We are living in a world where you everyone is in control of what their world looks like. We have so much control. We control what we watch, when we want to watch it, we can even pause it to watch it when we are ready to watch it. It’s similar to sound, that includes...
Author: george
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Marvin’s Room July Edition (Cape Town)
Marvin welcomes you to your celebration, as a man. It is not easy being a man. It is not easy to have to know, to have to navigate, to have to juggle, to have to nurture, to have to build, to have to acquire; to have to achieve, to have to excel. But you are...
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What Jay-Z’s ‘Footnotes for 4:44’ reveals about celebrity relationships — and our own
Jay-Z’s latest album, “4:44,” has been praised for openly displaying his emotional vulnerability, most evident in the title track. “Footnotes for 4:44,” released Monday afternoon on Tidal, is an 11-minute video that takes this effort further, enlisting several famous men of color to dissect their relationships on camera. Publicity ploy or not, it’s refreshing to hear these honest reflections...
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Nairobi Nights: Why I Became A Prostitute – An Attempt
Often I am asked by readers of this blog why I chose to become a prostitute. And quite a number of times I have set out to write my reasons for choosing to engage in this particular kind of pleasure business. In all the occasions I have stopped after the first few sentences; and this...
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Apple Watch & TV
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, the only thing you can’t do...
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To Be Surprised by a Volvo
The people of Volvo South Africa dropped of the sexy v40 v40 Cross Country D4 by the offices in Rosebank on a Wednesday morning. I got the chocolate brownish colour one, I don’t know, I expected it to be in red for some reason or white. I have always thought Volvo is a boring brand...
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Rituals.
I remember hearing the Drake song “Successful” for the first time and I could relate even though I had no understanding what success meant for him. I just wanted success whatever success meant at the time, money, cars, clothes etc. You start working on your dreams and you realize that they demand more from you...
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The Kingdom of Lesotho
I am in an uncomfortable space right now, a lot of things are happening and a lot is changing and it seems like I’m living in a world where I’m the spectator of my own movie, but at the same time I’m in the movie. When I am in this space I usually take some...
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It’s A New Dawn …
Change comes in all different shapes and sizes and like Oprah said if you listen to the whispers of your life you will understand where your life is trying to take you therefore you should well prepared. I have been going through changes, big changes and subtle changes. While others are hard not to miss,...
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Redefining Masculinity
I was weird looking when I was growing up, I looked like a girl when I was a child – I would wonder what my parents thought about it at the time. I had a lot of soft features such as small eyes, small ears, eye lashes enough to be teased that I was putting...