Globe Tatt Awards: Who Deserves To Win?

Most of us use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to procrastinate, communicate and catch up with our friends, but social media is, in recent years, growing beyond mere channels for mild amusement. For every useless Twitter hashtag like #ImproveFilmTitlesByAddingInMyPants, we have seen the outrage over the dancing kid on Willie Revillame’s show, among other things, thrive on social media.

This is what the Tatt Awards is all about. The Tatt Awards aim to shine the limelight on technophiles, video vamps, and ardent advocates for change, giving them the chance to be recognized for their passion to create, inspire and lead
in social media.

Here are the ten categories you can nominate the ones who you think deserve to be recognized for their work:

  • The One: the most influential trendsetter that shaped opinion, moved people and prompted action
  • Ballbreaker: a blogger or a Twitter user who started a debate, sparked conversations or a revolution of opinions with just one hard-hitting post
  • Stylisimo: a person that not only reviewed fashion but also set a trend one that everyone followed
  • Indie Rocker: a musical band or indie artist who fought hard to claim their space in the hearts of Filipino audience via webtime
  • Wordslayer: a blogger whose mastery of words showed wit, humor and grit to the Philippine blogosphere
  • Artiste: an inspiring person whose fiery passion for creating visual art through original graphic design, animation or photography has caught fire in the Philippine online art scene
  • Tech Junkie: a blogger, podcaster or Twitter user who shares access to the latest in trends and the fast pace world of e-knowledge
  • Thought-mover: a Twitter user who sparked a fire in the Philippine Twittersphere with one unique hashtag
  • Video Slinger: an individual or group who shook the Pinoy web space with thought-provoking or entertaining video.
  • The Advocate: a person or a group of individuals who worked to improve the state of societal cause in the Philippines through social media
Quick, nominate the ones you think are worthy to win in the first-ever Tatt Awards by going here: http://www.tattoo.globe.com.ph/tattawards/nominee-form
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review

I really don’t have a problem with dumb movies, mind you. You’re reading the blog of the guy who’s enjoyed the fuck out of a movie of a girl who attached a machine gun to her severed arm and single-handedly took revenge against the Yakuza. However, even if we stretch verisimilitude to its breaking point, sometimes it’s just not enough to help me enjoy a movie as much as I am supposed to. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is one such example. If I wanted to watch a movie with intricate plots that’ll force me to focus all my attention to every single detail so when the twist comes I’d be blown out of my mind, I’d simply stay at home, grab my DVDs of the Godfather trilogy, and watch the shit out of that. (SPOILER ALERT: I don’t really have a Godfather DVD collection. However, I have Barely Legal #5-23, but that’s a completely different story.)

Please don’t try to throw in a plot in my Transformers movies, especially when you have a director who can’t tell the difference between a nice, coherent plot and a drooling dog. You see, the story is a Frankensten’s monster of plot threads thrown together at random, and they try to distract us from the stupidity of the story by throwing explosions, T&A, and robots all over the place. Read More »

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An Open Letter To The Taxi Driver Who Talks Way Too Much About His Bird

Good Day Mister Taxi Driver,

The moment I hailed you, 60-year old elderly taxi driver who doesn’t look like he can harm a fly, I thought I was going to have a nice and quiet ride home. You see, I had a long day at work, and to top it off, I was drunk and tired. All I needed on the one hour ride home was some peace and quiet and possibly a taxi driver awake enough to not crash into a tree and kill the both of us. I’m not asking for too much.

And then, you had to show up and ask me about my weight. I’m not exactly the fittest person around. I know my stomach’s the size of a small calf, but I don’t really discuss my weight with a total stranger. So I just gave the most strained polite smile I can muster, put my earphones on, and played my loudest music on full volume. Read More »

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Green Lantern Review

Green Lantern, for all intents and purposes, is a huge steaming pile of turd. That was the phrase I was thinking of the whole time I got out of the theater. The thing is, I was already expecting it to be bad, since it has an embarrassing 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I was just hoping for a dumb fun time, like Green Hornet.

You know how bad it was? Me and my friends left the theater cursing and screaming all the way to Mercato Centrale, where we stuffed ourselves with some weird Chocolate Chili ice cream just to make us feel better. But enough of that. You want to read our review of Green Lantern, that boring-as-fuck movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. You want to know what we think of the epic (LOL not really) space opera featuring green space cops who can create almost anything out of their rings.

Spoiler alert: it’s not so good. And I’m saying that as a huge Green Lantern comic book nerd, who loved seeing all those little references to the comic book mythos peppered throughout the film. This movie sucked so much balls it’s not even funny. I was screaming “THIS MOVIE IS BORING AS FUCK” during the climax – you know, supposedly the most exciting part of any movie.

But enough of that. Go on to Comicgasm right now so you can read our Roundtable Review for Green Lantern! And rage just like us Comicgasm editors!

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A Beginner’s Guide to Doctor Who

Last Saturday marked the premiere of yet another new season of the fantastic British sci-fi time travel show, Doctor Who. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of people just discovering the joys of this show, and since it has almost half a century of history behind it, there’s bound to be some confusion at one point. As the guy responsible for making most of his friends watch Doctor Who, I feel it is my duty to educate the newbies on the basics of this show so everyone gets up to speed in no time.

Doctor Who is about the adventures of a guy named The Doctor, who travels around time and space in his blue box.

Sometimes he’s a cranky old man, sometimes he’s this eccentric dude with a fondness for jelly babies, and sometimes he’s this mopey whiny dude in a nice snazzy suit. His current incarnation (played amazingly by Matt Smith) is a madman with a fondness for bow ties and questionable hat choices, but the core of the show remains the same. He bounces around space and time – often with no idea where or when he’s going – and ends up in trouble. But he always manages to save the day, because he’s clever like that. Read More »

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