Oh, its Lady Gaga and she's wearing a meat dress to the MTV Video Awards

photo from Nicola Formichetti

When you think she had ran out of ideas, when you think she has outdone herself enough and when you think that another of her shock-attacks would be much less corrupting than before, here is Lady Gaga, fabulous in a meat dress, wearing meat shoes, with bacon on top of her head and looking like she could use some more. The MTV Video Music awards was shaken.

She said it wasn't an insult to the vegetarians and that she had her own explanation with her ready-to-wear slaughter house but Ellen DeGeneres, a vegetarian, couldn't help but give her a vegetable bikini anyway.

In my opinion, it would be impossible that it was real meat. Although the sanity of Lady Gaga is questionable (who cares, she's a rare gem), I still believe she is hygienic and siding your body temperature with raw meat bites is really nasty and stinky, plus I don't believe that the Nokia Theater could have allowed her leaving bloodstains everywhere.

She won 8 awards. Eminem, the second biggest winner, took home only two awards. She's really about bringing the bacon here.

Forward, Backward

In the title, I have just outlined the method of the Philippine SWAT Team in handling extreme hostage-taking situations. Silly but its true and it is honestly painful to admit that that the people who are supposed to handle life-threatening situations are only armed with guns and an elementary dance step.

 

No matter how much I hoped that I will hear, see, feel none of the hostage taking, the media coverage was just impossible to ignore. Of course, being a Filipino, I had to react, not necessarily in defense of our country but in showing that I honor the gravity of the event.

First of all, I am not ashamed of being a Filipino. I have never been and I assume I will never be. I am only ashamed by our fondness with 'rude awakenings'. We wait for a bomb to explode before we decide on the budget for training a bomb disposal team. We like learning the hard way.

Of course, I detest the SWAT. I also hate the idea that there were at least a dozen brains who decided on the proceedings in the negotiations. I suggest they should have established a group that managed everything. If you let a lot of people to decide, you will only get confusion.

There is a lot to scrutinize about the whole ordeal but I am very tired and too stressed to even note the most obvious. Common sense will do it for you, I guess. (But it didn't for most of the authority.)

Follow-ups:

• During the final assault, 15 hostages were in the bus. 7 of them survived.
• The (fly)SWAT(tters) deployed tear gas and later realized they forgot their gas masks in their service vehicles. Genius!
  

Work it!

lol.

We play in style!

Introducing the new jersey of Paris pro rugby club, Stade Français, which unveiled its most recent merchandizing monstrosity ahead of the new French season's opener Aug. 14. The new shirt—one of three official game jerseys—has been dubbed “The Crowd”, and was described on the team's website as being “a tribute to all those who love Stade Français, notably its fans”. That obviously includes team owner Guazzini, too, since his likeness looms large among the assembled masses. (Were that not bad enough, Guazzini's avatar is positioned next to blonde chanteuse Dalida, who—to render the garment more tasteful—died in 1987, half a decade before Guazzini bought the then-obscure club).

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/11/a-paris-teams-shocking-new-uniforms-hardly-haute-couture/#ixzz0wM6UDiLm

No matter what you are, you will eventually give in to fashion. This could be the start of the crossroad of play fields and runways. Best jersey design awards will be soon up for grabs. 

Nuns swimming away the sunny season

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration announced yesterday that the rain season has set in.

After almost 2 months of boiling temperatures, the likes comparable only to hell, rainy season has finally set. As uncertain as humans are, I'm expecting complaints about rain and all the bad things it brings: the water-borne diseases, increase in water breeding vectors (like the ones that deliver dengue), the mud and the additional weight of an umbrella.

Above is a photo of nuns defeating the summer deadline in

an exclusive beach in Batangas.

Photo by Boy Santos. Published here.

I adore nuns for their self-discipline, poise and mysteriousness. Have you ever seen them enjoying the beach? Well, I haven't before this picture. Look at those ladies enjoying the natural blessings of their Master. Judging from the photo angle and cropping, this was a stolen shot. Naughty photographer.