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Love Is Blind... And Strange

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       Love is blind, they say, and, strange, I say.      Two fascinating stories about love stood out on my Facebook News feed these past few days. First, a man marrying conjoined twins. The twins, Abby and Brittany Hensel, are dicephalus twins, meaning they have two arms, two legs, two hearts, but two heads. Actually, Josh Bowling, the husband only married Abby, it’s just that Brittany couldn’t help but also be at the altar during the wedding. And during honeymoon, it was revealed that Brittany was also there, in the bed with husband and wife. Awkward, yes. What’s more awkward? Abby reportedly admitting that he would perform fellatio on her husband during sex.      Second fascinating story, a governor of a province here in the Philippines, an 80-year-old man, married a 32-year-old female lawyer. That’s a 48-year age gap. I believe that age doesn’t matter in love. 10-year gap, that’s perfectly okay. 20 years, still fine. 30 years, still acceptable. Popular comedian Vic Sotto (70
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David Bowie And The Albums From Mars

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         I liked a few Facebook pages about music so I often encounter this survey: What are your favorite (10) music albums? If someone would ask me what are my favorite ten albums, five of them would be Pink Floyd albums, and the other five, Beatles albums. Now, if you’d ask me my top ten favorite non-Pink Floyd and non-Beatles albums, with every artist not repeating itself, it would include, in random order, Paul simon’s Graceland( released in 1986 ), Billy Joel’s The Nylon Curtain (1982), Aztec Camera’s High Land, Hard Rain (1983), Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes (1992), David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Nirvana’s Nevermind (1991), Faith No More’s Angel Dust (1992), Radiohead’s OK Computer(1997), XTC’s Nonsuch (1992) and U2's The Joshua Tree (1987) .      But my favorite among these albums is David Bowie’s fantastic and influential The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, a rock concept album about
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One Fiery Afternoon

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  Sun, sun, sun, here it comes…      It was around four in the afternoon the other day, 29 th of April, 2024, and the temperature around 37 degrees Celcius when the electric cables in front of our house suddenly burst into a terrifyingly huge flame, and for a few moments, I thought the flame (just a few feet away from our windows) would grow bigger and crawl into our house. I grabbed my phone and our dog just in case it’d happen. I was home alone. Luckily, a fire truck (on its way to a different fiery emergency) was rushing on our street as the flame raged on, and alert residents quickly stopped them—and the firemen saved the day.      It’s a normal occurrence these days with this kind of heat, the firemen told us, electric wires suddenly bursting into flames, especially if they are loaded with illegal connections, and we all know how houses with illegal connections abuse the use of electricity—because electricity is free, they put air-conditioning unit even inside their bat
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