Author Archives: Olumide Abimbola

What’s making me happy today – music

The latest from the Playing for Change folks. Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo describes it: There’s Roberto Luti in Italy on steel guitar, Washboard Chaz in New Orleans adding more percussion and then Roselyn Williams fires up her amazing voice to sign Jaggers’ lyrics from Kingston, Jamaica. From there, it just keeps getting better and better.… Read More »

On technology, birdwatching, liking, and loving

Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times: The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t like at… Read More »

Lady Gaga talks to Stephen Fry

In FT: I ask if […] she has in fact created Gaga, so that she can have a grandiose alter ego to absorb all the attention, criticism, adulation and insanity while the quiet, steady, industrious Stefani Germanotta gets on anonymously with the professional nuts and bolts in the background. I couldn’t be more wrong. “I… Read More »

“A Prayer for My Daughter” by Tina Fey

If, like me, you have a daughter, consider saying Amen along with Tina Fey when you get to the end of it. First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws… Read More »