This should have been out like a week ago. It may be a little late but I feel that our side of the story needs to be told because what was shown on TV was just a bunch of kids rioting and throwing stones (did any one see me? I was the one wearing the…). We looked like kids throwing a tantrum over something silly but it was anything but!

I think this is something that has happened to every guy at least once. Something that sometimes is necessary to prevent mistakes and idiocy, but most times it’s done just out of pure selfishness; and the time I’m about to tell you of was one of those selfish times. Even just thinking about it brings up in me such a strong feeling of shame and embarrassment that I almost don’t want to tell you about it.

So I was watching news yesterday and heard that South Sudan had written to the African Union over the Itemi Triangle or something of the sort; apparently they think that it’s part of their country now. I laughed when I heard that! Really? This baby of a country that we (Kenya) practically made and paid for thinks it can now turn around and lay claim to a piece of our country? Fuck that!! Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!!

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a series of books for children chronicling the lives of the Baudelaire children after their parents are killed in a fire that burnt down their home. The first book in the series, which I’ll be reviewing here, is called the Bad Beginning and it isn’t very long.

The author begins the book by warning us that this is a very sad story about 3 extremely unlucky children and that from the very first page they keep finding themselves in misfortune. He goes on to say that if you don’t like unhappy tales you should put the book down at once and find something more pleasant to read. I liked that a lot because it does get you overly excited to see exactly what he means.

This review is long overdue, and I’m sorry it took so long coming out. I could give you an excuse but I won’t; now on to the book. 1984 is a book by George Orwell set in a future where the government controls everything, all the time. Apparently, there’s rarely any second the government isn’t monitoring you. There’s no privacy and everything is done by government schedule.

I’ve heard of this book before, though it never occurred to me that I should look for the book and read; perhaps it’s because of how I heard of it. The first time I can remember hearing about the book was on this popular TV show called Big Brother. In it, a bunch of people are put in a house filled with cameras and microphones, and their every move is captured and broadcast to the world. Every time a new season was beginning, they’d mention that the show is kind of based off George Orwell’s book. It made me think that the book was about how people react when forced to live with each other under constant surveillance.

Now that I’m on holiday, I’ve finally gotten time to do some reading (when I’m not doing chores).  So in the last week, I’ve finished reading 4 books; the first of which is reviewed in this post. Hopefully, I’ll get time to do the other reviews soon.

Here is a blurb of the book I’ll be reviewing, ‘Are you Afraid of the Dark?’ by Sidney Sheldon:

In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims’ widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands’ demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved…and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe.

I’m sure there are some of you who are wondering, “Really is he going to write about the best way to mow a lawn?!!” Well yes!! Since I closed school about 3 weeks ago, my dad has been holding me ‘hostage’ at our country home where I’ve had to do chores. Now I don’t mind work, it’s just that this work was mind numbing, and my earphones were short!! So in revenge I’ll be inflicting this post on you guys.*insert evil cackle*

This here is a post from a friend of mine called Tien Moses. He’s a writer, poet and rapper. I asked him to do a post for me for two reasons. One, he’s very involved in the creative community in school. Second because he talks as if he’s this super genius at writing. So I’m putting up this short story by him so you guys can judge if he;s as good as he thinks he is.:)

You know you’re reading a great book when at 3 am in the morning you read something that totally disgusts and scares you but you can’t stop because you just have to know what the next part of the book is going to bring before going to sleep. This is what happened when I was reading ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman.

The book is about a guy named Shadow; mostly.  We first find him in prison about to be released on parole after 3 years in prison. He’s excited, and worried; he has this feeling of foreboding that a storm is coming. He gets released a couple of days early because his wife dies in a car crush. On his flight back home to bury her, he meets a man who goes by the name Wednesday who wants to give him a job, as an errand boy of sorts. In other words a sort a “guy” or “dude”, you know the way you say he’s my guy who… or my dude who… that type of person.

I was recently watching a stand-up comedy (the name eludes me) whereby the comedian comments on the people who make up USA and how they are the very best because of all the hardships they had to go through to get there. The Europeans were religiously prosecuted and had to cross the ocean to escape death and shit. Those of Mexican descent had to cross the border and start from nil; they were the bravest of their country. He then went on to mention how African Americans where brought into that country. They brought the strongest and biggest they could find.