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Boo

Damn Filipino parents and their lack of imagination. And patriotism. Hex me all you want, but I will maintain till I inhale my last that Halloween is the most un-Filipino of holidays and that the Philippines has no business celebrating the day.  It...

Lolo

The essay was written four days before the author succumbed to a massive stroke. This story, about his grandfather, is his last essay Before sunrise, he would do the rounds of his small sugarcane farm on the east side of his house. He would...

Three boobs and a candidate

Ethel Booba, that funny girl, should not sell herself short the way I did. To clarify, I did not sell myself short—I sold her short. For no good reason, I might add, except that I mistook her for someone not to be taken seriously....

Former Graphic EIC shortlisted for international award

Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona was shortlisted for the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2018 Press Freedom Awards. Espina-Varona, former editor-in-chief of the Philippines Graphic magazine, was nominated for the international award’s independence category. She is among the nominees from 12 countries that have been shortlisted...

Those haunted places

Creepy, ghostly, and notorious spots.” That is how the Life magazine described “the world’s most haunted places.” Life has come up with a book filled with blood-curdling photos and eerie stories about the world’s creepiest spots.  It was Charles Dickens who stimulated the editors, writers and photographers to...

And the award for best sound effects goes to…

It must have been a dark and stormy night when a classmate of ours from law school, identity undetermined and gender unknown, sat down and put the finishing touches on his thesis. (I use the possessive “his” because the story that follows must...

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The Tarot: A world heritage

PART I In Cartas Philippinensis, the first Philippine Tarot cards by historian and lawyer Saul Hofileña Jr., painted by Guy Custodio, we have a newborn...

Just as you are

I need more proof.  A Chilean guy named Juan Carlos Cruz claims that Pope Francis told him during a private talk in the Vatican,...

Sunny with a chance of tikoy

Tikoy is China’s fruitcake. A sentence as declarative as this usually demands proof, and usually, the proof is in the tikoy, but have you...

My first literary prize

Aside from the few fan mail that I got because of the prize, something wonderful also happened. After we left the WG premises, I...