: About Me

Author, publisher, writer, columnist. I have been described as a hard-hitting journalist in investigative reporting and editorial writing for more than 45 years and a recipient of numerous excellence awards in journalism. I am not really swept off my feet by this compliment. What I only really hit hard is my passion to sweep the floor under the rug to make the house a better place to live in. My editorial insights appear in a variety of publications and published in several websites. My 2007 new book on journalism as a public trust hopes to hit the Internet market and the bookstand by the end of this year. Just in case there is an interest to know more about me, I am also an ASEAN specialist, an economist-lawyer-journalist [with advance graduate degrees], and I retired as a diplomat... deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

My passion is ...

To create a better world.

I know too much about ...

Congruents and contrasts

My parents always told me ...

Whatever you want to do you will make it.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a Whitelighter ...to switch on the light for those in the dark.

My favorite memory ...

Debate w/ Soviet delegate at the UN I caricatured as a dog barking at the wrong tree.

Why I write ...

Writing is an ocean of possibilities - I am a fish in the water.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The war in the great divide.

My first job ...

Writing press releases for the census bureau

My best moment ...

Sequoia mountaintops where I drove my car in the sky and discovered I was just a speck in the eye.

My inspiration ...

Adult 3 sons & 4 daughters I taught a lot about life and now teaching me how to live in cyberspace.

Entertainment > Movie Genres The art of horror: Where arthouse meets grindhouse

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Let us first establish a lucid, not just a hazy, understanding of what we refer to here as "arthouse" and "grindhouse" when these terms relate to the exhibition of films or literary works either as an art or entertainment. Here is the onus of concern: Writers, notably film and literary art reviewers, jump into an eager-beaver trap by pointing out right away the crossroad where those terms intersect and overlap. They assume that the layman understands what these intersection and overlapping mean. This is irresponsibly wrong, especially when those terms have a plethora of meanings in the con...

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