Ramon Thomas interviews Big Brother’s Mark Pilgrim
Mark Pilgrim is one of the most recognisable radio and television personalities in South Africa. His first love has always been radio, and for the past 10 years, listeners have enjoyed his warm (and somewhat wry) sense of humour.RT: What is your current relationship status….and why?MP: I am seeing someone new. I have just come […]
Saturday night fever
It’s one of those Saturday nights where I’m feeling between the shadows and the soul, as Neruda once said. My final research report is due next week, so I can complete my Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of Johannesburg (old RAU). So I have to dig in and resist the temptation […]
Falling in Love by Francesco Alberoni
It should come as no surprise that the subject of this book is, of course, love. More specifically, Alberoni deals with those all-too-brief and utterly captivating moments when one first falls in love. He attempts to unlock all the rather bizarre and, sometimes, completely diotic forces that drive our behaviour in this frenzied state. For […]
Black Monday Lovesong by ASJ Tessimond
My friend, former massage therapist and South Africa’s leading chirologer, Jenny Hirsch, sent me this poem once. It resonated so much with me because of the Taoist-inspired structure, I based on my research into attraction, dating and social dynamics between male and female on. Black Monday Lovesong by ASJ Tessimond In love’s dances, in love’s […]
So close but yet so far
I took a walk tonight just to clear my head. Trying to write 10,000 words for an assignment is no mean task. Well, it was around 8 pm and the sky in Johannesburg was clear. I tried to identify Orion’s Belt as I have been doing in recent months whenever there is a clear sky. […]