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New Yorker by birth, shipped across the globe to the world of malls, shanty-towns, patronage, corruption, basketball and a curious burnt-toast smell that wafts around at dusk

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Who is Rafe Barth?


Great things about my man on the street interview about the elections on ABS-CBN's cable news shows today.
  1. My alter ego Rafe Barth, whose body language suggests certain developmental disabilities.
  2. Being called "Rafe Barth" on television.
  3. Rocking the billowing McSorley's white tee for all to see. I have done more to promote New York's oldest bar in Southeast Asia than any other living or dead man, woman or child. We're still waiting, however, for one of the potential customers I've introduce to McSorley's to actually travel to New York and visit the bar. One step at a time.
  4. Barth's nervous semi-lisp and tendency to speak through his teeth when trying to appear thoughtful.
  5. The hand on the stomach and the impromptu lunging in some of the set-up shots.
  6. Of course, Senate President Manny Villar, who is always, as his ads say, sipag at tiyaga.

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