Category: personal
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5 Songs for the Spirit
The biggest thing to happen to me in 2011 was the decision to take The Walk. I consider myself a progressive Christian: a lot of my views are deemed non-conventional, evidenced by my support for Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”. I believed in Christ, it was difficult to reconcile what I felt was right in conscience to…
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miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It’s Not Your Party
To my dear guests, You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all…
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miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It's Not Your Party
To my dear guests, You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all…
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Maybe this time
GMA News: PAGASA: Weather clear for November 9 asteroid ‘sighting’. It seems silly to take the word of a hit-or-miss weather bureau and a daily known for dipping into tabloid fodder. Yet as I while away in an office the end of the world seems all the more likely. Why not now, after all? We’ve…
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Art as Conversation
My approach to art is to see if it works as a whole. I wasn’t wowed by Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”, but I get it. If the only thing we see is a condom and a dildo over pictures of Jesus and Mary, then the criticism fails. I overheard a colleague criticize Mideo Cruz’s work as…