Western women: as a representative of the island of Bermuda, it is my duty to inform you that you can make use of our terrific services without ever leaving North America! It may sound too good to be true, but this past summer, we opened a new, convenient location in the Upper East Side of New York City ( Read more... )

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I am now a NYC resident, but I think that this photo sums up the pain of moving beautifully:


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All right, everyone, after getting a couple invites to join various online tournament pools, I decided that we might as well have our own while we're at it. Unless anyone wants to make some side bets (I can't imagine that ANYONE would want to do that), this is just for fun only, to try to encourage participation ( Read more... )

I'm serious.

Written by Sam Strangeways, no less.

This is from a story in the local paper about a meeting that the United Bermuda Party (UBP) held the other day. Keep in mind that the UBP is a legit political party in Bermuda. They are the Opposition, who only lost power in 1998 after holding it for about 30 years, and most recently lost in the 2003 General Election:

If the United Bermuda Party ( Read more... )

One of the controversies while I was in Bermuda for Christmas break was the presence of a boat, the Logos II. This boat travels from port to port, country to country, selling books. Some were unhappy because this introduced some very low-priced competition to local Bermudian bookstores (who have a much higher overhead) in the crucial pre-Christmas ( Read more... )

Since waking up this morning ( Read more... )

And you thought the media in the US was bad? Here is the opening to a story from today's Royal Gazette (Bermuda's ONLY daily paper ( Read more... )