You never know what you might find online. This was from a Blogger site called Pinoy Kollector, which came up during some research.
I wondered if it would be possible for a character in the novel I am working on, a teenage girl from a wealthy family, would wear a watch or carry a pocket watch.
When I came across the Pinoy Kollector site, I was intrigued for a few reasons.
It’s an active Blogger site! It felt like a throwback (maybe all blogs are a throwback!)
What great closeup photos of these antique watches!
The post on pocket watches is numbered 120, and the most recent one from June 2024, is numbered 175—that’s a lot of collections and a lot of history!
The first post is from 2010—so that’s 175 posts in 14+ years (good job!)
I came away from the blog thinking that this is both a great way to see some of the material culture of the Philippines, but also to learn about Philippine history.
Highly recommend taking a look. Enjoy! Check it out.
Look at this goofball running! This is a still from a video frozen to show how this not-quite-nine-pound dog runs: pulling his front paws under him, kicking his back paws out front. Is that how all dogs run?
I’m happy to share the publications that I’ve published in 2022. A special thanks to all the editors who selected my work: Doug Draa, Lis Goryniuk-Ratajczak, Shashi Bhat, and Jordan Hirsh.
Prose:
The Adjacent Possible, Weirdbook Magazine #45; Doug Draa, Editor; Wildside Press, Publisher; Cabin John, Maryland; July 2022
Mianong and Capture of the Kawag-Kawag: EventMagazine; Shashi Bhat, Editor; Published by Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C., Canada; Winter/Spring 2022
C, Eye to the Telescope No. 43: “Light,” Jordan Hirsch, Editor, January 2022
Thank you to Lis and the team at Vraeyda Literary’s MacroMicroCosm journal for publishing three of my speculative poems: Ansible Dreams, We Small Readers, and Chaos Theory (The Mandlebrot Set). It’s always exciting when my work finds a home!
My poems can be read via purchasing either the print or PDF version of the journal.
About Astral
A mighty shout out to the two prose pieces within Astral, Matthew Buscemi’s To Shape the Future, and Sacha Rosel’s Into Something Rich and Strange (from Chapter 1 of her newly released novel My Heart is The Tempest). We have multiple pieces of poetry from longstanding contributor Adrienne Stevenson, Peter Graarup Westergaard (from his Warning Light Calling collection done in a dissident Soviet style, not dogma), and returning contributor Matthew Fast, who has the prestige to have been in the primordial issue of MacroMicroCosm years ago. Fast’s poetry is based off his song lyrics for the upcoming The Far Lands album, and I am pumped about hearing it via bandcamp when it hits Abram’s Epilogue.
Michael Janairo gives us three poems, while Sapha Burnell closes us off with one we used to end Volume 7 and bring on the stellar theme to Volume 8. Art by Sarah Melgoza & Katelyn Lane surrounds the poetry, while our last contributor is a posthumous submission by the estate of Cotrina Graham Smith. We hope you enjoy seeing 1980’s layouts, we got a kick out of them! So much so we featured the poems ‘as is’.
About MacroMicroCosm
A Quarterly Digital literary & art journal dedicated to speculative fiction, art & literary criticism. A celebration of the weird, strange and perceptibly odd. A review of books, music, film & art. Home of our MacroMicroCosm Book Review Podcast& YouTube channel. Features articles on creative development & philosophy. MacroMicroCosm embraces a broad base of fiction and non-fiction with fantasy, magic realism, science-fiction and futurist elements in poetry, short story, art, photography, and comic.
