Our Intern Jon Blogs Again

Jonny Blaze, in the Philippines as reported here, attended Lovapalooza this weekend. He says:

This weekend marked the special time of year where thousands of Filippinos get together at the Mall of Asia(the second largest mall in Asia) and make-out simultaneously so they can break the record for most people smooching at the same time. They call it Lovapalooza, and it's part of what's known as the "Love Season" because their valentine's celebrations can't last just one day. Oh yeah, did I mention that after they break the world record, they all simultaneously blow their fucking brains out? Stupid fucking love season...

So I just finished reading the Grapes of Wrath and realized that in the week it took me to read it, the characters in the novel took more hot showers than I did. Now that I've read it, I'll have to join the ranks of people(namely Nate Jenkins' dad) who consider it the greatest. book. ever. written.

I fly back to Manila tomarrow and am excited to actually be able to go around places unescorted(and hopefully find some more English speakers to hang with, cuz barely talking everyday is fucking isolating). But before I go, I promised my guide/bodyguard, Kevin "Willem Defoe" McHale, that I would eat "balut" with him, which is apparently an unborn chick(roughly 17 days old) still in it's egg -- and to think I was at one point a vegetarian...ha.