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When Love Hurts
As a person who took only a passing interest in the relationship of the Smith family, the whole ‘August’ debacle left little impression on me. I know the story; Jada slept with her son’s friend, August Alsina, a rapper/singer and spoke about the affair on her podcast. The resulting confession left her husband, Will, looking […]
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We’re All Arseholes
You’re an arsehole, I’m an arsehole, we’re all arseholes. But there are different levels of arseholery. Sometimes it is just in your mind, an errant thought. A smirk at someone stumbling, disdain at a fashion faux pas, giggling at a fail on social media. We are all arseholes. If you think of your close circle […]
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As Well
I get it. I really do. I am a black man and it has been wearying, even for me, the worldwide movement that is Black Lives Matters. That is not to say I am sick of hearing about it. It is, unfortunately, a necessary movement but like the Me Too movement of recent years, a […]
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The Best Choice You Can Make
To some extent, every young man, or not so young man, has gone through the disapproving glare of a would-be, significant other’s parent or parents. It does not happen with every partner of course. Sometimes the families are very nice, normal. When the parent or parents are less than welcoming, there can be different reasons. […]
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The Man On The Left
I laid in my bed with tears streaming down my face. It has been an emotional week. Struck down by some seasonal bug or – shoutout to Covid19! – the plague of the moment, along with the never-ending lockdown, I found myself mostly bed-ridden this week as the fallout from the George Floyd murder gained […]
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What’s In a name
Most of us were given our names. Before the age of understanding, your parents or guardians and anybody else who was old enough to utilise language would address you by your given name. Some people change their name when they reach a legal age and have the power to do so. Some do it for […]
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Not Seeing The Same Things
It gets tiring sometimes. I began writing this at three in the morning. It might meander in places and seem emotive. It is an emotive time, a troubled time. There are stereotypes and expectations. There is reason and rhetoric. Most of all there is emotion, a lot of emotion. Black lives matter…as well is the […]
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Everyday Alien
SO many thoughts. I had wanted to write about Star Wars, one of the worlds biggest films and franchises. I had thought about how it encompasses a fictional world, that many accept, with various species all getting along. It was not always an easy alliance – Star Wars humour – but race was never an issue. Then I remembered the furore that followed John Boyega being cast as a stormtrooper.
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Embracing Reality
Everyone is wise after the event. Of course, there will always be the few who claim to have known that something was wrong or would end badly if the circumstances did not change. An observer can always feign wisdom, whilst remaining unaffected.
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The Reality Is.
I must admit, right out of the gate, that I am not a fan of reality television. That is not to say it has no merit, or even that all reality television is terrible—though a lot of it is—it is just that, as an aspiring writer, looking at it from a purely selfish point of view, it is lazy television. When I say ‘reality television’, I am not referring to talent shows.
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Whispering In A Hurricane 