11. Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel, “How Do You Judge Me”
- Official website.
- From the 2003 album Oh, The Stories We Hold (eMusic link).
The Chicago-based singer-songwriter Anna Fermin has one of those expressively elastic voices that sounds like it belongs to an older generation of singers; she’s partly husky and intimate on one track, then...
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Continuing a series I more or less started in 2008 (here’s my 15 favorites from last year), I’ll be counting down the rest of the year and into 2010 with my list. (Best to start it now, because the order keeps changing, and many other songs — “Laura” by Girls, Parov Stelar’s “Blind Alley”,...
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I’m part of this year’s LitCrawl — phase 3, to be exact (scroll down to the Fabric8 entry) — come by and say “hello!”
PAWA Arkipelago at Litquake!
8:30 pm @ Fabric8 Gallery, 3318 22nd., San Francisco
PAWA & Arkipelago Bookstore Present:
Of History & Myths — Writings from Philippine-American Authors.
Curator: Karen Llagas, Emcee: Anthem Salgado
Readers: Luis H....
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Reposting my brother Happy Vergara’s latest note on Facebook — I thought it needed to be seen by folks who are outside Facebook, pretty much because the good news is good and the bad news is, as Happy wrote me on IM, “really really bad.”
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These are going to be pretty random, with a smattering...
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I thought I’d repost some photos from Happy, Clarissa and Monica’s most recent grocery run — okay, not literally theirs, because someone else did it for them this time — but once again, almost all the donations came from people on Facebook through Happy’s Paypal account.
Tadlak is a barangay in the municipality of Los Banos,...
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I’m reposting my brother Happy Vergara’s “Ondoy Letter of Appeal” (originally posted on Facebook; requires Facebook login). Please see my previous blog entry on Ondoy as well.
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Hello Friends,
I hope this reaches you well.
I am writing on behalf of the millions of victims of Typhoon Ondoy, which four days ago flooded 80% of Metro Manila and...
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I had originally posted the 9/27 note below on Facebook (see original note) — and made it viewable to “everyone”, not knowing that “everyone” did not mean people without Facebook accounts! So here it is — the most important part is the ONLINE DONATIONS section close to the bottom:
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Hi folks, here’s a slightly more...
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I’ll be at the Philippine American Writers and Artists Arkipelago Reading Series in SF on August 23rd — stop by and say “hello!”
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Penélope V. Flores, Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Kevin L. Nadal, and Benito M....
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Corazon Aquino is dead, and — especially since I’m writing this in the Philippines — I’m in the midst of a fit of national mourning. It’s all over the place: the funeral procession on TV, people wearing yellow T-shirts, banners on buildings, tweets and Facebook status updates, constant newspaper coverage, the lines of mourners,...
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Cutting and pasting from the Facebook invitation — many thanks to Maria Jovita Zarate for setting this all up!
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PINOY ETHNOGRAPHY, AMERICAN SUBURB
A lecture by Dr. Benito Vergara
Host: Dean’s Office, UP College of Arts and Letters
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Bulwagan ng Dangal, UP Main Library
University Avenue, UP Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
The College of Arts and...
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