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		<title>A Year Without Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I do it? Can I spend a year without Facebook? My cousin Aeon influnced me to deactivate my Facebook account. I knocked on her door. Asked her to drink with me. I felt depressed. I needed some drinking buddies. Nica also joined us. I deactivated my Facebook account on January 9, 2012. I hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Carmi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 11, 2011 Dear Carmi, Hindi ko alam kung paano sisimulan &#8216;tong sulat na &#8216;to. I&#8217;ve never written you a letter when you were still here with us. And now, I&#8217;m writing you a letter that you&#8217;ll never get to read. And so, perhaps, I&#8217;m writing this more for myself&#8230; for our family, relatives, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tula, sabon, at bula</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tula, sabon, at bula (para kay marielle) &#62; salamat sa sabon binalot sa kahon regalong akma sa anumang panahon. &#62; wala akong sabon na maikakahon meron namang tula kinatha, ginawa. &#62; mabisa ang sabon pamatay ng mikrobyon mabisa ang tula pampasigla ng diwa. &#62; ang sabon, tulad ng tula naglalaho, nawawala ang tula, tulad ng [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tessa de Guzman&#8217;s poem about Angono</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 20, 2005, for the 2nd Neo-Angono Public Art Festival, we held a free outdoor screening of indie films (shorts by Mes de Guzman, Tessa de Guzman, and Lloyd Blancaflor; full-lengths by Ron Bryant and Sig Barros-Sanchez) at the parking lot of Metrobank Angono. Billed as &#8220;Sine-silip sa Sinagtala: Revisiting Star Theater,&#8221; it was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on a Nude Sketching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a poem drawn by poet/writer Richard Gappi: &#62; *Talababa sa Isang Nude Sketching &#62; Ipinapako ako ngayon sa krus ng aking pagkatao. &#62; Mantel sa pisngi ng aking pwet at sinag-araw-alas-tres ng hapon na nakabalabal sa hubad kong anino. &#62; Nagsasa-Veronica ako sa puting tela. &#62; Guhit ito na pinihit ng totoo kung saan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;supercalifragilisticexpialidocious&#8221; a real word referring to Irish hookers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: Is &#8220;supercalifragilisticexpialidocious&#8221; a real word referring to Irish hookers? &#8220;Supercali&#8221; = superbeautiful (Greek, super=over + kallos=beautiful) &#8220;Fragilistic?&#8221; = the word &#8220;fragile&#8221; comes to mind, which is probably from Latin &#8220;frango?&#8221; which means &#8220;breakable&#8221;? Just making an inference here&#8230; best regards, super kal-el Source: http://http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msupercali.html Is &#8220;supercalifragilisticexpialidocious&#8221; a real word referring to irish hookers? &#8212;&#8212;- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Arc of Your Mallet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 23:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Arc Of Your Mallet by Rumi Don&#8217;t go anywhere without me. Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me, or on the ground, in this world or that world, without my being in its happening. Vision, see nothing I don&#8217;t see. Language, say nothing. The way the night knows itself with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made in Vietnam, Born in the Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(old letters: May 7, 2000) Kathleen, Michaell, Jan, Leanne, Carl, and Dante, Still trying to catch up reading your letters. Congratulations! to Carl, for making it to Steppenwolf and to Jan, for completing your doctorate&#8230; Am annotating a six-week workshop for basic acting (adults), am learning a lot in the process&#8230; Cameron Macintosh&#8217;s &#8220;Miss Saigon&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Signs and Symbols</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown&#8217;s devices are rather stilted&#8230; contrived&#8230; Although I laughed at that scene when Brown was thinking of some woman in the past and then the police driver who fetched him asks: &#8220;Did you mount her?&#8221; The Eiffel, of course&#8230; harharhar! One particular scene that I loved (not for any &#8220;high&#8221;/literary reasons but for the seeming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deliberately Ignoring Something Because of the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the Matrix and Moulin Rouge, despite their being hyped. On the other hand, I did watch Lord of the Rings 1 &#38; 2, but stayed away from 3. Tried reading book 1, but just managed a few paragraphs, and then stopped&#8230; (Well, perhaps someday&#8230;) Did &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; have that much [...]]]></description>
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