MAKE BLOG, NOT WAR

“Why don’t we just fill the world with blogs instead of hatred, instead of fear,
of death, of misunderstanding and of things that cause global warming?
Let’s all make love and make blogs and make Paris Hilton
pay for her sins.”

—Gardo Versace, writer, poet, painter, author of the best-selling and compelling semi-biographical crime/suspense/drama/sci-fi book, “Britney Spears’ Nude, Ugly Pet Pussy Cat Is A Murderous Alien From Planet Venus!”


The quote above, a line from Versace’s critically-acclaimed book, “Paris Hilton Is The Main Cause Of Global Warming,” just won an award in the recently concluded “Look! Great Words Are Falling From Your Mouth!,” the Oscars of quotations.

I agree with him. It’s better to fill this world with blogs than hatred and death so I created this blog. As for making Paris Hilton pay for her sins, I’m a little clueless about it. But I heard watching some of her videos will urge men to commit sins.

I have long been toying with the idea of creating, not a blogsite, but a website.
Pero hindi sana para sa akin ‘yong kundi sa paborito kong banda, ang Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd , if you’ve been living in another planet and just landed on earth for a quick vacation to hobnob with our tarsiers, is considered by many as the greatest rock band that walked this earth. Of course, the Beatles was the greatest pop band that roamed this planet. I was and still obsessed with Pink Floyd. It (the website) would have been my way of expressing gratitude to this band for creating absolutely wonderful music. It was as if these men were born, grew up, met and decided to form a band just to create music for me. Almost all their albums(excluding those made after mainman Roger Waters left the band) are utterly, definitely mindblowing.

Pero nang mapag-isip-isip ko na parang kumplikado pala bumuo at mag-maintain ng website (lalo na kung dial-up ka lang at hindi ka naman talaga masyadong maalam sa Internet), kinalimutan ko na lang ‘yong plano ko na ‘yon. Baka basurang website lang ang mabuo ko. Saka sangkaterba na kasi ang websites at forums na sumasamba sa grupong ito. The first twenty websites that I bookmarked when I got my PC connected to Internet a few years ago were all dedicated to Pink Floyd.

So my planned website was scrapped.

Then, last year, a friend, Arman Francisco, texted me, humihingi ng permiso dahil ilalagay daw niya ‘yong isa kong published comics story sa blogsite niya. I said yes then forgot about it. Naalala ko lang puntahan ‘yong blogsite niya pagkaraan ng ilang linggo. It is a blogsite about comics. If you love local komics, you’ll surely enjoy his site. Arman and I (we’ve been friends for a very long time; we first met during the Bataan Death March—he he) used to write for local comics. I wrote a few novels and series and lots of short stories, mostly horror then, when the local comics industry was still breathing. Pagkaraan kong bisitahin ang blogsite ni Arman, I started thinking about creating my own blogsite featuring my works as a komiks writer. Pero hindi ko pa rin naumpisahan agad. Sometimes, I really could be lazy. The horrors that happened during Japanese Occupation kept creeping up my mind. I would always be busy fending off those bad dreams.

But then, when you’ve got lots of free time and what you do, almost everyday, is sit in front of the computer all day and romance the keyboard, the temptation to create a blog is just too much.

And I am the kind of person who easily succumb to temptations.

I promise that this blog will only use recyclable and organic words, so as not to worsen global warming, even if I still have no idea on what would this blog’s contents be (aside from komiks stuff; I’ll scan some of my stories here).

Maybe, I’ll just go with what Kevin Costner was told in ‘Field of Dreams.’

Build it, he will come.

I have built a blogsite. Hopefully, words would come nice and smoothly.

Incidentally, my fave writer, Gardo Versace, the renowned English writer (he was born to Italian parents, though) is wrapping up his new book, a horror novel, probably to be released late this year. The book will be titled I Eat Children With McDonald’s Gravy. And this early, the critics are already all agog about this new terrifying book.

I have read Britney Spears’ Nude, Ugly Pet Pussy Cat Is A Murderous Alien From Planet Venus! and I gave it three thumbs up (two thumbs are not enough). It’s a classic, a great book. You can’t just put it down once you start reading it. It’s comparable to another classic book, Sheila Mendoza’s Between Love And Madness, another favorite book of mine.

Below is a picture of me and Arman Francisco taken before the Japanese invasion. :)