Man On A Street

"All art aspires to the condition of music." ~Walter Pater

One of my housemates (and two of my teammates) just returned from a five-day escapade to Palawan. As presents, she gave us fish-shaped wooden keychains and a bag of tarts. Thanks. Yep, i've tasted ones from Davao, Bacolod, Baybay . . . almost as if . . . whenever a place campaigns to make itself a tourist haven, its native delicacies invariably get supplemented by tarts. . . . I meant the food.

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." -- Charles Bukowski, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man"

Noted down two years ago: "If you're going to be sarcastic, it helps not to put your foot in your mouth. And if you're going to be snobbish, it helps to know at least the basics about what you're being stuck-up about." -- Guppy06 diwancioNO@SPAMearthlink.net

In Nobeoka City (Miyazaki Prefecture), old women shamans are called Totoro no Babayan . In ancient Philippines, priestesses/women shamans (and when these were in short supply, their male crossdressing substitutes) were called Babaylan .

Some people need to cling to their illusions more than others...