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About Me

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My Interests

The GREEN ROOM: Last update - December 17, 2007.
Airports and Chaos
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I'd like to meet:

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Music:

The Gongs, Jr and Sr - Steve Marley (big solo effort! well worth the wait!!) - Fugees - Lauryn Hill (have they reunioned or what!?) - Tosh - Mizri (myspace.com/mizrimusic) - Sean Paul - Black Uhuru - Steel Pulse - Buju - Beenie - 80s music (we're not ashamed. we like disco too, but that's not going in the list) Bounty - Soca (it's mostly good... the stuff that reaches Jamaica anyway) - David Rudder (had to single out the great man!) - Classical (hey, we enjoy Mozart as much as the next group of misfits) - Santana - Brazil 66 - Burning Spear - Miles Davis - Coltrane - not necessarily in that order...

Movies:

Inside Man -- The Prestige -- we're still reeling from that one.

Television:

Is TV going out of style?

Books:

Little Lion at Bat (Available at Jackmandora.com, The Tallawah Store (see our top friends), Amazon.com and newsstands acrosss Jamaica!) - Little Lion Goes to School - Conversations With God (1 and 2) - The Maroon Story - True Born Maroons - Nuff mags: Entrepreneur, Sculpture, ArtNews, Photoshop User, Graphic Design, Illustrator, HOW, MACO, Trace, Source, First, Vibe, Arena, Maxim - Comics, comics comics...

Heroes:

We realise this list is quite similar to 'People we'd like to meet', but not exactly: Nanny - Kojo - Sam Sharpe - Paul Bogle - Bob Marley - Albert Einstein - Leonardo da Vinci - Stephen Hawking - Nelson Mandela - Che Guevara - Nelson Mandela - Harriett Tubman

My Blog

Fare thee well Fidel!

They say crazy things happen in the months surrounding a lunar eclipse... They aren't kidding! Fidel Castro stepped down as Comandante aka El Jefe aka El Presidente aka head honcho of Cuba's governme...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST

Airports and Chaos

Season's greetings!What is the deal with airport prices?? We understand the in-transit lounge contains a captive audience, but why do the prices have to feel like unconsensual sex (minus the lead-up d...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:18:00 PST

Nudity

Why do we wear clothes?History's first murals and other archeological finds tell us that early humans covered themselves for warmth. It's unclear whether any modesty or fashion sense was involved.The ...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:24:00 PST

Beauties and the Beasts

Love and light to those affected by HIV and AIDS. Two and a half hours past World AIDS Day 2007.Almost four decades since the first case of AIDS was reported in the US, ignorance continues to be a maj...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:53:00 PST

Hanging with the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama passed through our area the other day. (There's something we don't get to write often). So we went down to Centennial Olympic Park right here in the Big A to hear what His Holines...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:36:00 PST

What’s going on?

"Brother brother, there's far too many of you dying." - Marvin GayeMusic lost a soldier on Thursday when Lucky Dube was shot and killed by an apparent carjacker. The South African whose music was as f...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:57:00 PST

Message to the leadership

Greetings!Sitting here watching the seasons change in Atlanta, we've also been watching the changes in Jamaica. We're just nine days into the new governmental dispensation and the folly has already be...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:30:00 PST

Elections and Hurricane Felix

Hello All!We spent the day glued to our radios and telephone lines. The counting of ballots is still going on in Jamaica's general elections. No winner has yet been declared in the vote to elect Jamai...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

Hurricane Relief and the Atlanta Jerk Festival

Greetings from rainy Atlanta,This weekend is Labor Day weekend here in the US of A. It's the big holiday marking the end of summer and the beginning of the new school year. In many states, pools are c...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:24:00 PST

Hurricane Dean and Spliffie TV

Love and light to everybody feeling Hurricane Dean in Jamaica right now.Since we can't be there, we've been on the phone since yesterday, talking to our loved ones, and tracking Dean's progress online...
Posted by Spliffie.com on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:34:00 PST