I almost curse the Chairman of the National Cultural Foundation last week, fortunately I was able to bite my lip and contain my self hence I am still working with the NCF.
I was at the NCF media launch of crop over which was held on Friday last week at Accra Hotel and I was there in the audience as the coordinator of 2008 Cavalcades.
Chairman Ken Knight in his address spoke about how the non traditional media had been invited to the event in addition to the mainstream news outlets.
Then I realized that two web sites were in attendance calypsonians.com and Bajan fuh life.com.
And my question was like, so what happen to BoyceVoice.com? wha we ent nobody..?
I was planning to take the microphone during the question session and lambaste from CEO Vere back down to NCF workers Lorna and Karen Pestina. Then I realized that Bajan reporter.com was not there nor kadoment.com, and if Barbados Underground was there they were underground as I didn’t see them, So then I didn’t feel so bad.
It is good that NCF has at least started to recognize that we on the web are important enough to warrant an invitation to media events and we would expect that in the fullness in time more sites would be included, even the cursingly colorful Boyce Voice.

“What will the ass write about today?…

This is one of those days I don’t know what the ass to write.
Sometimes you have a temporary state where your creative bank seems like it is empty and the daily challenge of writing Boyce Voice hangs like a burden around your neck, disturbing the equilibrium of your mind.

I get up at 4 in the morning with the thought, “what the ass will I write about today?”
I go on the internet and read some entertainment news and hope that something jumps out at me.
Or I scan through the newspapers and hope something interesting will catch me Boyce would want to blog about.

Some times a little thought crosses my mind and I sit at the computer and stretch that little thought into a big post. Sometimes I start out writing about nothing and it turns out to be a pretty excellent story.
I have always admired newspaper columnists like Al Gilkes Jeanette Layne Clarke and Eric Lewis, how the hell do they come up with something to write every week? Further less every day. How do they keep their brain constantly churning out creative ideas?
I don’t know as right now I don’t know what the ass to write.
So that’s what I wrote, nothing…. and now I invite you to comment on the same, nothing!

Hope “Nothing” bad happens in your day today, tune in tomorrow when I might be writing “Something”

The tourists that will stop coming

I hate unmannerly rassole people! Don’t you?
I walked into a mini mart this week and said “good night”, there were several customers and a cashier within ear shot and not one of them unpick their teeth and response. They were unmannerly as ass!

When you are popular you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
If I walk pass people and don’t speak, they say “looka Boyce playing he high up and better off, now he get a lil pick pun cbc board he ent know nobody”. Yet if you speak nobody is not answering.

To all people reading this blog when Peter Boyce or any body for that matter, pass and speak try and open your mouth and respond hear?
It is Barbadian to be polite and we are supposed to be friendly unlike places like New York and them big countries. That’s why the tourists come down here because we are friendly freaking people.

When you stop speaking the tourists will stop coming and that will reduce our gross domestic income and increase the fiscal deficit, next thing you know Barbados is in a financial recession and in the hands of the I.M.F all because you would not open your unmannerly mouth and say “Good Morning”.

I had a meeting with the PM the other day, and I was going to suggest to him the government should try to pass some “speak” legislation and make it a chargeable offence for people to be unmannerly with out just cause.
But all that can be avoided if you just open your mouth and say good morning and good night when spoken too, the financial future of your country depends on it!

To assist you here are some Boyce Voice lessons;

If some one passes and says good morning….

You say: “Good Morning!”

If some one walks into a supermarket and says good night…

You say; “Good Night!”

Practice a few times until you get it right…

Boyce is leaving the computer…. “Good Bye!”