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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 279.



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Thursday, February 12, 2026

entry arrow10:42 PM | I Love Wuthering Heights!



I absolutely love how Emerald Fennell fucked up this material and made it suit her narrative kinks. We should all take what inspires us and mangle it to form a new kind of beastly beauty. [The rule to follow is really, “Make it work!” and she did!] I love that the film is a thesis on toxicity masquerading as love and horniness, and yet also works hard on making you swoon. I love that our main characters are the most deplorable of the lot and I love that their toxicity almost destroys the partners they chose to marry just to spite each other, and yet still have these partners being strong and very certain even in their debasements. I love that Fennell made a virtual violation scene become a mockery of consent — that was some nimble narrative tinikling!]. I love that I love the supporting characters more than I love Cathy or Heathcliff. [My order of likes: Isabella Linton [her "But I am home" is fantastically delivered] > Mr. Earnshaw [who is an absolute delight!] > Edgar Linton [who is a saint!] > Nelly Dean > Jonathan > Catherine > Heathcliff.] I love Hong Chau’s complicated Oriental. I love the unexpected textures of this film, the marrying of offal pungency with carnal sexuality. I love that this is offending so many people. Snowflakes!

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Monday, February 09, 2026

entry arrow10:12 PM | And It's Now Officially Out of Print!



I’m saying goodbye to my first children’s picture book, The Great Little Hunter, with fantastic illustrations by my constant collaborator, the Dumaguete visual artist Hersley-Ven Casero, and published by our local publisher Pinspired Art Souvenirs at the height of the pandemic. We’ve now sold the last copy of the second edition, and we absolutely have no plans to reprint. This book was always meant to be a special edition. When Pinspired came out with the hardbound volume in 2023, we only wanted to print a hundred copies, because it was really meant to be an art book disguised as a children’s book, and didn’t want it to be mass market affair. We numbered all copies and signed each one to make them unique — but to our astonishment, we sold out within a day of the launch, even though it was priced quite high! There was clamor to print more, but we didn’t want to renege on our promise of “uniqueness” to the initial buyers of the hardbound book. So we opted for a paperbound edition, with a higher print run meant only for one cycle. That cycle has been completed. Thank you to those who bought the book, and supported local literature! It was a privilege to introduce Ngayam and his monsters to the world.



[With Rappler journalist and 2024 Marshall McLuhan fellow Pia Ranada last Wednesday at the new Adamo! She made sure she bought books by local authors — and she got two of mine: Bamboo Girls and The Great Little Hunter! She got the last copies for sale of the children's book, by the way.]

[I'm actually working on a second picture book right now, collaborating with Hemrod Duran. And another one, with my Palanca-winning children's poetry, collaborating with Gayle Acar. But we're taking our time.]

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Wednesday, February 04, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 277.



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