Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Reading List Wk 1



Wanna know what's on my nightstand this week?
Check it out on: Fabulosity Reads This 
 


Yesterday  while on twitter and came across Sochi Azuh and found his very entertaining attempt at
poetry. It actually made me chuckle so I thought it may do the same for you too.


A BEGINNER’S LIVE GUIDE BAD ARSE SLAM
 

Dear reader, further to our previous chapter
We shall now proceed to our subject matter;
Though not guaranteed to make your rhymes smarter
It will break your fall if you should shudder, stutter and falter
Don’t chew, don’t sag – God, please don’t sag
Unless your poetry can afford you a Bentley or a Jag
Pick up modest verbs where your painted tears once fell
And please use adjectives that your mother can actually spell
As thumb rule, dear reader, KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
Audience, as their sanity, are in habit of going off with your button
So while good if you, like IKECHUKWU, have a six-pack that can stun
God help us, if it’s a one-pack that smacks of bad porn
A black shirt, has been the best bet yet
Anything you say afterwards is politically correct
But PINK – oh no! is as weak as you can get
It says, “I’m too sissy for my shirt”
Having said this, disabuse the psyche
That you are only a rockstar if you lick the mic
Or jump into the crowd or ride a power bike
The truth is the audience will not catch even a poet they like
And when you walk up to that mic, go in hard
Say, “ME BAD! ME THE BADDEST DUB YOU EVER HAD!”
So, in case you mess up real bad, we like to add
Your audience, hopefully, won’t remember you like a bad TV ad.



Monday, July 4, 2011

Perfection


THIS IS IT.

Happy Fourth of July to all in the New World.


Saturday, July 2, 2011

Gifts on Thursday Giveaway

Blood Reaction: A Vampire Novel (Volume 1)

There is a Giveaway at Fabulosity Reads, an opportunity to win one of 13 Blood Reaction novels by author DL Atha. Its a great book by a very talented author, dont miss out. Entries close on the 7th July 2011.

I'm hoping to see all my blog friends make the way there.

Cheers

Bloof Reaction Giveaway



PERFECTION

THIS IS IT.




My Prince Is Not SO Charming

Why is "happilyeverafter" so prodigiously anomalous these days. Is it so bad for Charlene Whittstock to ask for a quiet, happy wedding before having to wake up to all the muck on her return from her honeymoon. Even more than this, is it so impossible for her to expect a happy marriage?

If the reports are indeed true, then I truly feel so sorry for our Benoni (Johannesburg) gal who yesterday tied the not with Prince Albert of Monocco. Seemingly this little man can't keep his zipper closed what with 2 children from other relations and a third possibly on the way and not with his fiancee. This banal tendency is not what we expect from the erudite but more and more these days it would seem these are futile expectations. Perhaps it is a god complex that makes the powerful imagine they are above reproach.On Thursday her dad was on our radio stations assuring us that all was fair weather in the Kingdom but not according to news paper reports who also quoted the father of the brides radio speech. What actually disturbed me most about this is that one of the reports mentions that she was at the airport with a one way ticket to SA when she was held and her passport confiscated so that the royal royal entourage could persuade her differently. 
For her sake (and I believe Charlene is a wonderful girl) I hope this is all media hogwash otherwise I fear, this has all the earmarks of a perilous marriage about to begin. We, the serfs and the like (even if we're not residents of Monocco) stil want to believe in something perfect, true and otherworldly about royalty.Blame it on all that snow white, glass slipper and pea under 20 mattresses nonsense that was hammered into us growing up, we can't help it we being a products of our environment to a degree. Royals, pull your s*** together and give us the fairy-tale, we do not want a South African sequel to the Diana fiasco, poor girl.
Read the whole sad tale here: My prince is not so charming

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Why I Write

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I entered this blogfest on a whim the other day because it looked pretty undaunting and unlike some that I see floating around, undemanding. As I take the shrinks couch in my head I now realize how I misled how much I misled myself, this is not an easy because it means internal digging, this is deep. Unfortunately I don’t have much time because with everything going on and me starting a new review blog, it slipped my mind. I’m glad I saw that Kayeleen was on my blog today. I hope everyone will hold to their commitment as I also scrabble to meet the deadline.
I have a number of witty things I could say about why I started writing, like the fact that in December  last year I jokingly said to my friends I’m having a midlife crisis in my mid thirties and need an outlet. Or that I needed a clandestine lover that won’t leave me ravaged with adulterous guilt. But when I seriously think about it,   just needed to do something for myself that would help me find me, it hit me on my for 35 birthday this past December when I asked who am I or what do I like, I couldn’t answer.
I’ve always loved books and when a friend suggested that I should blog because I have far too much to say for the Facebook platform, I though well perhaps I could take something I enjoy a step further. I can’t explain it eloquently but blogging has been so liberating.  I am learning new, very pleasant things about Wendy everyday and I can sleep. People who knew of my sleep issues said I needed prayer, counselling and all sorts of additional things but as much as I know I always am in need of prayer, this time it turned out, I needed an outlet. From the day I started blogging, insomnia ceased.
I now have a number of book related  WIP’s and could not be happier. I feel healthy, I’m not skipping and dancing in the rain all the time but I am happy and so is my family which is quite remarkable.

My Kink Is Not Sexy

Blood Reaction: A Vampire Novel (Volume 1)
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Friends please don't forget to head on over to Fabulosity Reads for my first interview featuring Blood Reaction author DL Atha as posted yesterday. I really would love to get your feedback in comments there.
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As for the kink in my hair.....

One of our living ancients, Hugh Masekela, caused an upset in South Africa a few months ago amongst the fairer sex by saying he refused to take a photo with a girl that had a weave on her hair because he doesn't find weaves and "fried" in the least bit attractive. I'm sure he thinks that of you display the kink in your hair then you are being authentic and African. Mmmhhhh?

I personally think that's monumental hogwash resultant from brain cell impairment due to excessive drug and alcohol use in his youth and old age with is in turn turning him into a cantankerous old geezer. Which can be forgive I suppose.

I was reminded of this episode today as I undid my hair and did the conditioning treatment bit. Afterwhich I tried to comb and style and after 15 minutes of this it became quite clear that I wasn't gonna win Mess SA/Naija so I just threw up my wide tooth comb in exasperation. My hairdresser can only accommodate me tomorrow and so I am left with a full 24 hours of unsexy.
Thank God my husband isn't around otherwise i'd be hearing the usual "m'bweke" comments (note! this is an Igbo (one of the Nigerian tribes) term I have adopted but don't know how to spell as yet). I think its a derogatory term for someone from the backwaters of some backward village. Somebody looking something like this:

I'm sure you can see my dilemma and will ampathise with my "OhI'msoFatandUgly" feeling today. Hopefully the situation will be much improved tomorrow.
But don't let me have the last word on this as I wait anxiously for my long tresses to find their way to my head and feel halfway female again, never mind fabulous.  What do your prefer, natural or how shall I put this....... tastefully acquired?