DROPPING DUH SEED ALL BOUT

The following is an excerpt from the Nation newspaper a few Mondays back discussing the serious subject of how easily young girls [teenagers mostly] fall for low-class men and the almost certain un-supported pregnancy that incurs. [written in bajan dialect]

I come along hearing the old people say how the bible say that in the last days children should have children and other things that we seeing as clear as day nowadays.

The truth is, when I use tuh hear dem talking dese things, I never used to pay it nuh mind, really; but in recent times I have had tuh sit up and take note of it - wha' it really happening in trute.
Look, a day doan go by wid-out seeing a hard-side li'l girl who ain't dream tuh loss she mudda feautres yet, walking down de road wid a big able belly sticking out in front o' she, looking like a lizard dat swallow an ackee seed.
I wonder how the boy or man who might be responsible for this situation does feel, knowing that that this is a li'l young girl who relly ain't know one thing bout life - or as the old people say, who ain't see a star pitch yet. I does wonder if the li'l girls demselves understan wha dem getting demselves into.
I does look at them, and ask myself how they see their future now, dat they have to stop going tuh school and shut down their education [temporary in some cases] tuh become a mother at such a early age.
Lord, I ain't teling ya nuh lie, I does really have tuh look at dem and wonder if de body who get them in this way is somebody who gine make sure dat duh put things in place fuh the baby when it comes. But I really and truly cahn understan these li'l girls though. You would believe dat because they come along poor and watch their own mothers struggling tuh put a li'l bittle fuh dem and duh brothers and sisters, they would keep duh li'l tails quiet.
And that they would make a sensible decision tuh stay away from getting duhselves involved wid anybody until duh get a few certificates in duh hand, so they could find a job and help put something pon the table fuh the younger ones when the week come. It never ceases tuh amaze me, when I see these li'l girls, sometimes in duh school clothes, walkin the road and laughing up in the face o' these knot-up head, rusty looking, cigarette smoking men wid duh pants all the way below duh botsies, boots that look too big fuh duh foot and two hard foot look like burn cane in a three-quarter jeans. I really cahn understand it - how dese young fellows see demselves.,
Or yuh would see big hard back men eyeing up and making all sorts of kinds of igrunt comments bout a li'l girl when she pass by, and yuh does have to ask ya'self wha really going on in some o' these men's heads. Another thing dat does get me is dat some o' dese same young girls would know dat these boys are men doan drive a stroke when the day come. They might even know dat these men might have another young girl like duh self dealing wid, or even live wid a woman and children in a house; yet duh would still leh these kinda men come along and jump on pon dem and blight up duh young lives.
But I does feel fuh the poor li'l wuns coming into a world like this, with a mother who ain't know B from bull, and a father who might got more than one woman, and cahn gi' she a pack of pampers or a tin o' baby powder. I does really wonder how he does feel though, just dropping children 'bout the place like a village ram.
I doan know, but people who call duhselves men like duh aint got nuh kinda regard fuh who dem breed up. It looks sometimes like these men doan really care about the fact that this is their offspring dat dem dropping bout all bout de place so.

Mavis Beckles was born and raised in The Orleans. She has an opinion on everything.

Early Winter 2009 playlist

What I've been listening to Nov.03 - Dec.03.2009

love is the boss (benny benassi vocal mix) - stefano gamma
heartbreak warfare - john mayer
the underground (richard grey remix) - celeda
don't be a jerk - leftside (dr. evil)
up all night (knightlife remix) - harris robotis
be there - howie day
anyway - duck sauce
say aah - trey songz, fabolous
trance intercontinental - guestmix month - 004 - dj tempest, dj solano, endoril / getting back into trance
boom slang ep. teaser - stereo heroes
i can transform - mr. evil (leftside) / huge amount of talent
watch me transform ya - mr. lexx
under the water (dada life remix) - dimitri vegas, like mike
whatever u want - consequence, kanye west, common, kid cudi, big sean, john legend
alone - tony rebel / feeling this vey much
hey, soul sister - train
come on - green river ordinance
stomp that shit (player & remady mix) - tristan garner
music is the answer (ant brooks remix) - danny tenaglia
back to the crib - chris brown, juelz santana
toxic is dead (franki chan remix) - the toxic avenger
we weren't born to follow - bon jovi
party in barbados - jaicko / BAJAN BIGUPS AT THE END
smile - uncle kracker
holiday! - ding dong / imagine this is R&B!
in the dark '09 (peter c. dark remix) - dirty south, tiesto, christian burns, peter c.
up deh - mr. vegas / tambouine riddim, excellently produced
glory dance - daville, maestro / tambouine riddim
laughing with - regina spektor / GOD could be funny
gone too soon - charly black / tribute to Squingy
i got a feelin (jus bus & nikoshouse carnival remix) - honorebel, selena serrano / wicked
awesome - plies
all or nothing - theory of a deadman
rain - creed
discobelle mix - dj cable
nuh bore tongue - vybz kartel
zulu dawn (main mix) - hoxton whores
pick me - danity kane / ridiculous bass
waiting (original mix) - dash berlin, emma hewitt
maybe - ingrid michaelson
nasty toyfriend (flavo bootleg) - larry tee, afrojack, roxy cottontail, david guetta
i rock (club mix) - tom novy, jerry ropero, virginia
december - norah jones
slim vs fluffy - spice, pamputtae
2 many shots of jägermeister (ahmet sendil remix) - tocadisco
acapella - kelis /david guetta produced
no surprise - daughtry
it doesn't have to be beautiful - slow club
party on fire - richie stephens, bounty killer
question - busy signal / 1000 dollar bill no last
intro - jovi rockwell / track 1 of the phycotherapy mixtape, insane intro
someday - rob thomas
lose a friend - i octane / another tribute to Squingy
i'm gonna b rich (when i grow up) - likkle juvenile / the talented leftside again
pencil full of lead - paolo nutini
forever (travis barker remix) - drake, kanye west, lil wayne, eminem
get with the program (calvertron remix) - dj fixx, keith mackenzie
rock the house yo (original mix) - black raw
cowbell (original mix) martijn ten velden, afroboogie
haven't met you yet - michael buble / 10/10!
boys and girls - pixie lott
fu*k da world - leftside, konshens, bugle
dirtee cash (nick galea remix) - dizzee rascal
her diamonds (edward & bella fanmix) - rob thomas
money dreama - charly black
hard - rihanna, young jeezy

bajan anomalies

a pack o sodabix that got in more than 9
de las' bus tekkin it time
a sno-cone for less than one-fifty
pic o de crop [over] without controversy
greyhound racing at de Garrison
de heat paper printing a typo-free edition

no guyanese pon Fairchild street
a parrow handing you a grantley
a taximan giving you a lift ta St.Lucy
cave shepherd done selling things for duty free

'do not surf' sign at Bathsheba
bbs.fm playing soca
no local craft at Pelican centre
a bread and two fuh lunch on a sunda
pudding and souse pon a thursdee
Chefette rockley on a saturday.... empty
Nelson street minus the short skirt girlies
men not staring at girl's boxies
Days dun showing at 6
Oistins fishless
ackees - seedless
a new development of chattel houses

we start importing mauby
people stop buying blackberries
SY Adams got things expensive
eating cou-cou with fried chicken
a MP driving a datsun
driving over potholes down Sandy Lane

a minivan from Speightstown not givng you shakes
de PM with he lips white.... like a bake
finding a zr in de morning @ 2.30
de airport charter bus stopping fa we
pirates start getting lockup for selling bootleg dvds
or celebrating independence in early january

a chance o any o these things happnin' is highly unlikely
cos them is just bare bajan anomalies

how tom turned jerry's shirt blue

how TOM turned jerry's shirt blue

tom and jerry are two advanced nano-scientist stickbots on tech-lunch break.

tom want's to try out his new technique of colour-changing-telekesis-cloning
so he touches jerry, sending a super direct-connect-wi-max signal. jerry's eyes turn yellow as his nano-core processes the incoming connection.
after a quick calculation, jerry's eyes turn red...
tom is satisfied; the first test worked almost flawlessly.
however he wants the whole schAbang, so still touching jerry he sends a higher signal.
jerry's shirt turns yellow while processing this new level of wi-max, tom's eyes flicker... the amount of power he is using is subtracting from his personal storage capacity, but determined to see this experiment through, he quadruples his dc to the maximum level avalaible.
SUCCESS, jerry's shirt turns blue, the procedure works and tom ends his connection.
now if only he could find a way to change the proccessing colour to blue.........cue the song 'blue' - eiffel 65

behind the scenes

try it... you'll need approx 10mins, a steady hand and good amount of patience.
I used mtpaint but any .gif making software [easygifmaker] should work.
+ this image


Step by step instructions
Remove/Crop the text from ok.jpg. Save.
Remove the hand/elbow from tom, and create a pointed downward version.
Change tom's eye colour to red and shirt to blue.
Save as frame.01.gif into a directory of your choice. [this directory, you'll be using for your frames]

Edit ok.jpg. Change tom's eye to red and shirt to blue.
Save as frame.02.

Edit frame.02.. Change jerry's eyes to yellow.
Save as frame.03.

Copy frame.03. and save as frame.04.
Copy frame.04. and save as frame.05.
Copy frame.05. and save as frame.06.

Change jerry's shirt to yellow and put a little black into tom's eyes.
Save as frame.07.

Change tom's eye colour to black.
Save as frame.08.

Change tom's eye colour to red.
Save as frame.09.

Copy frame.08 and save as frame.10
Copy frame.09 and save as frame.11

Change jerry's shirt colour to blue.
Save as frame.12

Copy frame.12 and save as frame.13
Edit frame.01, change jerry's shirt colour to blue and eyes to red.
Save as frame.14

Copy frame.14 and save as frame.15
Copy frame.15 and save as frame.16

Optionally you can create a pause/loader.
type 1 dot [.] save as frame.17
type 2 dots [..] save as frame.18
type 3 dots [...] save as frame 19
Copy frame.19 and save as frame.20

export as an animated .gif

It'd be pretty cool if twitter allowed animated gifs as profile images..I'm jealous of skeets'

a grey Barbados 03 - olympus theatres cinema seats + lifeguard hut

cinema seats
Olympus Theatres, Sheraton Mall, Christ Church
see it on flickr @ 4129337476

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lifeguard hut
Miami Beach, Christ Church
see it on flickr @ 4129336276

Nifca Literary Arts Gala 2009

Yes, I attended, my first National Independence Festival of Creative Arts [Literary Gala]
A few of the highlights...

Prose fiction seemed to be the theme of the night..the mc 'Dempstu DJ Simmons' was uber-cool, even performed his piece at the very end of the night [adrian-greene style]. What I found exciting was the 'wait i forget what i was saying', a pause, then jumping right back in, very intelligently done..well rehearsed

Indrani played a lovely guitar number called 'To The Other Side'. I had no idea her voice has graced over a 1000 songs, she's got that india.arie type flow going on, [confirmed-On her fb page, she likes India.Arie!]



this lady's voice is sooooo cool, very fragile/delicate, I absolutely loved her storytelling, she did an excerpt from the audiobook 'cricket ball in the sky' which was on sale for 40 bucks after the show.



Peter Owen the 'boomtuk in my blood' guy, he got the most laughter out of everyone, highly comical!
BOOM TUCK TUCK OOH OOH OOH OOOOOOO!



Shanniqua Harrison [if I recall correctly] won a gold award for her poem 'butterfly in paris', which the chief judge [UWI professor of theatre and drama] liked so much, he wanted to perform it with her.



The LONGEST piece [the supremes are coming] was a story about The Supremes coming to Barbados, whch captured the standpoint of 2 die-hard Diana Ross bajan fans and the angry mob behind them, set around the year 1967.

The late Alfred Pragnell was honored, with his very amusing piece 'sumbady funeral' playing on the projector, midway through the gala.

It was interesting to hear how many northern schools, 'Roland Edwards', 'St.Silas' were winning awards..
The chief judge stated that entries from the adults had more errors than the juniors. HOW APALLING! Also one of the first things he said was 'you can't be a writer unless you're a reader' and proceeded to show a slide of Obama [who has published 2 books] clutching a book of short stories from a renowned bajan author just a few days after winning the US presidency.

others I can remember...
Doranda Smith - Fog Truck Coming - loved this
'Kite Flying' [total metaphorical/personification piece]
'Sweetest Pudding and Souse' [BTW I despise the eating of pigs in any forrm whatsoever]
HOW TO GET TO BATH - Donna Tull-Cox [her piece epitomizes the very way an ole time bajan would give directions 'go straight straight down dey'!
there was old macdonald HEAVE ho heave HO - so bloody tight
Donnya did 'Recession Love' [shut ya mout or is de full amout'] LOL I'm sure she looked directly at me midway through her performance, but when I asked her, she said No..

Alas Myles, Dario Piggot [think he won silver for a 'real g'] or Adrian Greene did not perform..My guess is that the Committee is saving them for the Gala which cmes off this Sunday! Hopefully I'll get a photo of Donnya and say hi to her properly! Congrats to EVERYONE!

angelina, angelina pease bring down your concertina.....
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