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Archive for the ‘People’ Category

The Ping Lacson saga

August 4, 2010 Write a Comment People

Panfilo “Ping” Lacson was a policeman and a Philippine Senator and presently tagged by the Philippine government and Interpol as a fugitive. Ping’s location is currently unknown after he left the country on January 5, 2010 shortly before the case against him was filed in the court charging him for the murder of Bubby Dacer and his driver. Erap and Fidel Ramos were two of the high profile clients of Dacer being a publicist. Ping showed loyalty during Erap‘s presidency. I wont dwell much on what went wrong because that’s irrelevant to what I want to achieve.

My aim is just follow the events involving Ping Lacson starting today, August 4, 2010. (Continued…)

Anne Rice quits Christianity

July 31, 2010 2 comments People

Anne Rice, finally gets the hang of it, outside Christianity, I mean. Saying that, “It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”

Some publicity, enlightenment or whatever else some people really might need some hint here. All organized religion offer something good but in the end it’s all about defending the faith and many are lost along the way. Lost cause is worst than having nothing at all. Say what?

Neil Gaiman: The 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards

February 28, 2010 Write a Comment Events, People

Hey, fan boys and girls! Here’s great news for us all.

Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman
present

REVELATIONS: Stories of Light and Darkness
The 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards Night
(Continued…)

J.D. Salinger: Goodbye, thanks and god bless you!

January 29, 2010 2 comments People

Let me get one thing out before we continue on. I posted a fitting answer to FB’s What’s on your mind? question through a J.D. Salinger quote on my Facebook status last January 26, 2010.

Would you like to know what I honestly think? Would you? – Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

I’m still halfway in finishing his short story “Franny and Zooey.”

Be it coincidence or whatever, finding out about his death (last January 27, 2010) today weirded out the order of things.

Moving on.

Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger lived a long life at 91. He is the author of the only novel that I read numerous times – “Catcher in the Rye.” And I also owned several copies of it – three(3) to be exact. If you go see my profile in Facebook, Myspace and Friendster, you’ll see that it’s always been there as my favorite book.

My utmost gratitude to you for authoring the only book that inspired me in millions fold and I’m still trying to ingest the philosophical and religious musing of “Franny and Zooey.”

Goodbye, thanks and god bless you, JD!

Creating Kenneth Cobonpue

September 8, 2009 2 comments People

Kenneth Cobonpue doesn’t need any introduction to the international furniture community or maybe even locally and though I missed the tour to his creative lair last September 5, 2009 with the Cebu Bloggers Society, because I happen to just sleep it through, I find it obligatory to still to post about him. A post that could someday inspire some of our brilliant minds in the same field as his to follow their star.

Anyway, for the uninitiated, Kenneth Cobonpue is an industrial designer known for his signature designs using rattan, buri, bamboo, and abaca.

It’s a wonder how he does it so listed below are the thoughts of the people who were there to witness and actually breath through the secrets of his creations:

• Cebu Bloggers Society: Kenneth Cobonpue Showroom Tour by Beejing
• Kenneth Cobonpue: A world-class Designer by Tanom
• The Hive of Kenneth Cobonpue by Mikyu

Les Paul: Another legend lost (1915 – 2009)

August 14, 2009 2 comments People

Year two thousand nine once again added a legend to THE list (FrancisM, Michael Jackson, Cory Aquino).

This time it’s guitar gods’ god Lester William Polsfuss better known as the guitar Les Paul. Seriously though, without this guys innovations on the craft, music would not have been as colorful and rocking and rolling today. He created the solid body electric guitar that we all know and love. Jimi Hendrix won’t be kissing the purple haze so sweetly without Les Paul.

To the innovator, may you rest in peace and thank you for the new music movement that you pioneered.

Carlo J. Caparas: Not a Visual Artist

August 9, 2009 1 comment Grrrievance, People

Another bwahaha moment for the already very laugh-able Ate Glo government that we have. It’s nothing big for the majority of Filipinos but it is for those who happen to respect and appreciate the wonderful three letter perception called A-R-T. Though I’m not really laughing about it because it’s actually a S-E-R-I-O-U-S thing but it being another stupidity by her people made it such.

The thing is called the National Artist Award for Visual Art and Film which was recently awarded to Carlo J. Caparas. A somebody that’s everything but a visual artist.

Here’s Gerry Alanguilan, the other Filipino comic artist I look up to along with Whilce Portacio, summing it up through this line:

You claim you can draw. You’ve shown your drawings of eyes, or whatever they were on TV. But the issue here is whether you drew the comics stories that form the body of your work. YOU DID NOT.

This is what happens when people in the government decides to play god. Go down already, please, or just simply designate the job to people who knows what they’re doing.

Take action here: petitiononline.com/ccaparas/petition.html

And for further reading here: gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/1731