September 15, 2001

SWAMP ESCAPE
I am floating on a raft in a swamp. It is late afternoon and the sun is going down. And it seems like I am escaping from something. What exactly, I am not sure. The foliage is ripe with weeds and insects and the raft is quick.
___ When I am within sight of shore, I begin to slow the raft's movement. It is then, that I realize that the terror that follows me is almost upon me. I scream.
___ And the viewpoint changes, like an abrupt camera cut.
___ I see a woman coming off a raft in a swampy island, screaming for her life. In front of her is a dilapidated hotel. A resort place in the middle of this marsh that must have once been a nice beac resort, beofre the muckwaters came in and infested the area. Now it is merely an empty husk with wooden boards covering up most of the entrances. Except... it's not as empty as I first think.
___ The woman(who used to be me)'s scream has alerted a group of monsters playing cards on the roofdeck. These hairy, furry beasts look like they came straight from a children's picture book. They throw down their cards and come to the aid of the damsel in distress. But it is still unclear to me what the danger is.

September 18, 2001

SEX WITH AN OLD WOMAN, AND FLOATING ON BATMAN'S CAPE

I. SEX
I am going to interview an old lady in a decrepit little apartment situated in a rundown building. The kind of building that movies like SE7EN have immortalized in our psyches. My guide prepares me for the experience, but when I enter the apartment, i reel. The smell is overpowering. A mixture of hospital sanitizer and urine, and "old, sickly person" smells.
___ We talk and the old wrinkled woman is quite verbose. The topic of the interview is unclear however. Before I can get enough of the meat however, my companion informs me that the old woman will continue the interview only on one condition: that I sleep with her.
___ Outraged, I turn to the old woman and say "Sleep, as in PJs sleep? Or as in the let's-have-sex kind?"
The old woman looks me squarely in the eye and says: "Sex! Do I look like I get much sex nowadays?"

II.BATMAN
And suddenly, I am on the top floor of a skyscraper overlooking several shorter factories and buildings. It is daylight and I need to get down quickly, but know that if I jump, I fall to my death.
___ Lo and behold, Batman is there and lends me his cape and mask, saying: "Use the cape like a parachute and it will break your fall."
___ I don the mask/cape and jump out of the window. Miraculously, the cape balloons out behind me, revealing that it has thin steel ribs (like the curves of an open umbrella). It does indeed break my fall. I am able to hop to the nearest rooftop and get back down to the ground.
___ At this point a security guard accosts me, asking who I am. I say: "Don't you know me? I'm BATMAN! Don't mess with me!"

III. OSMENA
I am in Cebu. Wlaking across a bridge near a slum area. I think I am with my father. We are talking about political candidates. Amd how there seem to be so few who fit the bill. Just like in "Being John Malkovich", every person who passes by us looks strangely like they're wearing a black and white mask of politician John Osmena. I shudder.

IV. KILLER
I am sneaking around the base of a stairway, trying not ot be seen. In my hands is a pistol with an extremely accurate telescopic sight. I am inching my way to the edge of the stairway in order to free the president (president of what?). It's a scene straight out of Counter-Strike.
___ I know that the president is being strangled by 2 armed men. And as I finally get to the edge, I catch sight of one guy's feet. I throw a coin towards them to distract them. The guy (whose feet I can see) bends down to pick it up and then I have his crotch in my sights. I squeeze the pistol, and down goes my enemy.
___ After that, it is a breeze to come on in and shoot the other assailant through the head. The president is free.

V. MASS
Then I find myself in a park with stone benches arranged as pews. People are seated, attending mass. My partner and I are late so we are a bit hesitant to squeeze in with the rest of my family. We find a different spot instead and sit down. The priest is giving his homily.

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