Alex @ July 23, 2007 | | Internet and Web, Literature | Comments (1)
These had been around the web for quite sometime and now that the book is out, they now have a use.
You got to love subliminal messages.
Tags: Harry-Potter, Internet and Web, Literature
Alex @ July 23, 2007 | | Literature, Politics and Society | Comments (4)
If killing people isn’t a crime, I would have a good scalp count by now. While it’s pretty easy for me to give myself reason to kill, handing out unsolicited spoilers would be a crime against me that warrants death. And I guess for a lot of people too. Just read on the feel the sheer murderous rage flowing through this person’s veins.
Oh yes, this could apply to the dozens of people who had their whole Harry Potter experience smothered by uncouth people handing out unsolicited spoilers. Talk about having loud mouths and total disrespect to fiction. I can really care less about this Harry Potter thing since I am not too big a fan to actually care, but the thought of that moment of suspended disbelief shattered by loudmouths makes by blood boil. But, say, if someone gave out the ending to Prison Break without me getting to watch it first, now I’m definitely going medieval on that person’s ass.
These people should have bullets popped in the back of their skulls. No judge. No jury (Heck, we don’t have juries anyway). Straight to execution.
Tags: Literature, Politics and Society, Rant, State-of-the-Nation
Alex @ April 10, 2007 | | Internet and Web, Language, Literature | Comments (5)
Sir Butch Dalisay wrote a few things about blogging in his column in the Philippine Star yesterday. He discussed a few points on what attracts people to blogs and blogging. These points include democracy, audience reach, anonymity and flexibility of blogs and blogging.
But what I particularly liked about what he wrote is this passage:
The question some people might raise is, yes, it’s a blog, but is it literature? Of course it is; it’s writing; you just can’t find it on a paper page. Whether it’s good or bad literature depends on what standards have yet to arise for this kind of literature, but I have a gut feeling that bloggers don’t particularly care; 90 percent of blogs may be a digital form of navel-gazing, but hey, it’s my navel. Show me yours, and I’ll show you mine, and that’s all there is to it, at least for now.
I delivered a paper on the same topic in our colloquium class this past semester though mine was more of a cursory look on blogging and literature. My conclusions with that paper is a question on how the Filipino creative writer exploit a flexible tool such as a blog to develop newer forms of writing. But Sir Butch puts it a lot more eloquently in his navel-gazing analogy.
Just sharing.
Tags: Blogging, Internet and Web, Language, Literature
Alex @ November 26, 2006 | | Entertainment, Literature | Comments (0)
I confess, I am a Bond fan. I spent countless summers glued to the couch, watching Bond movies from Dr. No to The Living Daylights on VCR.
When Pierce Brosnan finally dropped associations from being 007, it was a wild guess what the franchise had to offer next. We all know of travesties being done to movie franchises ever since George Clooney had nipples poking out of the Batsuit and Chris O’Donell was just so gay as Robin. Alicia Silverstone in a skin-tight Batgirl costume did not redeem the franchise’s doom. The man nipples, oh the humanity.
Tags: Entertainment, Franchise, James-Bond, Literature, Movies, Reboot, Review
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