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Educate, entertain and inform! How to be relevant where ever you live! On The Dance Floor Kanda Bongo Man On Stage Easter weekend was a self-indulgent one. My occasional sense of entitlement kicked in and I over indulged. Yes, I admit it...I get these occasional lapses. After all, I'm only human! I get into the spirit of the holidays. It's usually very good, if I'm not alone.  But, if I end up alone during celebrations, I will sometimes eat a little bit more than usual. I will eat and drink portions I would otherwise serve to others. Moments like these, I do as little as possible, act like a bum and lay around all day long doing nothing but over eating. I'm good at convincing me, that I deserve to treat myself... But by the Easter Monday, I was having a pang of conscience because I'd had a few defiant smokes along the way too, I'm supposed to have quit. It wasn't a good feeling but I got over that one too.  Persuading myself that...

Educate, entertain and inform! 150 Years and Counting... It was the 4th of July 1862 when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took the fateful boat trip up the river Thames toward Godstow. Accompanying him were three sisters. Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell , the three eldest daughters of the Dean of Christchurch. With them was also Reverend Robinson Duckworth of Trinity College. During the journey, Dodgson , a mathematician and keen amateur photographer narrated an adventure story to the Liddell sisters . The story must have made an impression on young Alice Liddell because upon their return to Christchurch, she asked Dodgson to write out the story for her. That same evening and on a train journey the following day, he set out the main headings of a story that would endure for over 150 years . He began the manuscript text a few months later and completed it on 10th February 1863 . In November 1864, he presented the manuscript volume with his own illustrations to Alice Li...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Looking in "What is Afrobeat?" He looked me in the eye. I looked away for a few seconds to ponder the question. And then I said, " a successful blending of a tight African rhythm, a soul feel, add some poppy influences here and there. Put in heavy jazz inflections on the horns, that should do the trick." Trying to explain this music genre in a nutshell to a seasoned session musician, a person I knew had worked many years with top bands and performers, can be unnerving. This guy had toured with some of the biggest names in music. I had the feeling he was trying to catch me out. Why else would he be asking for a definition?  He looked me out the corner of his eye, a few minutes after we discovered the sp...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Leave Google Alone.. Google recently made a tax settlement with HMRC (HM Revenue & Customs) in Britain.  A figure of £130 million was declared a sweetheart deal by the media, totally disregarding the known fact that the tech company hadn't broken any UK tax laws. I'm actually surprised that nobody has come out in support of Google in spite of the benefits we all seem to enjoy, utilising a lot of their apps and products daily. Many are free and those that aren't, are usually quite affordable. Where is all this envy and anger coming from? This company puts a lot of resources at our disposal, empowering, educating and informing at little or no cost to the consumer. Suddenly it's made the poster child for tax...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Come to the same conclusion about prison in America. But is that where the similarity ends? The first got deported from the U.S.A. the other one became the President.  "We, the People, recognise that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defence." Barack Obama Both are gifted orators, have plenty of followers and shed loads of charisma. Their views on incarceration in America are almost identical... ...But that is where the similarit...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! If you're of a queasy disposition...Weak stomach or similar ~ Please do not read. A judicial  executioner  is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice. Click here ~ Interview with a Hangman! Desensitised? OK... YOU DON'T MAKE PEACE  With your Friends Mr Bello bellowed when he caught sight of the gallows twenty yards away. The hangman waited patiently, a casual look on his face high up on the raised platform. Bowels already loose, he defecated when he looked up and saw the rope that's going to be placed around his scrawny neck. The faeces trickled down his trouser leg as if he had diarrhoea. An o...

Short stories, Hot Topics and relevant information on Music and the Arts! The official Blog page for Bodederek.com seeking to educate, entertain and inform. We invite aspiring writers to showcase their talent here. Read short stories for free here! Idiot.. The time Mahatma Gandhi was studying law at UCL, a professor named Peters disliked the young student intensely. He openly displayed hostility, animosity and prejudice toward Mr Gandhi. Peters expected Gandhi to bow and scrape before him, he asked the young man to lower his head whenever he was in close proximity. Of course, this would never happen, so there were frequent confrontations and arguments between the two... He was having lunch at the University dining room one afternoon when Gandhi put his lunch tray down on the same table and quietly sat next to the professor. "Mr Gandhi," says the professor, "a pig and a bird never sit together to eat." Cool, calm and collected Gan...