The Delifrances

Osu branch

One good thing about the D in Osu is how early they open. You would be hard pressed to find a breakfast joint on a Sunday morning, and soon you'll stop looking and just head over to DF.

The racism that is Game of Thrones

Started this in 2013, and I promise to finish before GOT is done
Watch this space

Many a blogger (and fully fledged author) have written ad nauseum about the subtle and not so sublte racist underpinnings of GOT, and while I am an avid fan, I am not blind to these slights and would like to briefly touch on them here.

In summary, there are more people of colour in Peaky Blinders than GOT.

Wise Words

I'm sure you've heard the saying: "You know you don't have to take this...you don't have to be here. You have a home." Well at times like this, such tough love anecdotes seem to be extra poignant. My personal favourite is, a spin on the good old "I can do bad all by myself" is: I can do good..no great by myself, I'm trying to do amazing with you. If only I had a sassy 'girlfriend' to remind me of this periodically...introspection gets old...and is limited by the fact that you yourself are messed up when u need to be the most straight... yourself.

In lieu of a blood and bones alter ego..i'm going to blog.

2019 update, a started a medium page a few years ago, so if you're interested in content from me, that's more...professional/advisory/social commentary like, please visit: www.medium.com/@sdbamfo

Firefly

Apparently I couldn't be bothered to write anything...for 3 years.
In summary, good music, functional ACs, average mojitos, rude bouncers, nice decor

Elysium

One of those movies that gets lost in the midst of a bunch of other movies. Poor planning? Bad luck? Doesn’t matter. I’m sure a lot of people watched it and their enjoyment wasn’t held down by Gravity or Carrie. As with all standard sci-fi dystopian dramas, Elysium’s scriptwriters followed the handbook like star pupils.

Tresence- Cafe l Gelateria

Tresence enters the ring as a newbie with a lot going for them. First of all, location, location, location.  Situated on the 5^th Floor of the newly opened Osu Mall, tresence is not just in the trendiest part of town, it’s in soon-to-be landmark building. Now, I won’t go into the pros and cons and predictions of the failure or success of having a mall on the busiest road in the city, but let’s just say, for now, it works. The building is at most, halfway done. The parking is nothing to write home about and truthfully, there’s really not much to see/do right now aside from Shoprite.

BEYONCE Running Commentary

1.       PRETTY HURTS

Is this track broken? I knew it I knew it…damn Torrentz…..oh ok…it’s keche….cool…hmm, yeah… Pretty hurts and Perfection is a disease mayne.

Is this her plastic surgery confessional? I see…

Short of the irony of Beyonce of all people singing about the pain of aspiring to perfection, this song is catchy and uplifting-ish. This is no “Unpretty” but I’ll give her kudos for the socio cultural significance. I also can’t stand the constant harping on beauty-inner beauty-real beauty etc. Can we all just agree and call it what it is? Beauty is beauty, Intelligence is intelligence, Compassion is compassion, we really need to stop trying to make ‘beauty’ a synonym for ‘good’