Yet again, Nicholas Laughlin is not watching the Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bahrain World Cup qualifier match. And yet again, I’m relaying the radio broadcast to my cousin in Washington D.C. via Skype. Nicholas is supposed to join us as well but no sign of him as yet. . . . Technorati Tags: caribbean, football, [...]
I’ve just uploaded an article I wrote back in 1998 for Caribbean Beat about the Caribbean’s participation in the World Cup (sorry it’s only a scanned image–one of these days I’ll get around to posting a text version). By the way, have you checked out Caribbean Beat‘s newly launched blog? And put yourself on CFR’s [...]
This just in from listener Christopher Fox: Hi Georgia, Have been an avid listener to CFR for about 6 months, since I got an ipod. Love the show. I am a Dubliner living in California. Big football fan (soccer over here) Anyway just want to wish T&T the best of luck tomorrow against Bahrain. Have [...]
For the past few weeks, members of the editorial team of the magazine Caribbean Beat (yours truly among them) have been testing and shaping a weblog for the magazine. Today the thing finally went “live”, and I think it’s going to be good. Check it out here, get the RSS feed here, and make sure [...]
Let us know where you’re located by adding yourself to CFR’s Frappr Map. (Thanks to Paddlevan for setting this up!)
Who knows what other pressing issues will arise before the time comes for me to write my Global Voices Caribbean blogosphere roundup on Friday, so here’s a quick summary of the buzz re: football from the T&T blogosphere (as of 2:06pm): Nicholas, in the wake of his 18 posts about not watching the match, returns [...]
This may sound absurd, but I was convinced I’d lost my podcasting powers. Here, thankfully, is evidence that they’re still partially intact. CFR #35 finds me babbling about football (the soccer kind) and other matters on the evening of the Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bahrain World Cup qualifier match. And what would make people think [...]
So the match ended in a draw a few minutes ago, which makes that stale news, and which means I now have to find some other way to make CFR #35 exciting. . . . And — awww — Brian Lara just called commentator Allyson Hennessy from Australia with a good luck message for the [...]
They scored. Then we scored. The radio broadcast is ignoring the ads they’re supposed to run. A penalty kick for Bahrain–but they missed. We still need two more goals to secure our position before the next and last match–and only a few minutes to score them in . . . Has Nicholas started phoning it [...]
As I said, I was in the middle of recording CFR #35 when the Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bahrain World Cup qualifier began, and in the segment I recorded just before breaking I said I’d check back in after half-time. But of course at half-time my mixer was tied up relaying the radio broadcast to [...]
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Nicholas, who is the furthest thing from a football fan, ended up with the record for the greatest number of blog posts on the Trinidad vs. Bahrain World Cup qualifier? Because the man is at it again, here and here. Technorati Tags: football, soca warriors, soccer, trinidad, trinidad tobago, world [...]
So I’m not blogging the match, but I am doing my own little broadcast of sorts. Christiana, my cousin in Washington DC, e-mailed a while ago complaining that she wasn’t able to get the match on TV, so I just hooked up an FM radio (my iRiver, in fact) and am sending her the match [...]
Nicholas just called to find out if I was “blogging the match”, the match of course being the Trinidad & Tobago vs. Bahrain World Cup qualifier going on on the television set behind me. No, I’m not blogging the match, but I am in the middle of recording a podcast where I may talk about [...]
Listening to Chris Conly’s CCRadio podcast last night, I realise the song he opens his 39th show (yes, Chris is more far more diligent than the people–erm, person–at CFR) with, is a cover of André Tanker’s “Basement Party”. And not only a cover, but a cover I’m familiar with, performed by some folks I know. [...]
See Ryan Naraine. Ryan is wearing a CFR hoodie purchased at the CFR CaféPress store. Ryan looks hot. Now see Ryan Naraine sitting at the computer. Ryan is wearing a CFR hoodie. Ryan looks hot — and productive. (So hot and productive, in fact, that you can almost ignore the fact that he’s using a [...]
My fifth Global Voices post is now online. It was written in the wee hours of the morning in a hotel room in Barbados, so hope it’s coherent. At least it’s fairly short.
I’m writing this from Barbados, where I’ve been since Tuesday, and just returned to the hotel to find several e-mails from Nicholas announcing various goings-on to do with Yasin Abu Bakr, the head of the the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, the group which attempted to stage a coup d’état in Trinidad in 1990, including the fact that he’s [...]
This week’s Global Voices post was written and e-mailed from Washington Dulles airport, so it’s a little more concise than usual — which I’m sure may in fact be a relief to several of you. Check it out here, and while you’re at it, take a look at this account of the Paris riots and [...]
I returned home from a week abroad this evening to learn that Delphine went missing on October 31. It seems that the Halloween festivities in my neighbourhood now incorporate fireworks and bamboo-bursting, and she must have panicked at the noise and somehow escaped under the fence and ran away. Needless to say, I’m devastated, though [...]
How times have changed: it took CFR five months to get listed in the iTunes Music Store directory, yet I only submitted the Caribbean Free Video feed to them yesterday and CFV’s already listed there this morning (though the image seems to have become detatched somewhere along the way). Subscribe to CFV at iTunes by [...]