The important stuff
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Although nothing short of epic, I found Sunday's excitement on Camps Bay beach a tad tormenting. I don't know why, I just get like that sometimes. It's gotten worse since I started reading Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time."
I retreated to Beta Beach with The Sunday Times in hand.
I enjoyed the setting...
Beta Beach - Sunday
Touch yourself...
It was a good Sunday Times. Besides featuring enough Jake White SA Rugby skandaal to wank over for a solid week, two other little articles tweaked me.
The ongoing follow-up to the bids for Sunday times/Johncom and now, Mail&Guardian ("M&G," if you're cool) produced no surprises for me. Except of course for the fact that that one of the owners of Koni Media Holdings, involved in the bid, is none other than Groovin Nchabeleng! Yes, that is no word of a lie, my friend. His first name is GROOVIN! Can you fucking believe it?! It's too beautiful for words! Not "Grooving," with a G at the end. No, no.... it's GROOVIN. I love it. It's basically opened the doors for us to call our kids whatever the fuck we want. Woody Allen's kid, Satchel, doesn't sound too crazy anymore..
Secondly, was the story on the following page about a fucking loony, David Francis, who claims to be a prophet and has taken advantage of some laid back country folk in a little town called Hertzogville, about 140km from Bloem in The States (The Free State - where Nick Goldblatt is from). You'll have to read the article yourself, but basically this clown told the village that a guy that died, Oom Paul, would rise from the dead after three years. So, naturally, they've kept the body on ice the whole time. And whaddaya know...... Oom Paul failed to rise from the dead. Fuck! What a let down! Anyway, the best part for me was, when originally asked WHY Oom Paul would take so long to rise from the dead, our boy told them, "God says he is not going to raise him immediately so that when he rises, people can't say that he wasn't really dead."
Did you get that? He successfully reasoned with the locals that God felt pressure from human beings (whom he created) when performing miracles and, like David Copperfield, he wanted all his bases covered for maximum impact and that all important "wow factor." The last thing God wants when bringing someone back to life is some human saying that the guy wasn't already dead before he performed his magic trick.
Amazing. Thanks for that, Sunday Times!
And lastly, for those of you who missed it:
CLICK HERE
for the Carte Blanche interview
with Jake White
Enjoy it! He talks about all sorts of things, including the fact that quota player, Luke Watson, is the most overrated player of all time - citing his being forced to include Watson in the training camps as "disgusting."
Nice.
Seth Rotherham
Editor
2oceansvibe.com
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