January 2011
14 posts
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To all my people everywhere, I bid you good...
December 2010
18 posts
I write because I do.
My favourite primary school teacher reminds me often of the stories I used to write when I was in her classes. She would ask whenever I see her whether I’d been to those places that I wrote about or done the things I wanted to do. I wish I could find those old papers and copybooks because I can remember none of it.
In Standard Five, in lessons one afternoon, I wrote a piece of dialect...
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A Merry Christmas to all my peeps on Buzz, Tumblr,...
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if...
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Christmas 1914, World War 1, and soldiers from...
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Huh!
It makes sense for them to maintain an appearance of disunity and discord. It gives them the perfect excuse for never having a straight story.
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VIDEO: Silent Monks sing the Hallelujah Chorus...
“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly.
When we know this, we become...”
– Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an...”
– John F. Kennedy
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Sita Sings the Blues
One of the most charming films I’ve seen in a long time, Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley.
Sub-titled in one poster as “The Greatest Break-up Story Ever Told”, it intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced...
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous...”
– An Autobiography, Agatha Christie (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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THE SECOND COMING - William Butler Yeats...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
...
Now I am convinced that the Mayor of Port of Spain...
U R G E N T PHASE II PAN GROOVE Hamilton Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain 358 7664 / 305 7532
2010-12-02
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dear Friend of Pan,
Re: Attempt to remove Phase II from their pan yard
Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe of Phase II was summoned to a meeting with the Mayor of Port of Spain last week Thursday. His manager Errol Skerret attended and was advised that...
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“Criminals are opportunists, they prey on your weaknesses … and if they...”
– Hon. Senator Fitzgerald Hinds, during his contribution to the debate on the Interception of Communications Bill on November 30th, 2010.