@Benjamin_Percy Filipinos are equally elated and enraged: if the image of a diligent and modest Filipino overseas worker featured in a Palme d'Or-winning film was just twisted into a vile character then Dolly de Leon should have been nominated for an Oscar, at least! 😅
THE NINTH METAL, by Benjamin Percy: Debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal on Northfall, MINN., turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing. Available June 1st.
Streaming today on Netflix, a sci-fi film about humanity being destroyed by an extinction-level pandemic that causes mass sleep deprivation. My review of "Awake": https://t.co/XQ5moLcRPm
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― H.M.