dep Ed, on EFA and another additional year
19-Jan-2011
the Boy of the arts: not even a patron
13-Jan-2011
babae kase!
11-Jan-2011
coming in 2011: The (presidential) Troubleshooter!
07-Jan-2011
may nunal sa paa
03-Jan-2011
2010’s top TV (and showbiz) distractions / destructions
15-Dec-2010
pinky and press ethics
10-Dec-2010
why free the morong 43?
25-Nov-2010
the fight for the RH Bill: the failure of those who party
25-Nov-2010
my body, my life: my stake in the RH Bill
24-Nov-2010
what needs to be said about Manny Pacquiao
23-Nov-2010
the street of my childhood
22-Nov-2010
Layang Bilanggo frees us from the indie!
19-Nov-2010
war and wonder in Tsardyer
17-Nov-2010
the saddest of dreams in Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria
14-Nov-2010
impotence in Astro Mayabang
11-Nov-2010
redefining the Pinoy action movie: or in love with Ishmael
11-Nov-2010
dreaming of Marian’s freedoms
08-Nov-2010
the art of lightness by Arlene Sy
04-Nov-2010
Lucio Tan wins again? (DOLE naman!)
28-Oct-2010
wa’ epek si juana change, or why the RH Bill doesn’t need this
22-Oct-2010
no money, no Muji
20-Oct-2010
some heart for Hubert
18-Oct-2010
a resigned Ressa, a resigned us
15-Oct-2010
suddenly survivor
11-Oct-2010
The Cube redefined
07-Oct-2010
dear P-Noy, on Teachers Day 2010
06-Oct-2010
the revolution cannot be staged
04-Oct-2010
month three of P-Noy: notes of a pinay*
04-Oct-2010
relevant RockEd culture: notes on contemporary Pinoy rakenrol
04-Oct-2010
romance(s) in Catalina Africa’s “The Etymology of Disaster”
03-Oct-2010
the travesty of the Pinoy Church 2: life and death in Quiapo
01-Oct-2010
the travesty of the Pinoy Church 1
26-Sep-2010
because i vote for:
24-Sep-2010
would you marry Robin Padilla?
21-Sep-2010
the Charice challenge is on!
20-Sep-2010
Dep Ed needs to do its homework
20-Sep-2010
Cherie Gil, world class
13-Sep-2010
month two of P-Noy: notes of a pinay or the honeymoon is over*
11-Sep-2010
hits and misses in ManilArt2010
07-Sep-2010
fete dela musique, elsewhere
07-Sep-2010
senior moments, notwithstanding
29-Aug-2010
cheche lazaro retires
29-Aug-2010
paris, without
25-Aug-2010
saved by salvatus! notes on the ateneo art awards 2010
23-Aug-2010
august 23 2010: hostage crisis
09-Aug-2010
ruben de jesus and the simple life
03-Aug-2010
objectifying the male? check!
01-Aug-2010
one month of P-Noy: notes of a Pinay
30-Jul-2010
si kuya at kanta
28-Jul-2010
layers of power in imao’s open endings
21-Jul-2010
check out charice’s cheeks, or it’s a vicky belo world, good lord, save us!
10-Jul-2010
in process: travel with no man
01-Jul-2010
Art For Our Times in Dekalogo 2010
01-Jun-2010
Heroism and cliche in Looking for Juan 2010
14-May-2010
anti-activism, anti-freedom of assembly: who survives?
09-May-2010
SATUR IS THE ONE
08-May-2010
para sa partylist!
05-May-2010
when ‘i love you’ is enough
25-Apr-2010
#33 and #37 on your ballots
21-Apr-2010
Art thinks highly of itself in “The Death of Death”
21-Apr-2010
20 days to go!
15-Apr-2010
the sadness of here in Ypil’s highest hiding place
14-Apr-2010
hypocrisy, plagiarism, and four (not just three) plagiarized speeches from MVP’s speechwriters
11-Apr-2010
When Indie Fails
07-Apr-2010
Why Sorry Ain’t Enough
06-Apr-2010
on rhetoric and presidential platforms
03-Apr-2010
Missing Popoy and Basha: or What Do You Take Me For? Crazy?
28-Mar-2010
in defense of (art) criticism!
27-Mar-2010
Boob slips in the age of technology, Or the victimization of Anne
27-Mar-2010
Anong problema sa walang harapan?
20-Mar-2010
Reconsidering Identity in the Aquilizan retrospective
18-Mar-2010
Meat h(a)unts you in Bacolor exhibit
04-Mar-2010
women’s month 2010: feminism on its head
01-Mar-2010
kawayan takes a walk on the blindside
09-Feb-2010
Lack of irony in Happily Unhappy
01-Feb-2010
election primer of sorts
26-Jan-2010
Lee Navas Olazo rock the new year!
16-Jan-2010
dreaming of a president 2010
07-Jan-2010
2009’s Notable Cultural chevers*
04-Jan-2010
Ethnic-abstraction evolves in Ebarle’s hands
03-Jan-2010
hello, i love you (goodbye!)
21-Dec-2009
the good, the sad, the ugly —
15-Dec-2009
happiness and melancholia
24-Nov-2009
Art of Our Lives in Pacena’s Static Reverb
21-Nov-2009
an ongoing saga: or why Edu has some explaining to do
15-Nov-2009
art on fire!
15-Nov-2009
brecht notwithstanding
07-Nov-2009
kawayan de guia: no compromises
03-Nov-2009
the eyes have it? patricia evangelista votes!
23-Oct-2009
the young and the giddy
23-Oct-2009
the artist as activist
30-Sep-2009
let’s talk about those dams!
24-Sep-2009
N.O.A.H. survives the flood
14-Sep-2009
when art and music collide
06-Sep-2009
mourning alexis
27-Aug-2009
Manila and the ghosts of directors past
26-Aug-2009
The Truth and Raya Martin
19-Aug-2009
a wonder
11-Aug-2009
plagiarism and karen davila
03-Aug-2009
cory and (lost) memory
26-Jul-2009
seeing yellow
26-Jul-2009
palparan, benigno, bencard: alin alin ang naiba?
21-Jul-2009
big bad randy
19-Jul-2009
tears for harry
19-Jul-2009
the rich ba kamo?
09-Jun-2009
on The Male Voice
07-Jun-2009
what party(list)?
03-Jun-2009
HR1109, ConAss, ChaCha, GMA Forever? WTF!
30-May-2009
Agaton and Mindy: love in the time of indie
27-May-2009
sex without love*
27-May-2009
Finding Juan
22-May-2009
Livin’ Rakenrol!
20-May-2009
Ded Na Si Lolo Lives!
15-May-2009
Rico Blanco Soars
06-May-2009
Fuschia fades
13-Apr-2009
Disparate Voices in Harmony
04-Apr-2009
sugod mga kafatid!
20-Mar-2009
in defense of Nicole
20-Mar-2009
tungkol kay Nicole ni Joms Salvador
13-Mar-2009
FrancisM! National Artist?
10-Mar-2009
today: grieving for FrancisM
09-Mar-2009
in mourning
05-Mar-2009
On losing the grit and grime*
02-Mar-2009
the enterprise of the impossible
25-Feb-2009
oh boy!!!
16-Feb-2009
classism at its best: the “jologs” and the blogosphere
02-Feb-2009
stimulus via SSS? utang na loob!
30-Jan-2009
Shameless
26-Jan-2009
KC as guilty pleasure*
26-Jan-2009
on Sugarfree Live*
12-Nov-2008
The Nostalgia of the Eheads
04-Oct-2008
on the “fiction” of the “fil-am”
13-Sep-2008
The Reality of the Disappeared
12-Aug-2008
A Dose of Self-Conscious Pinoy Machismo
12-Aug-2008
on the Filipinized Korean-novela
06-Aug-2008
questioning the usual
01-Aug-2008
post-SONA blues 2: what’s in a txt (message)?
30-Jul-2008
post-SONA blues: LFS one point, Dep Ed zero
30-Jul-2008
host creation in contemporary times: part 2
30-Jul-2008
host creation in contemporary times: part 1
22-Jul-2008
don’t forget the woman
16-Jul-2008
romanticizing poverty and wowowee
14-Jul-2008
kidnap: truth as tribute
14-Jul-2008
ano kenyo?
13-Jul-2008
the widow as kapamilya
13-Jul-2008
the young and angsty is all you get
11-Jul-2008
no money for books?
28-Jun-2008
presidential torture
27-Jun-2008
KC and skin whitening
27-Jun-2008
dreaming of difference
20-Jun-2008
of real women: ces and cheche, hazel, mary and juana, karen and sherlyn, erlinda and connie
19-Jun-2008
the rich and their notion of nation
17-Jun-2008
making bastos the flag
17-Jun-2008
Where Songbird fails to fly
15-Jun-2008
a joyride with Marcus Highway
15-Jun-2008
when judy ann and meralco fail to mix
17-May-2008
in defense of Ploning
09-May-2008
kaya ng powers ko! — or the patience for meralco
07-May-2008
pinoy rock ‘n’ roll: dead and alive
30-Apr-2008
preying on the birds
18-Apr-2008
we wish for some truths
18-Nov-2007
why say sorry?
23-Aug-2007
one last time: harry
09-Aug-2007
hello partyline?
19-Jun-2007
Chicks Rule!
02-Mar-2007
On Lumbera’s Plenary
16-Oct-2006
Confessing Selves: Notes on the road to realizing self-centered lives
15-Feb-2006
Getting Away With It
04-Nov-2005
Where Has All the Laughter Gone?
03-Sep-2005
Finding Spaces
23-Feb-2005
Killing Credibility on TV
20-Jun-2004
Boycott!
12-Jan-2004
INCREDIBLE KRIS
11-Jan-2004
Afraid of ABS-CBN
21-Mar-2002
Where’s the Bitch? – A Review of Chinie Hidalgo’s Bitchy Poetry
18-Feb-2002
Lording it Over
04-Feb-2002
This Pinoy Harry Experience