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Car Displays in Shopping Malls

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The internet monopolizes advertising. That’s why many newspapers and magazines closed their doors permanently. Online advertising also eliminated other forms of advertising, car displays in shopping malls for example. In some countries, they bring cars into the shopping mall, literally. Most malls have a center court, where entertainment and product launches take place. Manufacturers could be launching a new line of sneakers or a local gym could be drumming up membership. I don’t know how they drive cars into the mall, but that is where I saw the car I bought to replace the van, which was having too many tantrums, for my liking. I saw it more than twice at the mall before I decided to step inside. Aaaah! Aaaah! No ignition key hole? A salesman for the dealership explained that it didn’t have one. It was all digital. He said it was made in Sweden, which explained why I didn’t know it. American automakers like Ford and GM have the former British Empire automobile market, sealed. For luxu
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Peacock Cars and Credit Cards

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He walked into a dealership that carries one of the ten peacock cars in the world. There are two types of cars: utility cars that move human beings and goods and peacock cars, that tell the world you wake up at noon. He chose one and bought it with a credit card. Is that possible? Bicycles, I could understand that, not a vehicle with four wheels, not counting the spare tire. And definitely, not a peacock car. Anyway, it’s fiction, Daemon a scary book about gaming. It’s about hackers in the dark net, a subdivision of the internet. Fiction or no fiction, all credit cards have limits. That is why African Americans coined the expression, 'I maxed the card.' It’s possible for a  millionaire to buy a car with a credit card, you argue. Is that right? I don’t doubt that NBA stars, Shedeur Sanders, J.K. Rowling, Tyler Perry, Lewis Hamilton, Magic Johnson, Sheryl Sandberg or Rihanna have a tidy sum in the bank, but surely, is there something like a bottomless credit card? If millionaires
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Hummer Another Peacock Car

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I saw a Hummer parked in the street yesterday. It is still ugly, if I may say so myself. Do they still make this car? I’m a simple person with a simple mind and it tells me the word car, comes from car rying. Get it? The horse and buggy was a car. Hey! That was the original pick-up truck or van, as it is called in other countries. The horse was the driver, and the buggy was the basin behind. I had a van once. It carried building material, furniture, people and even a coffin, but that’s a story for another blog. I digress. Where was I? Yes, the word car is derived from carrying. Not in this century. People with extra cash buy peacock cars to publicize the bank account. That’s the only reason why they bought the original Hummer, the pyramid of ugliness. For comfort? Out of the question. For speed? I don’t think so, too bulky for speed. It’s a status symbol. It says I have more money than other drivers lining up, at the toll-gate. Talking about money, I read somewhere that the Hummer was
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Walking Away Is Self Esteem

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Old blog, 27 December 2020. Pride or self-esteem? She’s very proud. It depends. Negative vs positive. The negative sees the positive as proud. I came across a new word some months ago in a book. The character says, “Niki is very prideful.” Fine. Niki is full of pride I suppose. You call Niki proud. She’s not. She has self-esteem. She knows that there are things she cannot change. She also knows that there is nobody who will look after her interests. We have marriages, relationships, friends, co-workers, followers but nobody will sacrifice anything for you. They only take. Pride is self-preservation, especially in relationships and at work. Boy meets girls. He says I love you, the only passport to get to where he wants to go. He arrives there. After a few months he gets tired of girl, finds another one. A girl who knows her worth will walk away, not leave ten phone messages everyday, or destroy his career on Twitter and Instagram. Walking away is top of the range self esteem. COVID-19 i
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Zulu Lesson Pride

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Angel Reese, former LSU basketball player, now with Chicago Sky. Society doesn’t like a proud person. U-ya-zazi , meaning he is full of himself, he thinks highly of himself or ‘he thinks he’s all that’ as kids put it. It comes from the Zulu verb, - zi , just two letters, that mean to know something, to know someone, to know how to drive, cook, skate, paint etcetera. How do I pronounce -zi ? Like zinc, Zimbabwe or zillion years. Uya zi ?   Do you know? Ngiya zi .  I know. Baya zi .  Do they know? Aba zi .   They don’t know. Niya zi ?  Do you (many people) know? Asa zi . We don’t know. Fire fascinates kids. That’s why they want to touch a candle or crawl towards an open fire. Contact is bad news because they holler the place down. Now they know that it is hot. Mummy then kisses the pain away and rubs some ointment or crushed herbs on the injured finger. With adults, ignorance of the law is no defence, something that lands tourists into trouble abroad. Now let’s look at you, yourself. You
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Voters Are Not Imbeciles

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“Speaker Johnson, we did not vote for the May 14, Manhattan court shame.” I wish I was a speck of dust and hear what community organizers say in voting workshops, and the importance of registering to vote in particular.  I assume they spend time on the bare bones of voting like voting early, by mail, ballot boxes (if Georgia Genius doesn’t get rid of them altogether) and the secrecy of the vote. That secrecy is founded on a free and functioning mind. Because it is free, the boss cannot blackmail workers. Because it is free, the voter is under no obligation to vote for the present governor or senator. Any elected official that thinks voters will ‘follow the leader’ wherever he goes, even down a cliff, believes they are imbeciles. House Speaker Michael Johnson and the posse that appeared at the courthouse on 14 May to be proxy for Trump - since he cannot say things because of gag orders - think voters are imbeciles. Most political analysts believe it was a group interview for U.S. Vice-P
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Speaker Johnson Kow-Tows To Emperor

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Ancient China. You want a plum job, you better kow-tow to the emperor, a common storyline in Chinese movies. Lots of shenanigans and back-biting in the palace to get close to the evil emperor. Below is old blog 11 April 2024, about bowing to the emperor. It happened in America on May 14, 2024. Historical Context We must kow-tow  to the emperor, a state of affairs prevalent in old Hong Kong movies. Kow-tow  might even be a Chinese word European traders ‘anglicized’ because they could not pronounce it. There were emperors in ancient China. They controlled land, man and beast. Therefore, everybody bowed down to the emperor. Same with Africa, the king controlled land, man and beast. That is why there was something called -khonza,  which means bow down to the king. The king controlled the land. He did not own it. He did not have a title deed.  He held it in trust for the people. That is how the system of -khonza  played out. Example. In the olden days, a family could be chased out, exiled f
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