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Thursday, September 10, 2026

My Life As Art

The Peter Solis Nery Foundation International Film Festival, Part 1

THIS 2019, The Peter Solis Nery Foundation is launching PSNFIFF — The Peter Solis Nery Foundation International Film Festival — in its effort to...

Wanted: travel buddy

THIS PIECE is continued from Monday’s “Wanted: Warm Body”. Which started to explain why I wanted a boyfriend at age 50. * I haven’t done Grindr in...

Wanted: warm body

I VISIT a lot of people all over the world. And sometimes, I stay with them for a few days as a guest. My family in...

The promise of promiscuity

I LIKE the sound of the word “promiscuity.” Like it contains in it some “promise,” and “acuity” — a sharpness, a keenness of the senses...

Throwback to 15 years ago

THIS IS AN ARTICLE I wrote for another newspaper in 2004 for the anniversary of the EDSA Revolution, Feb. 25, 2004. Exactly 15 years...

The necessary poet

TODAY, I yield my column space to this essay from my latest book, “At My Father’s Wake” (available at Amazon.com). T. Randolph Graydon knew what...

At my father’s wake

I BARELY made it. But for the record, Amazon (real name Amazon.com, Inc.) said that my latest book, “At My Father’s Wake”, was published on...

Notes from the PSN master class

I DO NOT waste anything. Especially if it is something delicious that I have written. Especially if it has been previously sampled and enjoyed by a...

A divertissement from PSN master class

WHEN you are poor, but smart, as a young child, there is no other way for you but to be competitive. When your well-off classmates...

Airport poems

AT THE ILOILO International Airport (my Airport #32, series of 2018), there are these two big posters with Dinagyang faces (or faces with Dinagyang...