Ang Una Kong Dekada, Tomo Una

Now that we're at the halfway point of 2011, AKA in my room "the tenth-year anniv of my writing thing," I thought it was a good time to re-upload some choice texts from the decade's production.


First are my solo books:

Instructions for the Inclined
a writing manual and an autobiography

The El Bimbo Variations
a Pinoy deployment and engagement of
Oulipian constraints turned into a writing manifesto

Texticles
a collection of dagli

The Long Weekend
a komix romance novel

Crows & Rages
a manifesto on plagiarism, a reconsideration
of contemporary Pinoy poetry

ITEM MITE EMIT TIME
an eons-spanning scifi nivola

we sing the wind's caress on our skin
a meditation on tourism and travel writing


Second are some of my collab stuff:

Crumbs!!!
the first ever Pinoy hypertext
I know of, circa 2001, in collab
with Indira Endaya

High Chair Special:
the Maguindanao Massacre
parts one, two, and three
problematised art's worth
in the face of inhumanity,
co-edited with Conchitina Cruz

The Kritika Kultura Anthology
of New Philippine Writing in English
problematised the new, and its
place in literary production
co-edited with Conchitina Cruz
and Mark Anthony Cayanan
(audio of the launch here)


Third are some miscellany:

The Free Press Nine
this is what happens when
you give me newspaper space

sais: six-word stories anthology
writers and artists tell stories
told in six words and a page of art

*snip*
a body horror torture porn hypertxt

Atsay Killer, Part One: Tender Bottom
a BDSM hypersext


So far, these are all that I have allowed as evidence that I didn't really waste the past ten years, that I could've been doing something else - I still have a few more things to do, and hopefully, by the end of 2011, I'll have them all compiled in a DVD-zine pop-lit explosion, to be sold wherever. Right now, though, I won't be saying any smart stuff about these texts here, at least not right now. Again, they're just here as evidence, hopefully speaking for themselves.