Movies have a great way of promoting a country. They turn people on to the idea of travelling there. Crocodile Dundee sparked a whole generation of American tourists to Australia. After watching Mick Dundee tackling crocs and sweeping a New York broad off her feet, they wanted nothing more than a bit of Down Under […]
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:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Smith
To contact this David Smith:
[email protected]
Posted inMedia
Did Wayne Rooney earn his Brownwings?
If you believe Wikipedia, he did. According to them, Wayne Rooney played for a youth team called the Brownwings. After which he signed to Everton on a schoolboy contract. Now for our innocent readers, if you are unsure why this is a strange statement, you want to check out the definition of brown wings. The […]
Posted inGeneral
Creation vs Evolution
Like most kids, I did my time at Sunday school. Getting picked up in the church Kombi, singing, clapping, drinking Oros and eating Marie biscuits. I even played sheep number three in the nativity play. A really hot costume in the Durban summer. And of course I learnt the story of how God made the […]
Posted inGeneral
The Malema Censor 3000
Julius Malema is back in the news. Yet again for his outrageous comments. Back in January, he is reported to have said President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser would not have stayed for breakfast if she had not enjoyed the sex. Today he claimed that this does not constitute hate speech. I’m not so sure. Sounds […]
Posted inNews/Politics
The Hawks. South Africa’s latest cop show
Monday saw the launch of a new TV drama — The Hawks. The latest offering in that uniquely South African genre, the crime-fighting soap opera. It will be taking the place of the ill-fated show The Scorpions — recently cancelled despite favourable reviews. The studio cited irreconcilable creative differences between the script-writers and studio bosses […]