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Òran Choinnich: "I EAT THEREFORE I AM".

Random style posts. I am a reader who is partial to old, forgotten novels (1920s - 1980s) because of the nostalgia, culture, and music.

Thriller, Spy, Historical, Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

I love old music, 1960s 🎶🎷
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They are lovely. I never imagined them as an art form. I'm used to their utilitarian value - to transport and drink palm wine (edible yeast rich sap from the West African raffia and oil palm trees).

My grandpa used to make them for me and my brothers when we reached local drinking age - 10 years 😄
Calabash gourd from West Africa with palm leaves at its mouth to keep the palmwine inside fresh A plate of beef peppersoup and a gourd of palmwine - local 'beer parlor' (pub) delicacies in West Africa.
January 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Palm oil is another of resource-rich West Africa's gifts to the world (you're welcome, Malaysia). My hometown has a lot of Oil Palm orchards from which we get wine, oil, and many by-products.

While kids in the West roast chestnuts over an open fire, we roast palm fruits. I'll miss it. #Africa
A bunch of freshly harvested palm fruits from the Oil Palm tree still in their spiky husks. A few kernels of palm fruits roasting in a local tripod over an open fire. A zoomed in image of the kernels of palm fruit roasting over an open fire. The yellow flames and firewood ash are visible in the picture.
January 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Jodie Turner-Smith serving hotness, class, and style in #TheAgency.

She's my number one spec. 🥰
A Black woman in a silk oxblood colored hijab dress A Black woman in an immaculate white hijab dress and a pendant round her neck A Black woman in the back seat of a car wearing a blue hijab and a black jacket A Black woman with an intense expression wearing a gold colored hijab that matches her gold colored jacket
January 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Nectar from the gods - Raffia Wine from our own trees. When it is freshly tapped, it is as sweet as honeyed mead, but ferments as the hours pass by. Some people prefer it when it is 12 - 24 hours old because it is stronger and more "manly".

I miss home already.
#Africa #RaffiaWine #PalmWine
A glass jug of clear-milky colored raffia wine on a stool. Raffia wine is a local naturally occurring alcoholic drink tapped from raffia palm trees (sap) and is native to the tropical regions of Africa and Central/South America. An open carafe of raffia palm wine sits on a kitchen cabinet by the window. Raffia wine is stored either in such carafes or in calabash gourds covered with palm leaves to slow down fermentation. A google image picture of a palm wine tapper on a raffia palm tree.
January 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Somewhere in tropical West Africa, where the soil is red, the vegetation lush, and the sunset beautiful.

I can still smell wood smoke from the numerous firewood stoves and hear gunshots either from hunters deep in the bushes, or the burial ceremony of a prominent village indigene. ❤️
#Africa #Home
A large post-colonial tropical house in a rural West African setting, beside a sandy road, dense greenery, and palm trees.
January 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I want these books by the late Nigerian author Obi B. Egbuna. I read Elina (also known as "Wind vs Polygamy") when I was a teen.

These books were published in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

I love how these (second??) generation of Nigerian authors wrote.
A book cover on which there is a photograph of a light-skinned black woman in afro hairdo staring directly into the camera. The name of the book is The Minister's Daughter by Obi B. Egbuna A book cover on which there is a photograph of a young African woman dressed in local print wrap clothing, local jewelry and a headtie. The name of the book is Elina by Obi B. Egbuna
January 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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From my photo archives taken 10 years ago today - The famous "River Niger" which the colonizers used to claim was discovered by their Mungo Park (1771 - 1806). 🙄

The English name after which two West African countries were named (yes, by colonizers).
#RiverNiger #NigerBridge #Nigeria
A misty view of the River Niger from the top of the "Niger bridge". A misty view of the River Niger obscured by the iconic "X" design of the railings on the Niger Bridge. There is a tiny peninsula extending from the mainland into the river.
December 27, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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🤣🤣🤣
One of the best means of escape I have ever had. Those kids had no real problems. #ArchieComics
A page from an Archie digest comic showing Veronica and Archie sharing a milkshake but rather than sit beside Veronica, Archie is opposite her. This amuses Betty standing next to their table, making her comment that it seems Veronica has had a "button malfunction" (is not in a good mood). A page from a vintage Archie digest comic where the gang are relaxing on the beach and Reggie and Archie have approached Veronica to decide who is the more popular guy. So her answer to what she would do if while waiting to go on a long trip, she had to choose between them as her seat mate is that she'd wait for the next bus!
December 18, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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For David Greene (Brendan Fraser) it was love at first sight.

Brendan in his "fine boy, steal your girl" era. #SchoolTies
An attractive young Brendan Fraser in character as David Green in the movie School Ties (1992) looking lovestruck. Zoomed in screenshot of a beautiful young woman dancing on a crowded dancefloor with a young man.
December 8, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Look at the way these girls are looking at the boys approaching them at the school dance...hoping to be picked. 1950s white boys in elite/prep schools were raised to believe the world belonged to or was theirs for the taking.

What a beautiful song, "Three coins in the fountain". #SchoolTies
A group of young prep school boys dressed in suits and ties at a ball room dance floor. The subtitle reads, "Each one seeking happiness", referring to the music playing in the background of the scene. A group of smiling and expectant school girls at a school dancefloor.
December 8, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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"Don't bother me, I didn't know the man (Jesus)" - one of the best movie witty comebacks I've heard. 😂

Brendan Fraser was at his most 'beautiful' in this film. It was set in 1995, when James Dean's "Rebel Without a Cause" was in the cinemas. Can you tell? 😉
3 men from a biker gang in leather jackets. The subtitle reads, "You got a Jew friend with a real smart mouth" Two men, one wearing a plain white t-shirt with rolled sleeves and the other in a shirt and tie stand at a doorway. The subtitle reads, "Yeah I guess I do". The man in leather jacket says, "So it don't bother you they killed Jesus?" The man in plain white t-shirt replies, "Don't bother me, didn't know the man"
December 8, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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I have seen School Ties (1992) more than twenty times. One of the reasons I love it so much is the music - the best 1950s tunes on the OST. #FatsDomino

It has quite the future Oscar winning cast. Ben Affleck is credited below Anthony Rapp (he had no spoken lines). Can you compare them today?
Opening credits of the 1992 film, School Ties Some of the acting credits showing Michael Higgins and Anthony Rapp placed above Ben Affleck's name A screenshot of the driver's POV with Brendan Fraser showing on the windscreen reflection. He is singing and tapping the steering wheel and the subtitle shows that the song on the radio is Fats Domino's 1955 song, "Aint that a shame". A screenshot of the continuation of the previous scene with Brendan Fraser's reflection and the subtitle reading, "Ain't that a shame?"
December 8, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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"My Old Ass" (2024)
Beautiful 'Sci-Fi Comedy Drama'.
Beautiful performance from the cast.
Young man and young woman staring into each other's eyes in the woods.
December 8, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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Jughead is one of the original genuine foodies. 🤣 #ArchieComics
A clip from a Jughead comic digest from the Archie Comics series. It has on it Archie and Jughead at an open air beach side burger and fries joint being served soda while Archie gazes at a blonde walking by. He comments about her being a dish but Jughead thinks he is referring to the burger on a plate.
December 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh. 🤣🤣🤣
December 5, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Not after growing up where I grew up. Can't be dealing with real politics, office politics and politics at home. I don't understand the West's fascination with it.
An African polygamous family trying to pose for a family photograph but the two wives are struggling for the husband's attention with both wives trying to force his face towards theirs while staring competitively at each other.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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This is my personal copy of The Betsy. I thought I left it in the family home library across the ocean.

Harold Robbins at his best.
A cover of a used novel, "The Betsy" by Harold Robbins with a picture of a woman with her eyes shut obscured by a faded library sticker.
December 4, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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I would have thought it was "Dodsworth" (1929) by Sinclair Lewis if not for the absence of a son. This son was I think in his early twenties. There is a scene at a waterfall with a young Maui woman in either Hawaii or New Zealand, so it cannot be Dodsworth.

I will put it on my TBR though.
A book cover of the novel Dodsworth with vintage style drawing of a woman embracing a man with her hand on his chest.
December 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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"The Onyx" (1982) by Jacqueline Briskin has some aspects of what I am looking for, but the name and book covers ring no bells. What I remember is a hardcover with a drawing of an early model automobile on the dust jacket. I won't know until I buy and read this book.
A book cover design with lettering in bold red colors that read, "Jacqueline Briskin" and on which the book title, "The Onyx" is written in fanciful yellow cursive letters. Beneath the title and at the foreground of the book cover is a young woman with black hair standing beside her is a young man in a hat and jacket of the 1930s fashion. Prominent but behind the man and the woman is a red early model car and an array of similar cars behind it.
December 3, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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One way of showing that you are a senior more experienced lawyer is by NOT saying much. You cannot outtalk a brilliant young lawyer so let the smart-ass junior talk themselves into a hole.

I haven't forgotten my attitude when I was younger, so I know how to get to them. #Landman
The screenshots show a group of male lawyers in suits sitting at a table while a young woman remains standing.
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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I prefer boardroom battles to courtroom. They are more vicious, have no restrictive rules, and if fangs come out too early, they get promptly filed down or pulled out. 😂
#Landman
A man and a woman in business suits sit at a boardroom table and the subtitle reads, "who was your objection directed toward?" A man wearing a suit and tie is sitting at a table. The subtitle reads, "It is directed toward your client" A man and a woman in business suit is sitting at a table and the subtitle reads, " Which is to say it is directed toward me". A man and a woman in business suits are sitting at a table. The woman is writing on a pad and the subtitle reads, "In that case, objection is overruled"
December 2, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Hehehe...we are not related. 😄
A screenshot of a male soldier in army special forces camo uniform and helmet
December 1, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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I grew up in a country that endured successive military governments, culminating in a dictatorship after the annulment of a popular election in 1993.

The winner of that election & the dictator who came in after both died suspiciously in 1998 (*cough* CIA).

Those years of plane hijackings #Hijack93
A screenshot of a movie title with the words "HIJACK '93" in white and black lettering on a black background.
December 1, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Jodie Turner-Smith is so bloody gorgeous. She's my spec. I love her looks and her acting. #TheAgency
A black woman with a nose ring wearing a hijab A smiling woman with a small afro hairdo.
November 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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She (in red obviously) doesn't look much like her brother Timothee Chalamet...maybe except for in some expressions but I now get why she has a prominent role in #TheSexLivesofCollegeGirls.

I'm watching it because of Amrit Kaur (Bela).
Three young college-age women at a club scene looking as if they just heard surprising news. One of them is Pauline Chalamet.
November 29, 2024 at 9:59 PM