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Archive for June, 2009

T&T trip: cricket

It was good to be where talk of cricket comes naturlly, even in the bank, where the TV was cued to the 20-20 competition then underway. The mercurical West Indians, thoroughly thumped by England in the recent Test and one-day series, salvaged some pride by turning the tables on the Englishmen, the Guyanese duo of [...]

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T&T trip: public art

Some wise person or persons decided that the commercial adavertising long defacing the walls around the Queen’s Park Oval be scrubbed and replaced, incredibly, by the work of Trinidaad artists. A free art gallery for the marish and the parish! It was such a brilliant idea it was co-opted by the purveyors of the strutting [...]

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Another side

I saw on the Huffington Post today that Michael Jackson sought out Deepak Chopra from time to time, that he was familiar with Sufi poetry and with the work of Rabindranath Tagore. There is so much about this troubled hero that was hidden from view, some of it pointng to a need he obviously felt [...]

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