Stet » movie http://riabacon.com First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:41:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc The truckers were the real heroes http://riabacon.com/2009/12/30/the-truckers-were-the-real-heroes/ http://riabacon.com/2009/12/30/the-truckers-were-the-real-heroes/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:44:07 +0000 Ria chaos whisky truckers shelves chilean boxes conservative coup http://riabacon.com/?p=504 Our plan last night was to put up shelves in our wardrobe and further reduce the chaos of our living conditions, which seems to involve shifting boxes from one room to another, until it becomes unmanageable, then redistributing the boxes to other rooms. Every few days we generate enough garbage to fill the bus and go

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Bear in mind that Jamaica has a population of only 2.7 million.

The first gold medal went to Shelly-Ann Fraser in the women’s

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In the second example, more appropriate for this time of year, I

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2008/01/07/photos-in-motion/feed/ 7 Shaking Up Orange Street http://riabacon.com/2007/06/11/shaking-up-orange-street/ http://riabacon.com/2007/06/11/shaking-up-orange-street/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:22:23 +0000 Ria shaking up orange street prince buster augustus pablo dennis brown sir william grant park driving downtown kingston jamaica ward theatre market bra man carpenter brother man Dr No james bond Jamaica 1962 http://riabacon.com/2007/06/11/shaking-up-orange-street/ Part II of my downtown tour should be loading below. It took a little longer to finish than I’d hoped, partly because I wanted to make it look better than my previous clip, and partly because uploading it to YouTube is very very slow.

As I’ve recommended previously, if your bandwidth is as bad as mine,

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I know, it’s the voice.

If all goes according to plan, Part II will include a drive round the main square, Sir William Grant Park (during which

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Uptown refers

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“Uncle Mark! Uncle Mark! Can I drown next, pleeease?”

They were practising life-saving.

After that moment of excitement, my attention was drawn to the sound of the lawnmower … and the sight of Doctor “Cutty” McQueen showing

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