The Better Bloom than Orlando

Unlike most comic lovers who are into superhero issues, my version of pleasure from this particular branch of the arts is this:


"Loose Tails", first collection of Bloom County strips

This is the door to the world of Bloom County, the only place in America where children have adult IQs, animals talk, and anxieties literally live in closets. This comic strip created by Pultizer-prized editorial cartoonist and journalism major Berke Breathed ran from 1980-1989. Because of its outdatedness, it's unusual for a girl who was born in the latter part of the 80s to take any interest in it. Breathed once said, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators." Well, his strips don't, at least for me.

Bloom County is not only funny, it is also satirical. It provides a witty social commentary seen through the lives of zany characters. Opus is a duck-billed penguin that gained considerable popularity roughly in the line of Garfield and Snoopy. Milo Bloom is a 10-year-old newspaper journalist who runs The Bloom Beacon. John Cutter is a Vietnam veteran and an anti-war protestor. The dumb, womanizing attorney Steve Dallas is the antagonist. My personal favorite and owner of the anxiety closet, Mike Binkley, is Milo's wishy-washy classmate who's obsessed with the lives of pop culture icons. Oliver is a wiz kid who has a long crime record for hacking into top-secret government sites.


Milo Bloom


a panel taken out of context

I'm currently saving up for a copy of the second Bloom County anthology entitled "Classics of Western Literature." After the two-week long hell of midterm exams, reading "Bloom County Babylon" (the first anthology) marks my liberation. Whoo.

credits to Wikipedia for the photos and facts.

The Shifting Scare

Scarier than a horror movie.

Here's the scenario:
Claire's thinking about it.
Absie's definitely going to do it if he gets unluckier.
Anjo was comparing Mass Comm courses' curricula the other day.
Elsie feels like journ is not for her. Broad Comm is.
Dana wants to paint, and she was just telling me that we should shift to Fine Arts. (Me, Fine Arts? Teehee.)
Mimi's applying for UP Cinema and having the time of her life.
Gem's so into sociology. She mentioned that she once considered shifting.
Jali wants to be a mermaid. Hihihi. Peace. =P
Lebanon and Israel are bombing each other.
Mayon Volcano is expected to blow.

What is happening to the world?

If we all end up out of BA Journalism, we're dead. It's the end of the famous block K-5. It's the end of our ha-ha-ha plans to establish a journalistic magazine that we're going to entitle K-5, whatever that means. It's the end of our press freedom conversations over lunch and whatnots. End, end, end.

BUT mark my words: I would never shift out of BA Journalism. Ever. Unless of course I flunk my major subjects or my entire college launches a hate campaign against me or I fall from a 30-ft wall because of a defective harness or my family becomes bankrupt.

These are the knock-on-wood worthy scenarios that could kick me out of my course. Plus many more, of course, but they're too dark and gory to blog and think about.

I know I always tell people that Film is my dream course and I might shift if I lose my interest in journ. C'mon, it's one of my little white lies. It's just my way of saying "Oh, I love film so much but I will never ever ever shift out of journ because it's virtually impossible that I will lose interest and swearword."

It's Red Shirt Day on Monday, folks. Join me in protest against journ majors who are thinking about shifting, unless they really really super mega really think journ is not for them - like one person I know. Hmmm ...

Kate sa Kamiseta

At nawawala si Natalie.

Nakakainis kaya. Hindi ko na siya makita sa may Philcoa, sa malls, at hindi maglalaon, pati na rin sa mga paperbags.

Si Natalie ang nagpasikat ng Kamiseta. Oo nga, nauna sa kanya si Alicia Silverstone at ang Cojuangco sisters na wala din naman masyadong naidulot sa clothing line. Pero noong si Natalie na ang modelo, kahit na ako na walang kasyang damit sa Kamiseta, bumibili. (Pag sale lang ha, sayang kasi).



Wala na kong aabangan kapag nakasakay ako sa kotse at nakatingin sa billboards. Wala na kong first stop sa malls. Magiging luma na ang mga Natalie paperbags ko. Kahit na ba minsan, hindi maganda ang pagkaka-photograph sa kanya para sa Kamiseta, ayos lang.

Matagal ko nang sinasabi na si Kate Hudson ang mayroong perfect smile. Pero hindi ito sapat para maconvince ako ng mga Roque (may-ari ng Kamiseta) na bumili ng damit sa kanila. Masyadong dilaw ang buhok ni Kate Hudson.