From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Annie Paul on Michael Jackson

27 June 2009

I wouldn’t have expected to post more than once on this issue, but I came across this post by Annie Paul meditating on the life and death of Michael Jackson, and I thought I’d share. Anthropologically speaking, there’s a study in this somewhere. Haven’t worked out quite where yet, but I’m thinking. Anyway, over to [...]

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Here’s to the MJ I knew

26 June 2009

Off the Wall was one of my favourite albums. Of course Thriller and Bad were up there, and they have some of my favourite MJ songs (“Man in the Mirror” would probably win the sweeps if I had to choose), but if you wanted me to tell you which one gave me the most joy, [...]

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Swedish parents keep 2-year-old’s gender secret – The Local

25 June 2009

Just in case you might be thinking that male/female was a god-given thing— A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl. Pop’s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex [...]

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This one’s for Lynn: Aimee Mullins on poetry, science and super-powers

20 June 2009

Lynn Sweeting, that is. Science can make her able; art and poetry make her super-able. O brave new world, that has such creatures in it!

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Students are wonderful

17 June 2009

So are teachers (thanks, Sameer!). I got to this video through Sameer’s blog. Watch it. That’s an order. @ Yahoo! Video “I have a dream … that you will live the rest of your life in possibility.” — Benjamin Zander

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On the need for cultural capital – Richard Florida on Montreal’s Creative Class

16 June 2009

I’ve already blogged about why I think that our government’s cancellation of CARIFESTA was a bad idea. (I think the word I used was “terrible”). Now the rumours I am hearing about the future of Bahamian culture and its development are as bad or worse. Rather than serious investment in the development of our cultural [...]

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Server Outage

15 June 2009

Just a note for those of you who tried to access Blogworld today and couldn’t, here’s a note from our service provider about it: UPDATE: All Services Are Being Restored We experienced a power supply issue at one of our data centers, which caused the startlogic.com site, as well as some of our customer sites, [...]

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M.O. for the rest of the year

14 June 2009

I’ve been a bad blogger lately. There is a reason (isn’t there always?) and it’s the simplest reason in the world — I’m stretched to the limit, and I’ve got five blogs going on six to maintain. So things tend to slip. I had all kinds of plans for the year. I still have them, [...]

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Interview – Antilles: the weblog of the CRB

13 June 2009

I count Nicholas Laughlin as one of my cyberfriends, though I think we really met over the telephone during the last CARIFESTA (such arts festivals are always, truly, such a waste of time, are they not? They make no connections, advance no careers, clearly, and they are so much a waste of money that we [...]

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“On the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie“

7 June 2009

Accepted by The Caribbean Writer. Now this is a poem that has been hanging around my Writing folder for four years or so. Inspired by a conjunction between the travelling exhibition of the slave ship that re-opened the Pompey Museum after the 2001 Market Fire and an in-depth poetry workshop session over at the Poetry [...]

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