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Dark Magic

There is a powerful magic in our school that seems to make both the North and South Study...

Nov 8th

Wikipedia - List of Turner Prize Winners

Nov 8th

Stuckists really scare me and I...

What do you mean artists who don’t paint aren’t artists?

Nov 8th

Wikipedia: My Bed is a work by the British artist Tracey...

Nov 8th

thedailywhat: Disgruntled Employee of the Day: An...

Nov 8th

Decoherence

Quantum Physics tells us that in some parallel universe we are together (this is because there...

Nov 8th

Monologue: Your Crush, Which You Added...

What is going on. It’s been two days. He still hasn’t added me. What is he—OH MY...

Nov 8th

Fountain Marcel Duchamp Porcelain 360 x 480 x 610 mm....

Nov 8th

Let's talk.

pacholo_mercado@yahoo.com

Nov 8th

Oh, Lawdy

I have failed three subjects already: math appreciation, introduction of economics, and introduction...

Nov 8th

Cigarette Smoke-ahhh

Our teenager selves would probably scoff at the idea that we are not meant to be alone. We would...

Nov 8th

libraryland: tropfacile:clairefisher:gamblin-ramblin:...

Nov 8th

In the olden days, artists used to have patrons so they could just lie around doing art all day and...

Nov 7th

You do my bad poetry honor, kind and mysterious sir. I...

Nov 7th

1 They called him “the tallest homosexual in the room.” Matangkad na bading. His name...

Nov 7th

(via jesusislove)

Nov 7th

(via jesusislove) Precisely.

Nov 7th

Martin Priestly

I sometimes imagine John sodomizing me harshly, with his necklace banging across his chest as he...

Nov 7th

Working to Love My Work

elderwind: I only have to look back at the many times my papers were fed through the literary...

Nov 7th

Working to Love My Work

elderwind: Oh, I was criticized.  A bit too gently, I must say.  I sure hope that the good...

Nov 7th

Working to Love My Work

elderwind: It’s four pages, Boss.  Four.  And a workshop is not for praise, but for criticism. ...

Nov 7th

Working to Love My Work

I have no idea how to approach a genre paper. A book of poetry seems so large compared to one poem...

Nov 7th

My mother elected to buy me an Xbox360...

She’s having it delivered by this month or Christmas, but my birthday isn’t until...

Nov 7th

This is what I’m reading now. I will be writing my...

Nov 7th

Bored feels like shit. Bored feels like death. Bored feels like now....

Nov 7th

Mathematical Magic

When I was about eight years old, my private tutor and I would study in my room every 11AM while the...

Nov 7th

Revisiting a decades-old search for Thomas...

Nov 7th

thedailywhat: Jesus is not rolling around in his grave. ...

Nov 7th

Sculpture of James Joyce at his grave in Switzerland. (via...

Nov 7th

This collection makes me happy. I try not to read all of it...

Nov 7th

I bought volume 2 of a collection of Filipino short stories in English. There was a volume 3 but I...

Nov 7th

fuckyeahsodomites: fuckyeahgay: tatcha: ...

Nov 7th

9gag: Mario Art Great.

Nov 7th

Watch

William Shatner reads Levi Johnston’s Tweets That is actually a bit poetic. Brilliant use of...

Nov 7th

zombienovela answered your question: Great people to follow? filmosophy Thank you.

Nov 7th

Great people to follow?

You know how I am.

Nov 7th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: OTL  I dunno, Boss.  I’ve been searching for a while...

Nov 7th

Wetting the Bed

Seeing you makes me melt into a puddle on the bed. "What is this?" my mother would ask. "Did...

Nov 7th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: OTL  I dunno, Boss.  I’ve been searching for a while (given your vague specifications)...

Nov 7th

libraryland: fuckyeahreading: prowess: OH GOD. Burn...

Nov 7th

Listen

copycats: Poker Face by Eric Cartman originally by Lady Gaga I don’t know who decided to make this...

Nov 6th

Nov 6th

elderwind: (via thenewdentistsblog) Get your acts...

Nov 6th

Letterists confuse and scare me.

ratmanprimate: Well, I’d like to think otherwise. Take, for example, a deck of cards. Shuffled...

Nov 6th

Poetically Versed Musical Lyrics - That...

That face (that face) That face (that face) That dangerous face. I mustn't be unwise. Those...

Nov 6th

Sunday Everyday

Houses that murmur by themselves their pets look out the windows staring at you, saying Today...

Nov 6th

“You look like how you write.” “I’m not sure if you were trying to...

Nov 6th

Letterists confuse and scare me.

ratmanprimate: Interesting. Also, I realize I could do research, but I figured this could serve...

Nov 6th

Letterists confuse and scare me.

ratmanprimate: (via velvetrobots) What are Letterists? You can research about them on the...

Nov 6th

Letterists confuse and scare me.

Nov 6th

Meateater Morals

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: Dunno about you, but I just like vegetarianism ‘cause it’s...

Nov 6th

Meateater Morals

elderwind: Dunno about you, but I just like vegetarianism ‘cause it’s healthy. I was talking...

Nov 6th

“…in my first voyage from Boston…our people set...”
— Benjamin Franklin in the first...

Nov 6th

“If human beings are no different from other animals, then...”
— J. Neil Schulman

Nov 6th

Meateater Morals

I think there’s an ass-backwardness to being vegetarian. They tell you not to eat meat because...

Nov 6th

Here's a gross little secret about me.

prettyproblematic: I always seem to loose a lot of eyelashes in the shower. Some days its like...

Nov 6th

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic...”
— Erma Bombeck (via libraryland)

Nov 6th

“Rand’s particular intellectual contribution, the thing that...”
— Book Review - ‘Ayn Rand and...

Nov 6th

libraryland: jessicaxmaria:  I have about fifteen pages...

Nov 6th

My family bought a horse.

And we are having a family meeting as to what to name it. I’m fighting for “Postmodern...

Nov 5th

ratmanprimate: Or do the shirts have nothing to do with...

Nov 5th

Cooking

I sat on the carpet drinking wine as John cooked some pasta for our arriving guests. They had...

Nov 5th

Tonight will be Part 1 of Genre Paper...

I’m starting tonight so I wouldn’t have to cram like hell on Monday and miss Literary...

Nov 5th

“The difference between me and Neil in our attitude to movie...”
— Terry Pratchett, on Good...

Nov 5th

A Generation of Issues

When I was in high school and, therefore, passive-aggressive (even more so than I am today), I would...

Nov 5th

elderwind: “OTL  Reading people…I can’t read people… We...

Nov 5th

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: velvetrobots: ...

Nov 5th

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: velvetrobots: A...

Nov 5th

elderwind: velvetrobots: A Lesson is Learned but the...

Nov 5th

A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible:...

Nov 5th

One of the most awkward things in the...

Nov 5th

elderwind: One of the greatest webcomic artists of our...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: Tall order.  Shall I throw in the chainsaw, or do you think that little nasty up in the...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: Grace, you say that as if I fall in love with every intellectual I...

Nov 5th

livejamie: This is a Congolese “Sapeur” - They’re gangs of...

Nov 5th

elderwind answered your question: You think I should just create a different tumblog for my poetry...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: Fine. Get me one you think (know) I will like. And thank you for...

Nov 5th

God Says Yes To Me

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic and she said yes I asked her if it was okay to be...

Nov 5th

You think I should just create a...

I would totally understand if you’re beginning to find my verse annoying.

Nov 5th

The Roots of My Bad Day

I dreamt about you. You and I were in love (as difficult it is to hear that) and the odd thing...

Nov 5th

eft: Manix Abrera’s 12 I finished this book at Powerbooks...

Nov 5th

Vlad the Impaler,

prettyproblematic: discovered a method of impaling this victims through the rectum and having the...

Nov 5th

allysonftw: velvetrobots: allysonftw: i dont know if your wrote this, velvet. but, I LIKE...

Nov 5th

allysonftw: i dont know if your wrote this, velvet. but, I LIKE IT! I did. Thanks! At least...

Nov 5th

Okay is the most offensive word in the English language. You look okay You smell okay Your...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: Take your pick first, or do you want me to do the...

Nov 5th

pomelojello: velvetrobots: pomelojello: ...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: Take your pick first, or do you want me to do the looking?  If so, I should go and ask...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: elderwind: velvetrobots: And it makes me lonelier, then I write...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

elderwind: velvetrobots: And it makes me lonelier, then I write poetry by the hundreds. Oy. ...

Nov 5th

pomelojello: velvetrobots: pomelojello: YES! ...

Nov 5th

kickingfish: changprocrastinates: hatanakamerei: ...

Nov 5th

Slap Jack and Alcohol among Friends

kickingfish: velvetrobots: Well, that’s a disappointment. Unless, of course, unbeknownst to...

Nov 5th

When I am lonely I write poetry by the...

And it makes me lonelier, then I write poetry by the hundreds.

Nov 5th

pomelojello: YES! Congratulations (and go to hell).

Nov 5th

Unattractive People

Unattractive people eating lunch at tables along the corridors, alone and looking at their food as...

Nov 5th

Objective Correlative

You remind me of things. You remind me of Christmas morning and the smell of eggs...

Nov 5th

Slap Jack and Alcohol among Friends

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: kickingfish: Oh Cholo, I love this :) Reminded me of that drunken...

Nov 5th

Slap Jack and Alcohol among Friends

kickingfish: Oh Cholo, I love this :) Reminded me of that drunken night with fellow presidents :P ...

Nov 5th

The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld

Nov 5th

libraryland: medieval: Baudolino is a 2000 novel by...

Nov 5th

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
— H.G. Wells (via...

Nov 5th

Cholo.:)

bumblebitch: Nakachorva ka na pala? akala ko mamaya ka pa makakachorva, ang chorva kase sa...

Nov 4th

Where We are Free

Chaka-- Chaka-- Chaka-- Chaka-- Chaka-- Chooor-- Vaaaaa. (bop, bop, bop) The...

Nov 4th

Slap Jack and Alcohol among Friends

I don't want to go. I want to go home. I had this dream and I am very upset. I am skipping class so...

Nov 4th

ratmanprimate: Teka, brad! Teka! Kuha mo akong papel dali!...

Nov 4th

The Conformist Jazz

You Sway, sway, sway. to the Day, day, day. And you Say, say, say. I die, I die, I...

Nov 4th

My obsession with confessional, imagist,...

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen...

Nov 4th

“William S. Burroughs” Christiaan Tonnis color...

Nov 4th

“Critics constantly complain that writers are lacking in...”
— William S. Burroughs, “A...

Nov 4th

God, that's terrible writing.

I’ll tell you right now, he wrote like a farmer. And I say that with no offense to a farmer,...

Nov 4th

Beatnik Poetry: The Ysa Soliloquy to Her...

ratmanprimate: bumblebitch: velvetrobots: I stare at you. (Bop, bop) As I blow (Bop, bop) my...

Nov 4th

Ysa, we must perform that on a Bigkas...

You are the vessel from which my words pour.

Nov 4th

61 'essential' postmodern reads

Nov 4th

Beatnik Poetry: The Ysa Soliloquy to Her...

I stare at you. (Bop, bop) As I blow (Bop, bop) my ciga- rette (Bop, bop, bop.) Smoke-ah. (tsss..)...

Nov 4th

Cholo.

bumblebitch: Where is my stalker poem? boboop ttsshh. Coming up shortly.

Nov 4th

3:05AM in the Kitchen of Labor

The most difficult part of studying literature is not necessarily the study part as it is the...

Nov 4th

Versed Conversations with Asha

Asha: When it doesn’t rain, you have to water your own plants. God, I need a man. Cholo: No...

Nov 4th

Whenever I see a bear, (or hear people...

ratmanprimate: bumblebitch: I automatically say: Question, what kind of bear is best? I do...

Nov 4th

I finally finished my first draft of my...

Time to die for Wika at Kultura! Tell me again why my brilliant professor never gives lectures and...

Nov 4th

Post-Essay Emotions

Finally! Let me just see if I have errors. Wait, that doesn’t seem right. I could write...

Nov 4th

When one has read the text over and...

bumblebitch: Makes the paper quite pleasurable to do. Scholarship or Wika at Kultura?

Nov 4th

Since Rat is posting pictures of great books, let me share...

Nov 4th

Poetry 108: A Poem a Day for American High...

Nov 4th

(via ratmanprimate) Ronald once told me to read this. He...

Nov 4th

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against...

Nov 4th

Watch

The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poetry

Nov 4th

Def Jam Poetry, I think, is silly.

Poetry can’t be turned into a competition. The New Dentists should host one of those. But...

Nov 4th

elderwind: Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The Cook. c.1570. Oil on...

Nov 4th

Spare me

Papa: Why are you still awake? It's late.
Me: I'm doing my homework. I'd sleep if I can.
Papa: Shut that off and go to sleep.
Me: Fine. I'll just skip this paper.
Papa: I pay huge amounts of money for your tuition and you're just missing your assignments?
Me: You have gone crazy, old man.

Nov 4th

Chat with me at my moment of despair?

elderwind: velvetrobots: pacholo_mercado@yahoo.com Get to work, Boss.  I still have my own...

Nov 4th

Chat with me at my moment of despair?

pacholo_mercado@yahoo.com

Nov 4th

Tonight's plan:

Finish Scholarship paper about GGM - 30 mins. Read Wika at Kultura readings - 2 hours. Do...

Nov 4th

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: bumblebitch: ...

Nov 4th

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: The similarities are...

Nov 4th

The similarities are magically surreal (surreally magical?).

Nov 4th

elderwind: (via fuckyeahcutemale) Ka—Karupin…?  That...

Nov 4th

Lastly: no one cared to tell me it's...

I’m a Fool.

Nov 4th

This essay on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez'...

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: Ah, yes! A few even still wanted him to be called Lautaro. Names:...

Nov 4th

This essay on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez'...

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: bumblebitch: velvetrobots: elderwind: velvetrobots: I really...

Nov 4th

3.2.7 Apostrophes, Section e from The...

To form the possessive of any singular proper noun, add an apostrophe or an s. Venus’s...

Nov 4th

For a book about readability, the MLA...

Do as I say, not as I do?

Nov 4th

This essay on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez'...

bumblebitch: velvetrobots: elderwind: velvetrobots: I really can’t make out what this...

Nov 4th

Is it MLA standard to use an "s" after...

Nov 4th

elderwind: ratmanprimate: Tama? Tama? That’s so cute! ...

Nov 4th

This essay on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez'...

elderwind: velvetrobots: I really can’t make out what this thing’s themes are. Try picking out...

Nov 4th

Who wants to join a screenwriting...

Split the prize, split the pride.

Nov 4th

This essay on Gabriel Gárcia Márquez'...

I really can’t make out what this thing’s themes are.

Nov 4th

Even good writers have their bad days.

Conversely, even bad writers have their good days.

Nov 4th

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the...”
— Claude Lévi-Strauss...

Nov 4th

libraryland: kevinnuut: A Great Advertisement For The...

Nov 4th

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again,...”
— Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)...

Nov 3rd

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock (via...

Nov 3rd

The Post-Masturbation World

They wear clothes that speak for them because the age of self-expression has become the epoch...

Nov 3rd

bumblebitch: chuicide: ...

Nov 3rd

9gag: 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

Nov 3rd

radarchive: (via boycott-love) Lala-la-laa-la.

Nov 3rd

ragetoons: it’s worse when people are actually there All...

Nov 3rd

And so the Conquistador finally reached the house of the only living god still in existence. It was...

Nov 3rd

A Letter From and To a Character in...

Gretta, The ghost of your childhood lover Michael has been haunting me, though he never seemed to...

Nov 3rd

Dinner at Harbor Square

Manila Bay at night is a dark, breathless sea of velvet and satin that rolls to the wind like fields...

Nov 3rd

Today was a rough day.

And I have no one to talk about it with. Very alone in an overcrowded world.

Nov 3rd

elderwind: velvetrobots: Our creative writing project were returned today. Everyone got...

Nov 3rd

kickingfish: fuckyeahpichpich: staree: ...

Nov 2nd

I and Shau in the library. We’re going out to eat...

Nov 2nd

Apparently, we’re not allowed to play the Scrabble...

Nov 2nd

Our creative writing project were returned today. Everyone got something along the lines of 18/20...

Nov 2nd

If I see you today, I will die a thousand deaths. If I don’t, I will die a thousand more.

Nov 2nd

Even plants know how to love.

ratmanprimate: Researchers found that the plants’ roots would not compete with their siblings...

Nov 2nd

“I hope your heart is broken many times, because it means you...”
— Dimitri, Bored To Death I...

Nov 2nd

ratmanprimate: velvetrobots: (via ratmanprimate) Is...

Nov 2nd

Poetry recital day today.

More nervous about my attire than my performance. More nervous about how things will work out as a...

Nov 2nd

The MLA Handbook is a labyrinth.

For a book about readability, it’s not very readable.

Nov 2nd

If you pass a logic class and remain a...

your professor was obviously incredibly inept.

Nov 2nd

9gag: Perfect Sense! Oversimplification: Theists fall...

Nov 2nd

William Topaz McGonagall, Worst Poet in...

Wikipedia: McGonagall has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history.The chief...

Nov 2nd

I've added a comments feature to my...

Because I still do not experience enough verbal abuse. (Click on the notes button to the left of...

Nov 2nd

@Velvetrobots and Ayumaki

bumblebitch: G’luck later hah.:) hope you do great on your poetry recital.:) Thanks, dear.

Nov 2nd

I need an online psychiatrist.

i.e. someone I could IM every time I feel lonely and won’t care if we talk all night. But,...

Nov 2nd

Confusing insensitivity with boldness...

No matter how many complicated English words they know (but fail to understand).

Nov 2nd

the DLSUCET was just retarded.

(via breakingparadigms) Oh dear.

Nov 2nd

Top 1 Habits of Amazing Writers

merlin: They write.

Nov 2nd

90% of writing a novel is planning...

prettyproblematic: That’s what I’m telling myself at least. 10% - daydreaming 20% - planning 30%...

Nov 2nd

libraryland: existentializzy: Parents Burning to Write...

Nov 2nd

I need a beautiful poem.

Suggestions?

Nov 2nd

There's something about the stillness of...

Nov 2nd

On some plane, you and I are infinite— and in that plane, our existences overlap if we visited...

Nov 2nd

I've recently discovered the wonders of...

wonderlandholiday: Help me. My mom got addicted to this a few months ago. I heard its music...

Nov 2nd

ragbag: sixteen raw sausages in a wooden bowl by salim...

Nov 2nd

Manga library planned for Japan

Nov 2nd

Words That Don't Exist in the English...

libraryland: neoncrayon: kiyabluebird: milkdrop: asleeponasunbeam: ...

Nov 2nd

libraryland: desigcle: The Book Cover Archive: Rendevous...

Nov 1st

Oh, Jen. You so silly.

Nov 1st

Ladies and gentlemen, we're very close...

(via thenewdentistsblog)

Nov 1st

Photographers, I understand the...

lordartworks: velvetrobots: but the largeness of your watermarks is beginning to be silly. Not...

Nov 1st

I really miss GMA's Anime Revival.

My nights have never been so exciting. The 90’s were too awesome. So awesome that now (now...

Nov 1st

Sundown in the City of Dust

Looking from the window of my car, I see, I see— The streets of Manila, corroding in...

Nov 1st

Voyage in Stillness

a sea of ether on a bedrock of chairs, heads of grass and eyes of diamond. Terra incognito! There it...

Nov 1st

Learn from the Greats: 7 Writing Habits...

libraryland: ilovereadingandwriting: By Leo Babauta Finding the ideal working habits that will...

Nov 1st

(via ratmanprimate) Is that you, Rat? The guy in blue?

Nov 1st

9gag: Jesus, Frankenstein & Zombies

Nov 1st

fuckyeahsodomites: fuckyeahlgbt: (via lemiaou)...

Nov 1st

Eating Flowers

A man selling flowers on the street sat down and ate them because he could not sell any for the...

Nov 1st

simko: (via) Adorable.

Nov 1st

Nov 1st

We are infinite beings, you and I— Though we travel through time, like tumbling stones in a...

Nov 1st

fuckyeahsodomites: Homophobia is gay.

Nov 1st

Nov 1st

Nov 1st

Nov 1st

When was the last time you cried because...

Oh, heart. You silly, silly thing.

Nov 1st

Nov 1st

Actually, when you I read it again, I...

Brain farts. You know how they are.

Nov 1st

dreamsofelectricsheep: I need to go to Ikea. HOLY

Nov 1st

Photographers, I understand the...

but the largeness of your watermarks is beginning to be silly.

Nov 1st

eft: pinakyu: Tugatog, Malabon A caged Devil over St....

Nov 1st

“Death looked long and hard at the board. The abbot waited...”
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods...

Oct 31st

“Death looked long and hard at the board. The abbot waited...”
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods...

Oct 31st

The dead are so boring.

The whole time they just laid there. So many awkward silences.

Oct 31st

“Death looked long and hard at the board. The abbot waited...”
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods...

Oct 31st

It was the way of the future: mental masturbation. In the future there would be mental sex, and...

Oct 31st

Who wants to help me with my new project...

Oct 31st

Virtue and Humanity in Manila

Overture: Where a Desperate Man Eats Himself Strange stories come from strange places where strange...

Oct 31st

Anyone interested in reading my new...

I think I got its first draft down.

Oct 31st

On Halloween, Irish peasants would beg...

ohyeahfacts: (source)

Oct 31st

radarchive: laurandlime: EL ATENEO: A theatre turned...

Oct 31st

I say this every night, but alas: I'm...

Conversation? pacholo_mercado@yahoo.com

Oct 31st