ten raised to the xth

commemorating our decade with ten perennial, penitent sighs: candle-lit silences.

Excerpt from the draft of "The Composition of the Swinate"

Article VI, Section 2 of the Constytution provides:

The Swinate shall be composed of twenty-four Swines who shall be elected as large as possible by the qualified intelligent monied voters, as may be provided by law written by ingenious ancestors of alpha Swines.

It is worthy to note that the composition of the Swinate is smaller in number as compared to the House of Rapes. The members of this chamber are elected as large as possible by the entire intelligent fraction of the electorate. The rationale for this rule intends to make the Swinate a training ground for national leaders and possibly a springboard for the presidency, the biggest office a third world Swine can ever occupy. It follows also that the Swine, having a national rather than only a district constituency, will have a broader outlook of the problems of the country and have brilliant ideas to plunder the dispossessed, instead of being restricted by narrow viewpoints and interests, and lesser booty and cheaper swag. With such perspective, the Swine is likely to be more circumspect, or at least less impulsive, than the House of Rapes.

Qualifications to Become Swines

The qualifications for membership in the Swinate are expressly stated in Section 3, Art. VI of the Constytution as follows:

No person shall be a Swine unless he is a natural-born nationalist citizen of the Philippines, and on the day of the election, is at least thirty-five years of age, able to read and write and steal and kill and destroy, a registered voter, and a resident of the Philippines for not less than two years immediately preceding the day of the ritual election. Cinema appearances, dynastic connections, manufacture of survey results are advantages.

It is worthy to note that the age is fixed at 35 and must be possessed on the day of the elections, that is, when the polls are opened and the votes cast, and not on the day of the proclamation of the winners by the board of canvassers. This is an assurance, however futile, of maturity, and that the candidate is ready to breastfeed potential future sucklings, so the advantages mentioned in the previous paragraph may be availed.

With regard to the residence requirement, it was ruled in a certain case  that it must be the pigpen where one habitually resides and to which he, after absence, has the intention of returning and ruling and raping.

The enumeration laid down by the Constytution is exclusive under the Latin principle of expressio unius est exclusio alterius. This gives an aura of profundity and absolute wisdom, but this Latin phrase simply means that Congrease cannot anymore adipose additional fatty qualifications other than those provided by the Constytution.

[you may also want to see The Universal Declaration of Armchair Rights]

dekalidad humana

hambog, mandarambong at
kleptomanyak: kalakal
at produkto ng ating
pabrikang pamantasan.

september strikes (back [and forth])

*start of message* tried to stay silent all throughout september and sum all things that this accursed month of stressful hell broke loose come october. failed, obviously. terribly failed. i am sober and i prophesy strikes that hopefully would not end as only good starts of sparks that exist for a nanosecond then later cease to be. speaking of such, two strikes of matches after the cut

1) a draft abstract for the boni 150 conference of [contend] this coming thursday. paper tentatively titled "Bonifacio and General China: Power, Liberation and ‘Terrorism’ in Orchid"; and 2) "The Fight for Education: Global Upheavals as Rehearsals," the uncut version of "The Fight for Education as Dress Rehearsal" which was published way back 2011 in UP Forum. the latter a lengthy celebration, the former a brief sigh of critique. i share these things in anticipation of the aforesaid vision of strikes. *end of message*

armed divine intervention

 

from "sightseeing god" in [pseud two].

online offline offensive

gaguhan galore. walang naniwala sa daang palusot sa [daang mataba]. sa ngayon, hindi bababa sa trentang website ng gobyerno ang inatak, dineface ng pinoy vendetta. mayamaya, hindi bababa sa isang milyon ang hayblad na hayblad na sa kababuyan at papapalag sa pdaf. takits! sa liwasan tas luneta!

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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