Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a milking,
Seven swans a swimming,
Six geese a laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtledoves,
and a partridge in a pear tree!

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Now I have a somewhat special place in my heart for the Bratz Toyline. Without Bratz, I could never have moved out of my parents' house after art school. I cleaned up some of the box art for those toys. It continued to haunt my career, another job I worked on, my Executive Producer was doing some writing for the now forgotten Bratz live-action movie.

Now that Mattel has won a legal battle over a dying intellectual property, We shall see no more Bratz.

So, may I present to you, Somethingawful's photoshop memorial to Bratz.

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SAUCE: http://www.cutethingsfallingasleep.org

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I was first introduced to "Allamoc's" work from newgrounds. His storytelling was very clean and clear and funny. Plus, the only Korean pop music I've ever heard up until that point was from really effeminate Korean boy bands. I was very surprised to hear some really good Korean Ska.

Anyway, I just found out he finished his five part story "There She Is". It starts out as cute and simple but gets more and more fleshed out. I really don't want to tell you anything. It all came to a surprise to me when I saw it all today.

Here are direct links to Allamoc's animated episodes, enjoy.

There She Is!! (Step One)

There She Is!! Step Two: Cake Dance

There She Is!! Step Three: Doki & Nabi

There She Is!! Step Four: Paradise

There She Is!! Step Five: Imagine

I hope he does more real soon.

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Whenever I narcissisticly google "Space Mexican" I'll find an entry in a Filipino's blog about it and how I'm Filipino.

I don't have any trouble with this, although I do scratch my head since I haven't found any blogs about "Speak No Evil" on any Mexican blogs. Either I'm not searching hard enough or maybe its because Mexicans are more likely to go out, drink, dance, have a quinceniera, than some Filipinos who stay home and log onto (enter social network website here) all night.

I find a pattern. Filipino blogger who mentions that I'm Filipino.

This clever science fiction story is also a social commentary by Filipino artist Elan Rodger Trinidad. Read the whole piece at Theory of Everything Comics, and don’t forget to check out Elan Rodger’s afterword.

Very easily one of the best online comics I've ever read. "Speak No Evil" is a one-shot scifi webcomic made by a Filipino, Elan Rodger Trinidad. Well worth the few minutes it takes to get through the whole thing.

There's a bunch on livejournal entries, although the Google isn't finding them right now.

I can only speculate why this phenomenon is happening.

1) I mentioned that I was Filipino in the afterward. (Which wasn't a pride thing. I just wanted to show some sort of legitimacy to the story. That this was a story about immigration in general rather than the plight of the Mexicans.)

2) I hit a chord with the Filipinos because the immigration experience depicted was much closer to the Filipino experience than the Mexican experience.

3) A single voice sings "Dahil Sa'yo" while everyone is singing "Besame Mucho".

4) Just as Manny Pacquiao beat Oscar De La Hoya, so too will the Filipino readership of Theory of Everything Comics obliterate the Mexican readership!

5) Mexicans think I'm being racist when I talk about Space Mexicans, or creepily sympathetic (which is LIKE racism).

If you haven't already, check out Speak No Evil: Melancholy of A Space Mexican.

BTW, more on the Filipinos vs Mexicans thing. I just got back from Cancun and visited the Yucatan. Looks just like Bohol.

...except Bohol's got better beaches.

But I gotta admit, the service at the resorts in Cancun was WAY better in Cancun. And free drinks and buffet.

...but Philippines has prettier nature.

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...but no free drinks and buffet :(

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PACQUIAO RULES!

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http://www.npr.org/programs/re/geography_heaven/kawakarpo/wheeloflife/slide.html

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