Trese Night Gallery, the first one-man show of Trese artist Kajo Baldisimo, runs from 22 October to 3 November, 2013 at the Crucible Gallery, 4th F, SM Megamall.
On Saturday, 26 October, Kajo and Trese writer Budjette Tan launch Trese: Book of Murders, a 360-page hardcover collector’s edition compiling the first 13 Trese stories with digitally-updated artwork and new short stories. Cover price: P950.00. Autograph signing starts at 6pm.
Therese dreaming by Balthus, 1938
Everybody thinks about sex; the question is, how often? Is it possible to think about sex too much? (What is “too much”?) Is it possible to not think about sex at all?
Around the time we declared independence from our parents and moved into a place of our own, we turned on the TV late one night and discovered the woman who has the answers. With her high intelligence and erudition, her direct manner, her colored contact lenses and decolletage, and her absolute refusal to treat sexuality as a subject “not suitable for polite company”, she helped to liberate us from our silly, giggly notions about love and relationships.
On Tuesday we’re doing a podcast with the famed psychiatrist and human sexuality expert, Dr. Agnes Bueno. We’re tackling everything you’ve always wanted to know about sex but didn’t know whom to ask (or were afraid to ask for fear of being judged and condemned as a maniac). So post your questions for Dr. Bueno in Comments, and we’ll try to cram them all into the podcast next week. Don’t be embarrassed; she won’t be.
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The 50 Shades of Grey books being devoid of literary value, does their use as masturbation helpers for the creatively-challenged justify their existence?
Could you recommend some good erotica?
Which fictional couples (from novels, movies and TV) would you say have healthy relationships?
Why do some people insist on staying in abusive relationships? Do they feel they deserve the abuse? Get their kicks from being abused?
Is Freud still relevant to the times?
Is monogamy natural and possible, or are people kidding ourselves?
The Church of San Pedro in Loboc, Bohol. AFP photo from InterAksyon.
I suggest that our architecture and engineering schools require their students to do their practicum at the Bohol and Cebu church sites. Let them get their hands dirty. You can’t get any more practical than that. These are the people who aspire to build dwellings and public spaces for human beings: now they can learn from the old ways, and perhaps suggest improvements to the structures. Students from all disciplines who wish to volunteer in the rebuilding should be made welcome. Get out into the world, see all the stuff you’ve heard about in lectures, live. Of course, experts would oversee the rebuilding and ensure that the work is done correctly, but this massive undertaking needs as many hands as it can get.
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark at her “dancing lessons” in Season 1.
…nowhere is the unexpected subversive energy of A Song of Ice and Fire more in evidence than in its treatment of its female characters—the element that has provoked the strongest controversy in discussions of the HBO adaptation.2
Almost from the start, Martin weaves a bright feminist thread into his grand tapestry. It begins early on in the first book, when he introduces the two Stark daughters. The eldest, Sansa, is an auburn-haired beauty who loves reading courtly romances, does perfect needlework, and always dresses beautifully; in striking contrast to this conventional young woman is the “horsefaced” younger daughter, Arya, who hates petit point and would rather learn how to wield a sword. (Later on, she gets a sword that she sardonically names “Needle”: she too, as we will see, plays for keeps.) At one point early in the first novel Arya asks her father whether she can grow up to “be a king’s councilor and build castles”; he replies that she will “marry a king and rule his castle.” The canny girl viciously retorts, “No, that’s Sansa.”
Read The Women and the Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn in the NYRB.
The door is inside the shop.
We spend so much time in shopping malls that during last week’s holiday, we decided to take a holiday from the malls as well. First we had lunch at Seryna in Little Tokyo. The food was good, as always, but the usually reliable service failed and Victor’s order (bento) took an hour to arrive. Well, maybe they just hated him. Happy Birthday, Victor!
From our experience, Japanese restaurants tend to have limited dessert options. After they’ve served your wee portions of fresh fruit, what else is there? We racked our brains for non-mall coffee-and-dessert options in Makati. Chocolatier on Jupiter? Happy Cream Puff on Malugay? Purple Oven on Metropolitan Avenue— excellent cakes, but not enough seats for our group.
Juan suggested Bebe Rouge on the corner of Sacred Heart Street and Metropolitan Avenue in San Antonio Village, outside the New Hatchin Japanese grocery. We’d heard of Bebe Rouge, a Japanese-owned French patisserie that makes madeleines, but being a mall creature we hadn’t figured out where it is.
Unlike those self-consciously swanky tea places where the tables are so close together that you’re practically sitting on each other’s laps and you can hear the most private details of strangers’ lives whether you care to or not, Bebe Rouge has lots and lots of room. (Even the gleaming washroom is huge.)
We love Japanese bakeries because the cakes are exquisite and light. Hey, we’re self-indulgent, not suicidal. We had the matcha roll, which was lovely—the green tea taste is not overwhelmed by the sweetness. The word “double” next to “fromage” suggests that when you finish eating it, you’re ready to get shot out into space as a satellite. But Bebe Rouge’s Double Fromage, a two-layered cheesecake with mascarpone cheese mousse, is surprisingly delicate. And the madeleines are dreamy.
The coffee is excellent, the service brisk and unobtrusive. We took home several packages of the anpan—bread with red bean filling. Think of hopiang mongo, but not lardy. Delightful.
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