- He wined down the place (and got wined on) on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, and keeps saying that his “memory bank was erased” over the Carnival weekend, but that didn’t stop Nicholas “Nikipedia” Laughlin from being quoted TWICE by keynote speaker Edward Baugh (Emeritus Professor of English at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica) at yesterday evening’s opening of the 25th annual West Indian Literature conference. Both quotes were taken from Nikipedia’s review of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Also referenced in Professor Baugh’s talk were two other writers named Derek Walcott and Antonio Benitez-Rojo.
- Seems that Jonathan Ali hasn’t outgrown Carnival after all. After being spotted on j’ouvert morning perched on a fire hydrant in front of the Red House, covered from head to toe in clay and sporting a devil tail with a light bulb on the end and cursing the Prime Minister (photos coming soon, we hope!), a somewhat cleaner, soberer Jonathan appeared again on the streets of Woodbrook on Carnival Tuesday morning. Jonathan makes an attempt to regain his dignity in his latest blog post by reproducing a poem by Derek Walcott, but rumour has it that next year he may actually don a costume.
Wow, he was quoted by Baugh?! Baugh used to teach me, he is good! Big up, Nicholas!
Cool, Mad Bull — and seems you’re quite the renaissance man: lit. skills, IT skills and let’s not forget those wicked finding-photos-of-scantily-clad-women skills!
But Baugh did seem like somebody you’d want to have as a teacher.