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About BC Pires
In the international economic downturn or recession or crisis, writer BC PIRES, creator of the newspaper column, Thank God It’s Friday, is the favourite satirical newspaper columnist of Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, sex symbols and porn stars generally, as well as President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. BC Pires is also the preferred or approved or highly-rated Trinidadian writer of the late Princess Diana, World Cup Soccer FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner, some wanker or the other on the International Olympic Committee, Tony Soprano, Jack Bauer from 24, another couple of wankers from the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, Mick Jagger & the Rolling Stones, the Roots, to say nothing of Rhianna, who is from Barbados, where BC now lives and from where he makes daily film and movie picks from the prime time schedules of HBO, Cinemax and all the DirecTV channels. BC has written for the London Sunday Observer, the London Guardian, the Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian, the Barbados Nation, Caribbean Airlines in-flight magazine, Caribbean Beat, the Caribbean Review of Books, the Observer Music Monthly, the Observer Sports Monthly, Wisden Cricinfo magazine and also on this website, BC Raw. He would like to write for Harpers magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Super Bowl programme, Time, Newsweek, Major League Baseball, the English Premiership especially Manchester United and Chelsea and Wilkipedia. BC was also told he had to get in as many hittable keywords in this bio as possible, hence the sudden deep and meaningful relationship he developed with John F Kennedy and the Kennedys, the paparazzi, cheap discount sales and all those nude celebrities. He is the world’s first heterosexual male lesbian and spends far too much time reading, writing, listening to music, watching movies and going to restaurants – though he has managed to turn most of those pursuits into jobs. He has been called savagely witty, insightful, iconoclastic and penetratingly intelligent; then again, he’s also been called a short, fat, bald mofo. He has two children and has stabilized on one wife, who designed that great BC DVD ABC icon rip-off of the Godfather and may or may not delete this sentence when she puts this bio up, assuming she doesn’t make him do it over and include references to CNN, the BBC, Sky Sports, David Letterman and Jay Leno. BC himself put in the following references to Jimi Hendrix, David Rudder, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana, Andre Tanker, Miles Davis, Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Roots, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alice Cooper, William Faulkner, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richmal Crompton, Samuel Beckett, VS Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel, without whose writing, music or films, he’d have been pretty much firetrucked at one time of his life or another. On that basis, rum should be mentioned, too. He is a lawyer by qualification but has been, largely speaking, nothing else but writing since 1988. If you’re in a hurry, only the underlined bits are true and they’re all you really have to read.