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“We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone All in all, you’re just bricks in the wall…
As he remembers it in the fading echoes of memory: the word “Bisaya” and the meanings he ascribes to it has more to do with a bus line than to the designated name of these parts of…
He was invited by his friend Ron Tan to deliver a speech in Dumanjug. He has to deliver it, of course, in Binisaya, his native tongue. Though he has not ever written in Binisaya anything longer than…
Prepare to have your time wasted. Today, he resolved to write this the way he read it should be written from a book on drawing. This recommendation coming as it does from Dr. Elizabeth Edwards, writer of…
There are subtle intricacies in the design of old Philippine colonial houses. Whatever it was called, balay nga bato, balay nga tisa, or dakung balay, it was always a house of shadows and secret doorways. The posts…
There are subtle intricacies in the design of old Philippine colonial houses. Whatever it was called, balay nga bato, balay nga tisa, or dakung balay, it was always a house of shadows and secret doorways. The posts…
There is an enigma about the short message, the Facebook message, comprised of just a few words, or just a few letters, even. A picture, a selfie perhaps. This always gets the person’s attention. And most likely…
There is a new imagery abirthing in the world of Cebuano art. Two exhibits currently ongoing give us a good window. Ongoing at the SM Cebu Art Center is the 39th Joya Awards and 40th Annual Exhibit…
How even to spell it? Carosa or carroza? The proper Spanish lost to us, we in Dumanjug always just call it “carro”, that ubiquitous carrier, carriage, or chariot, of a variety of religious icons once or twice…
Quite as if by a strange twist of fate, the Roman soldiers pointed to me, Simon of Cyrene, innocent passerby, disaffected by all these. They pointed to me to help the condemned man carry his cross when…
6A.M., He wakes up. Turns on the television. Switches to CNN. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition icon has been executed on a bridge near the Kremlin. He has been shot by an unknown assailant or assailants. As soon…
The Vladimir Putin narrative grows ever more interesting. What with the war in the Ukraine, the recent spate of incursions of Russian bombers into foreign air space, his mule-headedness in the face of worldwide condemnation and sanctions?…
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