Animate Opens First Philippine Store In Makati, Anime Fans Queue With Discipline Not Seen Since The Last Concert Ticket Sale
The Japanese anime and manga retailer opens at One Ayala Mall, and devoted fans line up for figures, manga and limited-edition goods with the stamina of protagonists in a final arc The Long-Awaited Episode MAKATI. Animate, the Japanese retailer famous…
Palace Rejects No Big Fish Claim, Insists Fishing Expedition Has Caught Several Medium-Sized Fish And Promising Fingerlings
After protesters said no big fish had been caught in the flood control scandal, the Palace pointed to cases filed, senators on trial, frozen assets and 112 blacklisted firms, while the public debates the correct weight of a big fish…
Meralco Rates Rise 31.91 Centavos, Filipinos Respond By Treating Electric Fan Like A Valuable Family Heirloom
A typical household using 200 kWh will pay about 62 pesos more in October as generation charges rise, prompting a nationwide revival of the ancient art of switching things off The Bill Arrives MANILA. Electricity rates for Meralco customers rose…
Submarine Cable Outage Slows Philippine Internet, Nation Forced To Speak To Family Members Face To Face
With about 300 gigabits of capacity lost on segments linking the country to Singapore and Hong Kong, millions of Filipinos experience the rare and terrifying sensation of a buffering TikTok The Day The Scroll Stood Still MANILA. Internet users across…
Peso Breaks 63 To The Dollar, Overseas Filipino Workers Celebrate While Everyone Buying Imported Cheese Weeps Quietly
The currency touched a record intraday low of 63.15 against the US dollar, a moment of mixed emotions for a country that both earns and spends in dollars A Number Nobody Wanted MANILA. The Philippine peso weakened past 63 to…
The Pandemic’s Weirdest Legacy – Screw the News
What We Learned and Immediately Forgot As Los Angeles Times retrospective pieces continue to process our collective trauma, society has moved on from the pandemic with the selective memory of someone who’s blocked out a bad relationship. We’ve forgotten the…
The Queuing Distance Multiplier: Scientific Proof That the Person Behind You Stands 127% Closer When You Are Holding Hot Coffee
A satire on personal space in lines, arguing that a localized Personal Space Dissolution Field attracts the person behind the user, specifically amplifying their proximity by 127% when the user is carrying something spillable. The Personal Space Dissolution Field The…
When Your Childhood Issues Become Brand Identity – Screw the News
Trauma as Marketing Strategy In what Los Angeles marketing executives call “authentic personal branding,” a generation of entrepreneurs has discovered that weaponizing childhood trauma makes for excellent content strategy. These therapeutic exhibitionists have transformed daddy issues, abandonment anxiety, and attachment…
The Queue-Jumping Code: Mastering the High-Stakes Social Hierarchy of the QC Jeepney Stop
An anthropological guide to the unspoken rules of waiting, the aggression of the ‘loading bay rush,’ and the social shame of getting off early. The Invisible Queue System Waiting for a jeepney or bus at a major Quezon City thoroughfare…
People With Emotional Support Houseplants – Screw the News
When Your Fern Is Your Therapist The emotional support animal trend has officially jumped the shark and landed in a pot of organic soil. Los Angeles Times lifestyle journalists have somehow missed the emergence of a new therapeutic category: people…