"Sugar and Spies" was originally released on November 5, 1966.  It was actually a six-minute film showing Wile E. Coyote obtaining a "spy kit" from a fleeing bandit and tries it out on the Road Runner. He tries sleeping gas, mailing a time bomb, a James Bond-type "spy car" and radar- guided rockets, but (as usual) all to no avail.

For some reason, I took a fancy for its title.  A few months back when we had this tropical send-off party for Cookie Bartolome, I made a quick note of what I could perhaps do once I take on reverse migration in later years.  I guess I could go back to Bacolod and chronicle the city's nocturnal events.  No, I don't want to be Maurice Arcache despite having this liking to use the term "palanggas".  I'll just serve as the journalist lurking by the sidelines making mental notes of each idiosyncratic Negrense at the ball.

With this kind of agenda, I guess there could be no better by-line than "Sugar and Spies" .  

Just before I moved to Manila, I was writing the Arts and Culture column for the Visayan Daily Star.  The column used to be called "Artspeak".  Now as I ponder, I can't return as "Artspeak" anymore.  My views have changed.  Bacolod has changed too.

Since there are still so many untold stories about Negros, "Sugar and Spies" is much, much better.