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I have been deprived of cable TV for 5 days a week since I moved to an apartment in Ortigas. Well, that’s less than 5 since I get the pleasure of cable TV whenever I go home to Sta. Rosa on Friday nights. Nevertheless, Monday up to Thursday nights, I’m stuck with network TV. At first, I always had the urge to cry because I miss Jack TV a lot. And HBO. And AXN. And the National Geographic channel. And FTV. But as the weeks progress, network TV’s starting to grow on me. Case in point: I now have a network TV viewing habit. And here’s how it goes:

When I’m lucky enough to get to the apartment early, I eat my dinner while watching Kris Aquino’s amusing Deal or No Deal? show. Yes, I find it very amusing to see the dreams of regular Juans and Juanas crumble right in front of me while I munch on my pork loin from Grill Queen. After that, it’s a tug-of-war between Super Inggo, Captain Barbell and Atlantika, and Studio 23 shows (but I only stick with them on Tuesdays because it’s Smallville night. I gotsa have my fill of Lanaliscious!). And then there’s the very entertaining Starstruck. Again, I delight in the fact that one by one, the dreams of young hopefuls wither and die in front of me while I’m sipping a glass of my precious Coke on the rocks. Ahhh… tastes like shattered dreams.

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1. Coming up with ideas for a blog post can be sooo exhausting.
2. When the most brilliant ideas manifest themselves in your fragile mind, you’re either in a situation where you can’t go online or even take down notes, or you’re too lazy to open your computer and type your mind away.
3. Given enough time, your blog will attract admirers, stalkers, and vandals. Hooray.
4. Your ex is reading how bitter your life is right now. She’s evil.
5. No matter how good you think you are in writing good material, there will always be better writers writing better material a few clicks away. And it makes you sad.
6. Earning money from your blog is not an exact science. It’s a mix of chance and divine intervention.
7. Whoever you think is not reading your blog, probably is.
8. A pretty blog will only hold visitors for a few minutes. Content is where it’s at, yo!
9. One entry is all it takes to set your blog on fire, negatively or positively.
10. If you can’t come up with a good idea for a blog post, the good ol’ “10 Things…” list can always save your day.

I posted this list originally at Pinoy Blogosphere. Yeah, I’m feeling copy-paste-ish today.

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I’ve just purchased two awesome DVDs: Ultimate Avengers: The Movie and Ultimate Avengers 2. They’re both straight-to-DVD movies based on the Marvel comic The Ultimates by Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch. They where just made available here in the Philippines recently. I was almost about to give in to the urge of buying pirated copies since I thought they won’t be released here. Patience is my friend.

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I’m settling in my new job quite nicely. Well, actually it’s not new anymore. I’ve been there for almost 2 months now. I’m also getting a hang of living in the big city, traffic hell and all. But it still feels like I’m in a transition stage. Everything just feels so new. Horizons getting bigger. Old limits fading away, new limits popping up from nowhere. It’s fun! With this transition stage, I feel I also need to move forward with this blogging thing. Thanks to the people of the Pinoy Blogoshpere Yahoo! Mailing List, I’ve found a new kind of hunger for blogging. And this hunger drove me to create another blog, Baddieverse. And what will happen now to LongBox? It’s time to re-imagine it. It’s time for an era to end. It’s time for Volume 2.

LongBox is now a comics-centric blog. I’m going to let my inner comic book geek talk about comics, movies related to comics, TV shows related to comics, comic book industry news, comic book and graphic novel reviews, and everything else there is to blog about sequential art. Baddieverse will contain my usual stupidity. Hehe.

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Okay. It was a long weekend. I was expecting Super Typhoon Reming to render our area powerless for at least a day. But Reming had other plans. It didn’t hit Manila and the surrounding area. Everything’s fine and dandy. So what did I do this long weekend?

I created a universe.

Well, not exactly a universe per se. More like a personal pocket universe that will act as a therapist whenever I feel like the world is harassing me. Yes, I created another blog. I created this, my Baddieverse.

“What’s the point?” you ask. I have no freakin’ idea. It’s very satisfying though. I now have two blogs. The old one, LongBox, is now exclusive for comics-related stupidity, while this new one is a personal blog where the rest of my stupidity will reside. Yay!
Anyway, I’m thankful Reming didn’t punk our area like Milenyo did. That jerk.

Aaaaand I’ve got nothing else to talk about. Hell of an opening entry for a new blog, Gino.