sounds of Jamaica
Koffee, “Pressure” (remix feat. Buju Banton), 10/20/20
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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reading table
We use similes to show
things are connected –and they are,
just not in the way we say.—Rae Armantrout, from “Finalist” (London Review of Books, 10/8/20)
sounds of Kingston
Buju Banton (1973-), live (studio), Kingston (Jamaica), 3/20/20
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
—Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-)
If you ain’t losing, you’re winning.
That’s something I’ve always believed, as a criminal defense lawyer, and it’s something that may be going through the mind of this guy, whose federal trial in Tampa, on drug charges, recently ended in a hung jury and mistrial.
He’d been charged with trying to buy five kilos of cocaine. The defense, apparently, was that he’d been set up (or, in legal parlance, entrapped). A retrial is expected soon.
Bob Marley’s son, Stephen, appearing as a character witness, called him the “voice of the people”—the “voice of Jamaica.”
Buju Banton
“Wanna Be Loved” (1995)
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“Bondage” (2010)
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lagniappe
radio interview (from jail), 3/17/10
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