A Plea to Stop Using “Major Major:” It’s Not Funny Anymore
Words by: Lourd de Veyra
Artwork by: Warren Espejo“National sanity” sounds so bloated and pretentious. The phrase has become so murderously annoying that the next time someone says that in front of me I swear to God some mouth is going to bleed. Government ought to pass a law criminalizing those two words. Look, it was funny the first time. Well, funny and cringe-inducing. The following day—and next couple of days thereafter—saw every DJ, radio commentator and TV host strategically inserting “major, major” into every available opportunity, each one thinking himself special, cute, and witty by doing so.
By the end of the first two hours of the day, it had become nauseating.
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What did we learn from Ondoy, one year hence?
Words by: Lourd de Veyra
Artwork by: War EspejoWe Pinoys don’t seem to be so good at remembering. Especially when it comes to calamities. Sure, it’s understandable: we celebrate Christmas like sailors on malt liquor and meth. But volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, and fires, we’re not too nuts about recollecting. And why should we, right? What’s the use of evoking the images of ugliness past?
It’s the first anniversary of what seemed like the worst—next to the Arroyo presidency—disaster to hit us in recent memory.
