It just occurred to me that, with the West Indies facing Sri Lanka tomorrow in the Cricket World Cup, I should get a move on posting another of those old cricket articles I promised I would while my home team’s still in the tournament. This profile of Michael Holding, which appeared in Caribbean Beat in [...]
The meme-ing impulse goes against the grain of my mental processes, and being tagged usually makes me break out in hives. But this one from Geoffrey was refreshingly unchallenging. Here are the rules: 1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only 2. List 3 events that occurred on that da [...]
As I write this, there’s a bush bug* on my desk. A few minutes ago (as the photo above attests) it was performing calisthenics on the rim of a drinking glass; now it’s burrowing under an envelope. I don’t like having bush bugs around, but as I tend to keep the windows open, I expect [...]
Lloyd Best is gone and we are all alone now. So lonely and alone now. Left, bereft, to scramble in the Caribbean centre that should be our world. Unless, in time, those thoughts become flesh. So lonely and alone till then. Alone and so very lonely, wondering when. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking [...]
We will desperately miss–because we desperately need, now more than ever–his hard-won but lightly worn knowledge, his insight, his optimism, his humour, his integrity. No one has understood the Caribbean better, and few have lived so selflessly. From Nikipedia’s brief but extremely moving tribute to Lloyd Best, “one of the truly great men of the [...]
3canal in rehearsal, March 15, 2007 Dare we say that CFR the podcast is back? Episode #45 arrives complete with cheap gimmickry and, fortunately, a bit of substance provided by the members of CFR’s house band, 3canal, whom we visit during a rehearsal of the repeat performance of this year’s edition of The 3canal Show [...]
Because I have no time to blog in the way that will satisfy someone like, say, Vernon; because I’ve been losing sight, lately, of the fact that I was once capable of writing paragraphs more than two lines long and not preceded by a subject line; and because it’s cricket season, I’ve decided to dust [...]
He looks like a man, but I suspect he’s really a machine (he claims the objects he carries around in that small bag are insulin and a glucose meter; but has anyone really checked?) Only a machine could live-blog the way Ethan Zuckerman does. This week he’s been live-blogging the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, [...]
Doing the laundry this morning, a flash of yellow caught my eye through the breeze blocks. It was the subject of this photo, alighting on the fence. I ran for my camera, hoping he would stay put for a few minutes, and, miraculously, he did. I don’t know much about birds. The fact that I [...]
Yasir Arafat just took a beautiful catch off one of the South Africans. I couldn’t tell you which South African, as the stand I’m sitting in here at the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial ground is right next to the venue’s sole scoreboard, and the pitch is too far away for me to read the names [...]
I received the link to this video some days ago from Oso, who ran into one of the subjects of the piece — our mutual friend Marvin Hall — up at Stanford U the other day. I met Marvin, who is Jamaican, at the Global Voices summit in London in 2005, and the long-memoried among [...]
54-46 may or may not have been Toots Hibbert’s actual prisoner ID number, but I’m sticking by mine: C92. My prison is only metaphorical, of course: the CWC World Cup ticket office at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, where I sit now on a concrete staircase waiting for the ticket office people to open the door [...]
Seen from Diego Martin, in north-western Trinidad. Photos of the eclipse from other parts of the world here. UPDATE: And here’s Boris engaging a little Flickr evangelisation using my photo along with one from blackbeltjones. Technorati Tags: eclipse, trinidad, caribbean
