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musicCardinal rule of my worklife: if there's a mega-process, simplify it.

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musicI adore Andre. Want to be like him when I grow up. Can't wait to read his book, though not sure when I'll get to...More Agassi Open - the 60minutes interview ... Part 2Good luck to Richard Gasquet with the cocaine charges. It's not a performance-enhancer, rather the opposite effect - shouldn't that be important in judging these cases?And good good luck to Billy. He's been in jail nearly

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musicViktor & Rolf always inspire to lose the walls, artistically speaking.Watch the Fashion Show and hours of video in their archives.Check out their website tour. No wonder Rufus loves them!

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musicand waiting for 'Tech. Can you believe I'm itching to get back to Caltech?A bunch of poetry books in the pipeline. I tried to stop writing them for a while, then someone upset me and I started a third book to be titled "Big Girl" with poems about the yuppie/wealthier-class young woman in Nigerian/similar climes. I just started reading a Nigerian novel I found around the house that is very

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musicWhat is the nature of time? Read the winning essay by Julian Barbour on The Nature of Time, then browse more Expository Essays on the same topic at the FQXi, the Foundational Questions Institute.Shortly, you will be able to view essays on this year's topic, "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?"

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musicCOMMITTEE FOR RELEVANT ART, CORA (Winner of Prince Claus Award 2006)We Are Cultural 'Landscapists'. The MISSION is to create an enabling environment for the flourishing of the contemporary arts of Nigeria and to increase human capacity of the continent. VISION is to make Culture the Prime Investment Destination for the Country and the Continent by 2018.I attended the CORA book party

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musicHONEYMOON By Tosin Otitojuootitoju@hotmail.comTradition holds that newlyweds would spend thirty days away from their friends, family - their routines. The period is spent visiting sites of history and culture. As the new couple soared together, gliding among monuments, they would learn about love and permanent marriage. This obligation is so sacred that every newly-married couple in the

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musicMark your calendars. California (especially San Francisco) October 15 - 25, 2009.

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musicNaguib Mahfouz, one of the world's great people. Biography @ Wikipedia Pictures @ images.google.comHe died August 30, 2006. Guess I was too preoccupied to register the obituary.

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musicFull of music, laughs, and flow, and maybe just a little hustle.

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Shayo, by Bigiano. Shayo means booze.The kid is so cute, and so positive. I so dig androgynous hotness.

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musicI met this writer, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo yesterday.Read more about her at 234next, and at sunnewsonline (so people really do it everyday)I thought her elegant and...gracious? A new friend, looking to help me learn more about publishing options, brought me in to her office at the University of Lagos for a chat. Today I read her award-winning children's book "My Cousin Sammy." It made me

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musicIt's my instinct to make love, art, whatever; not war. Does everyone share this instinct? Not these city people. I guess chickens in a coop behave nothing like free-range chicken too. Crazy Lagos.I have a short story from earlier this year: hope you like it. Wrote it in the middle of the night in Yola (after listening to Rufus' Natasha a lot I guess) Yowz, I miss Yola.Natasha - A short

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musicI so hate hustling, you know, that big city mentality, me fighting working against the world.

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musicSorry

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musicI read The Audacity Of Hope last week. I read it very quickly. It's a good book featuring Obama's thoughts on US Government, Money, Race, God, Policy, Family, etc.I'm reading Dreams From My Father this week. Now, that is an infinitely interesting book. I'm glad it's so long. I really like the end, which narrates, finally, his Kenyan family history. (I had to read the end before I

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musicBirthday is on May Day folks.tonight: cartoons and pineapple.tomorrow: whatever's fun.Life is amazing, even without electricity in my house.there's a lot of fun stuff I could tell you, but my Papa might think it immodest. You know I'll still tell.Girls are weird. Boys make more sense. Someone I know (yours truly) decided to try polygamy. She tried it. Her boyfriend returned two days

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musicIt's funny how well Nutella goes with aish baladee. One is an Italian chocolate-hazelnut spread, beloved of travelling students everywhere, baladee is the barely-there-light Egyptian local bread. Yum.It's funny how lovely dark-haired white guys look in Adire/Batik, the locally-dyed cloth famous among Yorubas.Yes, I know this post could use some visuals :-o...so I just added the pics and

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musicLast months in AdamawaAfter the last post, electricity returned, and we've had so many hours per day now that I'm mildly sleep-deprived. Basically, whenever we have power, I'm up "using" it, to watch DVDs, read, etc. Watching Indian films now : finaly saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a tearjerker love story with all the biggest names (except Aishwarya), Girlfriends is a surprising thriller - think

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musiccybercafe's kicking me out. hi.classes started finally. fun. yay. it's hot. but i can't bitch. happy to be hot for a change. no fucking flash of electricity at home for the whole week. then again i've never paid the electricity bill. we never do. never will. too funny.

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musicI'm going to cry when it's time to leave this town. Almost cried the day before leaving for three weeks of holidays at Christmas. Why?

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musicSana'a, Yemen"Its value lies ... in the unforgettable impression made by the whole ­ an entire city of splendid buildings combining to create an urban effect of extraordinary fascination and beauty."Read all about the architecture of Sana'aCairo, EgyptI recently found out what "art nouveau" is. Many of the faded Cairo buildings are art nouveau then. So Cairo's golden age must have been

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musicYou know, I owe you a lot of writing. In particular, those film festivals in San Francisco, I still need to tell you about the films. With the time it takes for them to become commercially successful, some of them may just be making it into the big theaters now.For now, I'll introduce a film (and novel) that were very popular at the San Francisco International Film Festival of 2007. Not

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musicIt's cold here. Hehe.No, seriously, Yola is probably a tough sell being so "isolated" and all, but I feel it's paradise. Nowadays the nights get "cold" - in the late teens. That's Centigrade, not Fahrenheit. It's about 70F at night. Ah, the joy. The days now reach about 30, as opposed to nearly 40 (I agree, 40 is hot.)I still haven't found an inexpensive swimming place...though I

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musicI like all these people: Martina, Rafa, Jelena, Ana, ...Stories by Sarah Thurmond, on TENNIS.com When You’re Good to Martina…You may have heard that Martina Navratilova came in second on the British reality show “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” but what you may not have heard is that she caught the acting bug. (Possibly through one of these critters?) In an interview with The Times of

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