Return to the Origin on May 1, 2010 in Jipreness Return to the Origin This place is called Hate. Plastic trees, brass-wheeled sun, clear bitter water, nothing here is ugly. Whatever is thrown into this place turns into something synthetic: the ugly transforms into beauty, the rusty into shiny, the...
The Dragon Boy on Apr 19, 2010 in Fiction THE DRAGON BOY It was him who discovered the swirl of tiny, tiny hair on the exact center of my back. I never knew about it. No one has noticed it before. `It’s a swirl like the spot you find on a head,` he said. `Probably a chakra,` I said.
something i need to tell you on Apr 12, 2010wait. this is not my shirt. how did i get here?
on Apr 1, 2010 in Websites Davao Art VANDALS Last Saturday night, we roamed around Davao and found a wall of an abandoned hotel beside Davao Light's Bajada Power Plant. The plant was noisy running its generators; still the rotational brownouts. Photo by Agent Julian. Original and uned...
Spices on Mar 31, 2010 in Music Films Literature SPICES The Marquesa would have been astonished to learn that her letters were immortal. Yet many critics have accused her of keeping one eye on posterity, and point to a number of letters that have all the air of being bravura pieces. To them it seem...
What is your greatest memory? on Mar 22, 2010 in Jipreness WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST MEMORY? “What is your greatest memory?” asked konquerology. “Memories are too good to keep,” I said, “so I forget.” If you are a sinner like me, and you preserve things in jars, these things tend to own you and ther...
Bike on Mar 9, 2010 in Fiction BIKE One of them rounded the motorbike up the gate of the house where we celebrated a friend’s becoming a licensed nurse. It was Carlsberg's bike, a black and shiny Honda model. When he arrived, he bragged about how he deceived his old man into buy...
My Fuse is Confused on Mar 3, 2010 in Current Affairs Politics Objects MY FUSE IS CONFUSED Last night, around two o’clock in the morning, our fuse box blew up, leaving us in darkness among our well-lighted street It happened during one of those milliseconds brownouts that leave televisions in static and refrigerato...
Things I Did/That Happened When There was No Electricity on Mar 1, 2010 in Technology Senses Jipreness THINGS I DID/THAT HAPPENED WHEN THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITYlistened to the neighbors talk was aware once more of that constant buzz in my ears checked body parts that I have long neglected: fingernails, toenails, the hairs on my arms cleaned toenails a...
It's not what you think it is on Feb 13, 2010 in Jipreness Photos IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS Yesterday, on my status boards, I wrote: Instead of posting photos of yourself holding whatever high-end camera, why don't you post what you've taken with that high-end camera. But ignore the camera; it's not even high-...
