2008 August | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 5
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GOIN’ PLACES: You go there for the chicken

THERE are lechong manok stalls and barbecue restaurants all over, you'd develop a generic taste for all of them. For how else can chicken be cooked any differently when everything tastes like... chicken?Hmmm... thus an opening of yet another chicken place didn't really excite me. Except that ...

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Economic democracy

By P.R. SarkarThe first requirement for economic democracy is that the minimum requirements of a particular age -- including food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment -- must be guaranteed to all. Not only is this an individual right, it is also a collective necessity, because the easy availability ...

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reflection

Baliw, existentialist mode.Look at your reflection on the mirror, says Boy Abunda, and then describe what you see. Mulan replies, "Who is this girl I see, staring straight back at me, why is this reflection someone I don't know."I blurt ...

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The Beatles

It seems that every so often in the course of history there comes along a songwriter or songwriting team that stands head and shoulders above all of their contemporaries. The partnership of Lennon and McCartney represents a high water mark of songwriting in the latter half of the twentieth century. Without a ...

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Suspended disbelief

I plead guilty to having the asking price of P50-million. (Did I just see people sneering out there?) Before you go telling the Inquirer about my "answer", let's backtrack a bit...*****YOU have long known that the government has been making "bola", but in your naivette, you refuse to accept that. Deep within ...

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bubble thoughts while tracking a cuttlefish

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