A cousin sent old photos to my sister. Saw this and lost it. I remember this. This was in Baguio. I was told to touch the statue. It was wet with morning dew. Hence check out my manner of contact.
Wala na talagang kaduda-duda dati pa.
A day before my birthday, I met with some cartoonist friends for a meeting. Then i stumbled into a vlog shoot. Lol. Here’s me with my mekmek shorts after minute 4. www.facebook.com/share/v/14hL...
It sucks that I lost the newspaper gig. I was let go a few days after i lost my eye. I hope i can contribute to another newspaper.
An exhibition essay I wrote was appreciated by the artist himself. I feel good. But maybe i should do my art and have my exhibit instead of writinf about somebody else’s, yes?
Hello, your recent webinar catered more on graphic science. Perhaps because the talk happened late at night here in Manila and I may have missed some points, but would there be a possibility of publishing a comics-based research/commentary that is non-STEM?
@ernestopriego.com thank you for sharing your thoughts on the graphic science webinar. I watched it live at midnight here in Manila. Very insightful.
Inside every gay man are two divas. No, they are not battling each other out but coalescing for imperial expansion of fabulousness. These are my two inner divas:
“HBO Asia decided to stream Heated Rivalry in our mostly homophobic and conservative region. This resulted in compounded traction, with people—mostly women and queer audiences—gagging over the apparent lack of gag reflex the characters seem to have.”
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Going back to the hospital tomorrow. I am trying not to worry.
Man, November 2025 was something else for me.
When the trailer first dropped, audiences wondered with genuine anxiety: would the dog survive? Online, dog parents half-joked—and half-threatened—that any harm to Indy would cause riots in theaters.
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“Saying that all are equally abhorrent is not heroic; it’s pessimism on crack. It pretends to be above it all, yet it directly benefits the violent plunderers.”
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“One Battle After Another refuses to let its audience settle. It is volatile, outrageous, and, at times, wickedly funny — a collision of militancy and militarization that blurs the line between conviction and control”
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“Duterte’s presidency denigrated rallies as communist plots. Demonstrators were smeared as criminals. This left a heavy residue. The once-revered memory of the 1986 People Power uprising was systematically eroded, recast as irrelevant theater.”
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“The pabebe is a national curse of perpetual infantilism, constantly looking for short-term kilig rather than putting in the hard work of the long view on what needs to be done.”
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If anything, the underlying horror in this film is the fear of millennial coupling. This film serves as an analogy for the fear of commitment and the idea of “losing yourself.”
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Ugh. I am so over this era.
“it feels like you’re watching a middling video game, with characters merely being led around to be killed and to progress to the next stage. The story is merely a premise for an eventual theme park ride.”
My review for Jurassic Park Rebirth:
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“Some online nimrods have been tearing down the recent Pixar offering with the phrase “go woke, go broke.” This is yet another example of smug ignorance aimed at silencing non-white stories and creators.”
My thoughts on Elio
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And i decided to “invent flowers” like Odillon Redon. And offer them to Ashurbanipal, on of the most notable tyrants in all of human history. I do not know why but i thought of his name and thought it be musical even though i know thousands of people cowered in fear at the mere mention of his name.
Flowers for Ashurbanipal, 2025,
mixed media on rice paper mounted on canvas
I carved some East Asian vases matrixes on my last days in Lubbock. Printed them on recycled paper, specifically, I printed on paper used to cover shoes in shoeboxes. I printer on mulberry paper. Glued With acrylic medium
That, too. Ugh. I quote Green Day’s Longview “When Masturbation’s lost its fun, you’re fucking breaking.” Oh well.
Man. One bad thing about being single is when one is horny.
“Boyle returns with 28 Years Later (2025) and, alongside his writing partner Alex Garland, aims to modernize the zombie genre by bringing it back into the realm of myths.”
My review on what seems to be my pick for among 2025’s best:
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It has been such a taxing day but i got this from a friend. I was part of this pictorial for Ladlad for pride. I would have preferred the sobriquet “Gutter Gay” instead of just “gay.” Sounds boring. Pwede rin “becky lou blanco.” Apparently this is part of an exhibit at a café in QC?
“Con asa niadto ang mga nabuang nga iro?”
(Whither have the mad dogs gone?)
2025, serigraphy and pen and ink on illustration board
15” x 20”
Stumbled into a work I did in Texas. It was hidden in an envelope. The original photo showed a destroyed Manila Cathedral after the Philippine-American war. Then i let it engulf by a jungle and the archipelago.
“Filipinos are very much part of the Black dandyism in the United States. Though they are paid dastardly, many of these young men saved up for them to have bespoke Macintosh suits that go well with their relatively more diminutive stature.”
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When the earthquake hit earlier, i was at the sixth floor of a building typing corrections. People stood up and were tensed up. I thought, as the room rocked from side to side, “welp, how funny if i die in the middle of typing APA citations for a paper.”
And I detest APA
