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Nov 1, 2010, 2:02 pm
Hurricane Tomas has just passed this region, and after having weakened, is projected to regain strength as it moves towards Haiti. From all reports, St. Lucia seems to have been the worst hit in the Eastern Caribbean, and the below video contains some footage of the damage. Many are missing, 14 have... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2010, 7:55 pm
Our friends over at What's the Idea raised the question, and as it's Friday and my brain is now on gentle cycle, I'm stealing developing the discussion. So yes, agreed: Halloween is irrelevant to us in the Caribbean. I hardly think that's even an argument. Is it harmless fun? Perhaps. Assuming we co... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2010, 7:17 am
Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, has passed. Even in the midst of the political discord of past weeks, the country remained resolute in its well wishes to the Prime Minister and his family, and so this moment seems in some ways surreal. One's first thoughts are to his wife and daughters. ... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2010, 9:38 pm
This dude here? McLean? He wants to give me his name. Apparently that is the prize for me picking him up when he was down and being able to do a hell of a Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment impression and whatnot. Never mind that I already have a name that I may want to keep. Ah branding. The ultima... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2010, 9:33 pm
I'm out pretty often: parties, concerts, limes, general lolly-gagging in the wee hours. I've only recently embraced the notion that I do work hard (I grew up thinking that hard work had to involve hot sun, perspiration and calloused hands; anything else - even 20-hour days at a computer or in meetin... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2010, 7:42 am
So I've noticed that you people have completely given up on even acting interested in my whereabouts and wheretofores. At first there were several questions about when I might start posting again, then general dribbles of "Hey wassup. Just checking" messages. And now, not so much as a glance. How fi... Comment - Like
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Jul 6, 2010, 3:23 pm
Tomorrow night I'll be on the internet TV talk show "Reason Deep" on CaribFyah TV discussing this season's musical offerings for Crop Over. Since there is never enough time during these things to say all the gazillion words in my head, I thought I would preempt the accusations of oversight by sharin... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 4:00 pm
This is a real item in the Nation Newspaper today:
Why are so many men keen to enter relationships with single mothers, and what can these women do to encourage these partners to marry them?
Share your views below or by calling or texting your comments to telephone number 262-5986, or e-mail us a... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 3:24 pm
Just the other day I was thinking how great it would be to see Melissa McCarthy onscreen again. Only I didn't call her Melissa McCarthy in my head. I called her Sookie - the best friend from Gilmore Girls? She's great. She was great as Dena in Samantha Who as well, even though she played the same ch... Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 3:01 pm
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan has died at the age of 76.
"She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning," her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. "She had a massive stroke."
McClanahan, who played man-happy Blanche Devereaux on the still-popular '80s sitcom Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earli... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 11:18 am
(Emphasis mine.)
Chairman of the AIDS Foundation, Colin Brewer, said while the foundation was making progress in the fight, there was still much to do.
He added that although the foundation provided assistance to those living alternative lifestyles, it did not condone the behaviour.
He also urged... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 4:34 pm
[Via Showbiz Spy via Jezebel]-"We all have the same issues. Every woman. It's thighs, butt, arms, muffintops. All those fun things, we all have the same issues." — Heidi Klum.
Except, not every woman counts those as 'issues'. Feeding ourselves and our dependents; physical security; finding and kee... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 2:59 pm
We here in the region have been closely watching the events occurring in a few of our territories in recent days and weeks. The conflict in Jamaica is infuriating, saddening, compelling. I want to write something, but it's hard to know where to start. Harder still to know where to end.
While I try t... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 1:40 pm
Google Reader, whenever it suddenly goes offline, generates the error message: Sorry an unexpected condition has occurred (which is preventing Google Reader from fulfilling the request). The font of the message is larger than the text on the rest of the page, and is sometimes against a pink backgrou... Comment - Like
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May 20, 2010, 4:21 pm
I don't know what the hell wandering is, but apparently it's a crime mostly committed by girls, and can end in STDs and pregnancy. Consider yourselves warned.Read original post at The Mongoose Chronicles Join us on Facebook Comment - Like
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May 14, 2010, 4:01 pm
Dear Jane Hoskyn,
Please stop talking.
Because even if you are using 'girl' correctly to mean "a female child between zero and eighteen years of age", and not adult women (for which there is a whole other word who knew?), this list is still a ridiculous mishmash of juvenile, misogynist bullshit. To ... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2010, 10:08 pm
I get computers. In fact, I love them. I'm one of those people Obama was, curiously, just warning students not to become - one who is fascinated by and completely engaged with technology. Not in a rabid way; I'm a researcher of products. I will research anything to find the most recommended one by d... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2010, 8:29 pm
My gym is running some kind of 6-week body makeover butt blast boot camp bangarang. That's not what it's really called but you get the idea. It's especially for women. It says so on the flier. Also on the flier, central to the message and in large red type, are words to the effect of:
GET A BEDROOM... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 3:55 pm
See? It says right here (emphasis mine):
The advice came from Magistrate Pamela Beckles as she dealt with a matter involving 18-year-old dancer Mary Elizabeth Williams and singer complainant Kareen Clarke in the District "A" Magistrates' Court.
Williams, an illegal GuyaneseRead original po... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 1:10 pm
I live in a land where people think it's perfectly acceptable to say whatever they want. If you gain weight, or lose weight, or cut your hair, or let it grow, or grow paler, or grow darker, all these things are worthy of comment. And along with the comment comes a healthy serving of judgment. The ju... Comment - Like
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May 8, 2010, 7:51 pm
**Trigger warning for reference to violence and half-hearted warning for a bit of profanity that is censored anyway**
How does one write an entire article about the homeless and manage to completely avoid even the vaguest reference to their vulnerability and lack of well-being? This is how.
There ar... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2010, 5:41 pm
Speaker of the House of Assembly Michael Carrington said yesterday he was surprised that an alleged incident involving two parliamentarians in the chamber last Friday night was reported in the Press.
Carrington declined comment on the reported incident, and noted that matters relating to the rights ... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 4:30 pm
In what will come as a surprise to no one at all, the justice system - with ardent support from the Nation newspaper - is still trying to establish some kind of connection between homosexuality and crime, suicide, murder, general death and destruction:
KILLER CURTIS JOEL FOSTER declared his sexual p... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2010, 3:42 pm
I am not important, at least not in the way people use that word. I hope I'm important to some people, and that my work is useful to several more people. But as Important People go, I'm not one of them. So don't take what I'm about to say as one of those self-important rants meant to offer instructi... Comment - Like
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Mar 8, 2010, 3:24 pm
Last year, on International Women's Day, I wrote in support of the work of activists addressing Haiti's high incidence of rape. Today, the survival and well-being of women in Haiti remains high on the agenda of activists in the region and allies all over the world, especially in the aftermat... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2010, 2:31 pm
Work has been feeding on most of my daytime hours as I plow toward a deadline. I've started five posts which remain in draft, mocking me, so I haven't much to share apart from this small story:
In the backyard a few minutes ago, I dropped a clothespin. My sister's dog, Ellie, immediately... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2010, 11:47 am
There is a thing happening now that is confusing to me. Perhaps you can help me understand it. The Barbados National Trust is a local charity concerned with "the preservation of places of historic and architectural interest or of natural beauty and ecological importance". One of their programmes in ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2010, 8:08 am
In a post last March, I wrote this:
Ok, I promise that someday I'm going to stop being annoyed by the idiotic ways in which journalists write about violence against women, but apparently today is not that day.
Well, neither is today. In fact, I lied ok? I'm never going to stop, not as long a... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2010, 11:11 pm
So this post at Gawker almost inspired me to email Brian Moylan to inform him that I wrote pretty much this exact post a year ago. "Ha! We have the same brain! You should hire me at Gawker and pay me lots of money!" But I did not.
I was, however, extremely tickled to read in a subsequent post that ... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2010, 6:18 pm
This post at Shakesville reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a friend regarding the flesh-coloured crayon in the Crayola box. (Wikipedia tells me that Crayola changed their 'Flesh' to 'Peach' in 1962, but I was born almost 2 decades later, and there was definitely a '... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2010, 1:21 am
So remember I said I would review the second jazz event I went to, Jazz on the Hill featuring Robin Thicke? Well, it turns out I don't have much to say, but I made the commitment, so I aim to follow through. It also turns out that the performer who struck me the most was the much-hyped and antic... Comment - Like
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