You turn your back and so many things happen at once. The last week has been so hectic work wise that I've had no time to blog. Or perhaps that's just a lazy man's excuse. From the Pope's speech and the furore it caused to the continuing mudslinging between Obasnjo and Atiku in Nigeria to the armed forces plane crash to the march for Darfur yesterday- it looks like the world has been far busier than I have.....
I just wish the National Assembly would get their act together and impeach both Obasanjo and Atiku, leaving the Senate president to preside over what would then hopefully be a level playing field as there would be too little time for the Senate President to rig himself into the presidency...dare I wish?
Went to watch The Queen, Stephen Frears' new film starring Helen Mirren who plays Her Majesty so well it's uncanny. The film is set in 1997 around the events when Diana died and watching Martin Sheen play the young ambitious newly elected Blair you begin to remember why his election was greeted with such excitement. It's a great film and has some great cinematography ofthe stunning landscapes around Balmoral, the Scottish royal retreat where the Queen is holed up with the royal family at the time they receive the news of the Princess' death. There's one shot where the deep red of Her Majesty's lipstick is echoed in the deep red border of her Hermes scarf and the deep red of the blood running from a stag that has been shot on a neighbouring estate which of course is supposed to echoe the sense of Diana the huntress turned the hunted.....At the cinema where I watched it, the audience roared at a scene where Tony Blair asks his secretary to put Gordon Brown on hold...
Just finished Caine Prize winner Segun Afolabi's excellent collection of short stories- A Life Elsewhere which was poetic and evocative of a displacement echoed in the lives of many immigrants. I'll look forward to his Goodbye Lucille which is due out next year....
I'm reading Theft by Peter Carey which made the Booker longlist but failed to make the shortlist. I'm still reeling at Sarah Waters' The Night Watch being the favourite for the prize. I read it ages ago and while it was quite entertaining, I hardly thought it Booker material.....still I suppose the judges must have seen something in it that I missed...
On a final note it appears I might be "meeting" the real Queen before the year runs out on some work related stuff. As iconoclastic as I claim to be, I guess there's enough of the old colonial mentality in me to thrill at the thought....
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Impeach both Obasanjo and Atiku? Do they have the guts? You have to realise that just about every member of the Senate may have something to hide...
So, you're meeting the Queen? Tell us when you return from meeting her so we can sing you: "Pussy cat, pussy cat..."
Why does having something to hide stop them? Won't getting rid of both of the mean the skeletons in the Senators cupboards can rest in peace for a little bit more time?
No, uknaija. Your last question presumes OBJ and Atiku will silently stand by if the Senates tries to impeach them both. They'll make sure they all go down together.
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