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Sunday, September 13, 2026

My Life As Art

We got your point: Teen smut writing is bad, but…, part 1

NO BUTS. Swallow it. My point has been made clear: Teenage Smut Writing is Bad. And should not be encouraged. In any way!  I will...

Why teen smut writers can’t win, Part 4

I DO NOT see myself fighting with the kids online. The term I like is “engaging.”  I engage the Filipino kids online by provoking them, hopefully...

Why teen smut writers can’t win, Part 3

I USE social media to my advantage. It has given me the platform to engage a lot of people. In social media, there are role players.  This...

Why teen smut writers can’t win, Part 2

MY METHODS are unconventional. I mean, I have always been unconventional, and you would already know that if you have been following my newspaper career...

Why teen smut writers can’t win, Part 1

MY GOAL is to save the Filipino youth. I guess on this one, the goal justifies the means. It’s brutal. But if you haven’t saved a youth...

To engage or to ignore

SOME of my friends are worried about me. They think I spend too much time on the Internet “fighting” with kids. They want me to just...

Multiple choice

JUST before my 52ndbirthday, I was talking to a boy who wanted to have a nose job. This was the boy who was willing...

That Dinagyang show

WITH the virtual Dinagyang celebrations this weekend, and with Facebook memories throwing back things at me, I thought I should just rerun this piece...

My life on socmed

I FEEL that I lived more than half of my life since the pandemic online. In no other time of my life did I...

Surviving January

WE ARE halfway through the first month of 2021.  And it’s the week leading to the Dinagyang weekend in Iloilo City.  But this year, everything is...