Babbling Point

CUT-TO: 8 YEARS LATER This month marks my 8th year in advertising, in Harrison Communications. I’m here right now because of Taps. Yup, he’s to blame. Brandie also had something to do with all of this. I think the ball got rolling during one of those nights at my dad’s wake eight years ago. Taps was telling the guys about this new commercial he was working on. It started a couple of upcoming talents named Diether Ocampo, Ryan Agoncillio, and Patricia Javier. Yup, it was the Sprite “Magpaka-totoo Ka” campaign. Even though Taps was just telling us the stories of those TV commercials, we were already laughing and couldn’t wait to see it on-air. (Somewhat appropriate that we were talking about TV commercials at my dad’s wake.) I don’t know if it was on that same night or some other night we all got together when I mentioned to the group that I now had to find a more regular job; that my freelance writing gigs and minimal comic book sales were just not enough. Taps mentioned that McCann was...

I got tagged by Wella. Since it was Wella’s first blog post (and I’m really proud that she’s started blogging) I must now tell you: 7 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME 1. I was a magician. Well, I was an amateur magician. A very, very amateur magician. I was a big fan of David Copperfield. I used to record his TV specials, which were re-run on Channel 9 over and over again. When the local channels stopped airing his specials, my uncle in Boston would record it for me and would me packages with that video tape as well as magic books and magic tricks. So, I got as far as learn one rubber band trick and transforming a P500 bill into a P5 bill (yes, there was once a P5 bill). I also learned one routine using the Chinese Linking Rings. If you ask me to do a magic trick now, I’d probably mess it up and just make your P500 bill disappear by buying a bunch of comic books. 2. I was a ninja. Well, I was an amateur ninja. A very, very amateur ninja. Okay, I was a very horrible ninja. I maybe the only ninja t...