As with all genres of music, there are lots of underrated singers out there. Performers who, for whatever reason, have been slept on. There’s an underrated soul/funk/pop singer out there in the ether, who goes by the name of Van Hunt, who is truly something special. One of his excellent songs is called Seconds of [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
R.I.P. MJ
So. Michael Jackson has died aged 50. What can I say? I’m a little surprised at how affected I am. I guess, if nothing else, he was a huge part of my childhood – I still remember trying to spin like him and making myself dizzy with the effort. I’m going to go and play [...]
Wax On, Wax Off
I went to get my eyebrows waxed two days ago (thanks, Kim!), and in a bit of serendipity, I came home and watched a 6-minute clip of a short film called Why We Wax. My brow still smarting slightly, you can bet I was more than a little interested. The movie is written and directed [...]
Radio Ga Ga
Last weekend, I indulged by having a lost weekend. Only instead of booze, drugs and loose men, I gorged on radio, radio, and yep, you guessed it, more radio. I love the radio. My sister and I formed a fake radio station when we were kids, called, titter ye not, “Funky Funky Funky Radio“. It [...]
Desperately Seeking YorubaGirl
How did you find this site? Yes, you. Allow me to explain. As a blogger, I am privy to the search terms that you lovely people have used in order to find this, my treasure trove of interwebz goodness. And readers, I have smiled, I have chuckled, I have been confused, I have been unnerved [...]
A Night At The Theatre 2: This Time It's Personal
I really am becoming quite the culcha vulcha these days… Yesterday, I went to see the closing show of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman at the National Theatre. It’s had a triumphant run on the Olivier Stage, both critically and commercially lauded. And so, a mini-review of the night. Firstly, perhaps it had [...]
Posted in Culture, Identity, Literature, London, Nigeria, Review, Theatre
Tagged Africa, London, Stage, The African Experience, Theatre
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A Night At The Theatre
Do you ever have those days where you wake up feeling beautiful, refreshed, alive? Well, I had one of those a few days ago. I damn-near sang my way into the shower, emerged, with a neat hop, skip and a jump, clean and be-towelled, before waltzing into my clothes. My ponytail looked perfect the first [...]
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Tagged Acting, Actors, Actresses, Fight Night, LAMDA, London, Stage, Stage Combat, Theatre
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Tube Strike Day 1: In Which I Unwittingly Caress A Stranger's Nipple…
Oh, Lord. It took me about an hour and a half to get home today, thanks to the strike stylings of the RMT Union. Thanks to their action, the London Underground network was pretty much closed today, with only a skeleton service running on two of the lines. Which means that my usual 25-minute journey [...]
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Tagged Contact, London, London Buses, London Underground, Nipples, Public Transport, Stranger Danger, Tube Strike
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Lashings And Lashings Of Ginger Beer!
Last week, I went to Marks and Spencer to grab a sandwich for lunch. As I made my way to the till, clutching my brie, cranberry and grape sarnie, I spotted something that made my heart sing. On the shelf above the sandwiches, sat a green can of fizzy pop. Not just any old can [...]
Posted in Books, Education, Food, Literature, Nigeria
Tagged Africa, Boarding School, Enid Blyton, Friends, Literary Food, Malory Towers, Midnight Feast, Novel, Writing
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YorubaGirl's Hairy Tales…
I don’t hold much truck with those comedians who do the old “You know the difference between Black and White people?” routines. It’s lazy and most of the time, very unfunny. We’re a collectively complex beast, we humans, but essentially, we’re the same. Ahem. Having said that, I will now step off my morally/intellectually superior [...]
