Live Earth

I couldn’t help but think much about Joseph Campbell’s words:   For the point about Hell — as of Heaven — is this: when there, you are in your proper place, which, finally, is exactly where you want to be. People really do make their own choices and have their own preferences.

TO THE YOUNG WOMEN OF MALOLOS

Europe (February) 1889 When I wrote Noli Me Tangere, I asked myself whether bravery was a common thing in the young women of our people. I brought back to my recollection and reviewed those I had known since my childhood, but there were only few who seem to come up to my ideal. There was, [...]

For the record: 50 Top Inventions of 2010

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts   iPad By Harry McCracken Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 How does Apple keep out-inventing the rest of the tech industry? Often, it’s by reinventing a product [...]

Imagine Peace Tower by Yoko Ono & Humanity’s Team Global Rhythym

Please send your wishes to Imagine Peace Tower. Who knows, they will come true. You can’t lose.  ~ Sandra   IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Yoko Ono:           Happy Birthday John Lennon ~ peace be with you ~ from Humanity’s Team!    HUMANITY’S TEAM GLOBAL RHYTHYM CIRCLE Humanity’s Team Global Rhythm Circle For Oneness [...]

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 [...]

What if Eve had a gay friend in paradise?

Meet the “Sassy Gay Friend”

Sports Superstitions: Spain Protective Over Paul the Psychic Octo

  I was very much intrigued by this World Cup character, a “psychic” octopus called Paul!  And since it picked Spain as the fated winner, Germans started wishing him fried!   His kind was removed from a US restaurant menu, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was ready to send some protection to Paul.   [...]