Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

Grant Morrison takes us on a surreal ride in this 1989 Batman classic. Arkham Asylum, a gothic-like horror book, has a different take of Batman; instead of showing us a stoic and zen-like superhero, we see an insecure and sexually repressed man dressed in a bat suit going inside the Asylum to face his biggest enemy: the inability to face up to his parents’ deaths.

Probably the most disturbing (in art and theme) graphic novel I have ever bought.

Awesome.

Apparently, I’m a B-Lister

Apparently, I’m a B-Lister already. Nice. For my other blog, that is.

I was checking out this blog entry by Master Yuga, who was recently inducted into Kineda’s blog A-List. Their site actually measures the number of links to your blog and ranks your blog authority.

So what’s a B-Lister?

The High Authority Group [B-List Bloggers]
(100-499 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
The third group represents a decided shift in blog age while not blogging much more frequently than the last. In keeping with the theme of the maturation of the blogosphere, it seems evident that many of these bloggers were previously in category two and have grown in authority organically over time. In other words, sheer dedication pays off over time.

Did that make sense to you. No? It didn’t make sense to me as well. Now, if only I can convert my blogebrity status to money, that would be sweet.

Shawarma: A Survival Guide

You get off the train, and you are hungry. You see a lot of food stalls, but the food choices are unappetizing. French fries? Soggy. Yema? It won’t even fill my stomach. Waffle dogs? Yeah, like I’d stick a phallic piece of food in my mouth. Besides, I ate that already yesterday.

Then you see it. The shawarma stand. Your mind immediately goes back to the days when shawarma was the king of food. Yes, it was every foodstuff’s dream to be a shawarma. Because shawarma rocks. Imagine the disappointment of the asparagus when it was flatly told that it can never ever be shawarma. I heard it killed itself in disappointment. The poor soul.

Yep, shawarma is teh manly. That is what I’ll eat, you tell yourself.

You sheepishly walk to the stall. you hand over your hard-earned moolah. You eagerly wait for the shawarma to be prepared. What is taking it too long? And why does the vendor look like Saddam Hussein? You grow impatient. Finally, the shawarma is handed over to you. Ah, the wonderful smell.

Now, the condiments. You grab the white bottle. Nah, it’s too sissy. Besides, it looks… gross. You see an innocent-looking red colored bottle. Bingo! In your excitement, you splatter too much of the sauce onto the shawarma. You take a bite.

Uh-oh. You made a mistake. The very delicious shawarma that you bought is now laced with the biggest enemy humankind has ever faced: too much hot sauce. You may like hot sauce, but this time you are at your breaking point. You run around in circles, trying hard to get air.

How will you survive the steaming shawarma of death?

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The Rules of Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao is indeed awesome:

• Don’t ever try to win a bet against Pacquiao. The last time he lost, he slammed the guy’s face on the ground so hard he created a mile-wide crater and sent loads of dust in the atmosphere. That is how the dinosaurs were wiped out.
• Pacquiao is powered by Motolite batteries. (Thanks, gmo_free !)
• Hitler did not commit suicide. He was punched to death by an annoyed Pacquiao. It was deemed too awesome for the public to know, hence a much-tamer version of Hitler’s death was publicized.
• Chuck Norris wets his pants whenever he hears Pacquiao’s name.
• Boxing was invented to keep Manny Pacquiao from knocking out people cold at random.
• Pacquiao invented the iPod. Steve Jobs is a f*cking liar. He’ll be punched to death soon.
• Before every bout, Pacquiao doesn’t pray for victory. He prays for the salvation of his opponent’s soul.
• Pacquiao is the only person in the world who can punch by osmosis.
• The entire book of Revelations describes how Pacquiao once became so drunk he caused the end of the world.
• Pacquiao does not lose. He gets bored.
• Pacquiao was not concieved. He punched his way into existence.
• Pacquiao has sneezed only once in his lifetime. The aftermath is now known as Chernobyl.
• Pacquiao killed Dumbledore.
• Pacquiao can rewind a VHS tape by looking at it.
• Vin Diesel and Pacquiao once faced off in the ring. Guess who won.
• Pacquiao once tried to sell his soul to the devil. He wasn’t able to do it, because the devil was scared sh*tless.
• Pacquiao can stare at you with his eyes closed.
• You only live because Pacquiao allows it.
• Brokeback Mountain was supposed to be a movie about Pacquiao, but the director chickened out and did a movie about gay cowboys instead.
• Pacquiao will find out about this blog and beat the crap out of this writer.

uh… no thanks.

 I love soup.

It’s the perfect thing during cold days, and just having one steaming bowl of soup will give me a warm, giddy feeling akin to being blitzed by a CareBears rainbow ray… or something like that.

However, sometimes my love for soup must take a backseat to common sense and propriety.

For those who love the taste of cock.

Perfect for head colds.

 … I think I’ll pass.

Fanboy Mode: ON

DC’s INFNITE CRISIS #4 will be out any moment now! IC is actually a sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC’s amazing reboot back in 1986.

This blog entry will be dealing with my recap/review of past IC issues and my IC4 predictions.

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UltraElectroMagneticJam: The Music of the Eraserheads

Guys… remember when bands used to make music? Remember when bands lived up to the hype? Remember when bands actually had originality?!

I remember, ‘coz looking at the current state of the band scene, I am so longing for the mid-90s band scene. Bands made music then. And the 2001-2003 band scene too. Hip-Hop was king then, so only those who want to be in a band were in a band. There was no “band explosion”, no bandwagon, no posers.

Ok. Remember the Eraserheads?!

Here’s my belated review of the Eraserheads tribute album, “UltraElectroMagneticJam”.

It was, at best, a mixed deal. it had some gems, and yet also had really bad versions of E-Heads songs.

Let’s classify the songs into three groups: “Amazing”, “Eh… it’s ok”, and “Horrible” (more…)

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