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on the air pa pala si triggerman. he was doing his old bit, "the top 20 at twelve,"  only it was on a different radio station, and he was doing a buzzfeed-type list ("20 infuriating friends you find on social media") instead of counting down the most-requested songs, and the "twelve" was twelve midnight instead of the radio primetime lunch hour. he was even using the exact same "triggerman!" and "the top twenty at twelve!" soundbites from, what, thirty years ago? it's like he had resigned himself to a very specific circle of hell where we was doomed to play the same bland 90's music surrounded by sad affectations of his past fame. i listened for an hour until about midnight, after which cherry woke up and changed the station.

the komik ninja (also of jumpercable) posted some nice feedback a few days ago! "This is the one that is not the walking dead, and as it winds down to its conclusion, its unique attack on a difficult trope is why it is an important part of the indie age. "

meganon comics ' tepai pascual, who's set to break into the mainstream this year with visprint's publication of her opus maktan 1521, recently blogged about reading the latest few issues of school run: 'The depth of the story usually contradicts with his cute, doodle-like art style but still manages to convey the message to the readers—- spot on... The drama and the tension are written and visualized wonderfully. I couldn’t put it down! And of course at the end of it all, I can only say this—- “Seriously Macoy? Seriously?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”' i love the gif with which she punctuates that last sentence:

so, got my face on a komikon poster and i guess it's all downhill from here. the maskot film and DVDs seemed pretty well-received, and by that i mean no one's complained about it, except maybe for that one social studies teacher at the panel (mediated by jason inocencio of and the geek shall inherit the earth ) who wanted to know why ketchup had to swear so much in that one scene. ketchup and i made long-winded explanations about maskot's pent-up rage and need for catharsis, and then direk chris just says "it was funnier that way." people seemed excited to get two new issues of school run , and to hear that the end is in sight with about four issues to go--that's only two more releases, if i can stick to two new issues per event. i feel rather proud of school run 6 and 7, the culmination of quite a bit of setting things up between robert and maki. still, it feels like i've been doing school run for a decade, and it'll be good to start on s...

(some spoilerish but general plot discussion here) the Hero is a man from a different time and place, and the world has changed without him. he is treated as a symbol of goodness, but his idealism seems antiquated. this leads him to doubt himself, although never his principles. the military complex adopts him, makes use of his powers, but he later learns that all is not as it seems.  the only person he can trust is his female companion, who is physically weaker but knows more about the world, and so helps him uncover the achilles' heel of the rogue military operation.  his nemesis, with whom he shares a unique shared past, is in many ways his equal in combat, but with the advantage of being completely ruthless. in the end, the hero triumphs not by destroying the baddie, but by convincing him that their shared history, what they have in common, is more important than their differences. captain america: the winter soldier is the superman ...

Terminus We've come back this season, at least those of us still alive Here within this Terminus we all hope to arrive I was a survivor from Cell block C, you were with the Governor of Woodbury and... You came down the tracks of the train and you walked by my side Shoulder up to shoulder that tunnel was 9 meters wide Oh my heart was screaming, walkers wanted to eat (us) Following my movements with a rock on your feet and... Oh, down toward Terminus all of us tread So, when were't at Terminus who will be dead?  "Won't you leave me, go find Maggie?" you ask of me then But I draw my gun and shoot a walker again We were all alone on a shooting spree Really thought my bullets would run out on me, but Maggie and some others came and made it rain lead Made sure that the walkers wouldn't rise from the dead Could have kept on walking my entire life But the season's ending so i'm back with my wife! And so we left for Terminus with one...

this article's  been popping up on my facebook feed repeatedly the past few days, to pretty much unanimous discontent. at the heart of the matter is executive order 255, which states: "all radio stations  shall broadcast a minimum of four original [F]ilipino musical   compositions in every clockhour of a program with a musical format." or to put it another way, stations have to allot about a quarter of every hour of airplay to local music. which, if you think about it, is pretty reasonable. TV ads get more airtime than that. so why all the negative comments? 1.) anything pnoy does is wrong. i'm not qualified to talk about that. 2.) i'll listen to what i want! no one's forcing anyone to listen to anything. they're forcing the station to play OPM one quarter of the time, thereby giving local artists more exposure (and/or royalties?), which hopefully leads to more income. is that so bad? the rest of us remain free to change the station, or pop ...

so the other day i was listening to this guy, who is about the most affable-looking heavy metal guitarist i've ever seen: and i thought, "gee, i can't even listen to that sort of arrangement and some of those riffs without thinking of 'head cha la'"... until i realized i was thinking of "head cha la" because the song actually sounded like "head cha la." so i tried singing the "cha la, head cha la" refrain instead of "let it go, let it go." it seemed to fit pretty well, so i thought, i should be working, why not make a mashup? i'd initially planned to lay the "head cha la" vocals over a "let it go" instrumental track, but couldn't find the former. luckily i found a "let it go" vocal track and a minus one of "head cha la" (the gino padilla version!) floating around on the web, so i threw those together in audacity : i had to slow down idina menzel's vocals by...