scribbles & t'ings
There are people in balaclavas. Men in balaclavas. They’re all over the place. Restless. Maybe they can’t breathe? We all can’t breathe – or so Fanon said. And Fanon has all the answers. But we are here. I think we are beautiful. I believe we are. For sure Jess is beautiful. She sings like an…
Those damn CRC white devils again! But I had to get those muffins. I had to! I knew I had to get them soon as I started considering lesser taxing alternatives for my craving and coffee – like Romany Creams from the service station three minutes away. You see, I’m a serial victim of my…
The thespians. The incorrigible critics. And cretins too. Poets, posers and provocateurs. Painters of words and writers of pictures. The emo, the ego, the cold, the misconstrued, recluse, melodramatic, the comedic. Troubadours, dancers, griots, minstrels and raconteurs. Fashionistas. Modern and pre-modern who dare don their grandma’s bloomers. Colour blockers and Goths. And the two tone…
“It pleases me to think that the art of [Jazz] came into the world as the echo of God’s laughter.” ~ Milan Kundera. Thursday, 17 November 2016, the Sand du Plessis theatre housed hundreds for the memorial service of Free State’s finest vessel of God’s laughter Peter Nthwane. His life was celebrated with plenty of…
So last evening as I am waiting for my rib Dagwood at the stadium inn, an old man plops his tired body next to me. I immediately put my kindle away and welcome him with a smile. We share pleasantries like a pair of old pals. But I don’t know him. Or rather I don’t…
“We therefore make bold to say that South Africa is a country of two nations.”[i] ~ President Thabo Mbeki On the eve of the seventh anniversary of his ousting as president of the republic, Bloemfontein reminded me of this in/famous (depending on which of the two nations you fall in) speech of Thabo Mbeki….
The Sabbath is a holy day. A holy day that came about after a protracted struggle against the tyranny of bathing. The name Sabbath gains its etymology from two opposing forces during the War of the Bath. It is written in the history books that once the country had been captured by a tyrannical trio…