Rampant anti-intellectualism has goaded us into thinking nothing matters because everyone’s opinion, in some way, is right. This pseudo-nihilistic mindset allows for slippage in standards, quality, trust, performance, critical analysis, accountability, etc. It’s scary man.

My work, "Sometimes, Butterflies Forget How to Return Home," will be published in this issue. There is a story behind the poem too. A very deep and personal one. I am happy. (*-*) [The above should be the emoticon for happiness.]

Aura for Aura? No! Ora for Ora? Yes.

Need to shoot another soon, man. Been so busy.

Funny how topping the class makes an average member of the same class dream up new rules for after-school life: "Success isn’t about grades." It’s a kind of hopium, a coping mechanism, summed up in the convenient phrase, "To be the best is not to be the one at the top."

Manifesting Two million, five hundred and seventy thousand, six hundred and seventy naira before 28th.

Uncle Seyi Makinde, please, before you leave office, apply to make Ibadan a UNESCO city of literature. Please. Of course, this would require very intentional Community and infrastructural building that puts Ibadan as the literary capital of Nigeria. Please 🥹 Oyo State Government

The translation by Wole Soyinka hits hard too.

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Brilliant cinematography makes me feel emotional. I am not concerned about the storyline; I just want to feel the artistry involved. I want to feel the pure bliss of watching art. Cillian Murphy, Leonardo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ibrahim Chatta, and all.

I have a new short story out today The Republic It’s my first in two years and was edited by the incredible Chigozie Obioma (an author & woli) who called it “powerful and convincing” Link to read below: rpublc.com/vol9-no3/to-do…

Amazing news! It's been a while but my short film with Oluwayanmife Arogundade Directed by THE BIG STORY🌏 Today Tomorrow was just selected by SDGs Short Film Challenge via FilmFreeway.com!

2019 has to be my year of reading books. I read this then. Got it from a Ph.D. in philosophy student. Brilliant. I love early exposure to books. I might recreate a 2019 streak in 2026. (Inshallah).

1:45am. A cup of custard. Two teaspoons of cocoa powder. Five read papers. Two paragraphs were written. One proof done. Thirst to read a poetry book soon. I need to rest more.

Dave Asa Kendrick Brymo Aurora Nomine

2:32am, On my ninth poem on the Isele Magazine website trying to satisfy my thirst for poetry. Too many beauties! Too many masterpieces! Excellence overload! I feel emotional reading all of these. 🥹 Poetry is life.

Came across this just after I finished my study on the discovery of the "Game Theory" through John Von Neumann. The field of stochastic is grateful for his input. Years after he is gone, I am using his work to compute through the minimax rule and sunk function fallacy.