Planting Seeds…

This has been an obscenely long week for me.  But knock on wood, things are still going pretty well.  I just knocked out the Porkchop sequence of Isn’t She Lovely, and it feels like it could be a nice little short film/trailer for the feature.  That might just be first draft euphoria though; so give […]

The Divine Nine

  Today is the anniversary or “Founders Day” of Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the historically black Greek letter organizations.  Through pure coincidence, I talked to both of my line brothers yesterday.  I became an Alpha Man (cough, cough) years ago, and went through the entire undergraduate experience: the ‘neo’ semester, the party walking, the […]

An Open Letter to the President-Elect

  Dear Mr. President-Elect, Let me start by saying, I hate politics.  In a perfect world, the most talented artists would be the biggest celebrities, the biggest criminals would get the largest jail sentences, and the smartest people would be our world leaders.  As it is, sex tapes kickstart more careers than they destroy; the […]