tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post115443688837777490..comments2023-10-31T14:52:29.094+03:00Comments on A KENYAN URBAN NARRATIVE: SMOKE AND DREAMSPOTASHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1158323257907478722006-09-15T15:27:00.000+03:002006-09-15T15:27:00.000+03:00Thanx for the comment on my blog. Man u write hard...Thanx for the comment on my blog. Man u write hard. I thought I write but i now know what writing should be.SupremeGREAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06655351126086061988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1155333118213691142006-08-12T00:51:00.000+03:002006-08-12T00:51:00.000+03:00As always ...the best part of my week.As always ...the best part of my week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154869524314929822006-08-06T16:05:00.000+03:002006-08-06T16:05:00.000+03:00lol the hippies... okay you know I always thought ...lol the hippies... okay you know I always thought myself as part of the punk culture. I live it...hehe. okay I am laughing at my own private joke. The hippie parallels tickled me.POTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154812337878383262006-08-06T00:12:00.000+03:002006-08-06T00:12:00.000+03:00I think the hippies with their flower power can re...I think the hippies with their flower power can relate to your post. Nothing changed, despite their breaking out and striving to change rules!!!Uaridihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507856981579802222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154762480807472232006-08-05T10:21:00.000+03:002006-08-05T10:21:00.000+03:00@ mdkims; wow, your literature teacher was another...@ mdkims; wow, your literature teacher was another. But maybe in his literary way, he meant to say that education will not prove to be the proverbial key it is said to be for most of you. I mean it has happened to so many kids, out there- college degree and pushing a mkoko!!POTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154762306051889442006-08-05T10:18:00.000+03:002006-08-05T10:18:00.000+03:00a)Mhhh... okay before some Linguistical Calvinist ...a)Mhhh... okay before some Linguistical Calvinist chews of my head, I used the phrase 'Democratically Elected Aristocracy' sarcastically. It is some sort of paradox really until you see our politics and how parliamentary seats are inherited.<BR/><BR/>b) Shame on me, the word in the comment up There is:C.A.T.H.A.R.S.I.S; it is had to spell when you are rushing and have a splitting headache.<BR/><BR/>And now...<BR/>Afro: Never forget that feudalism and Aristoctracy makes sense only when some people control all the wealth and the rest are reduced to serfdom. Obviously if Kenyans were economically empowered the politics of relief food and vote buying wouldn't work. Most people get to parliament because they can afford an expensive campaign, they have the reosurces to wow the dispossed electorate.<BR/>It is to much to ask the politicians to change the status quo and kick themselves out of a paycheck. <BR/>Ati Potash readings...lol..yeah right, to dudes who are snoring(sending sms, huh?) their way to a sitting allowance. <BR/><BR/>@Girl. Robert Frost, innit? As Mdkims says, it was in the high school book... Comprehensive English, i think. But in my copy the part with the by line has been chewed off by a rat. tut..tut...the places we live!!<BR/><BR/>'the plight of the youth is tragic' Ditto that. But how long can you escape; in the end people break- do I see a revolution? Hardly, other youths have packaged their peers into a product to sell to donors<BR/><BR/>@Kange: yeah man pass it pan' de left side, no? <BR/>Of course it is the plague of our generation but who we waiting for to change the world for us. We are us -we are now. Tings a gwan, no.. but we a fight badness...!<BR/><BR/>@Hugo, sunny and Kirsti: Gracias... Mi casa su casaPOTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154689616354507832006-08-04T14:06:00.000+03:002006-08-04T14:06:00.000+03:00mhhh........will get back to yall, cheers for popp...mhhh........will get back to yall, cheers for popping by...time! Time got to run.POTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154681786415647202006-08-04T11:56:00.000+03:002006-08-04T11:56:00.000+03:00our high school literature read us the poem "the r...our high school literature read us the poem "the road not taken" a lot ... he challenged us, rather jokingly, that instead of being doctors and all, we should consider leading lives as nomads in North Eastern ... o'wise what lovely delightful readings ... i shall always drob by!am mdkimshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11669121799061027776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154627169573430812006-08-03T20:46:00.000+03:002006-08-03T20:46:00.000+03:00Potash, WOW! Very well written piece, now I have t...Potash, WOW! Very well written piece, now I have to catch up on all your 'writings' :-)Sunny Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072300793534628545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154502388671691702006-08-02T10:06:00.000+03:002006-08-02T10:06:00.000+03:00Gota kizee...Wazi for popping in at my jumpoff. Yo...Gota kizee...<BR/><BR/>Wazi for popping in at my jumpoff. You paint a picture that's close to me because it's the reality of a lot of people. Be they in ocha or in the hood of an American inner city.<BR/><BR/>It's the plague of our generation.<BR/><BR/>Pass that joint...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154482404431715502006-08-02T04:33:00.000+03:002006-08-02T04:33:00.000+03:00This is deep! Your line is from Robert Frost's "Th...This is deep! Your line is from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." He's one of my fave poets. The plight of the youth is tragic. There's no question why they will happily escape their fate if only temporarily.Girl next doorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11786858603160127087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154479907199256142006-08-02T03:51:00.000+03:002006-08-02T03:51:00.000+03:00oops, just saw the zephyr's shoulder shrugging com...oops, just saw the zephyr's shoulder shrugging comment...i just got to typing and didnt see that he'd already made the point...pole for rehash.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154458796447828402006-08-01T21:59:00.000+03:002006-08-01T21:59:00.000+03:00wow. (indulge my wishful thinking for just a sec)....wow. <BR/><BR/>(indulge my wishful thinking for just a sec). If only the 'mababi'esp the 'elected aristocracy' had an ounce of empathy,...and imagine how their policies & theft affect the youth...Its sad that its the 'neverending' narrative of old...do they shrug their shoulders and say 'It is what it is' or face the youth and really make a change?<BR/><BR/>Potash readings before the start of parliament perhaps? (Just thought you could use a laugh:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154453467437617532006-08-01T20:31:00.000+03:002006-08-01T20:31:00.000+03:00Hello! Thank you for you comment hope you enjoy my...Hello! Thank you for you comment hope you enjoy my blog. Will start reading yours now. *puts on glasses*Kirstihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02803171154447740723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154451571981291052006-08-01T19:59:00.000+03:002006-08-01T19:59:00.000+03:00Wow...and finally Zephyr discovers the Potash..lik...Wow...and finally Zephyr discovers the Potash..like really!<BR/>The cartharsis works both ways I reckon.<BR/>It is for me the other side of the shoulder shrugging...or maybe it writing is shoulder shrugging a la PotashPOTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154448715739982692006-08-01T19:11:00.000+03:002006-08-01T19:11:00.000+03:00This one has made me cry, a tear or two, no, not p...This one has made me cry, a tear or two, no, not pity, not even sadness, rage, pure unadulterated rage. Is it futile to rage? Is it better to become cynical and shrug my shoulders a la 'haithuru, uguo niguo guthiaga,(ces't la vie where I come from) as I can hear some of the wasee wa mtaa say. Keep posting, it is almost as carthatic for some of us to read it, as it is for you to write it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154444296939216682006-08-01T17:58:00.000+03:002006-08-01T17:58:00.000+03:00Lol: it is actually 'naps' to a lot of people... g...Lol: it is actually 'naps' to a lot of people... guess you haven't heard it since you been out for a while. But you must have figured my side of town, so we say Napshizzle.<BR/>I know that Loresho crowd and the funny thing is they are still around...chilling... you know the Local. Guys now have serious ndevus and pots... but is all hood. My crew scattered though, but I reinvent myself... I am street... Keeping it hood.<BR/>Actually that sharing thing is part of my paper from which this springs from about the communist thought and socialist thinking of underpriviledged nairobi youth... stuff to do with 'us' sufferers and 'them' babi.<BR/>Stupid shit but it is not my place to hate my people.POTASHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637299042933431094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441013.post-1154442836746570862006-08-01T17:33:00.000+03:002006-08-01T17:33:00.000+03:00"Napshizzle" Whenever I see that word I know that ..."Napshizzle" Whenever I see that word I know that I am reading one of your posts.<BR/>Anyway Rodin's statue is not the only soul that has tapped into the thinkers rock.<BR/>In addition peeps end up developing spirits and butts of steel from sitting on those rocks at jobless corner.<BR/>I remember my Loresho boys used to call their crew bum squad while the boys down east were just wasee wa mtaa.The places and faces change but the situation remains the same.<BR/>Be it veve,blunt, a gaf, a mega pack of safari escape is always desired and when reality knocks on the door.The boys will always be ready to share some of the escape potion.<BR/>Nothing like a drunk stupor or a cloud of smoke to hide despair!Acolytehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03673179447438729227noreply@blogger.com