Foreign Dispatches

Will No One Rid Me of this Tiresome Coon?

The talentless, shameless and disgusting Stepin Fetchit Bobby Ologun is at it again, aping it up for the delight of Japanese audiences.

Morgan Tsvangirai, Useful Idiot

Or should that be "useless idiot"? Watch this fool serving here as Robert Mugabe's errand boy and judge for yourself.

Narcissistic Twitters

One or two readers (of the very few remaining who follow this blog) may recall that I went on a while ago about my inability to grasp the allure of Twitter's service; as I explained then, the whole business struck me as being one giant exercise in egoism, as one must be narcissistic in the extreme to imagine that there are actually people who are willing to listen to one's every random, 140-character limited muttering.

Some Pleasant Viewing

Picture 6, originally uploaded by Abiola_Lapite.

It's been a long while since I've put up any of my pictures on here, not because I haven't had anything new to share - to the contrary - nor because of some feeling that my newer works were in any way inferior to the older ones; it was simply the case that I'd planned to accompany the new pictures with substantial essays putting them in context, but I never actually got around to writing the actual essays in question.

At any rate, I've recently been taken some pictures which will need little by way of context for anyone to appreciate, and I expect to be adding a few more stunning photos to the set in the near future, so watch that link ...