ang hebigat habagat

lutasin ang sakuna:
figurative mantika
at literal na baha.
panuto: connect the dots.

testdrive: daang mataba

i'll update this entry once the colored version is published somewhere.*update* [http://ow.ly/nSois]; meanwhile, thank you napoles, senators, congressmen, conspirators, and of course, [president] and [the like], please come again and fatten yourselves and explode come the new year or whatever time you deem appropriate

pre-long weekend plug

ilang quicktime plug-ins: first off, as mentioned [before] the quarterly bathroom companion comics compendium (qbccc) [website] is (almost?) complete, w short but sweet [profile] and two [1][2] komix entries of yours truly; also, some of qbccc creators (might) be at [indieket 2013], the 2nd grand komikon independent komiks market, august 10, from 10am to 7pm at the hall A of bayanihan center, pasig city; i wouldn't be at indieket but had you decided to drop by, you may want to attend the [launch] of the querida antho after, as mentioned [before], in the podium atrium, same saturday, august 10, 6pm; take a rest the following saturday, and after that, you may want to spend the next saturday by going to DL umali at the university of the philippines los baños for the wisik artists market come august 24, 9am to 6pm, there's a fat chance that you might avail of [pseud two] and of course [waylaying innocence] by [dennis aguinaldo] and [emmanuel dumlao] and [jesa perl] and paulin reyes; and lastly, iyas anthology [launch] jumpstarts september at de la salle university, 420pm (hehe) on september 2. that is all, i thank you. end of shameless selfie promotional material, sorry for disrupting whatever has been disrupted.

gave you coupla reasons

(this is an addition to the close-reading list hosted herein. among the texts read / temporarily concluded / openly ended are the [omaca-an] series, the [crocodile] series, the [crab] and now, the [pink], which is one-shot like the crab. thanks D and H for granting the permission [?] to post our exchanges of reasoning. we tackled the words to an allegedly popular song via personal message, unlike the crab discussion which was posted as status message and the spontaneous discussion proceeded, free-for-all, at the comments section. we wanted pink for ourselves so-- after the cut, we discuss but before that, let me just say that the suggestion for discussing-- on second thought, i neither want to explain nor apologize for anything, so w/o further ado:)

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plug: qbccc dot net

quicktime plug-in lang: up na ang [QBCCC site]. apir dj, josel, mervin.

08032013: weekend update: more content, may sinubmit na akong photo

silip sa "ihip: kumperensya..."

 

"ihip: kumperensya ng mga ibon," forthcoming sa folio

ng [pedantic pedestrians], ilulunsad sa buwan ng augusto

mid-term, three-year LOL

 

three years of [strength through loyalty

loyalty through faith]. PH PREVAILS.

a six-year taxabbatical

 

youre welcome, thanks, come again, 

maynilad, manila water, in cooperation w mwss

calvino's chuang-tzu's crab

the illustration is an approximation, or perhaps a rip-off, of the most perfect crab, as created by calvino's story's Chuang-tzu with one stroke. after the cut, dennis, hani and i tried to break the crab, the artist who created the crab and the writer who created the artist who created the crab, etc etc (btw, i have a similar issue to address, but i'd rather have it addressed visually, since the issue that bothered me for a couple of weeks lies in the visual realm).

"Among Chuang-tzu's many skills, he was an expert draftsman. The king asked him to draw a crab. Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants. Five years later the drawing was still not begun. 'I need another five years,' said Chuang-tzu. The king granted them. At the end of these ten years, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant, with a single stroke, he drew a crab, the most perfect crab ever seen." —Italo Calvino on "Quickness," from Six Memos for the Next Millennium

unsullied midyear harvest report, update, etc

unsolicited, unsullied. anyway, first, dog piss at the UP Forum issue re: territory:

 

hiatus over. in addition to the carcosite's not-so-updated [publication page], here's another round of shameless plugs of some apparitions. three publications: 1) poem "Minanikang Makina" in Querida: An Anthology, published by Anvil; 2) poem "Tungkol sa Kawalaan*" in IYAS: An Anthology (2001-2010), published by the University of St. La Salle; and 3) poems "Minanikang Makina**," "M for Movement," "May Bagyo, Walang Pasok" and prose poem "An Exercise in Understanding 'Lachrymology'" in The Literary Apprentice, published by UP Writers' Club. tis midyear, and i have not sown enough to reap whatever i deem is enough. but hey, no highs without lows. so, tis fine.