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More evidence of Manny Pacquiao’s rise to the level of an iconic global sports superstar: He ranks third on Yahoo’s Most Searched Athletes List for 2011. The top ten: Danica Patrick, Tiger Woods, Manny Pacquiao, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Kris Humprhies, Hope Solo, Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, and Caroline Wozniacki. Read […]
Talk about double-take. I came across an article today saying that Cheetah, the chimp who was the movie Tarzan’s sidekick, had died, and I immediately thought it must be referring to the second or third or fourth “Cheetah”. It never occurred to me that the same chimp who appeared on screen in the original Johnny […]
The year was 1989. I was about to be transferred back to the United States at the conclusion of my tour of duty with the US Embassy in Manila, and I had to make a decision — to continue my career with the government or follow my heart and take the plunge into film production […]
Throughout my life I’ve heard the same modern composed Christmas songs every Christmas — “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”, “Winter Wonderland”, “Frosty the Snowman” etc…..And, ironically it seems, there have never been new ones since I was about five years old. Yes — a couple — “Do You Hear What I Hear” and “Little […]
First lady Michelle Obama got into the Christmas spirit Saturday by helping field phone calls from excited children eagerly tracking Santa and his sleigh full of toys across the world.
“I’ve spotted a little dot, flashing dot that is over — right now, Santa’s sleigh is over the country of Latvia. And he’s delivering […]
I wrote once, quasi-famously it turns out, about the empathy, grace, and humility of Manny Pacquiao. It was gratifying, even thrilling, to see the response — more than 200,000 read the article; 39,000 fowarded it to Facebook, and through it all what came through was a deep, heartfelt appreciation by everyone –myself and all […]
Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry’s instantly notorious brain freeze in tonight’s Republican presidential debate is immediately one of the all time most embarrassing moments in Presidential politics — right up there with Dukakis on the tank and John Kerry windsurfing, although to be sure, those were just weird visual juxtapositions, and this this is a […]
I’ve been interested in whales and dolphins since I was a kid, but until now I’d never seen a video that actually depicted a baleen whale gulping down food. As most everybody who pays any attention to this sort of thing knows, pretty much all of the big whales except the sperm whale are baleen […]
I finally found a video clip of Floyd Mayweather’s post-fight rant against Manny Pacquiao and I have to say, watching it is quite a bit more revealing than just reading the words. This is a few minutes before Mayweather burst into tears and you can already hear the catch in his voice that’s a clue […]
There is plenty of blame to go around for the bizarre and disappointing finish to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. This morning I’ve been looking online for clear explanations of exactly what happened, and more importantly, exactly what the role of fight refereee Joe Cortez was in the debacle. While it is true that “protect yourself at […]
Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Michel Koncz emerged from a Manila Hotel where he watched the Mayweather-Ortiz fight with Manny Pacquiao and provided the first insight into Pacman’s reaction to the bizarre ending to the fight in which Mayweather sucker punched Ortiz while the latter was apologizing for head-butting Mayweather in the fourth round of the fight […]
Well, another Pacquaio fight is almost upon us — he’ll be taking on Shane Mosely a week from tonight. I’ve been lying low lately but now that the fight is almost here, I’m excited to have a chance to think and write about Manny Pacquiao again. For starters –before getting to Pacquiao-Mosley I want to […]
I’m on record as recognizing the greatness of the original “Opulence, I Has It” commercial for Directv — a sequel, “I Am Epic Win” (?) is out now and I think it’s as funny as the original. Here it is. Note how the Russian gazillionaire’s electrode assisted muscles are bulging while the […]
The gentle charm of the Philippines never ceases to produce moments for me that are very special. I was just roaming on the net and found a very cool little website — Lawaan.com — which is a website about Rena’s hometown and while there I found this — a theme song for the town. […]
