T&T’s official World Cup song – it gets worse: Over at the Trinidad & Tobago World Cup blog, Stacy-Marie Ishmael reports today on developments in the scandalous outsourcing of the official Trinidad & Tobago World Cup song to two composers in Leeds. Apparently there’s now a lead singer, but that’s the least of it. Come [...]
Today Trinidad & Tobago celebrates Shouter Baptist Liberation Day — with a public holiday, of course, so I’m at home playing my usual game of catch-up, without clients, editors (the Trinidadian ones, at least) and callers trying to reach the Curepe Junior Secondary School (our office telephone number shares six of seven digits with this [...]
8:42pm: Here watching CNC News. Six-year old murder victim Sean Luke‘s uncle was just interviewed over the telephone. It appears that the US authorities (Sean was born in Michigan) are showing up the local law enforcement officials very badly. Criminal attorney Prakash Ramadar being interviewed now. Shelley Dass (news presenter) is asking what kind of [...]
Sean Luke I am certain that I will kill to protect a child from being physically harmed. Thankfully, this theory is yet to be tested. All I can say right now is that the murder of six year-old Sean Luke is the most gruesome story I can remember ever reading, and by that I’m referring [...]
Delphine, captured this evening in flagrante delicto — or, if you like, red-pawed — in front of the iMac. This should silence those who believe that I am the true writer of Rhymes with Blog.
This is ridiculous. Out-of-touch folks trying to control something they don’t (no longer?) participate in or understand. Dogs in the manger. Understanding and resolving this is where these characters’ energies should be directed. But of course it’s easier to fantasise about teaching “your flock” to wine cleanly, or not to wine at all (either way [...]
Came home this afternoon and found fur on my office chair and paw prints on the computer keyboard. This can only mean one thing: Delphine’s blogging again.
Me with some of members of the Digital Audio class (Group Two). (L to R) John, Aletia, Michelle, Gillian, yours truly. Today I completed the final session of the digital audio module I’ve been teaching up at the School of Education of the University of the West Indies, and these past few days I’ve been [...]
If you happen to be one of my clients, editors, prospective personal trainers, pets or one of the many friends who’ve been complaining that I’ve been scarce lately, I advise you to stop reading right here, for what I’m about to announce is not going to sound like good news to you: I’ve started contributing [...]
To dye for. Photo by Nicholas Laughlin Occasionally I count my blessings that I don’t make a living as a stripper. Last night, emerging from the shower, was one of those times. How, in the middle of writhing around poles and lap-dancing, would I ever have explained all those purplish and green marks left on [...]
On February 22, 2006, just ten days after he was appointed Northeast Asia editor for Global Voices, my colleague Hao Wu was detained by the Chinese government. To date he has not been charged with a crime. Hao is a documentary filmmaker and blogger, and Global Voices has set up a Free Hao Wu web [...]
The moment I’ve been dreading arrived yesterday. Yes, I was tagged, by the wily Sanjiva, no less. I have nothing against tagging and memes and their ilk, but I suspect my mind might, as a sort of mental paralysis sets in whenever I am faced with the prospect of naming “favourites” or “bests”. But I [...]
From the March 12 episode of The Sopranos: INT. DR. MELFI’S OFFICE – DAY Tony Soprano and Dr. Melfi (his shrink) are discussing his concern for his increasingly addled Uncle Junior. DR. MELFI Have you considered getting your uncle some live-in help? TONY Well, we got a girl comes in days, she’s, uh, from Trinidad. [...]
John La Rose (middle), flanked by Trinidadian novelist Sam Selvon (L) and Jamaican writer Andrew Salkey (R). Photo by Horace Ové Today’s edition of the BBC World Service programme “Outlook” devotes a segment on Trinidad-born, UK-based activist John La Rose, who passed away in London on February 28, 2006. From the Outlook web site: Known [...]
Every so often you visit a place so magically atmospheric that you simply point the camera and images of astounding beauty compose themselves in the viewfinder. Even the mistakes — the wonky angles, the moments when the camera malfunctions — turn out serendipitous, and on such occasions, I’ve noticed, attractive human subjects have a habit [...]
I’m a bit of a sucker for graciousness. And few human qualities fill me with greater respect than a person’s ability to admit that one has made a mistake. Rudeness, crassness, cynicism, defensiveness, unnecessary displays of aggression — all these I can find examples of simply by turning on the television or radio, walking down [...]
Just a quick one to say that the “Joan Armatrading in Trinidad” radio documentary which aired on Tuesday has been archived at the BBC2 web site and can be accessed via the “Listen Again” link. Technorati Tags: joan armatrading, bbc2, st. kitts, trinidad and tobago, caribbean, music
- Enjoyed a rare day today away from the computer (and up in the mountains!), but where I am it’s still three hours before the end of International Women’s Day, so not too late to echo the sentiments of my friend Gregory Sloane-Seale: “Know Justice, Know Equity, Know Peace”. – Farewell Gordon Parks and Ali [...]
Had I been the type to blog about hobnobbing with celebrities, I would have mentioned that I recently had the pleasure of spending some time with singer Joan Armatrading, who was here back in January with Kate Bland and Susan Marling of JustRadio making a radio documentary for BBC2 on Trinidad & Tobago and Joan’s [...]