Ink | Pen | Paper

Before I begin this quicky entry (which is mostly borrowed off my current FB status message), let's read an excerpt from "The Gods of Mars", a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, part of his John Carter series of novels (yes, in case you only knew about the name John Carter from the recent movie, the John Carter character has been around for ages--well, specifically since 1912, which in fact tells us that this fictitious character is already 100 years old), the adventures of John Carter in ...

After reading Sevmik's blog entries, I realized I can now finally allow myself to indulge in what I sometimes refer to as "diarrhea of ideas" (shamelessly borrowed from Stephen King, re his "diarrhea of the word processor", a condition he describes as one of those moments wherein he just churns out a huge pile of incoherent text just to convince himself that yes, he's working, he's writing a novel hehe)--just let the fingers fly over the keyboard--a process which began like ...

(Rodsky's Solo Sojourns #1: Gumasa, Glan, Sarangani Province)

After a bit of procrastination, I finally decided to go to Gumasa, at the very (literal) bottom of Mindanao Island. It's a stretch of fine white sandy beaches about 10 kilometers from the sleepy town of Glan, in Sarangani Province.

Apart from the obvious R & R objective, I've been planning a trip to the Glan area for a while now, to do some serious observation and photography of the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...