Going Clean: Breaking off a Dopamine Addiction What you got in your mouth?” asks the adult behind the camera. The little child looks up, eagerly ramming the remnants of his snack into his mouth. A hand appears on screen. “Give it to me,” says the adult. “Give it to me.” The child spits. It’s a roach. The adult snickers. The clip ends. And that, I’d say, is a case of content creation gone wrong, the ideal clip to showcase what *not* to do on social media as a content creator.…
Why are Brittany Renner's tears Offensive? Internet personality Brittany Renner got on Instagram and cried. And she was ridiculed for it. The self-ascribed "mad, mouthy, majestic" woman, with the cheeky humor of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath, threw a defiant middle finger up to society's norms and expectations of the female model, and then turned around, gave us a glimpse of her vulnerable side- a side many refused to believe she had- and we didn't care for it.…
Tiffany Haddish responds to controversial video: Comedic sketch wasn’t funny at all. Yesterday, comedian Tiffany Haddish issued a statement in response to the allegations of child sexual abuse that have been plastered across blogs and social media for the past few days. According to reports, Haddish, Kevin Hart's protege whose breakout performance in the 2017 film, Girls Trip, catapulted her career, was named alongside fellow comedian Aries Spears in a lawsuit brought by…
Peering through binoculars towards London Bridge Earlier today, media houses around the world raced to report on a statement from Buckingham Palace announcing that the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, was under the medical supervision of her team of doctors who were concerned for her state of health. Those reports were followed by a slew of articles on the arrival of members of the royal family to be at her side in Balmoral, Scotland, reports of politicians buying black ties,…
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The Fall of R. Kelly English Catholic historian and writer, John Dalberg-Acton, in a letter to an Anglican bishop in 1887, penned the now famous lines: *Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...* Years later, these lines continue to hold true in almost every sphere of life where power is wielded. In the past few years, however, we have seen somewhat a shifting of…
The Elephant in the Room is Trumpeting 85 years ago, in 1937, in my country- a tiny island on the southern end of the Caribbean sea- there was a rebel who spoke out against an economic system and system of governance which he argued benefited a privileged few at the expense of many. And, as is often the case when one protests too loudly against the status quo, this man found common ground with the rank and file members of our population, but he was vilified by the mainstream…
Attitude Makes A World of Difference Yesterday, my friends, I took some time to complete the registration of my business, an exercise which should have been done earlier this year, but, for a number of different reasons, including my own fear of failure and rejection, I dragged my feet until the very last moment. In my country, the process to register a business can sometimes be a bit complicated, depending on the type of business you propose to register. Nevertheless, it is…
The Masks We Wear Laughter makes it infinitely easier to navigate through life. **Very often, and without the aid of traditional medicine, comedians help us to heal from trauma by simply prescribing a joke**. They get up on stage and tell self deprecating jokes about personal experiences that we can relate to, and together we are able to lessen pain's power by laughing at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbRuKv_7yo Very often when we're in the midst of a situation, we…
What the Morally Bankrupt in our Society says about Us. Yesterday, my country was rocked by reports that six bandits, in a brazen heist, shot and killed two security guards transporting money from a business establishment on behalf of their employer, a private security firm. The attack occurred at a shopping plaza, causing shoppers to scurry for safety. One school boy was grazed in the cheek by a stray bullet. A third security guard was hospitalized and is said to be in a…
Making A Tasty Dish with a Bitter Melon There's a saying, my friends, that when life serves you lemons, you can make lemonades. Well, this morning I did just that, turning around in the kitchen in a bid to eke taste from the caraille fruit, otherwise known as a bitter melon. If you're not familiar with **the bitter melon, or caraille as we know it in the Caribbean, it's a tropical vine that is widely grown in Asia and Africa and the Caribbean**. The fruit is known for its…
Commitment is About Morals My friends, have you ever heard or read a catchy line or phrase which gets to you, and so, inadvertently, you repeat it ever so often, not intentionally, but because it's stuck in your head? Well, it's happened to me too. A few months ago, I was binge watching this Netflix series, Manifest, which I couldn't quite take seriously after the first few episodes because I was just constantly distracted by Jared Vasquez's facial expressions. If you've…
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What if this moment were your last? What if this moment were your last, my friends, would you be content, satisfied that you've lived a full life? Have you made the best use of your days? I've spent the last two days thinking about this. Two days ago, I had a terrible scare. I thought I was about to die. This is what happened. I've been spending an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen lately. I use the term inordinate because I am not really inclined to be much of a…
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