BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Friday on my mind

There's pressure in maintaining this blog. Funny because I get chided in email when some people that I'm slacking off in writing (yes, Eddie Ching. Thanks for keeping me on my toes).

The thing about writing and balancing work is trying to have some sense of a normal life. Yes, I cook my food at night. I do my laundry -- handwash for the maselan stuff and i toss the others into the bin. I do some house chores even. See... I'm domesticated. Bwahahahaha.

During my younger years, I almost never missed the best new movies. Nowadays, I'm damn lucky if I'm able to watch new stuff when it's out. But I did see the new Punisher movie last night.

But it's nice to receive email from people. Thanks to Anne from Bicol and the folks at ESPN, the people from Jo-Burg, South Africa, from Zurich -- merci, monsieur. And I hope to get my Samuel Eto'o Barcelona jersey within the next month!!!!!!!!!!

The PFF stories have gone around the world -- to almost every FIFA-member country. And Hammam's critics in Asia have read them -- patay kang bata ka.

I have to apologize to my friends in the track and basketball teams for being unable to finish it. By next week tapos na.

There was the PFF stuff and doing the UAAP Football. I did better in the second game. Hindi na kabado kasi. Hahahahaha.

Wrangling for the printing of the 2008 Ateneo championship season. It will be out this year sigh but the folks publishing it are looking at a later print date for various reasons I will divulge late next week when everything is signed. So all those who contributed and shared your thoughts and experiences for the book, yes your efforts will pay off. Thank you. It's about 110 pages of text with another 20-30 of pictures.

There is a magazine that I'm writing for along with two of my good friends. It will be out right before the UAAP basketball season.

There's work. I might be off to Bangkok or Hong Kong or I'm still hoping -- to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Hahahaha. No, I'm still trying to go there to write about the war in Afghanistan. Seriously. But I do have something non-sports titled, Invading Iraq. It's about a soldier who was there during the invasion of Iraq and who drove a Bradley FV in Fallujah.

Then there's that long overdue story on model Bea Soriano and the basketball family of the Gamboas (Jojo, Mike, Kevin, and Mark) that will be out in Blueblood.

A funny funny Lost In Translation story that I don't know where to put out. I am working on a short film that we begin shooting this summer that is so goddam hilarious. Just writing it kept me in stitches.

And keep a look out for the Ateneo Men's Basketball Team as we... well, okay. Saka na. Hahahaha. Basta just wait.

And there are two columns that I am writing... the NU Bulldogs and the Ateneo Men's Volleyball team. Hell, yeah.

Grant Hill.... Dookie. Dookie. Dookie.

No mix tapes for you just yet from the Big Hip-o-crite.

And there's something on the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees. The Cubbies will be out this Monday in Business Mirror while the Yankees sometime next week.

Then its Gridiron Gang time.

Sorry I can't write today. Off to work then later if I'm done with work (not writing), San Beda College.

Have a good day, folks.

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