The Lechon: An Anti-Vegan Filipino Dish

After countless fiestas while growing up, some two years of being vegan, and despite wanting a potbelly pet someday, there’s just one image that neither makes me cringe nor drool.  I have been preparing for a potbelly pet by reading up lots on it, but maybe it’s the Filipino culture that when you say “Pig”, that’s [...]

Like a Prayer Concert Performances

That is mainly inspired by Madonna.  Not everybody may agree with me… but I love the Yokohama performance best.  I feel neat about it.  Kore wa daisuki desu!: Sarah Brightman in Arabian Nights.  My top 2 Like a Prayer Concert. More down-to-earth and just as fascinatingly mythologically striking is Shirley Manson in “Temptation Waits.” The [...]

Doses of Pop Cultural Celebration and Shocking Reasons for Celibacy (Madonna & Lady G.)

Love the 80′s.  There’s been no time like it. Strangely, the 2009 song, Celebration, for some reason summons 80′s memories! Which brings me to question how angsty the following generations, like what the fudge?! – is wrong with you guys?  These days, Lady G is 2nd most powerful musician in the world. Lady Gaga here isn’t singing [...]

Prohibitions vs. Drugs and Delusions

Had drugs been prohibited around the time of Moses (1391 BC onward), there most probably wouldn’t have been any of the 10 Commandments, a product of a psychedelic cocktail, according to an Israeli researcher.  That Moses was tripping on ayahuasca atop Mt. Sinai was not illicit during those times.  To this day ayahuasca is still used [...]