Tom of Finland

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What I love most about the new office is its extensive library collection. This morning O was going through a pile of books to be added to the shelves. She took out F.Valentine Hooven III's Tom of Finland His Life and Times from the pile and we started browsing through it. It read:

" Gay men had little reason to be happy in 1957. Homosexuality was a crime in every country on earth, frequently punishable by death. The phrase "secet homosexual" was redundant and the term "in the closet" was meaningless as yet since virtually all homosexuals were in the closet, except for those imprisoned, institutionalized or dead."

"In the East Bloc, homosexuality was handled with simplicity to be expected of a centrally directed society. The party line, as stated in Pravda with sweeping finality, was "There are no homosexuals in the Soviet Union." Period, Anyone who thought he might be homosexual was sent to Siberia to think it over for the rest of his life."

"The only reputable voices to disagree came from the psychiatric community. Psychiatrists claimed that the homosexual was neither a criminal nor a sinner. They said he was sick, and they treated those who fell into their hands with shock therapy and, for specially stubborn cases, prefrontal lobotomies."

school wars

I was stalling work the other day and decided to browse over books in the office library when I have come across a note clipped on a folder dated 8 years ago written on a Malacañang memo. I was thoroughly amused. It wrote:

* Billy is Mr. William M. Esposo, Special Consultant to former President Corazon C. Aquino

Baguio City

Along with 11 other friends, I would be heading to the mountains this weekend for vacation, cold(er) weather and a change of scenery which I totally deserve after all the stress we are made to deal with here at the new office.

As proof of my stressful life, you may have noticed that I haven't been updating my site for a while. My social life is almost non-existent and life events have been almost purely work-home-work-home. That's basically how boring and uneventful things are going right now. More things happen inside a stationary coin bank and we all know virtually nothing happens there.

Come to think, things have been blah these past few days. I think it's the weather. I know some people who have also been feeling crappy lately. It's colder now than it was last December. You don't see the sun as often and for some reason, it's extremely windy. What is happening to the world?

All I can think about is our Baguio trip.

win-o

Druggie dominates 50th Grammy.

In her cross-continental win, Amy Winehouse wowed an equally shocked audience at the recent Grammy's by bagging 5 awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Rehab, Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black. Having been denied a US visa and a work permit, the singer performed live via satellite from London, where she sang "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good" both tracks from the Back to Black album.

Recent rumors are, well at least before the awards night, that Wino has been ordered by her recording company to undergo treatment for her drug problems or else she would be denied privileges to record in their studios. Who's saying no, no, no now?

Want to know who else went home with the golden phonograph? Click here, here and here.

this has nothing to do with anything.lol.

" I have absolutely no future in drawing."

ww3

So, I went to the salon last weekend to have some things done to my awfully unruly hair (up there :P) and spent a thousand hard-earned pesos in the process. I got cellophane, hot oil and a trim and thought it was worth it, at least, until after a day, when finally her crowning unruliness decided to wage world war against me.

This is frustrating.

anti-social

I am in the running for worst employee of the decade.

1. I come to work late almost everyday.

2. I indulge in longer lunch breaks.

3. I got caught watching a concert during "office hours".

4. I take power naps at work;

5. and I despise the boss.

But I get the work done. It's just that, I don't have anal tendencies to strictly follow rules.

birthday post

So this is what it's like to be 21...

You act the same, look the same, think the same as though you were 20. Only, you would be allowed access to casinos which is useful if you're the gambling-type in which case, I am not.

Well, this is my way of thanking all the people who greeted me through SMS, minute-long phone calls, the uber-rated Friendster and through personally seeding the birthday cheer.

THANKS!