The Philippine Online Chronicles

Articles by Adam David

• On hope

  30 June 2010   We were there when they swore her in, and it sure felt like democracy. Or rather, our i…

• The Music Sounds Better With You, Part One: Mixtape as Confessional

  25 June 2010 That is to say, we appreciate songs based on their capacity to mean something more for us than jus…

• On freedom

  12 June 2010 Freedom by itself has no practical use whatsoever, the recognition of which is our deliberate ch…

• Sex & the City 2

  07 June 2010 A movie most definitely for fans if not ex-regular viewers of the TV show (like me [although I wou…

• Point & Line #2: On Cartooning, Part Two

  23 May 2010 Ang Maskot chronicles a day in the life of an irate mascot for a local fast food place called McBi…

• Gutter Uncensored - Nailbiter and ∴i2.0

  20 May 2010 The komix’s only flaw is, alas, a very very very major one: Nailbiter suffers from utterly u…

• The Protest Poem as Pop Song: 'Tubthumping' by Chumbawamba

  13 May 2010 Local contemporary popular discussion dictates that its effectivity lies in its literariness, in a…

• Everything and more: Poetry 101 with the Beatles

  11 May 2010 The Beatles were, for the most part, background music, the soundtrack to a quiet and relatively un…

• This is a call

  01 May 2010 This impishly gleeful yes was impishly gleeful due to the proposition of being allowed a soapb…

• Point & Line #2 - On Cartooning, Part One

  30 April 2010 An example: it is what transforms a drawing of a frowning face dripping with sweat into a graphic …