SKIRMISHER

I think this is how “the betrayal” actually happened.

[Judas to Jesus: I’m forming a heavy metal band. I’ll let you do drums. Come on, what do you say? I’m not really gay, but I’m so sincere I’m kissing you.]
When evening came, and when Saturday Night Live was over, Jesus was reclining at the table with […]

Cyberspace is full of dead people; it’s crawling with traces of people’s last thoughts, last sentiments, last human impressions.
In a sense, mankind has unwittingly created an electronic version of immortality.

Simon Ng was a college freshman in New York. In May 2005, somebody tied him up and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest with a butcher […]

We’ve been deciding on how to create a new invite for a girl’s 18th birthday. The mother of the girl wants something different. While the usual invites say something like, “I’m 18 now, you’re invited” and all that shit, the mother wants it done in as unique a way as possible.
And we’re wracking our brains […]

The further integration of blogging into the lives of individuals is fast taking us back four million years ago, right at the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest tale.

I have always believed the whole idea behind blogging is simple: placing anybody in a role that allows them to make sense of something as faceless as the […]

There’s something so sad about a dead man with shiny shoes and a lunch bag.

I got this email today, about somebody who got hit by a bus crossing Ayala Avenue in Makati.
And the first thing in my head was, “What shiny shoes.”
How neatly the shoelaces were tied. And the lunch bag. These little things, how […]

Look at you. Aren’t you just all dolled up? How cool you’re standing there like that toothpaste TV ad. Sucking air through your teeth. Staring into the glass and wondering what you’re doing here, anyway. You’re thinking, This is how Elvis did it.
You gaze across the maddening hyperspace and still, she’s on the bar stool. […]

[OldBoy: Daesu eats a live octopus before an awestruck Mido [left], and later screws the girl [right], only to discover something so devastating about her that he’d ask the first asshole who comes along to “shoot him in the head.”]
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
I first saw that line in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather; […]

Three of the best words in the world are, “You are right.” When I find I’m the recipient of these three words, it calms me. It makes me feel good.
But sometimes, it also shames me. It gives me a strong urge to jump off a cliff and die. How can anybody enjoy feeling so right […]