Thank God It’s Friday
Homework BC
MY FRIEND and colleague, Mark Lyndersay, who, like me, has worked largely from home for 30 years, used his BitDepth column this week to give good practical advice to people forced by the Corona virus crisis to work from home for the first time. (https://technewstt.com/bd1241/.)Now, Mark (my photographic collaborator on Trini to the Bone, my Monday Newsday feature) is one of the few people writing in Trinidad — or, frankly, anywhere — whose work I can’t improve massively by cutting it drastically. Almost everything in our newspapers would be twice as good if half the words were simply deleted — but I haven’t yet found the word I can take out of Mark’s writing. And the advice he gave new homeworkers — such as designating a distinct work space at home — couldn’t be technically read more...Trini to d Bone
Take Away “Chinee"
Photographs by Mark Lyndersay. 
My name is Christian Young Sing and I run a hydroponic farm.My WhatsApp picture is of me with a male wedding group — but that’s the wedding of the last of my friends who got married. I was just a groomsman. I’m the last man standing [unmarried]. I’m really, really grateful that I’m getting the chance live on my own, in an apartment I rent in Cascade, not too far from my parents’ home. I’d moved in with my girlfriend — and then we broke up. I moved back in with my parents for a week, and I was, like, “Nah!” I wanted my own space. “Away”, you can live on your own. Trinidadians, we don’t really get that. Men live in their mother’s house until they get married. It’s expensive to live on your own. But you learn a lot. I’m Read more...
My name is Christian Young Sing and I run a hydroponic farm.My WhatsApp picture is of me with a male wedding group — but that’s the wedding of the last of my friends who got married. I was just a groomsman. I’m the last man standing [unmarried]. I’m really, really grateful that I’m getting the chance live on my own, in an apartment I rent in Cascade, not too far from my parents’ home. I’d moved in with my girlfriend — and then we broke up. I moved back in with my parents for a week, and I was, like, “Nah!” I wanted my own space. “Away”, you can live on your own. Trinidadians, we don’t really get that. Men live in their mother’s house until they get married. It’s expensive to live on your own. But you learn a lot. I’m Read more...
BC Pires
is a barrister by qualification (class of 1984) but, for the last 28 years, has done nothing but write to earn a living. His flagship column, Thank God It’s Friday, has appeared in either the Trinidad Guardian or the Trinidad Express since Ash Friday, 1988. He has written about film from an informed lay perspective for the same period and is as close as the cricket-playing West Indies gets to a film critic (though he refuses that label). He has written for many publications, including the London Sunday Observer and the London & Manchester Guardian. Since 2010, his personality-based feature, “Trini/’Bago to D Bone” has been appearing in the Trinidad Guardian. Since 2002, he has been the editor of Cré Olé, the Trinidad & Tobago annual restaurant guide.The Secret Diary of Donald J Trump, aged 71 ¾
Thanks-Taking Day Blues
26 November 2018Deer DairyWhat a bigly disappointment Thanksgiving always is!!!! You have to pretend to like being at home and Melania gave the turkey drumstick to that fat little kid AGAIN IT IS MINE EVEN IF I DON’T EAT IT and I prefer KFC and Big Macs anyway. YOU CAN’T EAT TURKEY WITH FRIES. Just throw away the turkey and eat the fries, bestly advice I always give myself but at least I am around to save America and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN LIKE A SHARK MAKE AMERICA GREAT WHITE AGAIN. read more
Me Alone Again Naturally Terrific
13 November 2018Deer DairyEverything I did for those Republican losers and they can’t even keep the House! I win them the Senate with my exhaustingly trips all over the country – 72 rallies in six days, Deerest Dairy, just me winning everything for them with my grandly speaking and bestly words, making every nationalist proud, like me – and they lose the House!!!! HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME THE DEMO RATS WILL PUBLISH MY TAX RETURNS NOW!!!! I all ways get what I want except when I have to read more
BC on TV
A Trifecta of What's Best on the Box for Sunday 11 November 2018
On what might be the best day for film choice on cable/DirecTV, ever, all but one of the Also Rans categories have a bolded film – and there’s a Western – one of the best – in the top three! And each of the three choices could legitimately be called BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Today’s Number One Film:
*No Country for Old Men, 7.30pm Paramount Channel.Watch this if you liked Apocalypse Now,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estradaor any film by Sam Peckinpah. Part thriller, part Western, as upsetting as it is intriguing, this modern-day drug money heist flick is Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 2005 novel brought to life. It was a natural fit for the Coen Bros’ dark humour and deadpan violence, but it is so overwhelmingly hopeless, it discourages anyone from declaring it Read more...
*No Country for Old Men, 7.30pm Paramount Channel.Watch this if you liked Apocalypse Now,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estradaor any film by Sam Peckinpah. Part thriller, part Western, as upsetting as it is intriguing, this modern-day drug money heist flick is Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 2005 novel brought to life. It was a natural fit for the Coen Bros’ dark humour and deadpan violence, but it is so overwhelmingly hopeless, it discourages anyone from declaring it Read more...