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7 Tips to Having Villains Team Up: Let the Eye-Rolling Ensue

7 Tips to Having Villains Team Up: Let the Eye-Rolling Ensue
brought to you by Charles Yallowitz. Numbers 1, 4, and 7 are the first tips Im going to try.

Legends of Windemere

Sinister Six

Its time for the villains to unite against one or many heroes.  Such a faction of evil can only be stopped by . . . Well, thats a long list ranging from punches to infighting to whatever you can imagine.  Maybe they never figured out how to get out of their super secret headquarters, so they only got to...

Haikubes – April 23rd, 2020

Theme and Direction A vision for . . . our world.

Ocean-deep secrets Entombed bone cities hold court Acta non verba.

Teach yi How ta Swim

Beautiful. Nostalgic.

Pree

Tanicia Pratt

For Mary Pratt

Tanicia Pratt voicing her poem

All my chirren is leave aftee sometime an once dey does go dey does dont come back sometime all a mine is come back yinno? sometime dey is dont wan go til dey have dey own chirren and sometime when dey chirren have dey chirren yeah. but yuse dont check fa me like dat man not like how yi use ta check fa me I memba yi use ta mussy come roun every Sundee now it look like yi caught up in all kina teengs...

How Jamaicans.com Is Connecting the Jamaican Diaspora How

Repeating Islands

A report from South Florida Caribbean News.

In March of 1992, while studying at Miami-Dade College, Xavier Murphy started a monthly printed newsletter called Nuff Respect as an effort to provide cultural information and promote his island home, Jamaica in South Florida.

As the newsletter gained popularity, so too did the worldwide web, giving rise to platforms like AOL and Google.

A few years later, while working for a travel-related electronic marketing company in 1995,...

Haikubes – April 22nd, 2020

Theme and Direction A reflection on . . . my childhood. [image error]

Pixabay Free Photos

Growing up, I listened a lot to Chris de Burgh, Erasure, De la Soul, Prince, Boogiemonsters, Digable Planets, Tears for Fears, and so many more amazing artists.

Haikubes – April 21st, 2020

Theme and Direction A reflection on. . . my childhood

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Natures symphony composes consolation to insomniacs.

Haikubes – April 20th, 2020

Theme and Direction A reflection on  . . . our world. [image error]

Photo by Egor Kamelev on Pexels.com

Cicada Summers Lovesick males drum their tymbals Nocturne of Nature

Haikubes – April 19th, 2020

Theme and Direction A dream about . . . our world.

There are often times when dreams work like hopes or wishes. 

I bottle sweet peace. Its earth, wind, and fire brewed. Wont you taste it, dear?

Haikubes – April 18th, 2020

Roll Haikubes, roll! Speak to me of what will be! Whilst thou sing to me a tale of  troubled times . . . Uh, lets go with more words that rhyme! Will it be a poem of utter misery? Until I reflect and brainstorm its a mystery! Horrendous? Wondrous? Torturous doom? I could really go for a plate of Portobello mushrooms.  Theme and Direction A regret about . . . my future? What the heck?!

Are the Haikubes . . . prophetic? How do they portend things that have not yet transpired?

Where Did The Land O’Lakes Logo Come From?

People may wonder and ask, Hey! Why is all of this backlash coming out now?! regarding the Land OLakes logo controversy. But thats NOT the case. Just because you may not have heard about it until now doesnt mean it wasnt happening in the past and picking up steam. To those that are whining and implying (or saying straight out) that this is a conspiracy because its been brought to the mainstream public, I have two words: Shut. Up.

That said, this post was originally posted in 2018 and this...