From the monthly archives:

February 2008

When things go wrong …

27 February 2008

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. 

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Getting Tired of the Issues on this Blog

23 February 2008

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. 

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An Aside — on comments, again

22 February 2008

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 [...]

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Bribery and Corruption

17 February 2008

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 [...]

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Video Excerpt from The Children’s Teeth (Ellie and Blanche)

14 February 2008

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 [...]

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Halfway through February, and I forgot

11 February 2008

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   

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The Children’s Teeth – Book

9 February 2008

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 [...]

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Another Note about the Blog

8 February 2008

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 [...]

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If you think theatre has no place in real life …

8 February 2008

  Think again.

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More on Wavell

6 February 2008

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 [...]

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