Feb
27
When things go wrong …
February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For some reason yet to be explained, the host of my email address has gone haywire. I am not receiving mail at my regular address. If anyone wants to contact me, please email me at nico@nicobethel.net.
Feb
23
Getting Tired of the Issues on this Blog
February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’m thinking of rebuilding from scratch. There are just too many issues right now to keep patching, so I’m probably going to do something with it come March. Eastertime is the right time for death and resurrection.
I’ll keep my regular readers posted.
Till then, patch, patch.
Feb
22
An Aside — on comments, again
February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I’ve heard from one or two people that they haven’t been able to comment on the blog.After the latest influx of spam I installed a new spam manager. Perhaps your comments are getting caught in it.Here’s what I invite you to do: register on the blog, then try and comment. Try and comment without doing [...]
Feb
17
Bribery and Corruption
February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
One of the clichés about the so-called third world is that nothing can get done without some money–personal money–changing hands. It’s not that you have to pay for everything you get; unless you live in some land touched by socialist thinking (i.e. almost every land, save the USA) you have to pay for plenty of [...]
Feb
14
Video Excerpt from The Children’s Teeth (Ellie and Blanche)
February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Relevant Excerpt:
The outside child of Neville Williams returns to the house where she was raised — by Ellie, Neville’s wife, who took her in — and Ellie’s mother, Blanche, gives her a piece of her mind. In this clip, Ellie responds to her mother. It’s the end of Act I, Scene i.
BLANCHE
Nursing [...]
Feb
11
Halfway through February, and I forgot
February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
it’s Black History Month in the USA.
Well, we’re not the USA. And what we truly need is some Bahamian history. Nevertheless, here are some links that I thought might be interesting reading for the month:
Pimping Black History Month
A Serving of Gumbo
courtesy of Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Feb
9
The Children’s Teeth - Book
February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For those of you who have been noticing, I’ve taken the plunge into self-publication. So if you missed the play (for shame!!), you can read it if you’re interested — simply by buying a copy of the book from Lulu.com. I’ve got a handy-dandy link in the sidebar that’ll take you straight to the online [...]
Feb
8
Another Note about the Blog
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If you’ve been looking at old posts, you’ll notice some weird characters in them. They’re annoying — to me and to you — and I didn’t put them there. They appeared after the server move. More information about them is here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/126556?replies=6
(you may have to be a WordPress user and logged on to read that thread, [...]
Feb
8
If you think theatre has no place in real life …
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Think again.
Feb
6
More on Wavell
February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
While we were having the issues with comments and then with the blog itself, I received the following communication from Carolyn Pirani, an old friend of Wavell. She’d tried to post this as a comment, but couldn’t. Here it is:
I tried to post this message on your blog when I came across the tributes to [...]


