Gonna be a blackout by The Dropkick Murphys

Lights go out all over town
the air-raid warden walks up and down
It's part of a war, I'm gonna do it right
there's gonna be a blackout tonight

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Before World War II was officially called World War II, England began taking precautions against German bomber air crafts. They set up ARP ( Read more... )

People who know me well enough know my one true archenemy. Jellyfish.

These ungodly things have devil tentacles and poisonous stingers. The only way to get the sting out is to have someone piss on you. And jellyfish have no brains. They literally know not what they do. What drives these monsters? What tells them to eat or attack ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the stars align magnificently and the universe springs forth the sweetest moments of serendipity. Like sitting in a crowded cafe, sipping lukewarm coffee dregs and accidentally bumping eyes with that shy guy at the other end of the room. Your ears fine tune the details of the moment and you realize belatedly that the music playing in the ( Read more... )

In 1896, on the eve of his execution, Dr. Jose Rizal penned his last poem before facing the firing squad. Many believe his writing to have ignited the revolution against the Spanish colonizers. Shortly after his death, the new colonizers from America have declared him a national hero.

The poem Mi Ultimo Adios was originally written in Spanish, ( Read more... )

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The Holy Shit Quotient, although ineptly explained on TV tropes wiki, could possibly be the quantitative factor we have all been looking for when asked to explain why we think a particular film or a TV show is epic. It even has a formula--

Divide the number of times you said "Holy Shit!" by the number of scenes. This is the Holy Shit Quotient (or ( Read more... )

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Squeezing this human interest pizza while it's hot.

Inquirer's blockbuster interviews from Marcus, Buddy, and Raimund of the Eraserheads:

The drummer will drum: Raimund Marasigan.
The bass man holds the line: Buddy Zabala.
The guitarist hangs loose: Marcus Adoro.

Head on over to Gibbs Cadiz' blog too for a video of Ryan Cayabyab's orchestral ( Read more... )

Buncha links on my bookmarks:

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Mythbuster's Kari Byron in an FHM photospread:


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