Saturday, April 22, 2017
It's Taurus season. Park the drama.
Music: PRBLMS by 6lack // D.I.L.L.I.G.A. by SDC and Mojeed
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Saturday, April 08, 2017
The Legend of High-Tail the mare and her beloved stallion Sam
friendships come and go ... the social lives of horses ... like
following a soap opera
Sitting Bull, stallion Sam, and High Tail
a time ago
star . in
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
One-word astrology: The signs as Forces of Nature
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Physics, Nature, Matter
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FIRE
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Aries
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Lava
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Leo
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Sunshine
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Sagittarius
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Spark
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AIR
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Libra
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Air
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Aquarius
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Solar
Wind
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Gemini
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Talk
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WATER
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Cancer
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Ice
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Scorpio
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Steam
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Stream
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Taurus
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Plain
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Virgo
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Cave
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© Tosin Otitoju, 2017
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Grown-up hip-hop
SDC's Clone Wars III arrived and maybe a dozen listens in, I’m starting to really discover this album.
Yes of course it was nice at first, and there were some instant hits and instant favourites, but it gets even better after you’ve played the hell out of it.
Frank Ocean’s Blonde is like that too, but I haven’t played the hell out of it yet. Anyone listen to Blonde?
To extend the analogy, Channel Orange is Clone Wars II, while Nostalgia, Ultra is Clone Wars Volume One. #YES! Totally.
The other album Endless is... I don’t know? Small Chops? The Collectiv3 project? Both Small Chops and The Collective LP?
The Dreamer Project?
And like with Frank Ocean, there is sort of a miscellaneous Show Dem Camp album of unreleased music (which on my laptop is a folder labelled BitsNPieces)
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Yes of course it was nice at first, and there were some instant hits and instant favourites, but it gets even better after you’ve played the hell out of it.
Frank Ocean’s Blonde is like that too, but I haven’t played the hell out of it yet. Anyone listen to Blonde?
To extend the analogy, Channel Orange is Clone Wars II, while Nostalgia, Ultra is Clone Wars Volume One. #YES! Totally.
The other album Endless is... I don’t know? Small Chops? The Collectiv3 project? Both Small Chops and The Collective LP?
The Dreamer Project?
And like with Frank Ocean, there is sort of a miscellaneous Show Dem Camp album of unreleased music (which on my laptop is a folder labelled BitsNPieces)
#CW3 to you and yours. Godspeed. Happy New Year https://t.co/SvUpYGKD7B— Show Dem Camp (@ShowDemCamp) December 31, 2016
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Friday, March 10, 2017
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Absoluut
Previous Viktor&Rolf post
"...inspire to lose the walls, artistically speaking"
Previous viktor and rolf poem
"Abracadabra - It's the new collection..."
Now ThIS,
Boulevard of Broken Dreams,
is absolutely the pinnacle of beauty:
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"...inspire to lose the walls, artistically speaking"
Previous viktor and rolf poem
"Abracadabra - It's the new collection..."
Now ThIS,
Boulevard of Broken Dreams,
is absolutely the pinnacle of beauty:
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Friday, January 27, 2017
Papa and pikin
I'd heard that I Don't Want To Miss A Thing was written and sung by a father for his daughter (Aerosmith / Liv Tyler; I had the Armageddon soundtrack so I know every word, every pause in that amazing song)...
...and Because You Loved Me (performed by Celine Dion; Nigerians played the shege out of that Falling Into You album sha!) was written by leading songwriter Dianne Warren, inspired by her father.
It turns out that both were written by the same person.
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...and Because You Loved Me (performed by Celine Dion; Nigerians played the shege out of that Falling Into You album sha!) was written by leading songwriter Dianne Warren, inspired by her father.
It turns out that both were written by the same person.
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Friday, January 13, 2017
Let's make fun of Hillary too
Everybody watched 'Diaris God o!' the video, but I thought it was beneath me. I have a friend who does a killer imitation of the former first lady Patience Jonathan's passionate but aesthetically questionable oratory...
"they want to make our children a widow..."
"My fellow widows!"
But now the world has self-proclaimed "ratings machine" Donald J. Trump, and late-night comedy is more essential and funny than ever before. So that's what I've been watching.
What is not fair is that everybody seems to have forgotten Hillary Clinton. I won't let that happen (exclamation mark!)
First attempts:
1. Hillary cries for Trump
2. Flashback to the early days of the private email server:
If you think you're funnier, share your own jokes in the comments :D :D
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"they want to make our children a widow..."
"My fellow widows!"
But now the world has self-proclaimed "ratings machine" Donald J. Trump, and late-night comedy is more essential and funny than ever before. So that's what I've been watching.
What is not fair is that everybody seems to have forgotten Hillary Clinton. I won't let that happen (exclamation mark!)
First attempts:
1. Hillary cries for Trump
2. Flashback to the early days of the private email server:
If you think you're funnier, share your own jokes in the comments :D :D
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Ready? My top five music + videos of 2016
Previously:
2013 - my A++ list
- 2014 - my top-five experiences
- 2015 - my top five music+videos
And now,
my 2016 top five:
1. ALAJO SOMOLU by Brymo
2. GO by Anna Wise performed for Kinda Neat
3. MORTAL MAN by Kendrick Lamar, with unofficial video by Life Plus+ MUSIC
4. ONE TIME by Lola Rae
5. HAMILTON clip performed by the cast from the Broadway play at the 2016 Grammies
This year, three of my five are not even really music-videos in the traditional sense of being planned or storyboarded and shot to support a short music recording. All of the five are very interesting. I wish I could show you more.
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2013 - my A++ list
- 2014 - my top-five experiences
- 2015 - my top five music+videos
And now,
my 2016 top five:
1. ALAJO SOMOLU by Brymo
2. GO by Anna Wise performed for Kinda Neat
3. MORTAL MAN by Kendrick Lamar, with unofficial video by Life Plus+ MUSIC
4. ONE TIME by Lola Rae
5. HAMILTON clip performed by the cast from the Broadway play at the 2016 Grammies
This year, three of my five are not even really music-videos in the traditional sense of being planned or storyboarded and shot to support a short music recording. All of the five are very interesting. I wish I could show you more.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Cystic Fibrosis and the common cold
It was the pineapple. Pineapple is one of the most excruciatingly delightful things God made way back when God made all the foods we know, and so sometimes I would peel a whole pineapple and eat it. All. At once.
A few years ago, I got very ill, and after about a week, learned that pineapple poisoning had started it. I read that in the past, women would pop unripe pineapples to induce abortion. In my case the baby was, a scary giant object from my digestive tract. After which I was very weak. After which I had a cold and sore throat. After which I had too many Strepsils, which caused vomiting. After which I had all types of illness and strangeness for days before I figured out what the original cause had been from typing all those symptoms in my little phone and studying like crazy.
So generally I wouldn't eat a whole unripe pineapple nowadays.
I caught a bad cold / sneezy ticklish flu last week. The weather's been odd; it's been hot out, and I got in air-conditioned situations once or twice, which is usually a bad idea for me. I was exposed to people with bad colds too. But I still expected to escape catching it.
For many years I caught colds a lot - practically the only illness I get often, but I've been relatively strong and healthy for years, probably because my life is quite stress-free, change-free, the weather's tropical, and I can usually afford the time to rest, eat, and do all those self-care things when a cold seems to be near. Oh, and I live in a CAVE.
I ended up catching it, but now I think back and see that it was pineapple that "caused" this. Again I ate the whole thing. It was very sweet but very acid, and even while I was eating it I felt the danger, it was too acid in my mouth and in my chest/tummy.
Now after the whole disequilibrium experience (I suppose that's what a cold is, sort of), I studied a bit about what happens - mucus overproduction/oversecretion, ... and the cardinal example of that experience, the genetic disorder called CF (Cystic Fibrosis). It's helping me understand my health. For instance, some exercise would be nice for moving the mucus along, but I never really do that. Saline (salt water) and inhaling steam does good things for relaxing the hyper-secretion thing. I've been hungry and tired all the time because nutrient absorption is broken down when the mucus linings (they're not only in your respiratory tract) are acting crazy. So I've been attracted to slightly salty, fatty, meaty things (I usually have like zero of these in my diet) and even felt a need to drink sweet stuff and sugar (again, usually not my thing.)
I was feeling lazy about writing this, and yeah, I could have done a better job writing...with relevant links and such. My main point is that to understand what's up with influenza/flu/colds/catarrh, we can draw from CF research.
For me, I now understand a bit better the connection between acidic food (vs salt) and dehydration (used to get dehydrated a lot too) and the mucus response which may lead to a cold.
By the way, if the genetics of CF are so similar to those of sickle cell (autosomal recessive, as they call it in biology), then I wonder what, if any, benefits caused CF to be retained in the population. That is, are carriers (people with one inherited CF gene, not two) in some way at an advantage, say because they withstand cold/dry/mountain/winter better with their mucous-y superpower? As you know, sickle-cell is common in the tropics and in terms of genetics (natural selection) it's a thing that exists because carriers have some immunity to malaria...then in a fraction of those cases, the sickle cell genes are doubled and the "too much of a good thing" is a bad thing, i.e. the disease/syndrome. Just as SS is a black-people thing, CF is a white-people disease.
For me, I need heat and humidity.
Explains why I was withering even in Southern California. Someday, I may try living there again, but a half-hour coastwards, the real Los Angeles, with better humidity. Of course I loved New Orleans too. Florida is nice weather, but too many ass-holes live there lol, it's really a pity.
Explains why I do well provided I do NOT have air conditioning...I go to great lengths to avoid an a/c lifestyle.
Explains why Lagos rocks! but not Jos.
Why I'm afraid of white-people countries :)
Why Washington DC was actually better for me, weather-wise, than Cali.
I feel sure that another possibility would be to be a big eater, lol, to be so fat that there's always some sort of reserve (of salts and fats) to balance out the environment lol. But nah, I'm not willing to do that. Puerto Rico, anyone?
I feel good now. My ear tickles a bit, and the cold is not 100% gone, maybe 96 lol. I hope after this goes away that long term my susceptibility actually really goes away :) like it did before. And hope I can resist the temptation to overdo it with pineapple in future. Like, I should try new excitements - tomato! carrots!
One last thing, some years ago I learned that blowing heavily when you have a cold only makes EVERYTHING worse. I seem to have forgotten that this time, and got back to my highly-entertaining (or annoying) elephant trumpet noises. Which explains why my ear got infected too. So yeah, if you have a cold, don't blow so hard, it creates all these pressure differentials so you just fill up with more mucus and probably fill up new spaces - like in your ears - with more mucus.
One more thing - I tried to avoid this bit for modesty's sake, but hey we're medical people so let's say it. About the mucus linings in 'za other room' ... how they respond to diet - they do!, and how their hyperactivity is correlated (positively) with the propensity to get a runny nose.
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A few years ago, I got very ill, and after about a week, learned that pineapple poisoning had started it. I read that in the past, women would pop unripe pineapples to induce abortion. In my case the baby was, a scary giant object from my digestive tract. After which I was very weak. After which I had a cold and sore throat. After which I had too many Strepsils, which caused vomiting. After which I had all types of illness and strangeness for days before I figured out what the original cause had been from typing all those symptoms in my little phone and studying like crazy.
So generally I wouldn't eat a whole unripe pineapple nowadays.
I caught a bad cold / sneezy ticklish flu last week. The weather's been odd; it's been hot out, and I got in air-conditioned situations once or twice, which is usually a bad idea for me. I was exposed to people with bad colds too. But I still expected to escape catching it.
For many years I caught colds a lot - practically the only illness I get often, but I've been relatively strong and healthy for years, probably because my life is quite stress-free, change-free, the weather's tropical, and I can usually afford the time to rest, eat, and do all those self-care things when a cold seems to be near. Oh, and I live in a CAVE.
I ended up catching it, but now I think back and see that it was pineapple that "caused" this. Again I ate the whole thing. It was very sweet but very acid, and even while I was eating it I felt the danger, it was too acid in my mouth and in my chest/tummy.
Now after the whole disequilibrium experience (I suppose that's what a cold is, sort of), I studied a bit about what happens - mucus overproduction/oversecretion, ... and the cardinal example of that experience, the genetic disorder called CF (Cystic Fibrosis). It's helping me understand my health. For instance, some exercise would be nice for moving the mucus along, but I never really do that. Saline (salt water) and inhaling steam does good things for relaxing the hyper-secretion thing. I've been hungry and tired all the time because nutrient absorption is broken down when the mucus linings (they're not only in your respiratory tract) are acting crazy. So I've been attracted to slightly salty, fatty, meaty things (I usually have like zero of these in my diet) and even felt a need to drink sweet stuff and sugar (again, usually not my thing.)
I was feeling lazy about writing this, and yeah, I could have done a better job writing...with relevant links and such. My main point is that to understand what's up with influenza/flu/colds/catarrh, we can draw from CF research.
For me, I now understand a bit better the connection between acidic food (vs salt) and dehydration (used to get dehydrated a lot too) and the mucus response which may lead to a cold.
By the way, if the genetics of CF are so similar to those of sickle cell (autosomal recessive, as they call it in biology), then I wonder what, if any, benefits caused CF to be retained in the population. That is, are carriers (people with one inherited CF gene, not two) in some way at an advantage, say because they withstand cold/dry/mountain/winter better with their mucous-y superpower? As you know, sickle-cell is common in the tropics and in terms of genetics (natural selection) it's a thing that exists because carriers have some immunity to malaria...then in a fraction of those cases, the sickle cell genes are doubled and the "too much of a good thing" is a bad thing, i.e. the disease/syndrome. Just as SS is a black-people thing, CF is a white-people disease.
For me, I need heat and humidity.
Explains why I was withering even in Southern California. Someday, I may try living there again, but a half-hour coastwards, the real Los Angeles, with better humidity. Of course I loved New Orleans too. Florida is nice weather, but too many ass-holes live there lol, it's really a pity.
Explains why I do well provided I do NOT have air conditioning...I go to great lengths to avoid an a/c lifestyle.
Explains why Lagos rocks! but not Jos.
Why I'm afraid of white-people countries :)
Why Washington DC was actually better for me, weather-wise, than Cali.
I feel sure that another possibility would be to be a big eater, lol, to be so fat that there's always some sort of reserve (of salts and fats) to balance out the environment lol. But nah, I'm not willing to do that. Puerto Rico, anyone?
I feel good now. My ear tickles a bit, and the cold is not 100% gone, maybe 96 lol. I hope after this goes away that long term my susceptibility actually really goes away :) like it did before. And hope I can resist the temptation to overdo it with pineapple in future. Like, I should try new excitements - tomato! carrots!
One last thing, some years ago I learned that blowing heavily when you have a cold only makes EVERYTHING worse. I seem to have forgotten that this time, and got back to my highly-entertaining (or annoying) elephant trumpet noises. Which explains why my ear got infected too. So yeah, if you have a cold, don't blow so hard, it creates all these pressure differentials so you just fill up with more mucus and probably fill up new spaces - like in your ears - with more mucus.
One more thing - I tried to avoid this bit for modesty's sake, but hey we're medical people so let's say it. About the mucus linings in 'za other room' ... how they respond to diet - they do!, and how their hyperactivity is correlated (positively) with the propensity to get a runny nose.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Sometimes, adults really have something to teach us
My father phoned yesterday (December 6) but I didn't really feel up to talking, even with the promise from my horoscope that it might leave me feeling more grounded.
I'd better go and phone him now/today before the astrological magic wears out lol. Love you, dad.
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In other news, the mental prisons of female so-called beauty are broken down by a girl named Amy Schumer.
The backstory is she has been cast as Barbie and people are annoyed because she is fat compared to their beloved Barbie idea.
I love comedians for this: like modern-day court jesters, they are experts in the ridiculous, and related to this superpower, they have terrific bullshit sensors. They are people I can trust to teach me something about truth and falsehood in human beings and relationships. Which beings me to the meat and potatoes, the main course, of this blog post:
Watch the 'dinner party' conversation as Chelsea Handler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Trevor Noah, Julianna Margulies, and Morgan Spurlock discuss relationships in the context of that multidimensional life that has some work relationships, family relationships, present and past favourites, all recognized and given due respect. Details. Alternative video link.
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An older person offers words of wisdom that will leave you feeling more grounded. More: https://t.co/5akNFxN5wW— Astrology.com (@DH_Taurus) December 6, 2016
I'd better go and phone him now/today before the astrological magic wears out lol. Love you, dad.
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In other news, the mental prisons of female so-called beauty are broken down by a girl named Amy Schumer.
The backstory is she has been cast as Barbie and people are annoyed because she is fat compared to their beloved Barbie idea.
I love comedians for this: like modern-day court jesters, they are experts in the ridiculous, and related to this superpower, they have terrific bullshit sensors. They are people I can trust to teach me something about truth and falsehood in human beings and relationships. Which beings me to the meat and potatoes, the main course, of this blog post:
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Friday, December 02, 2016
I want to read everything
I enjoyed this history of global cities and find the Guardian UK's 'The Story of Cities' series very inviting. Pity I can't read everything.
Aside: Nick has a point :)
I've been not-writing. But reading everything. Not books so much as 'the internet.'
The other day I watched Ran (Kurosawa). One of the best films I've ever seen, in that it would fascinate anybody...from art-snob to clue-less. It should totally be remade as a Yoruba film.
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Aside: Nick has a point :)
I've been not-writing. But reading everything. Not books so much as 'the internet.'
The other day I watched Ran (Kurosawa). One of the best films I've ever seen, in that it would fascinate anybody...from art-snob to clue-less. It should totally be remade as a Yoruba film.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
darkness, drought, little flowers sprout, don't worry about a thing
When the world ends
Collect your things, you're coming with me
When the world ends
You tuckle up yourself with me
Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing
- Dave Matthews Band
We'll be two souls in a Ghosttown
...
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a Ghosttown
- Madonna
And the bridges they all buckle
And everybody's packin' up their station wagons
There's a number you can call
Like a breast that you can suckle
And we quietly will exit as it all is happenin' again
//
'Cause there's a river runnin' underground
Underneath the town towards the sea
That only I know all about
On which from this city we can flee
- in Rufus Wainwright
Listen/Watch
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Collect your things, you're coming with me
When the world ends
You tuckle up yourself with me
Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing
- Dave Matthews Band
...
When there's no one, no one else aroundWe'll be two souls in a Ghosttown
...
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a Ghosttown
- Madonna
...
When the rocket ships all fallAnd the bridges they all buckle
And everybody's packin' up their station wagons
There's a number you can call
Like a breast that you can suckle
And we quietly will exit as it all is happenin' again
//
'Cause there's a river runnin' underground
Underneath the town towards the sea
That only I know all about
On which from this city we can flee
- in Rufus Wainwright
Listen/Watch
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016
The morning after the US elections, I say we quit trying to analyse the senseless and take Trump down now
"It is disastrous that a racist with fascist tendencies has come so close
to taking over power in this country, a man who appeals to hate, greed
and the basest of instincts, an agitator who plays people off against
each other, who abhors losers and who adheres to the credo: might makes
right. An authoritarian, narcissistic, manic, manipulative and dangerous
liar who is capable of anything."
Source: DerSpiegel
This is what we're really dealing with.
Not a right-wing Republican. Not an anti-free-trade businessman. Not a populist maverick. Not an archaic Buhari or a dumb-and-dumber George Bush. Not a rude-mouth or a brash hustler. But an inscrutable piece of shit.
Keep this guy away from the office of the President of the United States or be prepared for the jaw-dropping consequences.
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Source: DerSpiegel
This is what we're really dealing with.
Not a right-wing Republican. Not an anti-free-trade businessman. Not a populist maverick. Not an archaic Buhari or a dumb-and-dumber George Bush. Not a rude-mouth or a brash hustler. But an inscrutable piece of shit.
Keep this guy away from the office of the President of the United States or be prepared for the jaw-dropping consequences.
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Moving on from Coursera, passing through The School Of Life
Late 2013 to Early 2016, I was a Courseran and Coursera-addict.
I'm now a follower / adherent of a video channel called The School Of Life.
Isn't it just excellent?
I now work in Yaba, Lagos, not far from my former workplace of Unilag and right in Sabo, the nascent tech startup hub.
I'm considering checking on options for learning more math and/or learning Chinese a bit, either at the university or someplace cleverer.
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I'm now a follower / adherent of a video channel called The School Of Life.
Isn't it just excellent?
I now work in Yaba, Lagos, not far from my former workplace of Unilag and right in Sabo, the nascent tech startup hub.
I'm considering checking on options for learning more math and/or learning Chinese a bit, either at the university or someplace cleverer.
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Steal this idea
Check out:
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Tunneling through on the back of the creative economy
This is how we will MAKE it till we make it - from individual artistry to indu$trial production
School should be FUNPut them together and you have a sense of what we need to do: put Africa's entertainers to work creating the future of education.
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
The music of my life
O come let us adore him, Rufus Wainwright.
After all these years, his voice is in my life, and his art still moves me to...art.
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Retro
To Pimp A Butterfly is, was, and remains forever excellent, excellent.
We're still celebrating.
I'm also watching British comedy from 1980s NTA (Nigerian Television)
including
Every episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Frank Spencer) and Fawlty Towers.
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It's the worldwide Frank Ocean festival this week and probably next week too. It's beautiful how through his music, we have had to slow down. Not consume-and-dump, not analyse, speculate, hail, or rant, but
just let some music play in the background of life;
just work or chill or build a frigging staircase to nowhere (or in my home these days, learn about mold allergies and bedbug infestation)
and let music do its thing.
We're still celebrating.
I'm also watching British comedy from 1980s NTA (Nigerian Television)
including
Every episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Frank Spencer) and Fawlty Towers.
Advertisement: Read my books. ###Three Sisters, novel #1 here###
It's the worldwide Frank Ocean festival this week and probably next week too. It's beautiful how through his music, we have had to slow down. Not consume-and-dump, not analyse, speculate, hail, or rant, but
just let some music play in the background of life;
just work or chill or build a frigging staircase to nowhere (or in my home these days, learn about mold allergies and bedbug infestation)
and let music do its thing.
Friday, August 19, 2016
African spirituality and the late-summer festivals
Tis the season...
to travel the Nigerian SouthWest
indulge in Yoruba culture
drink palmwine, eat goat-meat
and check out cultural festivals :
I know of the Badagry festival
and I've been at the Osun Oshogbo festival.
This year's August festival dates and schedules:
Badagry Festival 13th to 27th August 2016 (Grand finale next weekend!! And the roads are relatively nice and free - no more crazy traffic and construction - so you should get out to Badagry, Lagos and catch the very colourful sights, see the museums, the beach, the masquerades, ...)
The Oshun-Oshogbo festival 8th to 19th August 2016 (Grand finale just happened today and you can catch the frenzied photo-coverage on Nigerian news sites Naij, Vanguard, PM News, and more. Learn about the Arugba, the sacred grove and shrine, the river and the worship of Osun, a fertility goddess and patron of Osogbo town. You can also find tourist tidbits from Osogbo for 2013, 2014, and 2015 at REALbubbler)
Out in Accra, Ghana too, there's an annual festival in mid- to late-August. It's an artist's dream just a few hours' drive from Lagos, but it seems I'll have to wait till next year to see it live. Called the Chale Wote Street Art Festival, this year it's themed "Spirit Robot" and holds from August 15th-21st 2016.
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to travel the Nigerian SouthWest
indulge in Yoruba culture
drink palmwine, eat goat-meat
and check out cultural festivals :
I know of the Badagry festival
and I've been at the Osun Oshogbo festival.
This year's August festival dates and schedules:
Badagry Festival 13th to 27th August 2016 (Grand finale next weekend!! And the roads are relatively nice and free - no more crazy traffic and construction - so you should get out to Badagry, Lagos and catch the very colourful sights, see the museums, the beach, the masquerades, ...)
Out in Accra, Ghana too, there's an annual festival in mid- to late-August. It's an artist's dream just a few hours' drive from Lagos, but it seems I'll have to wait till next year to see it live. Called the Chale Wote Street Art Festival, this year it's themed "Spirit Robot" and holds from August 15th-21st 2016.
IT IS TIME #ChaleWote2016 @Accradotalt 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💥💥💥👊🏾👊🏾🎉🎉 SEE YOU THERE ..!! pic.twitter.com/7LS2C9S0M3— EFYA (@EFYA_Nokturnal) August 17, 2016
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