A lot of people have been talking about whiteness. I get where they are coming from. It’s been on my mind too. You know the…
Posts published by “David J Smith”
David Smith is a world famous artist and a British Olympic hammer thrower. He is a curler for Scotland and Manitoba. A pro wrestler fondly known as the British Bulldog. A Canadian economist and a Mormon missionary they call the Sweet Singer of Israel. He is a British historian and a bishop. David Smith is the biographer of HG Wells, a professor of physics, a composer and a music teacher at Yale. He played rugby for Samoa, England and New Zealand. He created the Melissa worm, a deadly computer virus. He is the Guardian's man in Africa, he starred in a reality TV show and shot his way to silver in the 600m military rifle prone position at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.
But this isn't that David Smith. This is the blog of the other David Smith. David J Smith. The one from Durban by the Sea. The one who lives in Amsterdam. Yes, him. The David Smith who likes to write about himself in the third person.
To learn about all the other David Smiths:
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It really gets me upset when people tell me this. That Radiohead is a cheap version of Coldplay. I don’t understand it. In fact, it…
There is a rule in screenwriting that if you introduce a gun into a scene, at some point you must use it. The rule applies…
Why are South Africans so good at doing bad things together, but not good things? A lot of people like to say “the rainbow nation…
No matter your feelings on it, South Africa has been obsessed with the Spear. Many see it as a slur on the dignity of black…
There are too many high horses in South Africa. Too many haughty opinions. And not enough people admitting to their faults. We need to all…
We are a nation of bitches. I mean bitches in the sniveling dog sense, not in the be-nasty-to-ladies sense. We are constantly moaning and whinging.…
We hate refugees. We burn them out of their homes. We chase them away. We burn down their businesses. We tell them go back to…
The Australian likes the outdoors. He likes a bit of time in the garden, down the beach, out in the bush. So it stands to…