tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38765907854653640002024-03-13T05:36:13.657-07:0080GRIOTSLiFe ..GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-88850823820269577842014-04-16T22:07:00.003-07:002014-04-16T22:09:25.692-07:00Kindly follow the new Blog.. Efharisto
I am catching up with the modern way of blogging, apparently Wordpress is the way to go. Thanks to all those who have patronized this page and read all my bullshit. Now I'm asking you not so humbly to continue indulging my useless ramblings on www.80griots.wordpress.com Thanks a bunch..GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-37703030630548036002014-04-04T14:11:00.004-07:002014-04-04T16:37:41.581-07:00
FUCK YO' FEELINGS!
Writing this article has taken months yet. I am not entirely sure I'm still mentally prepared to explore every aspect of the subject. The idea of giving a fuck or not giving two vulture shits. New age personas versus age-old character traits--rules of engaging with other humans. Intimate or platonic, relationships border around authenticity, GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-8289866378607405412014-03-17T13:05:00.000-07:002014-04-04T21:37:11.386-07:00
Corruption Done Right
Educated Ghanaians are mostly elitist. Accepting and understanding this can open up the conversation for reforming our culturally corrupt system in a more effective manner. Those who have worked their way to better education and awareness usually have a dismissive disposition towards the general uneducated masses. That elitism exists, surprisingly, even in other GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-9865955324036409692014-03-04T11:27:00.000-08:002014-03-04T13:05:41.930-08:00
Liberal Conservatism, there is such a thing. I am one of its adherents.
Political correctness, is killing common sense slowly, in my opinion. It is also simultaneously infringing on one groups rights in certain instances while attempting to appease another. Have we all become so sensitive? Our language is undergoing a pleasant-always-engineering that makes me cringe. Its a freaking GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-22677217841488853162014-03-01T13:17:00.000-08:002014-03-01T13:17:27.251-08:00
HINDSIGHT
Hey, you look nice.. You are shy on the phone and you seem to be more engaged with the dinner plate at the moment than me but that is okay. I'm glad we came to a place that you actually enjoy the food. You said you were into food, you weren't lying huh?
So I showed up in your texts and here we are! Or did you show up in my texts? Okay, even if I did, your cupcakes hint was GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-87885085621780038002014-02-24T11:21:00.002-08:002014-02-24T15:32:12.331-08:00
PERFECT
Gender. Ladies and gentlemen, indulge me for a thoroughly unnecessary post. The actual piece I've been working on is done and actively sitting in my draft posts and I'm still not feeling it as much so I revamped this old piece out of my drafts instead....
In our efforts to become better persons, I'm sure we encounter struggles that seep deep into the core of the foundations of GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-69151201374414152362014-02-13T20:47:00.001-08:002014-02-13T20:50:10.536-08:00
Hearts.
Love.
The war is almost over. Silhouettes of fear draped the room, flowing with much uninhibited grace.
She's dancing away like a whirlwind. Tracing the floor in a pattern of rage, resurrecting the dead tissues of melancholy. Lady!
Today you get flowers, chocolate and the left chest organ screaming like the keys of a grand piano.
Show up at her door and yell GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-68193515212116740842014-02-10T07:52:00.000-08:002014-02-12T18:13:55.259-08:00
DISTRACTIONS
Public discourse: The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
This weekend I needed a distraction from my reality. I needed to go out and visit the world, any place but be at home without distractions. So I broke my own rules of GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-82418204036202360822014-02-06T20:28:00.003-08:002014-02-07T05:49:42.614-08:00
Meditating on the Cedi.
Wonakobo is out - Treasure. Accra boys get money, Nima too. Shoot, Navrongo and Shiashi. People get money for Accra bad! For Ghana, boys get money wey women even get more money. Makola women dost roff!! You dey pray give Cedi like e get stomach ache? You for give am milk of magnesia!!!..
Why we are baffled by our lack of progress economically I don't GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-71774091249923438742014-02-04T22:20:00.004-08:002014-02-04T23:03:33.104-08:00
BLIND FAITH
My brother asked a question about some of the contradictions of the Bible and why certain things seem unexplainable. I personally think religion is the most divisive man-made tool created so I decided to engage the universe with certain thoughts I have.
1. First, we have to accept that religion is man-made.. Since no one has witnessed and has physical proof GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-65324110965999219272014-02-03T05:11:00.000-08:002014-02-04T10:12:56.429-08:00
LEGACY
I love Ghana. I love it so much, I can't wait for these old heads to die off. They stifle growth. I know many young people who love it just as much if not more. There is a silently brewing undercurrent of young vibrant and ambitious kids who grew up under this heavy cloud of mediocrity fighting for their moment in the sun. The stars are aligning and the time is fast approaching GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-83283499296543324142014-01-24T07:12:00.000-08:002014-01-30T13:11:53.576-08:00
AFRICAN ACCEPTICISM
In the wake of the tragic loss of the beloved Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor, the emotions of the people that loved him are not unwarranted. It is well deserved and earned. It is a duty to honor his memory, so that those that aspire for personal accomplishment can find inspiration in his achievements. He did Ghana proud as a representative of our professional GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-6866901812499746992014-01-09T12:29:00.002-08:002014-01-09T12:29:31.594-08:00
Time to reflect. I'm standing opposite my image in the bathroom, gently massaging this insta-hair-dye into the sparsely placed grays in my beard. The only inheritance bestowed on me -- grays in my youth, no matter how much I've resisted it; I am my father's son. The one person close to me was the first person to call at exactly 12am.. Boohoo, okay so it is routine, people do this for their GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-51838639401777217602013-12-19T14:06:00.001-08:002013-12-19T14:06:34.818-08:00
The son dances in the moon's wind
Mild nights, streams of awe
Grace galore, man of flare
Sequined flaws, I am daylight
I reel it all, my mind's pictorial
Pours showers of quarantined ore
Gold, brass digging for dreams ashore
I walked a journey of a thousand lives
My path awashed by quicksand
Blood vessel and gland, circulating passion
A time GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-5659730612074900432013-05-27T08:41:00.002-07:002014-03-18T09:50:00.028-07:00
THE NEW SLAVE MELANOMA
Whether by design or an unintended by-product of racism, the
caging of black progress remains in perpetuity as we concentrate on our
‘victimhood’ as opposed to our way out, our triumph and our true independence (being
unshackled by anything and everything that enslaves us).
I love the music, the marketing, the presentation and even
the valor in Mr. West’s GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-1179275667721550672012-11-19T10:17:00.002-08:002013-04-25T15:14:56.573-07:00The Broom Serendipity
My brother and I talk. Surprise! The nature of our conversations is not what surprises me. Often, it's the content of the conversation and how helpless we both seem in finding solutions to the obvious issues we point out. So, my issue now is how to internalize the reasons why we are just good at pointing out the problems and how we do very little to resolve them. Is it hypocritical, GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-8943440944047270712012-11-13T20:14:00.000-08:002012-11-14T16:29:55.470-08:00GH Presidential Debate Puke
We can get carried away in inspiring moments like Obama's re-election. The magnitude of what he accomplished is even greater to me this time around than his first historic election, for several reasons that I cannot enumerate in this post. The heroics and unmatched stratagem employed by his coalition for a second run for office is a modern day political phenomenon. It is suchGrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-1249819181949010272012-10-22T08:37:00.001-07:002012-10-22T09:29:56.986-07:00Crippling Satire
I
love it. Sometimes, the crass that doubles as modern artistic expression is almost thrilling. Pac’s
Makaveli album cover was controversial yet artistic. So is Pussy Riot. Political or religious, any form of satire begs a level of meritorious thoughtfulness. Also, It usually hinges on controversy. The Game’s impending
album; 'Jesus Piece' is controversial, crass and GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-37867901507555527032012-10-21T10:22:00.000-07:002012-10-21T10:35:52.384-07:00Creaming Irish .... Malarkey
The world is so much smaller these
days and I think people’s intelligence shrunk right along with it. The ignorance
of the masses is more pronounced and colored for all and sundry to feast on.
Uncensored and unadulterated access to spewing any pile of fecal matter in 142
letters, or a status update that is an infinite jambalaya of text-speak,
spelling accuracy of a dyslexic GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-84777140616037931242010-11-05T20:47:00.000-07:002014-04-03T10:40:27.469-07:00StyleChat
ASSHOLE-Y
My views on any subject are usually extreme. I can not seem to find a close enough description of my kind, no matter how much political punditting I indulge in. So I declare myself a "Jambalayan", not too much salt or sugar and sometimes very opposing views. Yet, style is a much easier subject, a place where I get loose, let myself go and allow the GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876590785465364000.post-91228556750464395322010-01-08T12:57:00.000-08:002010-05-08T04:50:05.827-07:00MyTWoCEntS: EXhiBiT ASo the interwebs are going crazy about images in a rap video. The frenzy of naming others devil-wordhippers and attributing all success to the selling of souls and whatnot. If you know anything about me, my avid support of the one who calls himself Hova is no secret, its almost synonymous with my middle name.If you know anything about hiphop, you'll also know that he isn't the first to reference GrIOtShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401421153533700626noreply@blogger.com0