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I'm excited about my new gig because it comes with a library (the university library, that is.) If I can work out a deal, it'll come with a pool too (mhotel pool). What can I say? Life's good.  But seriously, why do I love books so much?

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Upper-middle class = Upper-class taste + Middle-class money  And it's off to work I go.

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Sometimes our morality is just misguided... GODLY PEOPLE by Tosin Otitoju Ten thousand years and we have not changed. Our idioms - Climbing a mountain, Reaching for the sky, Family in the firmaments, ... Recycled matter, we kneel, we bow, we quake. Ten thousand years and we still yearn for a splash of warm blood against our face; we want to be told who is chosen for slaughter; we yearn for pain

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Back in the day at Howard, some HU upperclassman who looked like Tiger Woods liked to wear a T-shirt that had Tiger's face on it and the words: I am Tiger Woods.  I had a crush on both brothas.  (Except that in those days, Tiger wasn't a brotha yet, he was Cablinasian.  The Howard guy, I think his name was Michael, had a stupendously hawt girlfriend.)  Nowadays you look at the same face and say,

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It would seem that the following passage inspired my characters in "Honeymoon."  The only problem is that while I wrote the story in September 2009, the first time I read Sons and Lovers was one year later (September 2010.)   I was just reading the book again, and was jarred (and pleased) to find this passage with such a familiar female lead character.  The air-heads even share a name: Lily.

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Darey's Not The Girl is wonderful music + impeccable video. I just love to sing/watch this. "You're not the girl I used to know, you're a shadow of yourself // I think I lost you long ago..."

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Feeling rather unwell this evening, with a mild fever accompanying indigestion.  Been sipping water as doctor said (it helps you burp/fart aka pass gas) but this may not be working quickly enough to keep my health within jolly bounds. So, here's what I just learned online about fixing it:  Number 1 advice: BURP. 2. Don't lie down after eating.  Sleep sitting up or supported with a pillow. 3.

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MADAM IN CHAINS by Tosin Otitoju Please don’t call me “Madam” In that way you have Of lowering your head Then darting forth in my service. You are making fun of me! Is it money you want? Take And go. I got your message. The one you share with The rest of your people When I’m not here. The one in your eyes, Which I can’t see When your head is down. The message that hit me today when I

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Watching Cuidado Con El Ángel (Be Careful with The Angel). I've been very ill (was very ill), recuperating, and asked my friends to bring me telenovellas to watch. Now I have a pile of them. The cheesiness is killing me. It's great therapy. THANK YOU.  Other telenovellas I watched in the past: Pasión de Gavilanes, in which the Reyes brothers pair off with the fine rich ladies of the manor..

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About 100 years ago, James Joyce wrote this set of stories collected as Dubliners.  You should read this one, titled Araby.  It's so sweet.  Now or later, you'll want more.

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I spent the last days of September 2011 becoming a celebrity.  Yep. Photo: World-famous Genevieve, "Jenifa" Funke Akindele, the guy is Debola (Chude's "brother"), and that's me on the right. I'm short because I ditched the high-heels under the table.  Dem wan kill person. My kids in this small town probably don't believe that I hung out with Jenifa, so I'll have to show them the real photo:

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South African pulp-fiction hardcopy mag Jungle Jim has my short story, Assassin. Buy in South African shops... South African e-mag itch and Nigerian e-mag Klorofyl feature my poems.  Click on the links to read. Ah yes, I'm off to the Nigerian writer's residency, in Oyo State. :)

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I love Lady Gaga's theatricality.Her music itself is bland but good. It has technical merit, even if it's not rhythmically or melodically fun. It wouldn't survive the competition in Nigeria, like cheeseburger is not about to displace suya, shaki, or kpomo.But what appalls me is how few of her songs I've actually heard. Should I try to become a fan?One of the first I watched was Paparazzi -

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Wole Soyinka's speech at the Nobel Banquet,December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen,It was inevitable that the Nordic world and the African, especially that part of it which constitutes the Yoruba world - should meet at the crossroads of Sweden. That I am the agent of such a symbolic encounter is due very simply to that my creative Muse is Ogun, the god of creativity and

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Noticed the video inserts in my recent posts?It's nice to have somewhat decent internet, that's why I can actually watch and embed video without too much fuss. Someday you'll read my"Video" poem: verse-coated raunchiness in which I'm well pleased.Speaking of...I like Le'mmon. That's All (Explicit) is one of his many songs. Listen.Here are a few more Mellow Yellow singles by Le'mmon: Radio, and

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music Mr. Skills aka JJC is the musician behind one of my favourite beats: We Are Africans. Last year I showed you the ORIGINAL, the Africa Unite Remix, and the Naija (Nigerian) remix featuring DaGrin and others. That is THE anthem y'all and now there are even more remixes. Let's travel... to Sierra Leone for the Salone version: and to Zimbabwe for the Southern African beat: There is

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music I just got a pair of poems accepted by an online magazine. Like the hype over getting a scientific paper published, pretty much nobody is going to read it. I mean, with creative writing your chances of getting read are actually (much) better. But still I'm so excited!!! I'm getting published (check itch in a few days.) I wish academics were not so stuck, and I'm proud of myself for

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music2008 - I drew this layout for an academy. It would be a child's garden...a really swanky village for three types of geeks: Olympiad Prep - Math, other Science, Chess; Sports - Tennis, Football (especially female), synchro; Verbal - Journalism, Languages, Theater.Then I started a blog and webpage (now empty) for it, and also had extended planning chats (password protected) with a couple of

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Lara Bajomo was this gifted vocalist back in Queen's College. Now she's Lara George, the woman who gave us Ijoba Orun (the kingdom of heaven) - the gospel recording that causes goosebumps in young and old alike. Dare Art Alade attended King's College, performing in a KC-QC operetta (championed by the QC principal) around 1997. He performs as Darey. Although he has several hits in several

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musicTHE WINNERS OF THE 2011 NIGERIAN BLOG AWARDS are:Best Beauty BlogSarah Ofili’s Blog Best Blog by a Blogger based outside of Nigeria Sisi Yemmie Best Blog by a Nigeria-based Blogger Memoirs of a Woman with Chutzpah Best Book, Poetry or Writing Blog Fiesty Pen Best Collaborative or Group Blog 360 Nobs Best Daily Read Linda Ikeji Best Designed Blog Jaguda Best Entertainment Blog 360 Nobs Best

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musicSoon after my last post, I started to think I was wrong. The research "system", centered in the United States, has evidently succeeded in producing cures, patents, missiles, NASDAQ, ... I should appreciate that at least things work in that sense, and that scientists are guaranteed a middle-class income and higher.But then I got support from people who say, yes, that is what I'm going

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musichow is research? I got released fromCaltech recently (changed fromsabbatical to separated) but when I'mready got to get back to science. Thatsaid, glad I left. The dumbest thingabout science is how small the audienceis. Why not speak / write to beunderstood? Why not enter policydecisions on occasion? Why not derivewhich problems to solve from nature andsociety? I mean, the exercises are

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musicI recently found my pretty little copy of The Child's Garden of Verses.I find this poem so exciting, especially as I've been to some of the places now. But what did my pre-travel self make of it in 1990 - I wonder? Did Stevenson's poetry lurk in my subconscious, to someday inspire some of my own?TRAVEL, by Robert Louis StevensonI should like to rise and goWhere the golden apples grow;—

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musicHow did this happen? In this picture (around September 2008?) I started out scribbling two swirls, ended up with a stem, which turned out to be a waist, and then inspired to complete the "reclining woman" I filled in the rest. Yeah it's silly. What should I call it?

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musicI looked up Tolu Aliki in Google (Images) and this is what I found:And when I think of Rom (Isichei) , it's still these faces that haunt me(I can't find the most haunting one...I'll try to find it)Rom also does all sorts of stuff, like Women, people, and objects.When I think of Victor (Ehikhamenor), I guess it's Red.

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musicI didn't go to this week's Youth Lunch with the President of Nigeria. I got a couple of invitations by email and text, to which I answered, "how many diners will be at the lunch?" Since I had no assurance that it would be a somewhat exclusive lunch - you know, eba and egusi soup with orange juice around the table with Mr. President - and not a rowdy carnival with us jamming to D'Banj music

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musicI found this months ago in the e-book From Dictatorship to Democracy.The "Monkey Master" fable A Fourteenth Century Chinese parable by Liu-Ji, for example, outlines this neglected understanding of political power quite well:In the feudal state of Chu an old man survived by keeping monkeys in his service. The people of Chu called him "ju gong" (monkey master).Each morning, the old man would

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musicI'm reading Great Scientists, a "children's book" by Victoria Sherrow. Bought this one years ago as a gift to my sisters, learning a lot these days reading its biographies of Pauling and Einstein, Oppenheimer and Fermi, Compton and Goddard, and a couple of biology researchers named Thomas Hunt Morgan and James Dewey Watson. No chics on this list. No chics on the list of Nigerian governors

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musicNuhu Ribadu only received 7% of the vote in the April 16th 2011 presidential election, but no problem, he has already returned to his job at the United Nations. He's visiting Afghanistan as an anti-corruption expert for the UN.I meant to vote for Ribadu but was too busy covering the elections. Maybe I should join the ACN? Even if the political parties are all corrupt, Fashola and Ribadu

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musicYou know I work at a news organization, but not as a writer. Well, I wrote something this morning: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announce separation. Not bad, eh?

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musicI started writing again this week. For more than a month prior, I'd not been able to think leisure. Then I started writing a short City Girl diary about a night on the town in Cairo. It's only slightly fictional. Later I'll write the Paris one, and one recent afternoon date in Lagos.But this blog post is not about current writing, but about my first published book. I want to confess

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music"Hezni," my beautiful friend Adam used to say. Hezni. After every sentence. Day one, when we met in Cairo near the now-famous Tahrir Square, we sat and talked for several hours, me drinking karkadiya, while he had _ (what was his drink? that bitter, maté-like thing perhaps?)Hezni is literally "my sorrow" and he used this slang to mean "crap." Hezni this, hezni that, while he checked out

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musicI have a new job. That's why I've been so busy. I edit www.234next.com

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musicWhat do you have against using protection?Please try to learn. Ask your oyinbo brothers how they do it.

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musicBedroom Art. Try to guess what I was thinking when I made it?Bedroom Art: Valentine's Day

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musicI'm an academic (yay!) which is fun when you avoid the B.S. piled higher and deeper.Some people embrace and promote the B.S. however. We need an opposing force to their style.What I mean is that attitudes in academia are too often competitive and fear-based. Instead ofpublish-or-perish - how negative that sounds -why not a new mantra:discover something useful/beautiful and share it.-->

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musicWE SUPPORT YOUby Tosin Otitojuootitoju@hotmail.com Bi-l rouh, bi-l damWith soul, with bloodNafdik, yaa nass.We support you, oh people. You are one people united,rich in soul and heart.We have no better wordsfor you who give us hope:We support you. Bil rouh, bil damnafdik, yaa Comrade.

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musicLater today I'm giving a talk to a student group at Unilag. Click to view the slides I'm using:More lectures on The Creative Economy at googlesites/upnaira

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musicShall we call this agro chic, 'gric chic, or what?From sketches I drew around New Years Day 2011Men should wear man-shorts. Absolutely.Return the didi (overhand weaving) and kiko (with thread). We really need ventilation in our architecture.and then there's all the cool things we can copy from Fulani, Yoruba, and Nigerian agrarian dress in general... midriffs and gauze coveralls

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musicI just typed a poem that I wrote December 23 and rewrote last night. Did this after reading a little bit online about some engineering "research" for a meeting tomorrow. This after reading a little about my more-favoured research, which is on Sudoku, the game. This after having a ball teaching Calculus: Integration to a too-big class ( over 400 students, quite intractable, to be frank.

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musicAlthough when I watched him performing his solo "My Exile is in my Head" I was a little worried for Qudus Onikeku - he was losing so much fluid (sweat), and yeah, generally such intense head-jerking can't be good for you.He followed some Desi (Indian) strings in the solo, which was superb, especially the bit with his fingers plucking, you know, posed like an Indian dancer. Very memorable, I

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musicSometimes I agree completely with Tolu Ogunlesi. Here are two examples:Q: "There has been an upsurge in the number of young writers emerging from Nigeria side-by-side with a publishing industry that is sadly not big enough to accommodate them. What are your views on publishing in Nigeria?There is very little publishing going on in Nigeria. Very little, if you take our population and the

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musicLook what I was thinking 10 years ago: "defending the free world."When I was typing my entry for Person of The Year in CLDC (that famous computer lab) at Howard University, I had no idea my words would be printed in TIME. I would have been too shy to actually write something in TIME.In Nigeria, I've seen (attributed to Pat Utomi, and now echoed by several people) calls for a part-time

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musicNOT TOO MUCH PEPPERby Tosin Otitojuootitoju@hotmail.comMy team has a reputation for being capable and effective. We get the job done - no excuses. We are Funmi (that’s me), Bala, IK, Deeza, Ekpenyong, and Robert. The youngest is Robert, who we like to call “Robot.” He’s spending his IT (Industrial Training) semester with us. In only two months, he has already solved so many of our

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musicNo, I'm not taking photographs,but check these out from The Dustbin Estate Story at BellaNaija.comI commented,"these photographs are amazing, and I envision using pictures of real people and places – the riverine shanties, the dustbin estates, the pans of sand carried all day till the men are hunched like Quasimodo, and the guys and girls that work solid rock with their hoes in the name of

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musicI had fun reading the Friday papers: next and BusinessDayYes I know The Guardian is classic,and The Nation is realisticand This Day is mainstream,and Punch surprises...but how I lovethe youthfulness of 234next (ps i even saw my youthful self in the paper today - i must be like, a celeb or something)and the intelligence of BusinessDay. These two must be my favourite Nigerian newspapers at the

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musicIn my future life every year I'lldo the Arab Film Festival like it's 2006.Me and my Rafa ;)

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musicThe Nigeria art (literary, musical, ...) space is on fire with content. Here are three novels that I think you will have so much fun reading. Fun is important, no?Tenants of The HouseAn intelligent and fast-paced adventure about politricks in the national legislature.Buy online or in a few bookstores.I Do Not Come To You By ChanceI previously discussed it here.It's on amazon, goodreads, in

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musicI'm reading Capital, by Karl Marx.Diego Rivera's paintings seem to fit the theme of exploitation of labour that so consumed Marx.In the middle of this, I got to attend (and be on a panel at) the Nigerian Economic Summit. Let's just say it's about time truth gave corruption a knockout punch.

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musicMichael Nielsen shares a lot. His is one of the first blogs I followed (from 2003-ish)I'm going to re-read some of his essays soon.His general essays discuss the scientific method and the scientific enterprise. I used to have his popular technical book on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, bought at Borders.He is great because it's easy for him to think outside the box about

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musicIf folks had CPUs between their earsand not some fiber-optic pipes,they would have all Jah consciousnesssince the first Redemption Song.But as it stands, Robert Marleyhad scarce choice but to sendhis sage, romantic, Naija sonto message the true word:Alas, our blessings stand behind doors we refuse to open.When asked how we're doing, we take a sip and say, "we are coping!"That's how the man

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musicnigerianblogawards.com 2010 winners

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musicWhat I was thinking today, copied from my facebook: You ever feel like you're completely doing the right thing? Yeah, I feel good right now. It could also be the brunch I just had, washed down with juice - the extra sugar is a rare treat, and all is right with the world. (this morning)the way politics works - name recognition - she has a better chance than almost anybody

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musicText of a Speech delivered by Oluwatosin H. Otitoju (FRM)as Guest Speaker at the Annual Speech and Prize-Giving Ceremony of Queen’s College Lagos on 3rd July, 2010Pass on the torch Still brightly gleaming Pass on the hopes The earnest dreamingTo those who follow close at hand. My warmest greetings to all: our distinguished guests (naming them), as well as our distinguished hosts – the

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musicDr. Cora Sadosky taught me Differential Equations and Fundamentals of Applied Mathematics at Howard University. She made most of her students feel very special. She fought for people, sometimes maybe too much. Dr. Sadosky dramatized mathematics in an appealing way one can only call sexy, with talk about live meetings with dudes we had read only about in books, an accent that belonged

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musicThe Wayfarer is a nice blog by a friend I just met.I've been on a socializing blitz since at least Tuesday. Considering I like never go anywhere, this was a great effort. My parents are probably happy their recluse child chose to leave the house :) Olakunle, I even "met someone."Let's see:Monday - wrote a training manual and got very tired.Tuesday - finished The Abyssinian Boy in an upstairs

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musicI'm still blogging the 2006 Arab Film Festival. What Procrastination.I'll develop my blog notes from 2007, copied here.Start with Zozo. Watch it. More than sold out.Kiss Me Not on the Eyes. I bought the soundtrack. More than sold out.Seeds of DoubtAhlaamWaitingWesh weshBostaBab AzizOnce upon a time in the WadiKhadija Al-Salami http://www.arabia-felix.com/arabia-felix-11.htmlAlso post picture

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musicBeen reading A LOT. More on my African Literature findings later.I went to a mega book reading - slash - book signing called Book Jam on Saturday. Glad to have heard about it. I met a lot of people who were very very kind to me. My first time attending an in-store book-reading, ever.A year ago, I thought I'd never do the circuit, the artsy-fartsy scene, but by now I know a lot of the

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We Are Africans is a fly and catchy musical video. #1Then they made a remix. #2And another remix. #3Which is your favourite? For me, it's not #2. Maybe the original 1. I like the local remix too #3. It's a worthy remix for sure.My life is filled with music right now. Hahaha, because I'm supposed to be an engineer. Also been writing poetry so I'm happy. Also been driving up and down - I

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musicPresident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died at night yesterday, May 5, on my father's 55th birthday. My father is on TV now commenting on the politics. Previously there was Muslim prayer being recited musically on TV, with images of Hajia Turai praying alongside her husband. Yar'Adua looked like a humble schoolboy. I thought, she must be so sad, and especially feel so alone. You see, Turai was

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musicThis is yummy: The Ottolenghi Cookbook was a publishing phenomenon. His follow-up, Plenty, looks set to repeat the trick, with new recipes and updates on dishes devised for his New Vegetarian column in Guardian Weekend magazine. Here's an exclusive taster of what's on offer

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musicI saw The Tragedy of King Christophe yesterday at the auditorium in Unilag. Although the space would seat about a thousand, there were about as many people in the cast/crew as in the audience (about 30.) The show was gooooood, and it only cost 250bucks (less than $2 - even I can afford that.) It was performed by the Jos Repertory Theater, so basically, good stuff. I don't want to get

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I love his album C.E.O. "aimoye many coloured t-shirts but one red shoe."..."but mo wa determined, mo si wa focused, tori bee loruko mi se spread bi staphylococcus" hehehe..."and my favourite"...nkan ti o n wonder mi, ki lon shake nibe, ki l'awon guys n rush fun, ki n'won fe take ni be?" hehehe.In other Naija music news, NNEKA is doing Lilith Fair. Go girl.

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musicLin Yutang: Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.I kept quotes cutout from Oprah mag below my whiteboard over my desk for a few years in grad school. This was one of three? six? I held on to the truth therein in the faith that one day, I would understand...the

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musicMost of Tolu Aliki's paintings are just my taste. A few of Rom Isichei's too (but I can't find the ones I love so - split faces, split female figures... these represent Rom to me)Tolu Aliki on Saatchi GalleryTolu Aliki's websiteRom Isichei's websiteI'm going over to meet a painter named Ben Osaghae tomorrow. Excited. He works in intense monotone pure colours with almost-violently-rough

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musicI bought two books for my young cousins last weekend.Zahrah the Windseeker - I read the beginning. The beginning is better than the start of that last Harry Potter book - ...the Order of the Phoenix. My cousins are both in love with the Zahrah novel. (Just buy all the Farafina Books. Zahrah is also available on amazon etc)I also bought the abridged Ake - The Years of Childhood. It's a good

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musicProud to be a Bez groupieAs in happy. The other night I woke up to hear Zuciya Daya on the radio. It made me feel perfetto. As in happy. The radio presenter predicts a grammy for the artiste Bez. I'm like "dude, will you even wait for the guy's second single to be released before you start talking Grammies?" If the second single is Stop Pretending, then yeah, it's all over. It's possible of

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musicI’m working on a collection of poems investigating fear and loathing:MY BROTHER, THE JEWUnder the banner of peace and brotherhood,my body to be scattered in bits in the noisy,sudden, non-peaceful tearing of flesh.My body a weapon against cousinhood.I have many cousins -one that smokes by the Ganges and really hates blood.one that used to be stupid but now rules the world.one devilish one –

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musicCan you believe that there are cable channels for Africa Magic Yoruba and Africa Magic Hausa? Go Nollywood!I don't watch Africa Magic myself, but I can tell you it's a big addiction and not only for bored housewives. Maybe the most popular channel in Nigeria right now.I wrote this Jason-Bourne-inspired piece late last year. Enjoy.ASSASSINBy Tosin Otitojuootitoju@hotmail.comIt’s 8pm and Frida

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musicI have no interest in my face. I mean, I'm sure it's a perfectly nice face with all the requisite parts, good structure AND function. On the rare occasion that my conscious mind observes my reflection in a mirror, it thinks (and often pronounces) "wow, hot." Most boys get along just fine with this mentality. Not sure why girls have to make like film actors or talk show hosts, working

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musicThe winners of the 2010 bloggies will be revealed this weekend. Meanwhile, all the nominees are here at http://2010.bloggies.com. Lots of yummy stuff to check out.The new gig is cool, but the traffic! so I'm moving in with somebody next week that lives in that area, maybe my uncle, until I move on campus. Don't want to spend 30% of my waking hours commuting. You shouldn't have to either.

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musicGot a job today, will be a grad student / lecturer at University of Lagos. Just in time.

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musicJust wrote this ten-liner. Posting it because, I guess I thought ErikLeRouge might like it. BALLROOM DANCEIn the early days, we would dress up and watch couplesfloating like a dream across the gleaming floorWhile me and my husband, we tripped clumsily over twenty fat toesthen argued whose fault.Still in love, we tripclumsily, daily; privately.

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musicI should totally have watched SCRUBS all those times I saw it on TV in Cali. Ah well, I bought the pirated $1.50 version. Just finished Season One. Bliss. On to Season Two. I just curled my toes, feel so good thinking about it. I've been living in my parents' home since late July 2009. Thank you. We're in the phase in which they think I'm a Barbie - I've been so compliant. I'm

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musicLook, art, from Nigeria.1. Ituen Basigreat stuff in 2009. I hope she does even better in future when I have more money and interest in fashion.http://www.bellanaija.com/2009/06/17/arise-africa-fashion-week-ituen-basi/2. Gidan Nodzathe best bags, possibly made by a friend, or maybe just someone with the same name and intellect.http://houseofnodza.blogspot.com/3. Nike Artsher new gallery in

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musicPat-down searches now required at airports - assuming the airport security staff is mostly gorgeous people, this could be healthy fun for everyone. Let's do this groping worldwide, not only in America. Imagine the possibilities...Humour - His attempt at terrorism has been called The Christmas Crotchfire Attack. And today, as we lit up firecrackers for New Years Day, the ones that wouldn't

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musicA sweet, recession-free 2010 to all. May the good times roll.

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musicThe very bright and amiable Nigerian writer Eghosa Imasuen wrote this story and gave a nice reading in October at a Farafina event in Lagos. Enjoy: New Generator.NEW GENERATOR: ‘I PASS MY NEIGHBOUR'A short storyBy Eghosa ImasuenMr. Ochuko’s decision to buy a new generator was taken with the help of his wife seven monthsago. They lived in one of those suburbs that NEPA seemed to have

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musicCardinal rule of my worklife: if there's a mega-process, simplify it.

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musicI adore Andre. Want to be like him when I grow up. Can't wait to read his book, though not sure when I'll get to...More Agassi Open - the 60minutes interview ... Part 2Good luck to Richard Gasquet with the cocaine charges. It's not a performance-enhancer, rather the opposite effect - shouldn't that be important in judging these cases?And good good luck to Billy. He's been in jail nearly

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musicViktor & Rolf always inspire to lose the walls, artistically speaking.Watch the Fashion Show and hours of video in their archives.Check out their website tour. No wonder Rufus loves them!

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musicand waiting for 'Tech. Can you believe I'm itching to get back to Caltech?A bunch of poetry books in the pipeline. I tried to stop writing them for a while, then someone upset me and I started a third book to be titled "Big Girl" with poems about the yuppie/wealthier-class young woman in Nigerian/similar climes. I just started reading a Nigerian novel I found around the house that is very

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musicWhat is the nature of time? Read the winning essay by Julian Barbour on The Nature of Time, then browse more Expository Essays on the same topic at the FQXi, the Foundational Questions Institute.Shortly, you will be able to view essays on this year's topic, "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?"

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musicCOMMITTEE FOR RELEVANT ART, CORA (Winner of Prince Claus Award 2006)We Are Cultural 'Landscapists'. The MISSION is to create an enabling environment for the flourishing of the contemporary arts of Nigeria and to increase human capacity of the continent. VISION is to make Culture the Prime Investment Destination for the Country and the Continent by 2018.I attended the CORA book party

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musicHONEYMOON By Tosin Otitojuootitoju@hotmail.comTradition holds that newlyweds would spend thirty days away from their friends, family - their routines. The period is spent visiting sites of history and culture. As the new couple soared together, gliding among monuments, they would learn about love and permanent marriage. This obligation is so sacred that every newly-married couple in the

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musicMark your calendars. California (especially San Francisco) October 15 - 25, 2009.

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musicNaguib Mahfouz, one of the world's great people. Biography @ Wikipedia Pictures @ images.google.comHe died August 30, 2006. Guess I was too preoccupied to register the obituary.

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musicFull of music, laughs, and flow, and maybe just a little hustle.

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Shayo, by Bigiano. Shayo means booze.The kid is so cute, and so positive. I so dig androgynous hotness.

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musicI met this writer, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo yesterday.Read more about her at 234next, and at sunnewsonline (so people really do it everyday)I thought her elegant and...gracious? A new friend, looking to help me learn more about publishing options, brought me in to her office at the University of Lagos for a chat. Today I read her award-winning children's book "My Cousin Sammy." It made me

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musicIt's my instinct to make love, art, whatever; not war. Does everyone share this instinct? Not these city people. I guess chickens in a coop behave nothing like free-range chicken too. Crazy Lagos.I have a short story from earlier this year: hope you like it. Wrote it in the middle of the night in Yola (after listening to Rufus' Natasha a lot I guess) Yowz, I miss Yola.Natasha - A short

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musicI so hate hustling, you know, that big city mentality, me fighting working against the world.

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musicSorry

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musicI read The Audacity Of Hope last week. I read it very quickly. It's a good book featuring Obama's thoughts on US Government, Money, Race, God, Policy, Family, etc.I'm reading Dreams From My Father this week. Now, that is an infinitely interesting book. I'm glad it's so long. I really like the end, which narrates, finally, his Kenyan family history. (I had to read the end before I

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musicBirthday is on May Day folks.tonight: cartoons and pineapple.tomorrow: whatever's fun.Life is amazing, even without electricity in my house.there's a lot of fun stuff I could tell you, but my Papa might think it immodest. You know I'll still tell.Girls are weird. Boys make more sense. Someone I know (yours truly) decided to try polygamy. She tried it. Her boyfriend returned two days

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musicIt's funny how well Nutella goes with aish baladee. One is an Italian chocolate-hazelnut spread, beloved of travelling students everywhere, baladee is the barely-there-light Egyptian local bread. Yum.It's funny how lovely dark-haired white guys look in Adire/Batik, the locally-dyed cloth famous among Yorubas.Yes, I know this post could use some visuals :-o...so I just added the pics and

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musicLast months in AdamawaAfter the last post, electricity returned, and we've had so many hours per day now that I'm mildly sleep-deprived. Basically, whenever we have power, I'm up "using" it, to watch DVDs, read, etc. Watching Indian films now : finaly saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a tearjerker love story with all the biggest names (except Aishwarya), Girlfriends is a surprising thriller - think

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musiccybercafe's kicking me out. hi.classes started finally. fun. yay. it's hot. but i can't bitch. happy to be hot for a change. no fucking flash of electricity at home for the whole week. then again i've never paid the electricity bill. we never do. never will. too funny.

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musicI'm going to cry when it's time to leave this town. Almost cried the day before leaving for three weeks of holidays at Christmas. Why?

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