Part 4: Laughter is the best medicine… If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have to be some kind of playwright. It really is that simple. Poetry is currently back in fashion, but in its raw form, on the page, or performed at small events, open-mike [...]

And now for a long overdue introduction… Well Muddo! The audience has come, and they have voiced their opinion on Part 2 of this series, and after some initial ruckus, it seems that things are settling down to some sort of consensus: Film has potential, but beware of the risk. Thanks to all of those [...]

Just letting you know that there is a new post over on Mental Slavery dot com. The piece is the guest editorial that appears in the current Spring / Summer 2009 issue of The College of the Bahamas Alumni Magazine. It’s entitled The Bahamian story needs a reality check. I think it’s worth a quick [...]

Part 2: So, you want to be in the movies… What are we to make of the current passion for movie-making in the Bahamas? Is it possible to apply the logic of Hollywood to our local situation and create an honest-to-God indigenous film industry here? Films made by Bahamians for Bahamians? This is an enormously [...]

When I walked out of Transformers 2 the other day, I had an epiphany. Or more precisely, I had an extension to another epiphany that I had had a few days before. My revelation was about art, how to be an artist in the Bahamas and most importantly, how to make a living while doing [...]

It is Thanksgiving, the general time when you give thanks. I’m thankful for this wonderful warm period that Ottawa is having. Warm enough in fact to wear long-sleeve tee-shirts outside without feeling cold. Hooray! I’m supposed to be heading back to the Bahamas, but the processing times on student permit renewals is five months, so [...]

So I went to the funeral on Thursday. We in the Bahamas have this strange habit, and I don’t know how many other societies do this, where we let the body repose. This basically means that the dead body is made up to go on display and just sits there in the coffin. This is [...]