I can’t really explain how much I loved Treasure Mountain. Which is lucky because it was the only computer game I ever had. Continue reading “The best computer game ever”
Category: Random
First world my arse
Because my mother was traumatically uprooted at 11 and taken to Benoni, where she was bullied by schoolmates and called a ‘bladdy immagrant’ by teachers (she even had to do a subject called ‘immigrant Afrikaans’), England became a weird nostalgic Utopia for her, and I was brought up to believe it was heavenly[1]. The television was better, the comedy was funnier, the chocolate was tastier. Continue reading “First world my arse”
The best place to watch the moon rise and the sun go down …
Everyone living in Cape Town knows that the best place to watch the full moon rise is Lion’s Head … but I reckon the lesser known Kloof Corner is even better.
Continue reading “The best place to watch the moon rise and the sun go down …”
The top 20 SA magazines on Twitter
I was working this list out again, to check how Kick Off was doing, and decided to publish the results here, in case anybody is interested.
Krap on the trains
Taking the train every day you see a lot of interesting things. Some of the graffiti is most interesting indeed. I spend a lot of time looking at it, smirking, and taking surreptitious photos, leading a lot of people to believe I am a creep. Who cares? I’m not the only one. Graffiti comes from the Italian word graffiato, which means ‘scratched’. The Afrikaans word for scratch is ‘krap’. The English word for what a lot of this graffiti is, is ‘crap’. It’s all nicely summed up in my first picture.
The Metrorail Shuffle
Something fairly interesting happened on the train this morning.
Top South African magazines on Twitter
MediaSlut used to compile this list, but hasn’t done one recently, and since I was gasping to find out where Kick Off is in the top 20 these days, I decided to pull it together myself. Continue reading “Top South African magazines on Twitter”
Gif it to me, baby
Ah, gifs. The gift that keeps on giffing.
Last night at the Two Door Cinema Club gig, at a secret location in a location, I tried out this gif app I found in the Android store.
It’s just like actually being there, right!?! Continue reading “Gif it to me, baby”
Creepy statues on the Promenade
Simon and I took our American friend Kerry for a walk on the Seapoint Promenade recently. They talked big ideas and I played with my phone.
As a serious postcolonial theorist Kerry was horrified by how kids in this country play on simulation oxwagons. So of course I made her pose on one. One has to keep one’s sense of humour. Continue reading “Creepy statues on the Promenade”
Project Jennifer 