Failed Mutiny at Subsea Lapotidunity in Davy Jones Locker is a melcine that cures or keeps away the worst kinds of illnesses. The illnesses of the soul and mind. There is not much the solitary mind punished for independence of thought can do to be merry without goscolene, meditation, song,…
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Musings
Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him
Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him Yesterday, as I was making octopus pepper soup, I had a sip of seaweed kinkana, a mild alcoholic spirit. Paramole had given me the recipe to make the still when he returned from the Great Gangway. The Davy Jones Locker rendezvous was quiet, cold,…
Short Stories
Paramole Returns for Birthday
Paramole Returns for Birthday Saturday the 25th of April 2020 was cold and blank in the Davy Jones Locker. A few sailors had passed through the rendezvous to the other side after becoming victims to Covid-19 and other causes but this Saturday there were no forgone sailors arriving. For the…
Short Stories
Where Is Deji Akintilo?
Where is Deji Akintilo [Fabio Romani]? I saw Fabio Romani the other day, recently. He was kind enough to enter my submarine on his long journey, unknown to me then, to the Land of the Forgone. He was indeed a Jolly Sailor who showed me a thing or two about…
Culture as Institution
Yankius on Senator Omo-Agege
Yankius on Senator Omo-Agege Jovo Yurip: Yankius, which ones now? Why you no tell me say Senator Ovie Omo-Agege na Pyrate? You bad O! Yankius: Jovo, look my eye well. Omo-Agege no be Pyrate at all at all. Wetin make you think so to the point say you come my…
Musings
I Will Not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole)
I Will Not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole) Ayo Odebisi a.k.a. Paramole (1956-2017) was one of the three persons [cum mentors] who never ceased loving me as the human being I am. He loved me despite my apparent unusual and often disconcerting approach to life, perhaps because he was a…
Elections
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What?
Osagie Ize-Iyamu Was A Pyrate, So What? There are few people on record who have been more critical of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) in Nigeria, including the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) a.k.a. the Pyrates Confraternity (PC) than myself. I have written a score of articles [on this publication]…