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Writers on Writing
a weekly radio program hosted by author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and co-host Marrie Stone, on the art and business of writing. More on the show, writers, and writing at penonfire.com. Follow us on Twitter @WOWkuciFM and Facebook at Writers on Writing KUCI-FM.
Great discussions and guests
By Zoe Kulp - Nov 15 2019
I recently discovered this podcast and I'm so glad I did. I love hearing writers speak about their processes and learning about new books/authors I should be checking out. Thank you, Barbara and Marrie!
Not only do I love this program, I'm grateful for it.
By Robert Kerbeck - Nov 03 2019
What I've always found most fascinating about this show was the diversity of not only the writers, but also the processes they used to write. There was no "one way" to create a book or a short story. For me, hearing this directly from writers was encouraging and reassuring. Not only do I love this program, I'm grateful for it.
Most popular episodes:
Rank #1: Walter Mosley, with his new book Elements of Fiction, on KUCI-FM
Walter Mosley, author of the new book on writing, Elements of Fiction, and 40 other books, mostly novels, talks with Barbara about plotting (or not), rewriting, writing for TV, MFA programs, and much more.
Download audio.
(Broadcast date: Nov. 6, 2019)
Rank #2: Ann Patchett on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Bestselling novelist Ann Patchett joins Marrie Stone for the full hour to discuss her latest book, The Dutch House. She talks about how the writing of this novel differed from her others, and how many times she had to rewrite and revise the manuscript. She shares the one writer who can teach you everything you need to know about writing fiction, and the essay she penned that will answer all your writing related questions.
Discover how being a bookstore owner has changed her approach to writing, her feelings about cultural appropriation, separating good art from bad artists, the colorful story behind the book's cover, and much more.
(Broadcast date: October 2, 2019)
Rank #3: Memoirists Liz Scott and Sands Hall on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Memoirist Liz Scott, author of This Never Happened, and Sands Hall, author of Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology, talk with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about their memoirs.
(Broadcast date: August 7, 2019)
Rank #4: Cathleen Schine on "Writers on Writing," KUCI-FM
Cathleen Schine, author of The Grammarians and 10 other novels, joins Marrie Stone for the full hour to talk about creativity, how writing grows harder over time, her love of words and language and dictionaries, why she felt inspired by the relationship between Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and so much more.
(Broadcast date: November 13, 2019)
Rank #5: Short Story Writers Peter Orner & Ben Marcus on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Peter Orner joins Marrie Stone to talk about his latest collection, Maggie Brown & Others. He discusses the power of the short story form, and how he attempted to create the sensation of walking down a city sidewalk and staring up into all the lit apartment windows to get a sense of story. He talks about the importance of place, and leaving it. And much more.
In the second half, Ben Marcus shares his collection, Notes From the Fog. Ben talks about the story around which the rest of the collection formed, how Elon Musk's hatred of food inspired him, and more.
(Broadcast date: August 21, 2019)
Rank #6: Tom Perrotta Discusses Sex and Mrs. Fletcher on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM in Irvine, CA
Tom Perrotta, author of Mrs. Fletcher, joins Marrie for the entire hour to talk about sex in the new millennium, whether technology can affect desire, how male writers can effectively access the female point of view, writing through the various stages of life, humor, and much more.
(Broadcast date: October 11, 2017)
DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not reflect those of KUCI, its management, or the UC Board of Regents. For more information on this talk show, or other talk shows, visit our website at www.kuci.org.
Rank #7: Noir crime writer Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay, her fourth novel (first stand-alone), was my guest for the entire hour, talking about writing crime fiction, specifically noir, finding your voice through reviewing on Yelp, and much more.
(Broadcast date: Oct. 23, 2019)
Rank #8: Mariana Lin on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Meet the woman who lives inside your iPhone.
Writer and poet Mariana Lin was recruited by Apple to write the personality for Siri, and went on to write for other artificially intelligent personalities, like Sophia. This week's show explores the thinking behind creating a personality and "voice" for machines—from their humor to their backstories. Mariana was tasked with considering machines living in other cultures, and how they should respond to racist, sexually charged, or other offensive speech. And she was challenged to imbue them with whimsy, nuance, and complexity.
Hear about how Mariana's love of language, fiction, and poetry is influencing a new cast of characters living in our world.
(Broadcast date: September 18, 2019)
Rank #9: Elizabeth Strout and Lise Funderburg on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Elizabeth Strout returns with Olive, Again, a newly released collection that picks up where Olive Kitteridge left off. Elizabeth joins Marrie Stone to talk about how Olive reasserted herself, how the world has changed around her, and how Elizabeth managed to leave a porous space around Olive (and her other characters) so readers might insert their own experiences into the narrative.
In the second half, Lise Funderburg shares her anthology, Apple, Tree: Writers on their Parents. She talks bout the relationship middle-aged adults have with their parent's legacies, how she chose this special crop of authors, and gives a mini-class on the essay form and what makes an essay work.
All/Latest Episodes:
Alix Kates Shulman on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Nearly 50 years after it first shocked readers nationwide, Alix Kates Shulman's, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen is still being hailed as a feminist classic. Inspired by the iconic protest of the 1968 Miss America Pageant, and called by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement," the 1972 book continues to hit home with its comic portrayal of growing up female in a man's world in white middle-class pre-feminist America. The book was re-released last year. At 87, Alix is still writing, speaking, and taking her message to the streets.
Alix talks about writing those daring sex scenes, her own terrifying illegal abortion, how fiction can change minds, and the slow but effective changes brought about by wave after wave of the women's movement.
(Broadcast date: January 8, 2020)
Poet Michael Miller on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Poet Michael Miller joins Marrie Stone for an hour of poetry and reflection on New Year's morning. He talks about his retrospective collection, Tea and Subtitles: Selected Poems 1999-2019, many addressing beginnings, endings, and New Year's Day itself.
Michael discusses his life-long love of the form, how journalism aids his poetry, assembling the writer's toolbox, and the many poets who he recommends as accessible and necessary reads.
Michael will appear at the LA Times Festival of Books on the poetry stage in April.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about his latest volume, Pagan Virtues. (There are a few audio challenges, but keep listening. It's worth it.)
(Broadcast date: Dec. 4, 2019)
Beau L'Amour & Robin Cook join Marrie Stone on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Louis L'Amour, father of the western and frontier novel, passed in 1988 leaving behind 89 novels, 14 short story collections, and mounds of unfinished manuscripts. His son, Beau L'Amour, continues his legacy by finishing many of his novels and short stories and adding notes, history, and backstory. He shares his latest, Lost Treasures Volume II, as well as his father's writing process, his relationship with Ray Bradbury, and more.
Robin Cook, father of the medical thriller genre, joins in the second half to share his latest novel, Genesis. During his time in the navy, and after completing his medical training, Robin came on the writing scene in the 1970s with the novel Coma. Now, 35 novels later, he still thrills readers with his uncanny sense of where medical technology is heading, the radical advances and attendant consequences we're making, and how his longstanding and beloved characters deal with them.
(Broadcast date: December 18, 2019)
Tim O'Brien on Writers on Writing, KUCI
Tim O'Brien, National Book Award winning novelist and iconic author of The Things They Carried, joins Marrie Stone to talk about his latest—and last—book.
Dad's Maybe Book is at once a memoir, a love letter to his young sons, a meditation on war, a writing guide for writers, a history lesson, a literature lesson, and swan song to his fans. (Don't let the title or cover fool you . . . this book packs a meaty punch that extends well beyond fatherhood).
Tim shares his enduring struggles with writing, with memory, and with his own father.
THIS LAND author Christopher Ketcham on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Christopher Ketcham, author of the new nonfiction book, This Land: How Cowboys, Corruption, and Corruption are ruining the American West, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett for the entire hour about the book that Outside magazines says, "...brings the fighting spirit and conservation vision of great writers like Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson, and Bernard DeVoto into the 21st century."
(KUCI-FM broadcast date: Nov. 27, 2019)
You can reach Barbara at penonfire at earthlink dot net. Subscribe to the Writers on Writing podcast at iTunes and Stitcher.
Jeanne Blasberg on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Novelist Jeanne Blasberg joins Marrie Stone for the full hour to discuss her latest, The Nine. She shares how her work in finance and spreadsheets aids her writing, about Grub Street's Novel Generator, NaNoWriMo, the unique opportunities afforded by She Writes Press, finding your unique niche as writer, and much more.
Cathleen Schine on "Writers on Writing," KUCI-FM
Walter Mosley, with his new book Elements of Fiction, on KUCI-FM
Tom Perrotta Discusses Sex and Mrs. Fletcher on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM in Irvine, CA
Aris Janigian and Robert Kerbeck on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Novelist Aris Janigian joins Marrie Stone to talk about the latest novel in his "Waiting" trilogy, Waiting for Sophia at Shutters by the Beach. A challenging and thought-provoking novel about the #metoo movement and sexual harassment on college campuses, Aris discusses the many trials and difficulties he encountered while writing it (including a stolen manuscript). He also talks about being the author of six novels (and spending significant time on the LA Times bestseller list), all without an agent. Aris will be appearing at Book Soup in December to launch the book. More information about the event can be found online as the date approaches.
In the second half, Robert Kerbeck joins to discuss Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire. Robert and his wife successfully saved their home from the Woolsey fire last year. Their neighbors were not so lucky. Robert conducted extensive interviews and organized the book as a series of compelling vignettes, highlighting the many tragic, shocking, and poignant stories that emerged from this devastating fire. He shares insights about what homeowners can do to be prepared, and the surprising aftermath of the fire's destruction. Check out Robert's website for information about his many appearances scheduled in and around Los Angeles.
Noir crime writer Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay
Kate Braverman, from the archives of Writers on Writing
I knew Kate a few ways: through my show where she was a guest three times. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where she sat on my panel. And a writing project for which she generously wrote an essay on spec (not yet unpublished). She wrote one of my favorite short stories: "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta." It's in the fantastic collection, Squandering the Blue, as well as widely anthologized and googleable.
Here are the shows:
Martin J. Smith, co-author of Oops : 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America, and Kate Braverman, author of Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles.
Download audio. The show begins at 24:30.
(Broadcast date: Mar. 16 2006)
Kate Braverman, author of The Incantation of Frida K.
(This one you have to click on her name to access audio.)
(Broadcast date: May 22, 2003)
Kate Braverman, author of Lithium for Medea.
(Broadcast date: Sep 18, 2002)
Elizabeth Strout and Lise Funderburg on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Poet Grant Hier on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM at UC-Irvine
Poet Grant Hier, professor at Laguna College of Art and Design, and author of Similitude, The Difference Between, and co-author with John Brantingham of California Continuum, joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett for what turned out to be a masters' class in writing poetry. You don't have to be a poet or have any interest in writing poetry, to get something out of this show. And no matter what you write, reading poetry will only make you a better writer.
(Broadcast date: Oct. 9, 2019)
Ann Patchett on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Mariana Lin on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Jorjeana Marie and Helen Phillips on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Actor, audiobook narrator, and writer Jorjeana Marie joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about Improv for Writers. In the second half, novelist Helen Phillips comes on to talk about The Need, published by Simon and Schuster. Phillips discusses "emotional" revision while Marie talks about how improv is a tool writers can employ for everything from getting past the blank page to figuring out plot and structure.
(Broadcast date: Sept. 11, 2019)
Christy Lefteri & Susan Straight on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
Novelist Christy Lefteri joins Marrie Stone to talk about her latest book, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. She talks about her time as a UNICEF volunteer and growing up as a child of two refugees and how these events informed the novel. She discusses how words and phrases trigger her memories, and how she used that experience as an effective flashback device in the book, and much more.
In the second half, Susan Straight shares her memoir, In the Country of Women. She talks about her family's secret language, the effective thread of The Odyssey throughout the book, and her enduring relationship with a very special possum.
Download audio. (Broadcast date: September 4, 2019)
Short Story Writers Peter Orner & Ben Marcus on Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM


IrO2 is a key material for photocatalytic applications as water oxidation catalyst. Despite its increasing interest, little is known about its molecular structure and reactivity. In this study, the surface properties of stoichiometric rutile IrO2 are investigated by means of periodic density functional theory (DFT), including the structural, energetic, electronic properties, and chemical reactivity toward catechol, a probe molecule mimicking photocatalytic linkers. Our results show that the (110)-IrO2 rutile termination is the most stable, and we discuss the role of the number and type of surface sites in the relative stability compared with (100), (001), and (101) terminations. Regarding the reactivity of the surfaces with catechol, our results show that the molecule dissociates and binds in bidentate, chelate, and monodentate modes. Interestingly, we find the chelated mode selectively favored over the (001) termination with the highest adsorption energy, −3.93 eV, being unstable on other terminations. The bidentate mode is preferred on (110) −3.83 eV, (100) −3.24 eV, and (101) −2.23 eV. The selective stabilization of the chelated mode, suggested in the literature to be responsible for the optical absorption in TiO2 nanoparticles, could guide in the search of tailored iridia-based interfaces for photocatalytic applications.


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… to surround yourself with people who inspire and challenge you.
… to learn from the greatest at minimal cost.
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… to create and produce, without needing someone else's permission.
… to use the abundance of tools and resources to create value for other people.
… to live wherever you want.
… to be whoever you want.
… to spend your time doing important work.
… to leverage your attention and energy to maximum effect.
… to do more than anyone expects of you.
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… to do things that defy what we previously thought was possible.
There are people who would do anything to be in your position. To have the chance that you have. Do you understand that? Do you appreciate that? Are you willing to seize this opportunity, or are you going to squander it? Will you take the challenge? Or will you shrink away from it?
Choose quickly. For time is short and waits for no one.
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tRust rpg (forthcoming)
promo banner by Postworldgames Jim Pinto
the title says it all...
The Gamekeeper & Transcendental Dolphindark of
Ordo Octopia Ltd
asked me to do some concept art for a;
cyber-noir, kung-fu, horror storyteller game
set in a dystopic future world where...
a lot has happened.
"facing difficulty
being succinct"
We all became over-experienced.
So now what we got to say;
has value.
To summarize;
wOrds aRe nOw sPelled wIth a cApitalised sUffix, nOt tHe iNitial lEtter. tHis iS sO yOu kNow wHere tHey aRe cOming fRom.
But there's more;
we have to swap every letter 'c' and 's' and 'sh' with an 'X' to do it properly.
Then it turns into Chinese.
Now my kids going to be speaking gobbldigook.
I overcame cynicism, put it to the test and it does seem to actually work now I have given it a go. But are the players likely to be doing this or is it all for atmospheric and dramatic effect? It's a narrative device to easily get an idea across; to suggest the game is set in a future time after things have moved on. The language has mutated; that's how far into the future it is.
Welcome to Easternization process.
At once I recognized an emo culture game. There has been a lot ofcomparison between emo and goth, since goth most certainly is a strong root of this late 20th / 21st century transitional youth culture, and there is an overlap.
Emo is stripes and purple added to goth black bat style to make it chavvy with bling. Emo is emotional blackmail. Emo is punk attitude and TIM BURTON CARTOONS YAY! Emo was generated as a consumer culture by the Black Coconut™ chainstore to sell stuff to bisexual and confused kids who hadn't heard of suicide girls. All this to give them a better outlet than ritual scarification and sacrifice to the blood god, cutting their arms for attention energy because its a sexual release and they aren't getting laid. This was britains mainstream alternate teen culture during the late 1990s and 2000s.
So; I am doing what I can to keep tRust proper and avoid unnecessary cheesiness.
After all, it has an 18 rate due to adult themes. tRust oozes BDSM.
tRust is a scarred world. It is planet Earth in the future, after it has been renamed tEra, from the old latin word for it; Terra. A global monocultural society has adapted to survive by become a feudal shoganate. It is modeled loosely on medieval Japan. What it is surviving from, is a space-virus; a biowarfare agent that caused a pandemic genetic mutation plague that turns people into;
half squid, half scorpion
no two are the same
This was not helped by loss of corporate governmental control of the global community thanks to the teleportal revolution. tRust is post-industrial, mainly due to the result of industrial technologies making things so much easier for techno-goths to take over the world.
Everything in the world of tRust is made of a material that is applied by spray canister like graffiti art. It swells up like wall cavity insulation into a foam, and then sets. It is plastic-rubber-latex and contains nano-p[articles which bond together during the drying/hardening process to turn into a computer. This stuff is dissolved by a chemical applied from another can, although the dissolvant has gotten into the water supply and is slowly corroding everything. The City is known by the Aztec word Itza, meaning 'urban' and 'ways of the people'; is several km high, covers the entire planet with home-made tunnels and caves that project holographic computer blah from the walls.
tHe cRacks aRe wHere tHe lIfe iS
Except most of it was broken when the planet unexpectedly swelled up, its diameter becoming significantly fatter. This has resulted in many deep canyons where the rubber has stretched to breaking point and snapped. Within these fracture crevasses are jungles providing a permanent layer of mist. and haven for the remaining of the planets wildlife. The jungles are inhabited by non-tech wild tribes who do voodoo magick, summon demons and ancestor spirits and probably have a better time than the surviving city folk.
Up above are the towers of the Arkatex, who know how to operate the fragmented computer well enough to discover what has happened and what is going on, and who trade with offworlders; the rest of the planet is under quarantine because of the hydra virus. Down below are mysterious ferrymen; boat people who look like Charon from Greek mythology. They operate a taxi service on the sunken sea and canal routes, the safest method of travel given that the surface world is owned by flying nightmares.
"mind is a virus"
There is a lot more to this game that has yet to be unveiled. It is originally intended to counsel abuse victims, to explore psionics and magick through quantum wave mechanics, and to analyze societies based around psychic vampirism. It is all based around an easy symbolism; the monsters who used to be your pervert friends are multi-tentacled leeches armed with scorpion claws chitin and sting.
You can see why I like it.
The designers at Ordo Octopia Ltd have released the key concepts but asked me to remain quiet about the rest of it. This blog is by way of excitement that my art and musical skills are being put to good use; an ambient soundtrack is expected to be released as part of the game.
Labels: dystopia, emo, goth, ordo octopia, rpg, tRust
Book of Temples
Following 5 years of shit that I won't go into here; I was given 48 hours notice that the Great Spirit was providing for me a 1 week trip to Egypt with free travel expenses from Wales. Needless to say, I was on a high. An hour later I was walking to my conapt from town, having been to library to research on their internet if I needed any inoculations, and I had followed my instincts as always; the word 'Prana' means both 'instinct' and 'life-flow' into a second hand bookshop where I had picked up a book called Temples, which had some beautiful photographs from all over the globe, and some information that I knew I would later need.
Because I was so high, I caught the attention of the local presiding deity of the dominion of Zooport and so I was set upon by an evil spirit of a malignant city with intent to bring me down as hard and fast as it could. A White meets a Black so as to balance whatever the zone regards as upsetting to its stability, whatever level that is at and whatever form it takes. Which in Zooport means accepting that 9 out of 10 denizens are abusive and regard other people as their energy donors; the common language, the hive-mind mainframe, is depressant.
I encountered Gary the smack-head who I did not previously know and he told me he was about to kill himself. He explained that since he had got off drugs, the other druggies wouldn't leave him alone and they had this very morning robbed him of the little things he owned during a break in.
I had by this time already got my nvq level 2 counselling qualification because so many people come to me with their problems and needing advice. Professional counselor would be fired for malpractise for giving advice, which is something a qualified counselor is trained not to do. A properly qualified counselor is allowed to listen to the persons problem, re-iterate it in different words so they know that they have been listened to, and tell them that it is okay for them to feel that way given their circumstances, and charge them money for it. Which in my real life experience does fuck all by way of sorting people out when they need counseling.
Gary needed help and after fifteen minutes of heavy discussion had used the very strong domination technique known to heroin addicts whose sense of purpose and control is energized by the depth of focus that is the need of their addiction; he had persuaded me to write in the front of the book of temples these words;
"to my good friend gary, I hope everything works out, much love" = MISTAKE!
followed by my name. I did it because at the time it seemed the quickest way to get him off my back so I could get on with everything else I had to do, eg; find my passport and check if it was still valid.
Gary appeared to need this positive input and told me what to write. It went against my instincts but he is persuasive as city vampires can be. I have since then studied intensely into protection from psychic vampirism, how not to be manipulated, defense against remote programming and similar.
The best advice I can give anyone is to;
"Always trust your Instincts; above all else!"
I have no evidence of it, but my instincts tell me that my putting that message into that book is why I later received a whole ton of shit to fall on me, which has been used to manipulate my life in various ways by other energy vampires, from tramps to cops, from masons to druggies, as it is regarded by manipulators as proof positive that I am evidently a heroin dealer and heroin addict which is only a part of the slander campaign that has been spread around about me, basically because people are envious of my success. I have not ever taken heroin, nor do I ever intend to. I was once offered it by someone I didn't know at a party I went to as a student, and I have counseled people who have been trying to get off it after they went cold turkey; my advice to anyone in that situation is fuck 'em. Heroin users and ex heroin users are cunts, even decades after they have got clean; it turns people into some of the worst type of vampires and cleverest manipulators, permanently.
In Holland, the statistics are as follows; the number of people taking heroin ten years after decriminalization of cannabis was the same as it was before decriminalization of cannabis. The average age range of heroin users ten years after decriminalization of cannabis is ten years older than it was before decriminalization of cannabis. Conclusion; the same individuals taking heroin before decriminalization of cannabis, are the same individuals taking it ten years later, more or less overdoses and a few newcomers. In Britain where cannabis has not been decriminalized, the average age range of heroin users is static decade in and decade out.

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Tag Archives: Bobby Santiago
Filmography: Vivian Volta (1974)
Basic Information: Direction Bobby Santiago; Story and Screenplay Antonio Pascua; Cast: Vilma Santos (in the title role), Edgar Mortiz, Eddie Garcia, Paquito Diaz, Romy Diaz, Leopoldo Salcedo, Leonor Vergara, Darius Razon and Cristina Reyes; Cinematography: Alfonso Alvarez; Music: D'Amarillo; Production Company: GPS Productions; Release Date: 12 October 1974 – Andrew Leavold (READ MORE)
Plot Description: Martial arts Vilma fights bad guys as Vivian Volta.
Film Achievement: Box office hit of 1974
Film Review: "…There was a time in the 70s, particularly in 1973 and 1974, when a spate of Pinoy fantasy films featuring Pinoy superheroes graced our big screens. I think it was Vilma Santos' Lipad Darna Lipad that started it all. It ushered in this wave of so-called trend in fantasy movies. Besides Darna, Vilma came up with Wonder Vi (1973), Phantom Lady (1974) and Vivian Volta (1974); Nora Aunor had Super Gee (1973) based on a popular komik serial; Superman and Batman had their local counterparts in Zoom, Zoom Superman (1973) with Ariel Ureta and Fight Batman Fight with Victor Wood. Vilma came out with another sequel of Darna titled Darna and the Giants, also in 1973; Dolphy had his own version of Captain Barbell in Captain Barbell Boom (1973). It was the movie, Supergirl (1973) which starred Pinky, that made a major impact among the moviegoers that time. It was a surprise hit that year. It was reshown several times due to insistent public demand…" – Simon Santos (READ MORE)
Mad Scientist vs Volta – "…Eddie Garcia is a mad scientist who plans to destroy the world, and comebacking star Leonor Vergara is his wife in GPS Production's Quezon City Film Fest entry "Volta" in full color. It stars Vilma Santos and Edgar Mortiz under the direction of Bobby Santiago…"
Fight Scene – "…In 1974, our house became a setting of GPS Productions' "Vivian Volta." Vilma Santos shot one scene, a fight scene…Edgar Mortiz , who was also in the movie, accompanied Vi to the set. I read in some gossip column that Vilma and Edgar that time had already problem with their relationship. Basketball star Dave Brodett, who was rumored to be courting Vilma, paid the young actress a visit at the set. Several scenes were also shot the following day, with veteran actor Eddie Garcia, playing a mad scientist and comebacking actress Leonor Vergara, who played his wife…" – Posted by Simon Santos, Video 48, 21 September 2017 (READ MORE)
Filmography: Big Ike's Happening (1976)
Basic Information: Directed: Pablo Santiago and Bobby Santiago; Writing credits: Tommy C. David, Santiago and Lozada; Cast: Tirso Cruz III, Walter Navarro, Ike Lozada, Aurora Salve, Gina Alajar, Jojit Paredes, Dondon Nakar, Arnold Gamboa, Maribel Aunor, Winnie Santos, German Moreno, Allan Valenzuala, Inday Badiday, Doyet Ilagan, Ben David, Edward Campos, Lilian Laing, Aruray; Special Guest Stars: Vilma Santos, Nora Aunor, Perla Bautista, Charlie Davao, Esperanza Fabon, Bella Flores, Lito Legaspi, Christopher De Leon, Van De Leon, Pinky Montilla, Alma Moreno, Dencio Padilla, Eddie Perigrina, Andy Poe, jerry Pons, Ric Rodrigo, Gloria Romero, Daria Ramirez, Darius Razon, Marianne Dela Riva, Eddie San Jose, Ricky Santiago, Lorna Tolentino, Eddie Villamayor, and Vic Vargas; Executive Producer: Larry Santiago; Original Music: D'Amarillo; Cinematography: Joe Batac Jr.
Plot Description: No Available Data
Film Achievement: Ranked 32nd on Top-US-Grossing Tagalog-Language Feature Films Released In 1976
Film Review: Enrique "Big Ike" Lozada (August 13, 1940-March 8, 1995) was a Filipino comedian, actor and TV host. He was born on August 13, 1940 in Iloilo City. He started acting at the age of 11 on the movie Mga Bituin ng Kinabukasan with the younger Susan Roces. He died on March 10, 1995 in Manila, of heart attack. He was 54. His had lain at Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City. – Wikipedia (READ MORE)
IMDB: Big Ike's Happening (1976)
IMDB: Tirso Cruz III
IMDB: Walter Navarro
IMDB: Ike Lozada
IMDB: Jojit Paredes
IMDB: Gina Alajar
Ike Lozada – There's Always Me (Video)


Outgoing Chair Pam Bond, left, was recognized for her service as Chair of the Board and presented with a Certificate of Appreciation signed by CDFA Secretary Karen Ross and PD Control Program Statewide Coordinator Bob Wynn, right.
At its January 22, 2018 meeting, the PD/GWSS Board elected new officers to serve during 2018. The new officers are Ryan Metzler (Chair) of Fresno, Keith Horn (Vice Chair) of St. Helena, and Domonic Rossini (Treasurer) of Modesto.
Outgoing chair Pam Bond, of Oakville, was elected chair of the PD/GWSS Board for a one-year term at the January 2017 meeting, succeeding outgoing chair Nat DiBuduo, of Fresno.
Ryan Metzler is the new chair of the PD/GWSS Board.
Services, the property management division of Prudential Ag Investments, where he managed many farm operations in the West. He now is the owner and operator of Fruita Del Sol, a certified organic producer, and farms 200 acres of winegrapes and tree fruit in the Fresno/Sanger area. Metzler is also a Lt. Cmdr. in the U.S. Navy Reserve with 27 years of service.