Tower Of Babel

General Degree - Man Shortage

Anyways - a change of topic somewhat - but being the original dance hall girl from the Bull clan, unu eva really listen to the lyrics of Red Rat’s Shelley-Ann and Dwayne? Shelley-Ann is a classic (if you really know dance hall!!!) But you may have missed the full lyrical content of Dwayne!!! If you did, I urge you- revisit it - the song funny like wah!!! “This is serious”… (MB, if you know how to link the song, feel free, but my tech literacy does not evolve to that point..)

This is my problem with alot of new dance hall - the witticism is gone - a lot of the gunvibes, sex, etc. prevail - but without the original wit and lyrical form that made the songs catchy and hypnotic in a subtly sexual way. I don’t know how many of you have seen the “Hot Wuk” video… Now, don’t get me wrong - “Hot Wuk is a great dance tune… But HAVE YOU SEEN THE VIDEO???????????? Offensive is not sufficient enough to define the concept.)

Last time Mad Bull was here, he re-heard “Granny” (General Degree, I think) Bredrin - go back and find a copy of “Granny” - it wicked!!! This is the dance hall I love - the music that makes us laugh, dance and feel good!!! Hey - remember “Glamourous, Glitterous” (may be the wrong title - but I’m sure you know what i mean - where did the subtle witticism go????)

Now here’s the thing - I am a newly-recommitted Christian (MB, don’t roll your eyes ) - I don’t propose to being a Christian who looks down on all Dance Hall because I’ve become a committed Christian!!! I still love my culture, love my music!!! I believe that dance hall has its place in life as an entertainment form - I think we need to start to set some boundaries, however, about what is socially acceptable, and what is not!!! Or Jah Know, the Jamdown I hope to be heading back to will be worse salt than here!!!

Not sure how many of you read the story in the Gleaner that I read with absolute horror…

The one about the 15 year old boy charged with the sexual molestation of his mother (along with his father who was charged with aiding and abetting). Not only was the incident offensive, but so was the journalistic reporting, which described the sexually abused “mother” as being an “IMBECILE”… I presume that they mean she has mental handicaps… Since when was Imbecile the correct term to define that condition?

The article went on to say that after they arrested the 15 year old son and the father, Child Services went into the house to check, because it became evident other children were there…

Therein, they found a young child with a headwound, festering with maggots…

They asked the father how he allowed this to happen… His response was that he had noticed the wound AND the maggots, and after stuffing the wound with CRUSHED CRACKERS AND OATMEAL, he saw no change, so had just about decided to take the child to a docotor!!!!!!

Now, I don’t share this to belittle my homeland - I am a Jamaican, and I believe I’m being called home to step up to the plate to enact a change instead of being all talk and no action…

But this is just my Jamaicanised version of the argument that the entire family structure has gone to crap - we promote a lifestyle of gangsterism, free sex, no-tie marriages, and a complete lack of concern, education and ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, etc… globally!!!

And globally, we’re seeing HUGE breakdowns in society and the behaviour of people and how they relate to each other… Is it only me that has made a correlation between these aspects of life?
Okay - this Realtor has an early appt., and is off to bed and officially stepping down off my soapbox…

But I welcome comments, feedback and interaction on the three key topics I raised:
1. The degenerationof “Dance-Hall Music”
2. The impact of dance-hall music
3. The degeneration of our society being perpetuated by the breakdown of the family unit!

Love To Hear Your Views

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Last night was irie, star… we got some sandwiches and wings from Hurleys and some liquor from Blackbeards and we invited the blogger known as RI, his wife and his two sons over for drinks. The wives killed the Hpnotiq, RI put a dent in the Appleton and I lowered the level of the Absolut some…

The conversation was interesting and stimulating, the wings from Hurleys were GREAT!!!, the kids played well together, and fun was had by all! Needless to say, this event was one which will have to be done over… also, my next goal is to lure Trouble and Chiquita up for drinks as well… perhaps a more difficult task, because the blogger known as Trouble is far more wild (as in untamed) and leery of activities that reek of domesticity , and Chiquita is usually working at times when we could reasonably do a drinkup. I shall not rest until I pull that feat off though.

I quite liked that picture of the liquor bottles, so I am putting it in the photo project.

This morning is sort’ve cloudy still, but I am still going to try a beach run.

Mad Bull tagged me, so since he is my big brother, I shall obey

The game is thus:

Players start with 8 random facts about themselves
Those who are tagged should post these rules and 8 random facts about themselves
Then tag 8 other people and notify them that they have been tagged

So here we go:

1. I am the youngest of seven children, my father was also the youngest of seven and his
father was also the youngest of seven… Hence my nickname!
2. In this legacy, I am the first one to be female - so you know that buck stopped here…
3. I am deathly afraid of heights, lizards of all types and snakes…
4. My favorite drink (non-alcoholic) is Perrier with LOTS of lemon juice.
5. My favorite “drink” is red wine - Shiraz/Merlot/Pinot Noir… LOTS of it
6. My all-time favorite food choice would have to be curried chicken and rice (Jamaican style)
7. If I were a fruit, I’d like to be a strawberry - they’re pretty and make me smile…
8. My favorite color is yellow because it reminds me of sunshine…

As far as tagging goes, let’s see… Dr. D, Scratchie, Angry Dog, Geoffrey Philp, Ciya, Saifiyah, Afrobella and the Company Bitch. MB will have to let me know how to let them know, and will also have to set up Saifiyah and Ciya with a sign in. But there it goes - I listened and obeyed!!!

Yeah. Sometimes you feel like you are bad. Real bad. No guy can test you. When it come to fighting, is you that. And there may be something to it. You might be pretty good at it. You might be freakin’ strong for your weight, you might possess awesome hand speed, you may have the ability to think quickly when under duress, you may also have years of experience and a series of wins behind you to give you confidence, and you may just have a real killer instinct to top it all off.

Him look impressive, don’t? The thing is… there is always someone out there who is better than you.

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Here is some video shot at the Matrix Niteclub last Saturday night courtesy of ltp.ky, Matrix is the club that Natty and I have been going to now and again. It has a nice vibe. Nuff yard music! I like Next Level Niteclub too, but they don’t play enough yardman music, rasta!

You know, Akon is one mad rass! I think he may soon become a convict again.

Stupid ass mofo! Read the news report on this here… link via Jdid of “Doan Mind Me“.

Okay, how are you doing this fine Friday morning? Good? Cool, I wouldn’t expect any less. Yes, its true, Fridays always make me happy too. Hear what! I have a little joke for you. Check this one out:

We are a upper class Jamaican family, so last week, in keeping with our status we took some friends out to theeeeee new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange, but I ignored it. However, when the headwaiter brought out water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket, then I looked around the room and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.

When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, “Why the spoon?” “Well,” he explained, “well sah, the American restaurant owner dem recently hire some expert an’ dem lay dung procedure fi everyting whe wi duh. Them look at di statistics an’ find dat customers drop them spoon 73.84 procent more often than any ada utensil, sah, whe dem call a “drop frequency” of ’bout 3 spoon ah table ah hour. So ef di waitah carry spoon, we can reduce the numbah ah trips back to di kitchen and save 1.5 man-hours ah shift.”

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare spoon. “Mi wi get a nex’ spoon next time
mi go inna di kitchen instead ah mi fi mek ah extra trip figo get it right now.” I was rather impressed, in the way that upper class Jamaicans are about these things. The waiter served our main course and I continued to look around. I then noticed that there was a very thin string hanging out of the waiter’s fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies.

My curiosity got the better of me and before he walked off, I asked the waiter, “Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?” “Yes sah!” he answered, lowering his voice.

“Nobaddy else eva notice di string! Di consulting firm mi tell you bout, dem fine out sey wi can save some time inna di restroom.”
“How?” I asked. “Yuh see,” he continued, “by tying di string onto di tip of wi you know what, we can pull it out over the toilet widout we haffi touch it and that way we noh haffi wash fiwi hand, an we cut dung pon di time we spen’ inna di restroom by 76.39 percent.”. “Okay, that makes sense,” I responded. “But . . . if the string helps you get it out, how do you put it back in?”.

“Well,” he whispered, lowering his voice even further, “Mi noh know ’bout dem ada one, but yu see me, sah…ah di spoon me use fi put it back in.”

Oh my God! What a ting! Anyway, I am not so sure why they stress upon the “upper class Jamaican”. I would think that this could happen to ANY Jamaican. Anyway… I am not fighting them.I found it funny still…

It being a Friday, I am going to give you a little extra. I saw a couple of talented ladies over at PartySurfers. Apparently these ladies were at the Extreme Glow party at Margueritaville in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Anyway, Mr Cedric, (the webmaster of Partysurfers), he currently allows people to pull the images from his website straight, so I will give you the pictures here.. I am not sure how long he will be allowing this, so if the pictures don’t appear, a nuh fimi fault. They ARE worksafe, BTW…

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Mr. Stunner blogged about it some time ago and now I see it in the news again! Apparently it is expected that the Jamaican police force will announce sometime next week that Bob Woolmer was not murdered after all! This is so embarrassing! My gosh! Like I said in the comments over by Stunner’s blog, I think someone ought to lose their work over this! Maybe more than one someone! Right now, I am leaning towards letting the pathologist be the one whose head should roll. At the same time, I am not ruling out having Mark Shields’ head lopped off too and placed on a pike right beside the pathologists! What oonoo all think about that?

Since we are talking about chopping heads off, perhaps I should mention that Friday gone was a pretty violent night here in Grand Cayman. Of course there was my incident, but much worse things took place as well! The the first homicide of the year occurred that night. Apparently a man used some machete to kill another man. It is rumoured that the man used the machete to cut off the other man’s head, although the newspaper headline speaks about a stabbing. What is craziest about the whole thing though is that the man who committed the murder is in his 70’s!

Also, there was an attempted homicide! A man attempted to kill a woman he used to be with. He tried to chop her in the head with a machete but she put her hand up to block the blow and her hand was lopped off instead! What an awful business, eeeh man? I wonder if everyone was getting on crazy because it was full moon? What you think?

Lets come off of the violence and move on to more pleasant things: Week Twelve of the ‘Divas of Yard Flex‘ competition is now posted! I like this weeks challenger! She looks great. Oonoo go vote for her nuh? Actually, she reminds me of one of Natty’s friends from Miami, she was a hotness like this girl too. Poor ting, nowadays Natty’s friend is wasting her life away upon a good-fe-nuttin drugsman.

I wonder if I couldn’t run a little competition like that one though? Hmmm…. How does ‘Divas of the Mad Bull’s Blog’ sound to you? You know who I would ask to pose for me? Cranky Putz, Gooders Girl, Island Spice, Gela, Kingston Girl, Abeni, etc…
Yes rasta! I think that would be cool! Ladies, oonoo up for it?