Brett “Fish” Anderson's Blog, page 24
June 17, 2015
Chris Pratt’s character is NOT the young boy from Jurassic Park. Or is he?
A bunch of us went to watch Jurassic World last night and it was a lot of fun. i am a HUGE Chris Pratt fan [before it was cool to be] and he totally brought it. Indiana Pratt Jones? Bring it on! But on the way home it was brought to my attention that there […]
June 16, 2015
And the drum beats on…
I was thirty-five when I tied the proverbial knot and so had attended many marriages and yet this one continues to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Not simply because it was my marriage, which no doubt adds its own weight of bias, but I imagine regardless of whose ceremony I was attending that […]
June 15, 2015
Highlight Moment from my life #54: Becoming Free
When tbV [the beautiful Val] and i were living in Oakland about a year ago, we came across a book titled ‘Free’ by a friend of ours we had met over here, Mark Scandrette. The tagline of the book is ‘Spending your Time and Money on What Matters Most’ and that really does sum up […]
June 14, 2015
The New Jim Crow – part Statistics
Just before tbV and i left Americaland last year August, i started reading ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness’ by Michelle Alexander, a tough but brilliant read focusing on the system of mass incarceration of black people in Americaland. Then we had to leave and i had to give the […]
June 13, 2015
Poem: Sitting on the edge of the tub
SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE TUB – by brett “Fish” anderson sitting here perched on the edge of this hot tub half in, half out struggling to rationalise my body’s capability with the extreme temperature that is bubbling back at me but i’ve been here for a while and this water sure ain’t […]
June 11, 2015
Make the Most of it Count
i wrote a post a couple of years ago titled, ‘Your Obituary Starts Here’ which i need to flesh out a little i think, because we don’t say or think enough about that. When i turned 40 last year, among other things my wife got my best friend from college to bake a Boob Cake […]
June 10, 2015
Taboo Topic: Marriage Counselling – part Intro
I have often said that ‘Being Married to the Right Person’ is one of the best things in the World’ and I hold by that. Not the easiest though. Or the most comfortable necessarily. A large percentage of the people I know who have gotten married typically go through some kind of marriage counselling or […]
June 9, 2015
I Write What I Like – Steve Biko: Part History and Heroes
A further extract from the same chapter as the last one i shared, this one looks at the history that is taught and the need for young black men and women to have stories and heroes they can relate to: One writer makes the point that in an effort to destroy completely the structures that […]
The eleRAphantCE in the room…
i have a good friend called Megan Furniss and we like to make things up. a lot! Megan was responsible for pretty much bringing Improv to Cape Town in the form of TheatreSports [now Improguise: Players of TheatreSports] which quickly became Cape Town’s longest running and much loved show. And best kept secret, it seems […]
June 8, 2015
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet Lameez Omarjee
I used to be a vegetarian Back in 2013, I decided to become a vegetarian. I followed a meat-free diet for a solid year. I didn’t stick to it because I never had a good reason for becoming a vegetarian in the first place. There were circumstances that lead me to the decision, but none […]
