Sex-Translation Please!

Many years ago I went with a friend of mine on a long journey. We both had entered into that exciting part of our lives namely college education. My all male boarding school was behind me. Girls, girls girls were all about us! It so happened we both were about to spend our first vacation [...]

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Rumpelstiltskin retold-illustrated

Boogie Loogy © Joe Miller worked as a clerk in Hott & Tott Bank, Mombassa. Having worked some twenty years the same tasks and with the same customers he hated it. He wanted to see some well-fed faces for a change and he knew it made him feel better to receive compliments or some gifts [...]

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The Mulla Nasruddin Tales-vol.2

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It Fits Like A Glove

People speak of ego as if they haven’t decided if it were a curse or blessing. I know my ego is my trump card. It fits me like a glove. My ego and I are twins, Gemini you know what I mean? The day I came into the world I gave my mom a gift [...]

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Dining Out 4 Judy Dench and Me

I just read that Dame Judi Dench is going blind; so bad it is she cannot even see who she is sitting against at a restaurant table. She is suffering from progressive Macular degeneration. I am also a fellow sufferer. I have already lost one eye to it. But my case (even with one good [...]

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Our Family Tree

In Constellation 579 I am Master Dog of the Welcoming Committee. We Hatsheputians are a breed apart and we dogs welcome dogs of this cosmos and every little bark our antennas can catch, warms cockles of our hearts. I hope I got this expression correct and I heard it from Fido who came I believe [...]

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Only In India- Cool, cool, Mayawati!

Uttar Pradesh in India has a woman Chief Minister. She made some thousand statues to glorify the fact she began as small potatoes and have become a sort of millstone around the neck of UP. But the statues are one way of redressing the inequality that for centuries existed. She was low-caste Dalit before whom [...]

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Sorry excuses I have read

What it to be a man but feel sorry he is not as perfect as he thinks? So excuses fall thick and fast through corridors of time Like Adam telling God,’Sorry this fig leaf is poorly hung.’ Julius Caesar: ‘Never mind this falling sickness, it is a moral thing. And this too shall pass off.’ [...]

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Hazy memories of one evening at the Joe’s Bar

If you want to know what is like in a bar I am the man for you. I have been to Soho London where night life begins pretty early. Always I find fortified with Alcohol not even a pole dancer is a problem. They do their routine while my grey matter is reeling round corpus [...]

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Overheard at Joe’s Bar, South Hall

One customer in his thirties: I went for a pillow fight, by the Arch, you know the joint, old gym shuttered up? Well the rule tells you gotta bring your own pillow. So I lifted one from the sidewalk and you know what! The pillow was stuffed with greenbacks- and bills flew all over the [...]

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