JULY 6
187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar,
with 178 days remaining.

For those in a hurry to get old, I suggest you reanalyze your lives and slow things down, while you can still afford the luxury to do so. And to those who are enjoying their age -and acting like little kids- I envy you.

I turn a year older na naman.
YEeeCh! I miss those days when turning a year old was exciting and you can't wait for your birthday. Now it seems, I dread the arrival of July.

ANG TANDA KO NA!

OTHER BIRTHDAYS

• 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
• 1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper

EVENTS

• 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
• 1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles meet for the first time at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool.
• 1964 - "A Hard Day's Night", the first Beatles film, premieres.
• 1977 - Pink Floyd's Roger Waters spits on a fan during the In The Flesh tour in Montreal.
• 2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series.

• The Vulcan Eclipse (JULY 6, 1982)- The Earth's shadow begins to leave the moon, as sunlight creeps slowly back on to one limb at the lower left after the end of totality during the lunar eclipse of July 6, 1982.
  Although no direct sunlight hits the moon during the total phase of a total lunar eclipse, the moon is visible from sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere during the eclipse. The moon gets its burnt orange color from scattering of blue light from the sun's spectrum in the atmosphere, the same reason the sun appears red at sunset, and the sky is blue. This particular total lunar eclipse was called the "Vulcan Eclipse" because of the tremendous amount of material in the Earth's atmosphere from the El Chichon volcano which had erupted in Mexico a couple of months earlier. Because of this volcanic material in the atmosphere, the bulk of which was in the stratosphere some 16 miles high, the amount of sunlight refracted during totality was diminished, and observers recorded this eclipse as one of the darkest on record.

I just finished reading the fifth issue- titled "A Little Known Murder in Studio 4 -of Alamat Comic's Trese. And it's definitely another winner for the Tan-Baldisimo team-up.

Previous issues have dealt with malevolent characters directly from our local mythologies, this one is no different. Alexandra Trese investigates the case of a young movie star- Heather Evangelista -at the brink of stardom who is found murdered at the studio where she was filming her latest movie. Snooping around the vicinity for evidence, Captain Guerrero and Trese comes across chocnut (!) and what appears to a child's shirt with some sort of reddish powder around it. Also, her Best Actress award is missing.

Trese seeks advice from the Nuno (now living under a manhole in Balete Drive, as showed in Trese #1: At the Instersection of Balete and 13th Street) who tastes the chocnut found in the crime scene and finds that it's overflowing with pain and despair. Finally, our detective decides to give ageing ex-actress Nova Aurora a visit- the movie Heather was making was about her, after all, and they have been meeting for some time now so that Heather could study her.

Trese and the Kambal must fight their way past an angered group of Laman Lupas to finally get to the truth. It's a fun yet simple journey that is mixes 70s crime storytelling with local ancient folklore; remarkable forensics tweaked to the mystical side.

Although my favorites are still Our Secret Constellation and Rules of the Race), the 5th ish still definitely packs a punch and grabs you by the neck for the trip. At this very moment, the Trese books are not yet available at ComicQuest and I'm not pretty sure when they'll be back, but I will definitely wait so I could buy all issues.

And at P30.00 an ish, there's seriously no reason why you shouldn't buy yourselves copies.

Just got from Comedy Centrals's daily joke email service.
So blonde's do get more fun!
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Not Going To Try This Again

A blonde decides to try horseback riding, even though she has had no lessons or prior experience. She mounts the horse unassisted and it immediately springs into motion. It gallops along at a steady and rhythmic pace, but the blonde begins to slip from the saddle. In terror, she grabs for the horse's mane, but cannot seem to get a firm grip. She tries to throw her arms around the horse's neck, but she slides down the side of the horse anyway. The horse gallops along, seemingly ignorant of its slipping rider.

Finally, giving up her frail grip, the blonde attempts to leap away from the horse and throw herself to safety. Unfortunately, her foot becomes entangled in the stirrup, and she is now at the mercy of the horse's pounding hooves as her head is struck against the ground over and over.

She starts to lose consciousness, but to her great fortune, Bobby, the Wal-Mart greeter, sees her and unplugs the horse.