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The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants had to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert were ciltivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my brother's son?" One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing liar. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.

The Greeks invented three kinds of colmns - Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth said that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. In the Olympic games, the reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athens was democratic because the people took the law into their hands. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had no men.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen, she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, "Hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

The greates writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors.

In one of Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloguy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet.

Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. The winter of 1620 was a hard one on the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

Abraham Lincoln became America's greates Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. The Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-Negroes citizenship, but the Clue Glux Clan would torch and lynch the ex-Negroes. It claimed it represented law and odor. Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assassinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

Meanwhile in Europe, gravity was invented by Isaak Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn when the apples are falling off trees. Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The inventions of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the MCCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote "The Organ of the Species".

The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the annals of human history.

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Tatay / Lirio

Only a genius can play the fool
To madmen who deem themselves wise.

Come One, Come All!

After setting its focus on human rights issues in a series of exhibits last year and in early 2007, TutoK takes a provocative look at the past as it continues to the present. “Kasaysayang” is a play on what history as a word evokes, eliciting on one hand, a sense of misgiving, but also looks forward and commits to bring history forward into new meanings, functions and actions. 

“Kasaysayang” is curated by Noel Soler Cuizon, and features past and recent works by over 180 artists and collectives who have been supporting TutoK in the past two years.  Through this exhibition, TutoK hopes to generate funding to fuel more collaborative efforts next year - workshops, talks and other events that will further promote artists’ initiatives and advocacies.

The first part, Takdang Aralin - Unang Yugto will open on November 17, 7:00pm at the Artspace of Glorietta 4, Ayala Center, Makati City , and may be viewed during mall hours until November 27.

The second part, Balik-Aral, Ikalawang Yugto will open on the 2^nd Anniversary of TutoK, November 30, 7:00pm at the Alab Art Space of the Intellectual Property Philippines, 351 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, and may be viewed from 9:00am - 6:00pm until January 11, 2008. 

A forum on art, history, and intellectual property rights will be the exhibit’s culminating activity at the Alab Art Space on Friday, January 11, 2008 from 2:00 - 5:00pm.  The exhibit and its corresponding activities are open and free to the public.

Sales inquiries may be directed to Britania Art Projects, Telefax: 023876373 and Mobile: 09178070327.

Inside The Museums

Voices echo:

"This is what Salvation must be like after a while."

But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues

You can tell by the way she smiles.

Blind Man’s Bluff

Well, The Rifleman's stalking
the sick and the lame,
Preacherman seeks the same,
who'll get there first is uncertain.
Nightsticks and water cannons,
tear gas, padlocks,
Molotov cocktails and rocks
behind every curtain,
False-hearted judges
dying in the webs that they spin;
Only a matter of time
'til night comes steppin' in.

Here’s What We Have To Say About That!

FREEDOM? FARCE!
08 November 2007

We support the Neo-Angono Artists Collective and vehemently condemn the defacing of the mural on the history of press freedom in the Philippines.

As cited by the artists themselves, the leadership of the National Press Club committed these transgressions upon their work of art:

The erasure of a big portion of the newspaper held by the central figure, containing the statement of the International Federation of Journalists regarding the perceived effects of the anti-terror law on press freedom, and replaced by a hideous bird-monster in a cage;

The alteration of the headline of the newspaper Jose Rizal is holding from “Press Freedom Fighter’s Son Abducted” to “Press Freedom Fight Is On” and the defacement of Jonas and Edith Burgos’s pictures as well as the erasure of Jonas’s name;

The change of the tattoo on Andres Bonifacio’s left arm from the alibata “K” to a sappy red heart pierced by an arrow;

The erasure of the name of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines from the banners of the rallyists;

The lengthening of the hair and beard of the figure identified as academician-columnist Prof. Randy David beside columnist Conrad de Quiros; and

The addition of beard and mustache and the change of hair color from white to black of the pugo and balut vendor identified as columnist and Martial Law detainee Juan Mercado.

What the leadership of the National Press Club had done is a clear and absolute atrocity against the basic and integral right of anyone – artist or otherwise – to fully express ideas, ideologies, and standpoints.

Furthermore, the censorship explicitly imposed upon the mural is a disgrace to what the NPC had stood for all these years.

We are one with the Neo-Angono Artists Collective in seeking Justice for this most contemptible of offenses against artistry and against humanity.

BULONG
EARTHFISHFISH
THE OUTLAWS
Ayan Tolentino
K Lopez
Mark Forlorn
Zig Mirasol

For more details and photographs about this horrible act, copy and paste this URL onto your address bar: http://www.neo-angono.com/festival/protest.html.

Voices

The voices are crystalline.

Once you have taken away
Your aimless illusions,
You will hear them:

The reverberating chants;
The whimpering sandals;
The tense muscles
Of the hungry,
The angry,
The weary
Who seek
Justice and Truth.

You will hear them:

The flying bullets;
The emptying chambers;
The sickening thud
Of bodies
Hitting the pavement.

You will hear them:

The whispering remorse;
The lingering regret;
The clanging bottles
Of spirits
Who seek
Any semblance of Peace.

You will hear them:

The grinding teeth;
The clenching fists;
The roaring fire
In the bellies
Of those who seek
Retaliation.

Travesty, To Say The Least!

Words will never be enough to express how outrageous this incident is so just click on this text and see for yourself the crime that had been committed against these artists.

Oiche Shamhna shona duit!

To those who are dear to us,
let us celebrate their Freedom
from this SHIT we call Life.

To those whom we despise,
let us celebrate our Freedom
from the SHIT we call their lives.