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“…The Fallback Boy is someone you keep as reserve, whether in full consciousness of doing so or not, for the eventuality that there’s no one else. Sort of like a safety net. It’s not really nice. It’s not really fair for the FB.

The Default Boy on the other hand is the guy you go back to after everything else. Maybe you never really got over that DB and you still entertain the possibility that something could happen. It’s possible that he’s become the standard that you compare every other guy to. But then he could also be the guy you still like but don’t expect anything from anymore…”

iamdough writes about an intriguing concept, The Default Boy.

“Sana holdaper ka na lang… para ibibigay ko lahat sa ‘yo, wag mo lang akong sasaktan.” (via)
“We should get jerseys cause we make a good team But yours would look better than mine, cause you’re outta my league.”

Both pick-up lines from Crae of followandreblog. (She has great taste!)

Keeping in line with the times, here’s one from marianojuancho:

Para kang Pilipinas… mamamatay ako nang dahil sa ‘yo.

Whatsikat has written about corny pick-up lines before, read them again here.

Dance Number in MOA from Technograph on Vimeo.

Online reviews are mixed. Mostly people say “galing nila sumayaw.” Some think “sellout”, another says: “The only way I’d be impressed with an online ad campaign or gimmick would be if it were actually original and not copying something.”

In fact it is a copy of a similar more subtle ad done in a train station in London:

But even this ad is a copy– the originals (and best ones) are done spontaneously by Improv Everywhere. Checkout my favorites: Frozen Grand Central and Cellphone Symphony.

• whatsikat’s homepage was yellow!
• Albert has a photo album of these logos. (Why didn’t Google Philippines tie a yellow ribbon?)
• Twitter users used twibbon to tie a yellow ribbon around their avatars.
• Ilaw ng tahanan at buong kalawakan! says indolentindio.
• Yes, even pop icons FHM Philippines and MTV Philippines!

Mike heard the news on the BBC. “That’s so sad,” he thought, and continued channel-surfing. When he got to Channel 2, Wowowee was on. The dancers came out shaking booty, and they were all dressed in yellow. Mike burst into tears.

Where were you when Tita Cory died? Jessica Zafra had this thought in her head: “Goddammit I thought, I’m going to need that brazo de mercedes. It was the right color.”

Chico Garcia on the other hand talks about his first hand EDSA experience:

“…He said that he heard on the radio that Malacañang ordered the tanks to open fire any minute now and that I should run as far away from the area as my then 19-year-old feet could carry me.

I was shaking like a leaf.  I never thought that my death would be served in such a dramatic manner.  But soon, fear gave way to curiosity, and I thought, if I was going to die, I might as well be with people, and not alone, like those bodies in Pompei, curled up alone in their beds.  So against all better judgment, I locked up the house, and walked to EDSA.  When I got there, all fear left me and what I saw was not a revolution, but practically a fiesta…”

• For those too young to remember her, Patricio Mangubat explains why Cory is important.
• Filipinovoices talks about her influence on the Philippines.
• Technogra.ph has a round up of what the major newspapers were saying on the day of her death.
• The #cory hashtag on twitter is alive with real-time messages about her.
• Some retro photos from 1986: NAMFREL blackboard used in vote tallying, an old People Power poster, a photo of Cory as Time’s woman of the year (she was the third to be so-honored by Time).