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31/10/2024

What a wonderful celebration for my 49th turn around the sun last night. Thank you to everyone who came and special thanks for my surprise! Ozy Merrique and Nigel Rojas

14/10/2024

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07/10/2024

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07/10/2024

And....Jus like dat. Back Wid A BANG!

01/10/2024

Thinking bout my late granny
Bele Queen
Loretta

23/09/2024

OF BEASTS AND BICYCLES...

Still toting some feeling for my bicycle I never got...My big sister obviously passed common entrance first so obviously she got a bike first. When I pass now...I had was to ride she own. But I understood the oil boom had went bust in the 2 years 2 days separating us and every belt had to tighten (And I got an Evel Knievel wind up motor bike toy that I made jump over the latrine once...nobody was there to see it though...sigh)

Anyway by then my sister was not about that bike life...She and my mother started to talk secret and I felt it had something to do with that thing that women go through every month. But it meant that the bike was essentially mine and mine alone!...But...I had a limited range of riding imposed on me. Yes you can go riding Mama said...But don't cross Self Help Housing Scheme down the road or Bhupsing shop up the road. I say no problem. I was a good boy. But...My school, close to the recreation ground, was about a mile past Self Help and that's where all the action was. So of course I rode pell mell to the recreation grounds because who go tell? Well pardner...Somebody told.

Reach down by the field and chilling by the basketball court watching some fellas playing small goal..Who I is to see...(Well who see me) But Mr. Mc Williams. Now it had a talk in the village that he use to tun beas’ But...He and my parents was good friend. He use to rub back and crack neck and ting and they would take us kids along to his house where he would be drinking cherry brandy and my father would be getting his neck cracked. All this time I studying how when he tun beas’...where he use to go...Swear to god I see a beas’ size hole in he fencing and I say Aha! Dais where he does pass!

Anyway Mr Mc Williams see me and say ‘Junior!’ How yuh going young boy?! I...after having obviously failed at turning invisible...sheepishly responded: I ok Mr Mc Williams. And that was that. I watch a lil more football and pell mell home in a timing that was safely in a Self Help/Bhupsingh timing.

Nex thing yuh know...Lil while after. We gone by Mr Mc Williams for Cherry Brandy and Neck Cracking. This old man is to tell my parents how he see me the other day on my bike down by recreation.

Me: Deny, Deny, Deny!

The man gone on to describe in detail the encounter down to the point when the football went in the road and I run to get it and throw it back.

Me: Deny, Deny, Deny!

Well this man, who they say was reading bad book, try he best to break me down. Me I going down fighting. Eventually he and all start to doubt heself. My parents and all start to doubt him.

After when I analyze it...I feel as much as they was into the Cherry Brandy and the Neck Cracking...Them and all wasn't too sure he didn't actually use to tun beas’.

As much as he crack necks the length and breadth of the village. Giving relief to the stiff and sore...

Fellas like he couldn't be completely trusted...

18/09/2024

STORM BABY

(In Honour of Last Nite Moon and Eclipse...I feel was de same timing! lol)

Me pardner say tell allyuh bout a certain Dark Shadows episode went on wid me in my younger friskier days...lol. Now this happen more that plenty years ago and I never tell nobody the story till I tell him de other day. Now I was renting a one room in San Juan and my landlord dem was de worse! One day I say 'Yuh see me....I goin Tobago for a week and breeze'.

Now real weird ting happen that week. But fast fwd to the end. I going back Trini de Monday and whole week I liming with a fren I always had de feels for. But is de first time we really get a chance to connect. So de Sunday night we had a few drinks and we mosey on back to she place after.

Now she living in a house that on a cliff over looking de sea. No lie. Real Alfred HItchcock kinda scene. Full moon, sea breeze, crashing waves and ooooh...de vibes was on some pathetic fallacy levels (Yes I did Lit) but it was nice! So we romancing and ting...lil rain start to fall...I say nicerer!.

Now my hostess had a lil boy chile. Bout 1 and a half 2 years old so. Funny looking youth with some googly eyes, a big round head, slightly bow leg and generally cranky. But boyo sleeping sound and love up start to get up in de octave.

By that time rain turn to storm and is thunder and lightning, waves crashing, wind blowing, ...I feel like I was in a lovely dream.

Well de dream turn darkly cuz we on de ground in the living room wrap up like 2 macajuel and all of a sudden I hear 'Krakaw!!!!!' Lightning flash thunder roll and de big head chile stand up in de doorway, halfway illuminated by de full moon light streaming through the open window, watching we with he googly eyes, curtains blowing around him, Pampers heng down, and he quiet, quiet, wid this strange look on he face, pointing he finger at we.

Well she jump up and grab she boy...I jump up and grab my boy and dat was de end of de party...

All this time I waiting for the director to say 'Cut!'. Talk about surreal! Up to this day I still feel coulda be a dream in truth.
Time she come back out all de storms dissipate and we just chill and drink till Sun up till was time for me to catch de boat. Speaking not of the incident with de moon head chile...

But as I leaving de nex morning tho..swear to God de Storm Baby was watching me and laughing as I walk out the gate.



IMAGE:AI. lol

09/09/2024

09/09/2024

King Kobo Kontemplates dat Slice of Sponge Cake wid a Kokie Eye...
Acrylic on Kanvas..
5.5x7.5in
On Offer...

09/09/2024

should we? allyuh comming? it go be nice!

03/09/2024

30/08/2024

Dey want me to tumble down in de drain
Dey want to make a soup wid meh brain
Dey want me to tumble down in de gutter
Dey want to barbecue me for dinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iEpBzIbUKw

27/08/2024

De man say doh talk bout no arms of coat and pan
Far less carlisle chan
Cuz de health and de arms and de crime
Is de ONLY tings and time spose to be on we mind
So how bout supporting good art and artist
To help balance out de badness?
How bout de mental health of de black youth
Who does choose to shoot
When he smell de truth
Of he history and position in dis sunken place
24 Caribs in a case...


7x10in. acrylic on canvas...on offer...

27/08/2024

check out my winston bailey moments! lol (and buy de book...)
https://www.facebook.com/share/C4zrDFAGfDXSNdBo/

22/08/2024

You all thought was was joking? Raize D Bar

20/08/2024

Posted this story with another painting. (Now hanging somewhere in boucaud's house) last year July. But I did this piece now. (After re uploading to my brain eye...some Soca Baptist) Under de same vibes. Cuz this story/his answer sticks with me to dis day...
It have plenty more behind and in front dis piece of wisdom...but another time!...(sorry Nazma...I does add yuh for proof! lol. I wonder if I could find somebody who could find back dat article?)
..Austin lay back in The back seat on his way to La Horquetta Primary School.
Was a Friday. Not yet so Fantastic...But was de one before a carnival a year a good while back.
Tired he was...(was like school Jump Up number umpteen)... When Nazma Muller (De Driver and de journalist) ask him if he want to call it a day he say no way! Super is for the Chirren...
Then she ask him dat question everybody did done feel dey did know de answer already...(This was in de alleged car washing down st james days...)
He get quiet..thoughtful...Said in a whisper as he leaned out the window to feel some wake up breeze on his face...

'Sis...
Not everything that bite yuh in de water is a Shark...'