Films
- ‘Isa Pa, With Feelings’: from speechless to breathless
- ‘Quezon’s Game’: playing it safe
- ‘Tayo sa Huling Buwan ng Taon’: a world of their own
- ‘Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral’, a romantic elegy
- ‘Oda sa Wala’: the morbid fragrance of emptiness
- Reviews: ‘Mamang’ and short films (Cinemalaya 2018)
- Reviews: ‘Distance’, ‘School Service’, ‘Kung Paano Hinihintay ang Dapithapon’ (Cinemalaya 2018)
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Places
- ‘Gusto Kita with All My Hypothalamus’: delirious with desire
- Coasting
- Pagsasalin, paglalayag
- Sophisticated men, and men’s magazines
- Davao: city of superlatives
- A closer look at ‘Sakaling Hindi Makarating’: familiar journeys and unexpected discoveries
- ‘Sakaling Hindi Makarating’: a tribute to the “beautiful process” of coping with heartbreak
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Society
- ‘Quezon’s Game’: playing it safe
- ‘BuyBust’ is a drug war-themed horror-fantasy movie
- Istorya ng Pag-asa Film Festival: hoping against reason
- ‘Instalado’: knowledge is power, and power corrupts
- The painter is dead: Barthes, and Nick Joaquin’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino’
- On Lualhati Bautista’s ‘Dekada ’70’
- When the movies were still projected from film reels
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Personal
- May morning meditation
- Ten years ago
- Coasting
- On the meaning and value of work
- A sense of time
- In the image of consciousness
- Just enough technology
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Music
- ‘Body Crashes’ and the freedom to self-express: an interview with Rhian Ramos
- Coasting
- Taken by Cars’ ‘Plagues’: like diamonds from ashes
- ‘Umaapaw’ by Ang Bandang Shirley: singular feel, many possibilities
- ‘Malaya’ by Kitchie Nadal and The Stone Forest Ensemble
- Review: ‘Dating Gawi’ by Rico Blanco
- ‘Christmas Morning’ by Eraserheads
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Literary
- The painter is dead: Barthes, and Nick Joaquin’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino’
- On Lualhati Bautista’s ‘Dekada ’70’
- Pagsasalin, paglalayag
- Sophisticated men, and men’s magazines
- ‘Umaapaw’ by Ang Bandang Shirley: singular feel, many possibilities
- ‘Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis’ (Lav Diaz, 2016): necessary fiction
- A sense of time
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Musings
- On the meaning and value of work
- In defense of boring books
- Dunbar’s number, twenty-fourteen, and other accounting
- On the verge of real
- Washing up liquid
- Life, random
- Spaces redux
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