December 2010
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via mlq3)
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The Year That Was →
by Conrado de Quiros (There’s the Rub, Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 29 2010)
The previous year ended with a grim reminder of what the previous administration had been. The Ampatuans massacred in the most horrific way, the mutilations comparable only to the barbarisms of primitive times, scores of people, including journalists. They gave an added sense of urgency to ending a...
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via mlq3)
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Delayed Reactions
After the hammer slams down on your thumb or the hurtful word penetrates, a stunned moment follows. You’re like a solider who feels no pain until he sees the wound. Happiness, too, is sometimes slow to register. It was years after the rain had sent me and the girl huddled close to me dashing for cover that I suddenly felt the drops. - Sherman Pearl
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...”
– Thomas Carlyle
Happy Birthday, Jesus
And Happy Christmas to all of us because of Him.
Where's Santa? →
Current time - 4:06
Current location - ISS International Station
Next stop - Mina Jabal Ali, United Arab Emirates
“After fleeing Nazi rule in her native Norway, Nobel Laureate (1928) Sigrid...”
– Juan L. Mercado (Gifts, December 21, 2010)
“‘Friendship is a difficult thing to define. Oscar here is my oldest friend. How...”
– Michael Robotham (via mlq3)
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“She looks her age, twenty, but her mind is outside time. She’s away with...”
– Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses
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I Confess
I stalked her in the grocery store; her crown of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip her erect bearing, radiating tenderness, the way she placed yogurt and avocadoes in her basket, beaming peace like the North Star. I wanted to ask, “What aisle did you find your serenity, do you know how to be married for fifty years, or how to live alone, excuse me for interrupting, but you...
Views of 2011 From 1931 →
It was a far different time culturally, socially, politically. The issue: What did the great minds of 1931 predict the rapidly approaching 2011 would be like? There is actually an answer to that question.
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The Stranger
A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Texas town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were...
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“Have we not kowtowed enough? Have we not shamed ourselves enough? Have we not...”
– Jose Ma. Montelibano, Dear Hong Kong And China
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“The various violations of the accused’s rights have resulted in his failure to...”
– Maria Lourdes Sereno
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Separate Concurring Opinion - Maria Lourdes Sereno →
Almost four years after the crime was committed, self-confessed drug user Jessica Alfaro (Alfaro) named young men from wealthy and powerful families as perpetrators of the crime, which she claimed to have witnessed, thereby tantalizing a sympathetic public with ideal visions of justice – of morally depraved offenders finally caught and no longer able to wreck random havoc on the lives of...
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Litany
Tom, will you let me love you in your restaurant? i will let you make me a sandwich of your invention and i will eat it and call it a carolyn sandwich. then you will kiss my lips and taste the mayonnaise and that is how you shall love me in my restaurant Tom, will you come to my empty beige apartment and help me set up my daybed? yes, and i will put the screws in loosely so that when we move on...
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“If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”
– Ted Turner
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All Saints, Pure Shores Remix
Missed these guys.
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A Fine Frenzy, Almost Lover
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mlq3:
December 8, 1941, war reaches the...
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Taylor Swift, Enchanted
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“You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
– Tove Jansson
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Relax
Bad things are going to happen. Your tomatoes will grow a fungus and your cat will get run over. Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream melting in the car and throw your blue cashmere sweater in the drier. Your husband will sleep with a girl your daughter’s age, her breasts spilling out of her blouse. Or your wife will remember she’s a lesbian and leave you for the woman next...
PLEASE DONATE OLD BOOKS TO NPC SCHOOL OF...
Hello compatriot, I am Berteni “Toto” Cataluña Causing. Pardon me if I appear aggressive but I cannot do otherwise than to let loose my inhibition in the name of a noble project. The National Press Club has applied for accreditation before the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) for the establishment of National Press Club School of Journalism and Letters. This will be a school...