If you’d taken a close look at my “Art Projects” tab some months before, you would have probably noticed my autobiographical comic in progress, I Was A Teenage Filipino Skinhead. Issues 1-5 had been out since late last year, then I went into a big creative slump and didn’t continue until just recently. I’ve just finished Issues 6-10…here are the covers:
Yes, so my arrival to work today was filled with the ash, smoke and other wildfire by-products that nature blew at me, thanks to the latest valley blazes. The burning brush smell always reminds me of my visits to the Philippines. Speaking of which, it’s been so long since I’ve been…way too long.
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If there’s one thing I do appreciate about YouTube, it’s the opportunity to find rare and increasingly hard-to-find vintage video footage that people take the time to share. For all you mambo freaks like myself, I present this gem of maestro Pérez Prado’s Que Rico El Mambo video, with hilarious dancers Cantinflas & Resortes…courtesy of Latinosomos.
A day or two ago, during one of my infrequent views of the nightly news (I might as well watch Faces of Death), they reported a milestone for the Chinese space program, as Chinese astronauts completed their first spacewalk.
As they showed various footage of the groundbreaking astronauts, the news reporter (off camera) laughed. Wonder why.
