Day: June 17, 2010

fidelis tan reviews ‘demons of the new year’

Here and here, over at POC. About my story, “Salot“, Tan writes:

Salot

Eliza Victoria

Salot brings us to the birthing place of horror stories – the “probinsya.” A good portion of the story involves the main character – a girl from the province about to go to the city for college – going over the horror stories she’s heard from friends and family. These stories are strange little blurbs about sighting apparitions and hearing voices in the night – the kind of stories we’ve all heard before, from maybe a family member or friend, and which more often than not take place outside the safeties of big cities.

The main character gripes over these stories – they’re part of an absurd, backwards culture she’s ready to ditch. But just as she’s about to leave all those old superstitions behind, the old superstitions (in typical horror story fashion) come to her. This is when the story takes a sharp turn for the unexpected – the salot, the supposed bringers of plague and ill fortune, are not quite what she’s always been told they were, and the way she treats them is far from how other people have.

Salot is a sweet read, and the suggestion that the things that go bump in the night might have much more to them than the probinsya-type horror stories suggest, is in itself enough to make it worth reading.

Read the whole anthology here. It’s available online for free.

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Minsang may kaibigan kang nagtanong sa’yo, Ito na ba?

Hindi ka man lang huminto para mag-isip. Sabi mo, Oo naman.

Naisip ko, Pwedeeeee.

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That’s eight months well spent with you, and I’m looking forward to the months that will follow.

I think we both agree there’ll be more of them.

Photo taken June 4, Marriott Hotel.

how i met your mother

I just finished Season 5 and I love it and I want more.

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But then of course we can’t have more MORE, sooner or later the writers have to sit down and write that scene where Ted finally meets his future wife and we can finally see her face.

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While clicking through links online I saw this little tidbit: Before “How I Met Your Mother” (2005) started, Neil Patrick Harris and Josh Radnor had already acted together, as lovers in a Los Angeles production of the Jon Robin Baitz play “The Paris Letter”.

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Ooh.

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I WANT TO SEE THAT PLAY.

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Also watching: Lost (Season 2 – I know, I KNOW), Dollhouse, Mad Men, The Sopranos (I’m so late), Big Bang Theory, Fringe. Whenever a re-run of Frasier or Everybody Loves Raymond is on, I sit down and watch. I used to follow Two and a Half Men, maybe I’ll borrow a DVD from someone. Also, House and Boston Legal and 30 Rock. The Wire was really good but my DVD died, so I wasn’t even able to finish Season 1. CSI is entertaining, but CSI: Miami and New York are laaaaaame.

I’ll revisit Will and Grace soon – I miss that show.

What are you watching?