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in Art
PoxVop: Fashion
Interesting phenomenon, is it not? I especially love how the second-hand clothes market has flooded Ghana with hipster boots and jeans. Very soon we’ll have to discount people’s appearances entirely when forming first impressions.…
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in Essays
2016!
On 31st December, 2015 — also known as last week Thursday — I joined the billions of people who sacrifice sleep every December to make sure that we make it safe into January. You’d think by now…
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in Music
Music: Christmas Jam
It’s been a very long while since I felt like holding up my music to the scrutiny of the internet, but hey, it’s Christmas. Me and Michael Butsorme (great keyboardist; probably one of Ghana’s best…
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in Art
PoxVop: Forever?
My machine died last week, and because I am an idiot who hasn’t backed up since March, I have now lost all the work from the most productive period of my artistic and professional life.…
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in Essays
On Common Nonsense
You better hope you’re fallingWhen you look up and see brown… That’s the first two lines of a song that almost came to me on Saturday. I have no idea what it means. I have a vague idea,…
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PoxVop: Ploverbs #1
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in Writing
Swelter: To Be Uncomfortably Hot
How about that sun, eh? It turns out I have sweat glands. It’s always nice to meet new people, I say. But I wish I could have made their acquaintance under different conditions. 2015 is likely to be…
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Picture: Escape
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in Writing
Living the Lie
Warning: this is a pseudo-listicle. Recently I’ve been reading titanic writing from GQ, the NY and LA Times, Esquire, Wired; learning big new words like metastasize and scrofulous and pulchritudinous— guess which one means…