Tuesday, September 4, 2007
On Dingdong's teats
Photos of Dingdong published in Cosmo magazine [left] and in www.pep.ph
Thanks to reader shenn eouirwe [pwetblaster@yahoo.com] for pointing this out. Poor Dingdong Dantes. He is being nipped big-time due to his decision to pose nekkid for Cosmo. Pep.ph ran a story about Dingdong Dantes being excited in his Cosmo runway appearance tomorrow. It seems the most read online Filipino entertainment magazine did not fully edit the photo in accord with Cosmo's original print of Dingdong. Or was it intended to be that way? Just the same, Dingdong is still hot and handsome in the photos. People are now getting curiouser and curiouser with his nips. Will he go shirtless tomorrow night at the NBC Tent?
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Dingdong Dantes on CosmoMen!
Gone are the baby fats and the supposed gynecomastia [firm breast tissues in males] recklessly generated by some websites. Now Jose Sixto Gonzales Dantes III or Dingdong Dantes in showbiz has bravely posed butt-naked for Cosmopolitan [Philippines] Magazine's CosmoMen edition featuring the annual 69 "eligible" bachelors [this year, the gay guys outnumber the straight ones!]. Dingdong Dantes is truly living up to his role as the sexy shirtless Sergio Santibanez on GMA 7's Filipino version of Marimar. This time around the 26-year old actor has agreed to be photographed bare-skinned in the forest. And it shivers us timbers!
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Marimar Again on TV [plus Jestoni Alarcon]
When I was younger, I needed something to be obsessed over so I turned to the soaps on local channel tv. I'm thinking about it now, and the only reason I can validate is that probably I needed something to satisfy my closet drama queen - ego. I remember watching the Judy Anns and Claudines slugging Life out in the celluloid closet full of intrigues, backstabbing, cliches, and a despicable actor who went by the name of Gladys. My friends whose idea of a soap would have to be Days of our Lives or General Hospital back then, seriously snubbed Filipino tear-jerker soaps, so I naturally kept things to myself [except to our eager-beaver maid at the time] - anticipating the next episodes with a certain thrill. Then came the Mexican soap Marimar, which introduced the concept of a fast-paced telenovela to Filipino audiences. It was a phenomenal hit, as everyone went apeshit over the show - even my friends. That was ages ago. Recently, with my obsession over soaps a thing of the past, GMA 7 once again revived Marimar and made it a Filipino-language-and -cast show. I watched the pilot episode out of interest, and saw that it was, say, good - with a Spanish mestiza in the lead [Marian Rivera] and a miscast Sergio [Dingdong Dantes]. And of course, the father of Marimar there is played by the dishy Jestoni Alarcon [photos above]. Despite his age, Jestoni is still eye-candy, and an awesome actor. Now, if only I can snap out of this soap-opera neurosis again. Darn.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
models in hot
.... out to be a student. When Andrew Wolff came back from the UK [where his family is based] in March 2007, he declared during the press conference for a glutathione product that the reason his father allowed him to go home to Manila was his plan to finish school. He proudly stated in one news report that his studies will be "his top priority" and that he can "give up modeling if needed." He even confided to the movie press then that he wasn't "too keen on a career in showbusiness." Now, it looks like showbiz and modeling still top Andrew Wolff's to-do list in Manila. Reports have it that he is entering the Big Brother house soon - enough to disrupt the placid lives of the other model-housemates who entered the big house last weekend.
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Labels: Andrew Wolff, Big Brother
Bursting at the Seams: Arvin Macu
The Gay Pride flag boy's name is Arvin Macu, a freelance model from Olongapo City. He has appeared in fashion shows and ads with best buddy Jeffrey Surio. The 24-year old stud, who was recently named in the Mr. and Ms. Body Shots 2007 as the Photographers' Choice Awardee, also appeared at the Cosmo Air 69 Bachelors' Bash held recently [second photo].
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Labels: Arvin Macu, CosmoMen, male models
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Piping Hot: Tyrone Bautista
Between the pipes is nineteen-year old Tyrone Bautista, a Criminology student from Marikina. He has appeared in bit roles in GMA 7's Magpakailanman, Now and Forever, and Majika. He says he loves hanging out in bars at night, wants to join the police force, and yearns to be an actor someday.
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Labels: Tyrone Bautista, Valentino magazine
Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 hunks
William Devaughn is one of the hunks who just entered the Pinoy Big Brother house last night for the reality show's Celebrity Edition 2. Dubbed by the cheesy writers of the show as "True Lover", Will’s chosen charity is the Brave Kids Foundation, which helps kids with cancer. Now that he has chosen to enter the Big Brother house, does it mean that he has totally abandoned the "Dagaw" movie project with GMA Films? Will was originally cast in the thriller, as he was present during the story conference.
Okay, here's the official tag for Victor Basa in the PBB Celeb Edition 2: The Lonely Dreamboy. Victor Basa just can't seem to break into the Sam Milby heartthrob mold, despite exposures in a teen show on ABS CBN. Here's hoping the pouty former male model gets his star brighter this time. Victor’s chosen charity is the Ahon sa Kalye Ministries Inc. that helps street children.
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Labels: Victor Basa, William Devaughn
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Jake Cuenca is the new Palos
With photos sent in by the mysterious harrychuachika [no more Harry pics?] , crotch-clutcher Jake Cuenca is the new Palos, the 60's komiks character popularized by Bernard Bonnin. Palos is an adaptation of the Alyas Palos franchise of LVN Pictures, where the main character was a slippery Jame Bond-like mercenary with state-of-the-art skills.
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Happy Birthday!
Leandro Baldemor
Happy Birthday, J.!May you have a good one. I didn't forget, although I may not have given a proper greeting over the phone.I wish you the best for this upcoming year! I'm confident you'll reach your goals. Just try to focus more on the positive rather than the negative. :) I will see you soon in December!
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Johnron's video Hubad is out
Johnron Tanada's video, Hubad: Striptease Sessions for Daring Men is now out in retail stores. The video, which comes in DVD and VCD format was released without much publicity. I haven't seen the video yet but mallrats who were able to buy a copy of the feature immediately upon being stacked in store shelves, swear by Johnron's sexy dance numbers in, of course, scant clothing. Johnron appears with other dancers in the movie.
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Labels: Hubad, Johnron Tanada
The Kill Bill moment
Model is Errol Iglesias, 25, freelance model.
At a tony bar last night, my friend and I couldn't get a decent swig out of our bottles, largely due to the fact there were oodles of good-looking boys and we had to stare. Thing is, they had girlfriends with them - girls who felt special and twisty and girly because they are in the company of clear-faced cute boys. Suddenly, bored friend goes loose with his gayspeak: "This is the perfect Kill Bill moment." Turns out, "Kill Bill" is supposed to mean "Kill the bilat" - ice the bitch and lech for the hunk. I'm not so sure if such term is being used these days, as it was my first time to hear it, although my catty friend assured me that he heard it long ago from his older friends. Anyhow, as we rattled off other funny Pinoy gayspeak phrases, we had wicked fun last night.
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Peter Ho for Bench
This is the Man-In-A-Philippine-Brand post. That's 32-year old Chinese actor and singer Ho Yun Tung aka Peter Ho modeling for Bench Body underwear. Born in the USA and educated in Canada, Peter Ho's most memorable film was in the Oscar Best Foreign Film for 2001, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He has been a Bench endorser in China for 3 years now, where the Philippine brand has over 20 stores.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
The naked worker
Arnel Valencia is the hunky construction worker who will make you sweat. He is twenty-three years old, a freelance model and a former business management student. This 5'9" -tall stud has also been previously seen in summer bikini pageants wearing regulation itsy bitsy teeny weenie wiener holders.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Martin Jickain scuttlebutt
1. At the Quezon City Hall last Monday, the parking boys [and onlookers] were in a frenzy. Martin Jickain's estranged wife was giving away his shoes - lots of them - as contained in one of the councilor's service trucks. Most of the shoes were sneakers and trainers, and the parking boys and city hall personnel were just too happy to have 'em shoes worn by the cute model.2. At the Chika Mo Chika Ko show [6-7 pm, Saturdays at UNTV Channel 21 on Sky and Channel 99 on Destiny], the funny hosts were rattling off a blind item about a recently-separated male model who went back to his relationship with the tv director-boyfriend. Of course, there are no blind items in the show as the hosts eventually name the subjects. The hosts identified the male model and the director of the morning show Sis on GMA 7. Hilarious show. You should watch it guys.
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Labels: male models, Martin Jickain
Mike Tan in X-Ray Calendar!
Hot and hairy Mike Tan [Jan Michael S. Tan in the real world] is droolworthy in the 2008 X-Ray Calendar Magazine, as he gets caught in brassy poses in numerous spreads. To see more of the 20-year-old winner of GMA 7's Starstruck 2 , grab a copy of the calendar magazine at CV Magazines in Landmark Makati or at any Booksale outlet in the metro. For those embarrassed to buy a large calendar [it is the size of two ordinary magazines put side by side] with naked men, the friendly staff at CV Magazines in Landmark can cover it up for you in plain paper, or Booksale personnel can discreetly wrap it in two white plastic bags.
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Labels: actors, Mike Tan, X-Ray Magazine
At play...
That's nudist Harold Montano again, reveling under the naked sun. I'm wondering whatever happened to his exploitation case with GMA 7? He [and his cohort, the other naked guy] did not gain fame or even notoriety from that gambol, one thing's for sure. I don't see him in the indie-digital flicks being produced these days. Not even in the runways of bikinidom, sleaze and all. Nevertheless, let's just hope [assuming there are people out there who terribly relish this guy] that his daring posturing will eventually make him famous, however fleeting.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Get you love drunk off my hump!
Michael Mico Patdo seems to be humming "my hump, my hump, my humps they got you." Taken at an underwear show where it is customary to rise to the occasion, photo shows Mai Patdo, a 22-year-old freelance model and nurse by profession. He graduated from the University of Perpetual Help in Manila and was a former Mr. University of Baguio in 2003.
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Monday, October 8, 2007
Rico Lazaro doubles for Piolo Pascual
Last July, I had a post on a Piolo Pascual doppelgänger by the name of Rico Lazaro. He was at the Mister Philippines contest where host Angel Aquino addressed him as Mr. Piolo. Turns out, the good-looking winner of the Mr. Young Philippines-World 2005 is making full use of his physical alikeness with the superstar heartthrob. He was the double of Piolo Pascual in his indie movie Chopsuey, which was shown recently. Rico Lazaro admits that his resemblance to the actor is his main ticket to showbiz. He is now starring as the lead actor in the movie Kapatiran [Hazing] by Artist Entertainment Works International. Now, if only there's a Sam Milby clone out there, the Heartthrobs duo would be complete.
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Bursting at the Seams: Arvin Macu
The Gay Pride flag boy's name is Arvin Macu, a freelance model from Olongapo City. He has appeared in fashion shows and ads with best buddy Jeffrey Surio. The 24-year old stud, who was recently named in the Mr. and Ms. Body Shots 2007 as the Photographers' Choice Awardee, also appeared at the Cosmo Air 69 Bachelors' Bash held recently [second photo].
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Labels: Arvin Macu, CosmoMen, male models
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Piping Hot: Tyrone Bautista
Between the pipes is nineteen-year old Tyrone Bautista, a Criminology student from Marikina. He has appeared in bit roles in GMA 7's Magpakailanman, Now and Forever, and Majika. He says he loves hanging out in bars at night, wants to join the police force, and yearns to be an actor someday.
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Labels: Tyrone Bautista, Valentino magazine
Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 hunks
William Devaughn is one of the hunks who just entered the Pinoy Big Brother house last night for the reality show's Celebrity Edition 2. Dubbed by the cheesy writers of the show as "True Lover", Will’s chosen charity is the Brave Kids Foundation, which helps kids with cancer. Now that he has chosen to enter the Big Brother house, does it mean that he has totally abandoned the "Dagaw" movie project with GMA Films? Will was originally cast in the thriller, as he was present during the story conference.
Okay, here's the official tag for Victor Basa in the PBB Celeb Edition 2: The Lonely Dreamboy. Victor Basa just can't seem to break into the Sam Milby heartthrob mold, despite exposures in a teen show on ABS CBN. Here's hoping the pouty former male model gets his star brighter this time. Victor’s chosen charity is the Ahon sa Kalye Ministries Inc. that helps street children.
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Labels: Victor Basa, William Devaughn
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Jake Cuenca is the new Palos
With photos sent in by the mysterious harrychuachika [no more Harry pics?] , crotch-clutcher Jake Cuenca is the new Palos, the 60's komiks character popularized by Bernard Bonnin. Palos is an adaptation of the Alyas Palos franchise of LVN Pictures, where the main character was a slippery Jame Bond-like mercenary with state-of-the-art skills.
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Labels: actors, Jake Cuenca
Happy Birthday!
Leandro Baldemor
Happy Birthday, J.!May you have a good one. I didn't forget, although I may not have given a proper greeting over the phone.I wish you the best for this upcoming year! I'm confident you'll reach your goals. Just try to focus more on the positive rather than the negative. :) I will see you soon in December!
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Johnron's video Hubad is out
Johnron Tanada's video, Hubad: Striptease Sessions for Daring Men is now out in retail stores. The video, which comes in DVD and VCD format was released without much publicity. I haven't seen the video yet but mallrats who were able to buy a copy of the feature immediately upon being stacked in store shelves, swear by Johnron's sexy dance numbers in, of course, scant clothing. Johnron appears with other dancers in the movie.
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Labels: Hubad, Johnron Tanada
The Kill Bill moment
Model is Errol Iglesias, 25, freelance model.
At a tony bar last night, my friend and I couldn't get a decent swig out of our bottles, largely due to the fact there were oodles of good-looking boys and we had to stare. Thing is, they had girlfriends with them - girls who felt special and twisty and girly because they are in the company of clear-faced cute boys. Suddenly, bored friend goes loose with his gayspeak: "This is the perfect Kill Bill moment." Turns out, "Kill Bill" is supposed to mean "Kill the bilat" - ice the bitch and lech for the hunk. I'm not so sure if such term is being used these days, as it was my first time to hear it, although my catty friend assured me that he heard it long ago from his older friends. Anyhow, as we rattled off other funny Pinoy gayspeak phrases, we had wicked fun last night.
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Labels: Errol Iglesias
Peter Ho for Bench
This is the Man-In-A-Philippine-Brand post. That's 32-year old Chinese actor and singer Ho Yun Tung aka Peter Ho modeling for Bench Body underwear. Born in the USA and educated in Canada, Peter Ho's most memorable film was in the Oscar Best Foreign Film for 2001, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He has been a Bench endorser in China for 3 years now, where the Philippine brand has over 20 stores.
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Labels: Bench, Peter Ho
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The naked worker
Arnel Valencia is the hunky construction worker who will make you sweat. He is twenty-three years old, a freelance model and a former business management student. This 5'9" -tall stud has also been previously seen in summer bikini pageants wearing regulation itsy bitsy teeny weenie wiener holders.
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Labels: Arnel Valencia
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Martin Jickain scuttlebutt
1. At the Quezon City Hall last Monday, the parking boys [and onlookers] were in a frenzy. Martin Jickain's estranged wife was giving away his shoes - lots of them - as contained in one of the councilor's service trucks. Most of the shoes were sneakers and trainers, and the parking boys and city hall personnel were just too happy to have 'em shoes worn by the cute model.2. At the Chika Mo Chika Ko show [6-7 pm, Saturdays at UNTV Channel 21 on Sky and Channel 99 on Destiny], the funny hosts were rattling off a blind item about a recently-separated male model who went back to his relationship with the tv director-boyfriend. Of course, there are no blind items in the show as the hosts eventually name the subjects. The hosts identified the male model and the director of the morning show Sis on GMA 7. Hilarious show. You should watch it guys.
Posted by rddantes at 10:26 PM 13 comments Links to this post
Labels: male models, Martin Jickain
Mike Tan in X-Ray Calendar!
Hot and hairy Mike Tan [Jan Michael S. Tan in the real world] is droolworthy in the 2008 X-Ray Calendar Magazine, as he gets caught in brassy poses in numerous spreads. To see more of the 20-year-old winner of GMA 7's Starstruck 2 , grab a copy of the calendar magazine at CV Magazines in Landmark Makati or at any Booksale outlet in the metro. For those embarrassed to buy a large calendar [it is the size of two ordinary magazines put side by side] with naked men, the friendly staff at CV Magazines in Landmark can cover it up for you in plain paper, or Booksale personnel can discreetly wrap it in two white plastic bags.
Posted by rddantes at 3:45 AM 17 comments Links to this post
Labels: actors, Mike Tan, X-Ray Magazine
At play...
That's nudist Harold Montano again, reveling under the naked sun. I'm wondering whatever happened to his exploitation case with GMA 7? He [and his cohort, the other naked guy] did not gain fame or even notoriety from that gambol, one thing's for sure. I don't see him in the indie-digital flicks being produced these days. Not even in the runways of bikinidom, sleaze and all. Nevertheless, let's just hope [assuming there are people out there who terribly relish this guy] that his daring posturing will eventually make him famous, however fleeting.
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Labels: Harold Montano
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Get you love drunk off my hump!
Michael Mico Patdo seems to be humming "my hump, my hump, my humps they got you." Taken at an underwear show where it is customary to rise to the occasion, photo shows Mai Patdo, a 22-year-old freelance model and nurse by profession. He graduated from the University of Perpetual Help in Manila and was a former Mr. University of Baguio in 2003.
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Labels: Michael Mico Patdo
Monday, October 8, 2007
Rico Lazaro doubles for Piolo Pascual
Last July, I had a post on a Piolo Pascual doppelgänger by the name of Rico Lazaro. He was at the Mister Philippines contest where host Angel Aquino addressed him as Mr. Piolo. Turns out, the good-looking winner of the Mr. Young Philippines-World 2005 is making full use of his physical alikeness with the superstar heartthrob. He was the double of Piolo Pascual in his indie movie Chopsuey, which was shown recently. Rico Lazaro admits that his resemblance to the actor is his main ticket to showbiz. He is now starring as the lead actor in the movie Kapatiran [Hazing] by Artist Entertainment Works International. Now, if only there's a Sam Milby clone out there, the Heartthrobs duo would be complete.
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what am i supposed to believe. . .
I came across this website about “Locus of Control” that concerns our attitudes about what control we believe we have over our life circumstances. The definition of the term is “Your Locus of Control is based on your belief of whether your actions, or outside influences, have a greater bearing on the outcome of your actions.”Overall, I believe that my own actions have more bearing than other influences on the outcome of my actions. Because I do not hold with black-and-white thinking, I would not hold myself 100% responsible for everything that could be linked to my behaviour in a situation. If I say something sarcastic to my husband, he will be annoyed and perhaps hurt. I would consider myself 100% responsible for his negative emotional state if he had been in a good mood before my comment. If he had already been in a somewhat sour mood, then I would hold myself at least 50% responsible for his emotional state. If he then leaves the apartment and gets hit by a cyclist crossing the street, I would hold myself partially responsible for my husband’s action of leaving the apartment but not at all responsible for the carelessness of the cyclist. Perhaps the cyclist was having a bad day and was not focused on what he was doing. I would not hold myself responsible for any of his stuff or the results from any of his actions. The extent to which I hold myself responsible for the outcomes of my actions would depend on how closely related the specific outcome was to the action, and to what degree I expected the reaction. I read about “the law of 26” which states that for every action, there is one expected result and 26 unexpected ones. I would hold myself far more responsible for the expected one and less responsible for the unexpected ones. Hopefully I would learn something from those results that I did not anticipate.Your attribution style is who you hold responsible for the outcomes of your actions.If there were five separate outcomes could be linked to my specific behaviour in a particular situation, and I could have known beforehand what three of those five would be, I would hold myself 100% responsible for those three outcomes. If I later (with help from others) I was able to fully link the two other outcomes to my actions, I would also hold myself 100% responsible for those two outcomes. If another person’s reaction to my behaviour results in another set of outcomes, I consider that person mostly responsible and myself partially so as in the example above. It is important to consider all elements of a situation. Also, it is not particularly useful to cast blame even at oneself. Admitting a wrongdoing, making an amend and learning from it is more productive. The amend requires more than an apology; it requires one’s very best effort not to repeat the offensive behaviour. There are times when a mistake is unavoidable. Perhaps the employee was not sufficiently trained or experienced to perform a task with no errors. Perhaps the instructions were open to more than one interpretation. Perhaps the person receiving the instructions felt too intimidated to request clarification or had been trained by early life experience not to ask questions so as not to appear stupid.Concerning the importance of our locus of control, the author said: “Your Locus of Control has a great bearing on one's self-esteem, problem solving, stress, expectations, and motivations.”If I believe that all the results in my life depends on what others do or what happens around me, I will always be stressed and expecting the worst to happen. I would have no motivation to make any effort to solve problems and would expect my problems to multiply. If I didn’t believe that I could solve problems or have any impact on the events in my life, my self-esteem would be very low.On the other hand, if I believe that I can make wise choices today that will have a significant positive impact on my tomorrow, I will feel empowered, confident and competent. I would also believe that my wise lifestyle habits practiced today would prevent disease. I would feel in total control of everything in my life.In this article, the author asks us to consider this question: “Who controls what we do?”We control what we do but there are many other influences involved. The question isn’t about control but about freedom. How truly free are we in the choices we make? To what extent is our action dictated by impulses formed by our subconscious mind or a reflex-response to a situation? If a choice we make is dictated by messages buried in our subconscious mind and we take action in an automatic thoughtless fashion, we are just as responsible for the outcomes of that choice as we would be if we made the choice to act with full awareness. The difference is that if we had such total awareness, we might not make that particular choice and thus would not have to suffer those specific consequences. No matter what lies behind my choice, I am the one making it.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
How I get blocked and what I find works
I often feel that I have absolutely nothing to say that is new or any unique way of saying what is old. No story that enters my head is ever new and since I’m so much of a hermit and with limited vision, I don’t really observe people or have the fascination with them that a fiction writer needs. I usually think that there is nothing I could say that would be at all interesting to anyone. But like any other human being, I have this need to be heard, even if it’s only a piece of paper or a white word processing screen that will listen.It’s not that I can’t think of anything to write about or that there are no ideas. There are usually too many ideas spilling over themselves inside and I can’t settle on any one of them. I have lots of books or online sources for writing prompts and that is part of the trouble. I can’t choose one.I find that I am less “dry” if I will just let myself write without worrying about the content or form of it – to do “brain drain” writing that Julia Cameron speaks of in her book “Artist’s Way”. Sometimes I vary how I write. If I’ve been using a keyboard a lot then I’ll use pen and paper, usually blank paper so the lines don’t “box me in”. Sometimes I’ll write in different colours.I have a wealth of resources to help me with writing but I go through phases where they sit on the shelf and I can’t decide whether I want to write fiction (usually flash fiction that doesn’t need a detailed plot or well developed characters) or non-fiction. Lately, I’ve little interest in fiction but non-fiction is pretty big too. Even when I think of devotional writing, that is also huge so I find it hard to choose one specific topic and that will block me as much as having no ideas at all. I’m like a child who gets tired, restless and irritable because there are just too many new toys in the babysitter’s playroom and she doesn’t know how to choose what to play with.The only remedy that I’ve found to writer’s block is to “tip the block over” and write. Write anything at all. Even if I start by writing: “I have nothing to say… I don’t know what to write about…” and writing one of these phrases whenever I get stuck. Just keep the pen moving or the fingers tapping. Actually, this works better with pen in hand in my experience. I just write what words come into my head. J. Cameron suggests writing 3 pages every day using this method. Guess it clears out the “sludge” that blocks us and shows us what is really going on in our heads.When I first heard about “The Daily Writing Challenge” contest at WDC, I thought there’s no way I can do this now. Then I saw the “500 Words-a-Day” contest and thought it was easier but more than I could do but I really wanted something to get me writing every day. So I created a private book item and made it a blog and I called it “The 200 Words-a-Day Challenge”. I was doing it for about 10 days before we went on vacation with no internet and no regular routine. It was after a few days of being home that I revisited the page for the “500 Words-a-Day” and decided to do it. That was on Sept 15th and I’ve only missed two days. When I’d rather eat junk food than write, I know something is “eating me” and what I really need to do is WRITE! I have a clipboard and I pasted a sheet on it that says: “Write DAILY no matter what. Just WRITE, WRITE, WRITE!!!” If I’m not writing then something is wrong in my inner world.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
A new adventure
It is so easy to start new things. I have tried to give much more thought before starting something than I used to. I'm not nearly as impulsive as I used to be and I am really making a strong effort to finish projects that I've started; one was started about 3 years ago and the other I started at least 15 years ago.Writing is important to me. I have recently began (there's that word again!) to participate in a contest at http://www.writing.com/ where the goal is to write 500 words each day. I started on Sept 17th and only missed one day. I want to write every day and the more reasons I have to do that, the more likely it is that I will do it. I've been reading about blogs and I've read a few blog entries. There are so many types and so many ways to keep one. This definitely will not have a single theme or purpose. One day I might keep one like that if I find something important enough to me.I am interested in so many things and I have dabbled but not gone into depth in most of them. I'm not sure how many of them that I will write about in this blog. I'd like to write short devotions or reflections on things that I read about or listen to. I'm not as inclined to write fiction as I used to be and not at all inclined to write poetry, especially not with meter and rhyme!
These entries won't be journal entries. That's not to say they won't be personal, they will. However, I want each entry here to have it's own theme. I don't really expect much response since there are probably millions of blogs out there. How does one find the golden needle in the haystack. Titles of entries could sound intriguing but be boring, or just not what you're in the mood to read. Where does one start in looking for a blog that suits their interest and style?
It seems that the ideal blog gets a new entry daily. I hope to create a weekly or perhaps a semi-weekly one. I will at the very least post two or three entries each month. There's no point in promising (even just to myself) something that I know I could not maintain. There would be no benefit whatever to doing that. I would betray the expectation of anyone who visited this blog and actually enjoyed it. More important, I would betray myself. I've already done that far too many times. I don't intend to do it anymore. It destroys my self-respect. I don't promise that what I put here will be something recent (as required for the 500 words contest) but it will be original and it will be something I've written. It will hopefully be interesting to at least a few who visit here.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
How I get blocked and what I find works
I often feel that I have absolutely nothing to say that is new or any unique way of saying what is old. No story that enters my head is ever new and since I’m so much of a hermit and with limited vision, I don’t really observe people or have the fascination with them that a fiction writer needs. I usually think that there is nothing I could say that would be at all interesting to anyone. But like any other human being, I have this need to be heard, even if it’s only a piece of paper or a white word processing screen that will listen.It’s not that I can’t think of anything to write about or that there are no ideas. There are usually too many ideas spilling over themselves inside and I can’t settle on any one of them. I have lots of books or online sources for writing prompts and that is part of the trouble. I can’t choose one.I find that I am less “dry” if I will just let myself write without worrying about the content or form of it – to do “brain drain” writing that Julia Cameron speaks of in her book “Artist’s Way”. Sometimes I vary how I write. If I’ve been using a keyboard a lot then I’ll use pen and paper, usually blank paper so the lines don’t “box me in”. Sometimes I’ll write in different colours.I have a wealth of resources to help me with writing but I go through phases where they sit on the shelf and I can’t decide whether I want to write fiction (usually flash fiction that doesn’t need a detailed plot or well developed characters) or non-fiction. Lately, I’ve little interest in fiction but non-fiction is pretty big too. Even when I think of devotional writing, that is also huge so I find it hard to choose one specific topic and that will block me as much as having no ideas at all. I’m like a child who gets tired, restless and irritable because there are just too many new toys in the babysitter’s playroom and she doesn’t know how to choose what to play with.The only remedy that I’ve found to writer’s block is to “tip the block over” and write. Write anything at all. Even if I start by writing: “I have nothing to say… I don’t know what to write about…” and writing one of these phrases whenever I get stuck. Just keep the pen moving or the fingers tapping. Actually, this works better with pen in hand in my experience. I just write what words come into my head. J. Cameron suggests writing 3 pages every day using this method. Guess it clears out the “sludge” that blocks us and shows us what is really going on in our heads.When I first heard about “The Daily Writing Challenge” contest at WDC, I thought there’s no way I can do this now. Then I saw the “500 Words-a-Day” contest and thought it was easier but more than I could do but I really wanted something to get me writing every day. So I created a private book item and made it a blog and I called it “The 200 Words-a-Day Challenge”. I was doing it for about 10 days before we went on vacation with no internet and no regular routine. It was after a few days of being home that I revisited the page for the “500 Words-a-Day” and decided to do it. That was on Sept 15th and I’ve only missed two days. When I’d rather eat junk food than write, I know something is “eating me” and what I really need to do is WRITE! I have a clipboard and I pasted a sheet on it that says: “Write DAILY no matter what. Just WRITE, WRITE, WRITE!!!” If I’m not writing then something is wrong in my inner world.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
A new adventure
It is so easy to start new things. I have tried to give much more thought before starting something than I used to. I'm not nearly as impulsive as I used to be and I am really making a strong effort to finish projects that I've started; one was started about 3 years ago and the other I started at least 15 years ago.Writing is important to me. I have recently began (there's that word again!) to participate in a contest at http://www.writing.com/ where the goal is to write 500 words each day. I started on Sept 17th and only missed one day. I want to write every day and the more reasons I have to do that, the more likely it is that I will do it. I've been reading about blogs and I've read a few blog entries. There are so many types and so many ways to keep one. This definitely will not have a single theme or purpose. One day I might keep one like that if I find something important enough to me.I am interested in so many things and I have dabbled but not gone into depth in most of them. I'm not sure how many of them that I will write about in this blog. I'd like to write short devotions or reflections on things that I read about or listen to. I'm not as inclined to write fiction as I used to be and not at all inclined to write poetry, especially not with meter and rhyme!
These entries won't be journal entries. That's not to say they won't be personal, they will. However, I want each entry here to have it's own theme. I don't really expect much response since there are probably millions of blogs out there. How does one find the golden needle in the haystack. Titles of entries could sound intriguing but be boring, or just not what you're in the mood to read. Where does one start in looking for a blog that suits their interest and style?
It seems that the ideal blog gets a new entry daily. I hope to create a weekly or perhaps a semi-weekly one. I will at the very least post two or three entries each month. There's no point in promising (even just to myself) something that I know I could not maintain. There would be no benefit whatever to doing that. I would betray the expectation of anyone who visited this blog and actually enjoyed it. More important, I would betray myself. I've already done that far too many times. I don't intend to do it anymore. It destroys my self-respect. I don't promise that what I put here will be something recent (as required for the 500 words contest) but it will be original and it will be something I've written. It will hopefully be interesting to at least a few who visit here.
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DENNIS TRILLO BECOMES A FATHER?
THINKING THAT DENNIS TRILLO IS A HOT GUY AND A MODEL, IT IS VERY SHOCKING HTAT HE JUST BECOME A FATHER, AND ALSO, IN PUBLICIZED ISSUE OF YHIS, HE IS VERY CALM, THAT'S HIM....
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