Sparrow turned 90 yesterday, he told me he will take as many years as he could handle: youtu.be/9lOGegf4XQM
Guess who got to see Kartel and Spice perform Ramping Shop live! I can hardly believe it too. Baderation 2025 was a brilliant showcase of the region's best performers: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/27/a...
I think what irritates me about A.I. tech for example is how the developers seem to think creating for creating sake is ok, and to hell with consequences. #mic #caribmediasummit
Used books are a low-cost way to see if you like what an author has to offer. If you do find you like them, then you can buy their next book new, possibly from the same bookseller. They're also a way to get books no longer in print.
(gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...
Wishing I had a trip to Curacao lined up: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/14/c...
A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch
Cassie Ventura claims ‘physical abuse’ from ex Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in sex-trafficking trial
Went to see Dr. Kevin Browne's A Sense of Arrival yesterday and was blown away by the exhibit. Today is its last day at Medulla Art Gallery: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/07/k...
Sinners is signicant part of Ryan's manifesto on how to create a portfolio of radical art. His pan-African outlook is revolutionary.
I am local media. We have not created a space for the reporting and analysis of our art, music, customs and history even though we know the people are hungry for the information.
UWI has been doing the Cultural reporting, analysing work we need to make sense of who we are. Their department of Literary Cultural and Communications Studies hosted a talk from Steam to Soca featuring Lady Lava and Squeezy Rankin. thiscaribbeanspace.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/f...
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16140:
Don't assume that your desk is where all your writing happens. 90% of the process of creation happens elsewhere. Use whatever time you have. Thinking time; dreaming time; observing time; analyzing time. All this time can be part of your work. Don't waste it.
bought disney paint by numbers coloring book, set of acrylic markers, started binging lost and suddenly my social media screen time went down to 30 minutes a day and I feel sane again 💁♀️
Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.”
Oh. The. Irony.
Playing a traditional mas in a modern Carnival. Meet the people innovating within a festival ensuring some of its most enduring customs continue to have a space: thiscaribbeanspace.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/p...
There are videos of Carnival in Rio featuring Orisha floats, and my word. Stunning! If I saw them in person I would have fully been in tears. Just gorgeous.
A really special day!
He kindly chatted and autographed my CD liner afterward. Wonderful memories
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
Is too tired to sleep a thing, cause I might be too tired to sleep. 😭
This Carnival was real nice allyuh. Real nice.
Also. I have been having fun blogging. Check the blog for new updates of my coverage of Carnival 2025, the art scene in T&T and thoughts about Caribbean design. thiscaribbeanspace.wordpress.com?_gl=1*1mh2jt....
