THE BAKUNADOS

Landry du Lauzon and the Knights Templar fled Ciudad Jimenez to escape the abominable reincarnation of Michael Corleone and Vicenzo Cassano as Miguel Garza, The Unknown Hitman from Tokyo who stole The Story of El Cholo Adrian, the Mexican kendo master known as El Dragon who predicted The Return of a Warrior to Culiacan, the city where Knightfall S2 midwifed the rebirth of Grima, Gunhild and Magnea who were conceived in the slopes of the Katla volcano near Vik, a place of happiness where tiim na pata and pritong bangus graced Thursday night before The Bakunados assembled to fete Balong's unexpected academic conquest with fried liempo and Spam and all the honors that Bakal 2 can bestow to him including a Sunday brunch of fully loaded lomi, ginisang tokwa't baboy and pork sisig.   

Alms for the dead and a Special Communication permeated the failure of Vitality's app and the disappointment of a fully loaded lugaw which the Phantom Biker blunted by flirting with a petite pot seller, she who crashed the peloton so Julian Alaphillipe can wear yellow in Landernau and Mathieu van der Poel in Mur-de-Bretagne in the name of the chicharong baboy, salted eggs and canned tuna that were offered for a Sunday mass. 

23 DE JUNIO

Carpets of wild kulitis grew abundantly along the banks of Rio Hondo where The Curse of La Llorona bleed extinct sapodilla trees to feed the legend of Maria, Marina and Rosalia who haunted the streets of Los Angeles with a necklace of sharp pigweed thorns that tore into the throath of the Tragic Jungle between Mexico and Belize as the Order's delusion of normalcy miserably failed to fit into the harsh realities of the pandemic while another Thursday night segued into an orchestra of dinakdakan, paksiw na biya, lechong manok and the usual tokwa't baboy and cold Red Horse that enticed Xtabay out of her room in her brown half-pants to stir the zombies into an orgy with Jung-seok and Min-jung in the Peninsula.

The first Saturday came on the 3rd week of the month for a fellowship of those swabbed, the kinilaw na bangus dueling with kaldereta, sisig, gising-gising and pinapaitan as whiskey and beer collided in Campos on the eve of a pagan tradition where spaghetti, fried chicken, cheese sticks and mojos were offered to ward off evil and appease Bulan's guardian spirit as he turned 23 in the time of the pandemic.    

Meanwhile in Paris, Assane Diop finally extracted vengeance on Hubert Pellegrini who mutated into a horcrux of a hundred musical chairs lining the bike trails of Munoz as the Phantom Biker rode with Lupin to Brest for Season 2 and the 108th edition of the Tour de France.   

RUMORS (not Session Road)

1,684 concerts and 44 years later, The Pelvis from Tupelo emerged in Bakal 2 through a Konzert original 8" portable rechargeable trolley speaker to grace the weekly conclave of the Thursday Group  with a rockabilly recital featuring bottles of chilled Red Horse, the usual tokwa't baboy, grilled liempo and boiled peanuts, deep fried tilapia and blanched okra, and a cavalcade of OPMs that shook the foundations of Graceland while Unit 42 investigated hundreds of sightings in Belgium where Elvis Presley (The Searcher) was rumored to have hacked into Widow Sam who fell in love with Silent Alice who went by the name of Th3m1s.  

The Tuesday Club is in a state of accelerated insomnia, Awake but adrift in Cabo San Lucas where Jill Adams made a name as the woman who would not sleep, where Captain Wade Malloy's "Knot Enough: fishing boat and Skipper Ernie Cossio's "Mucho Bueno" yacht dueled for a whale-sized blue marlin, where Dr. Jose Rizal was remembered with a Blue Miracle and honored with a wreath of packed blood from Fort Magsaysay. 

The Phantom Biker's conquest of the bike trails and walking paths of Nueva Ecija secured him a place in the podium where he squeezed his kampilan with Richard Carapaz's hour glass in Andermatt, Tadej Pogacar's wheel in Novo mesto and Remco Evenepoel's silver plate in Beringen as the curtains were raised for the world's biggest cycling spectacle.

MEMOIRS FROM TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

On The Least Day Expected, Armand Roulin left Arles for Auvers-sur-Oise only to find out that Marguerite Gachet has joined the Movistar Team in Pamplona because Loving Vincent required chasing the shadows of Nario Quintana and Richard Carapaz whose palmares are both High on the Hog; the okra, rice and yam left rotting in Cotonou as Stephen Satterfield miserably failed Season 2 of The Kominsky Method despite Sandy being distracted by a Russian hooker who left The Gullah of Charleston burning on hearth cooking, Juneteenth remembered with a cowboy's stew in Galveston, the vaccine boosted with two beers and a salty calamares in Maligaya while chocolates, cookies and candies complimented the usual sisig and boiled peanuts of Thursday night in Bakal 2 where bottles of Red Horse chilled at sub-zero from the fragrance of a passing deciduous tree. 

Nario Quintana tried but faded as the 73rd edition of the Dauphine concluded in Les Gets while in Fraunfeld, Richard Caparaz positioned himself for the big mountains where the Phantom Biker received the 13 Commandments from Peter/Moses who was originally from Guimba before moving to Belgium where Paulien Rooze is the exception among old and tired faces.