Duel in The Palace

Subject: Fwd: YUSON AND PIPING DILAT
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:00:39 -0500



Begin forwarded message:

From: "Marcelo Del Pilar"
Date: March 28, 2006 9:52:23 PM EST
To: kripbam@email.com.ph
Subject: YUSON AND PIPING DILAT
From: Krip Yuson
Date: Mar 28, 2006 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: On the Yuson Column (as of March 27, 2006)
To: Marcelo Del Pilar

Keep em coming, pepeng bilat. They just bounce off my flak vest anyway. Pero huli ka na, at ganado rin si Angie Santiago na ipaaalam sa plaridel na maraming pumuputak-te. How indefatigable naman kayo, nakaka bilib.
Aren't you glad you can now ride on something and make it a life cause, at least for the nonce?

Ngayon, kung magpakalalaki ka sana muna at magpakilalala, kaysa magtago sa ngalan ng bayaning siga, baka respetuhin ko pa yang tulong mo sa pagorganiza ng mga sasagutin ko.

PIPINGDILAT REPLY (pipingdilat@gmail.com)

Oops, Zir Krip, don't shoot the messenger naman. No match, this tiniest of planktons to a poet-novelist-columnist-producer-bookeditor-Ateneo professor fa!- etc of your stature! Gusto ko lang pong icompile lahat ng lumalabas tungkol sa ginawa ninyong column. Masama po ba iyon? Sori po, e nagkataon lang pong walang statements in your favor e, iimbento pa ba naman po ako? Actually, as in actually, I didn't make sama the texts that keep flying Left-Right-up-down, all directions po, Zir! Kadiri nga po (sa atin-ating lang, dami nyo po pa lang kaaway, hindi nyo lang po alam si guro, o alam po ninyo pero nakatawa rin po kayo sa kanila—ala Balagtas po na kababayan ko!)

But here's the deal, Zir Krip! I will do a Budoy, or even a Rustom (I will tell who I really am!) at any place of your choice—Ateneo Cafeteria, UP Sunken Garden, UST parade grounds, or even at the Malacanang RTVM office po—PROVIDED you also tell tell Pinoy Big Brother, or just your colleagues in the Ateneo and in UMPIL who have lots to say about the "kagagaguhan" [his word, folks] you created, who the following are: your "birdies," "the few writers in English in UP," "the same beerhouse theoreticians," and of course, your usual guests in your column, your "intelligence sources." Usapang lala… ay, sir, galit feminista dyan. Usapang "tao" na lang, Zir. Promise!

Sorry, Zir. I thought kasi you wanted a real debate, Conspiracy-style. And I didn't k now only columnists are allowed to use unnamed sources. At least, ako po, I hide in style, di ba, 'no? Saka, wag na lang po ninyo akong igalang—ayoko ko po ng galang ng mga macho, lalo na kung wala sa lugar. Wiz ko type!

C'mon, Zir Krip, don't prove them right by being pikon. Vavooo!