A Swarmer Dissedly

(This post is full of Tagalogs. Apologies to those who don’t speak that language. )

My good friend Jen started the idea of blogswarming. Well, I joined, but even though I did a photoshop and a pseudo-editorial artwork to express my disdain for GMA, I wasn’t too crazed about the idea of blogswarming. In fact I can say I’m skeptic.

I didn’t expect the idea would take off either, but now in just two weeks, Jen’s a superstar. Political bloggers from Pinoy’s blogging scene (lalalala J, did you raise eyebrows?) started to show support to Jen. An Inquirer article was published for Jen. MBW was spellbounded to Jen. My photoshopped work had been taken without my permission and without the mention of my moniker.

And along came the ill consequences. You know how it is with blogging, right? As long as someone posts something polemic, dissidents will come. Some dissidents have well-presented counter-arguments, but most others give you this feeling that they’re paid trolls/propagandists writing as commentators under anonymous guises. These trolls bully other’s blog by posting ad hominem repartees. Sometimes you really have to wonder about these zombies, about how they think. Their dumbness seriously rattle my brain so much that in my exposure to them, my outlook for human civilization dims further.

There’s one that’s been making decent blog-swarmers head bang tables. You might want to read how OUR "debate" went.

Click on more. I hate doing these "more" come-hithers, but this is too unstructured it looks ugly on my blog’s main page. And, uh, the tag is purely meant for parody.
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A Spark of Intellect

For the past two weeks I’ve made my rounds on Pinoy political blogs. I must have read about Lozada from all angles and I now know he’s from UST - not that I’m frenzied about knowing the personal lives of political people. 

I don’t like how that felt. The problem with political blogs is when I’ve promenaded 10 of them, I become unsure of what I read. The writings are so banal, they blur. It’s even worse when I read their comment box exchanges. Don’t get me wrong, as there are many political bloggers that I revere. It’s just that it can get tiresome reading the same predictable, boring, commonplace anti-or-pro-system vitriol from everyone. It’s all mob echoes, without unique voice. Or maybe I am the problem, since I’d read creative analysis of imagined works over banal musings of mundane realities any time. 

You’d probably guess that I guzzle original ideas. That’s close. The better description is I want what makes me think instead of what merely make feel like a fence sitter, passively watching these bickering and Miriam’s afro hairdo. Too many say “GLORIA RESIGN” or “GLORIA STAYS” or “NOLI SUCKS” and I’m just surprised that all camps aren’t analytical enough of why they believe those. If they do think, they say the same old triteness (and I don’t blame them because I would probably be hackneyed too were I to write about politics). I don’t feel inspired in joining the fray. Am I being vague? Maybe.

I’ve found the panacea to these banalities. Caffeine Sparks. 

Looking at that avatar always remind me of this awesome rap song. The egyptian beats, the dope lyrics ("It’s more than just music it’s electric sex!"), they just feel so right describing this pic. (and uh,this is underground rap, so don’t gimme this "but this ain’t popular southern rap/50 cents stuff!". They’re crap, period.)

Zeph & Azeem - 10 Steps Ahead

If writing is coffee, sparks is the Blue Mountain. If writing is Stevie Wonder, sparks is the Songs in the Key of Life. If writing is jazz, sparks is John Coltrane. If writing is guitar, Spark’s is Hendrix’s. If writing is an album cover art, then Spark’s is the super-rare Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground LP. If…

Ah, screw metaphors! No other political blogs are as consistent in bringing to me stuffs that I’m not already aware of. Sparks is peerless in presenting issues in ways that make me think. Just read what she says about being apolitical, or her defense of the public. Reading her words seriously pimp-slapped my past beliefs’s ass, and I’m beginning to wonder if it’s possible for human to have such expertise on that many subjects. Every time I see the comment boxes that shouldn’t have been empty, I also wonder if the average human beings have only a limited capacity of understanding such omniscience (err, I’m not saying I’m smart. Read this and this.). In other words, Sparks must be an epiphany. 

But no, wait, I only talked about spark’s political or societal musings. How about her personal posts then? Listen to her canorous podcasts. Delight at how all these beautiful words come so effortlessly. And did I just say canorous? I think I have a crush on her voice. I mean, how pathetic is that, someone having crushes on voices? Though, I’m willing to bet that she’s beautiful – is it even possible for ugly people to achieve such perfection of intellect? (Please don’t chew my ass on this. I’m just kidding!) 

If sparks ever decide to write a book, she can pull out my silly words as blurbs.  

It’s why I like blogs. Every time I feel that I won’t add new blogs to my links, I find or rediscover one that fountains everything else out. I felt such way too when I read fencesitter’s work, but for a very different reason. Other moments of overflowing cryogen can be seen on Schumey’s slating CBCP, J’s defending horniness, virus’s theory of men being swines, Brad’s reservations about tipping, liz’s forthcoming hatred of The Secret, and Salamander’s on Writers with Attitudez. It’s the extreme opposite of music - everytime you’re ready to say music can’t suck even worse out come another reality tv singer digging for a new low. 

Props to you, dope bloggers. And now it’s time for me to read Ulysses.