"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."

February 15: Project deadline! Buy are things being cut a mite tight!
February 22: Anniversary of an Uncle of Mine -- 20 years of marital bliss!
March 1: Freedom! Another educatinal milestone!

A POEM for someone special!
DEAREST JOHN: John Doe's better half replies with energy to issues raised by her worse half!
DEAREST JANE: A man addresses issues such as crossing rivers for his beloved...
FAVOURITE MOVIES Some notable personalities share their favourite flicks
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE AFGHANISTANI BROADCASTING CORPORATION The proprietor of Afghanistan's first TV studio shares his visions
DEDICATIONS: Music is the language of the heart -- touching messages to loved and not so loved ones

I shall never heap scorn and derision on anyone buying music from a supermarket. I discovered that the Nakumatt on Kenyatta Avenue (Nakumatt Checkpoint) is selling classical music CDs for 160 bob. That's right. 160 iron men. Those of us without the faintest idea who Bach and Chopin were I encourage you to find out! I heartily took a dizzying array of the selection to an amused cashier. I also came into possession of some magnificent records. Yes siree, records! James Brown and Kool and the Gang are at the forefront of the lot! Let the music play on!

It is with the strongest sense of outraged indignance that I receive communication from our City Council that they are going to raise our rates. As a matter of fact I objected to this news with such spirit there was concern that I was going to burst one of my blood vessels in my brain. Precisely what our good Mayor has in mind I neither know nor wish to know. But what's for sure is that I refuse to send a single coin from my hard earned money in his direction. Flatly and completely. In short, Dick my lad:

• Heck no!
• Hell no!
• When the cows come home, go back and come home again.
• When the fat lady sings, has an encore and has to be carried out after she faints from exertion.
• When pigs fly First Class or even Business class.
• When Hell is furnished with air-conditioned booths and ice-cream parlours.
• February 30th.
• When someone with a two digit IQ becomes the President of Kenya.

Why on earth should we have to pay MORE for services that we don't receive AL ALL? The logic of this escapes me in its entirely, and I feel pretty sure that I do not want it! I must make arrangements for my garbage to be disposed of and pay City Hall for the privilege. I have to boil my water before I drink it and again pay City Council for it -- the list is too long to be gotten into and in any case I have no desire to sour my good mood!

I have held on for long enough but no more! There is a disconcertingly large number of people who do quite frankly the most ludicrous of things like spitting in the street, addressing me with language that a barman's parrot would be hard pressed to learn, smoking things that the law frowns upon, drinking things that loved ones frown upon and generally making jackasses of themselves and then go on to excuse themselves by saying this is "keeping it real." Well, this is, as a great man once said, "100% boiled and barbecued, unadulterated and unpolluted first class bullshyit!" If you excuse the language!

Keeping It Real kitu gani? If you want to be a moron, a jackass or a cabbage you go right ahead but don't go around telling us you're keeping it real! If you are not Shaggy, and therefore don't have a track with such a title in your CD shut your mouth! Instead of crying about KEEPING IT REAL, KEEP IT SHUT.

Yaani people are real vegetables. NO MORE MAIL asking for past issues! For the last time: Past issues of Thinker's Room can be found HERE!!! And reading any further means that you agree to the DISCLAIMER

Pull a Prince and change My name completely. I am getting tired of 'Thinker' and to tell the truth adopted it only because I lost a bet. Which name? I dunno.... we'll see.
Postpone the idea of the essays at least for the first few months. I shall get to them in good time
Write lots more of those articles that everyone is harassing me to write.
Shelve our Aunt Mojo for a few months too
Let you sample some of My other works. I invite opinions on some of the short stories I've written
Change the entire layout of the page

Otherwise everything will pretty much me the same ;-)

I have a constitutional right to give My own shout-outs to whoever I please!

Angie: I wish I'd seen your message sooner!
Jozie: We have taken the maiden from the village. Can we take the village out of the maiden?
Mightypeople: I think you are Mightyfoolish for sending me Mightyamounts of Mightynonsense that I did not Mightyask for. For the Mightylast time would you kindly Mightystop sending me your MightyCrap?!!
That jackass trying to sell me mailing lists: I shall make sure I subscribe you to as many mailing lists that I can find!
Jimmy: You, sir, are the don of dons!
RIP: What's cooking man?!!
Judy: Time's A wasting!
Cherie: Silence is not always golden!
Byran: Am open to suggestions
Geff: How did it go? Did you go all out then??!
P: The poem is up!