Not looking at the outside world to start this week, but looking inwards. Been building something for awhile now, and this week will be the payoff. (I’m not being overly cryptic to be a jerk in this circumstance; rest assured I will share it with all of you when the product is finished.) I […]
So this is about what I owe you. All of you. It’s happened not so much as a conscious or deliberate choice as much as it’s happened as a ‘this is how I choose to live my life’ choice, but I’ve built a big part of my adult reputation as a goofy, devil may […]
This Friday, the USC Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice is sponsoring a conference on campus where the subject is American Muslims in Public Service. The all day event is free and open to the public, the keynote speaker will be (debatably) the highest profile American Muslim in public service today, Congressman Keith […]
So last week, one of the homies hits me up and says ‘Hey Mr. Actor, I need someone to sing the anthem for my event. What do you think?’ Now, as with many things, once I committed (through professional necessity if nothing else) to get myself up to being a ‘competent singer’, I’m not […]
‘You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, You’re gonna like this guy. He’s alright. He’s a good fella. He’s one of us. You understand?’ I know more than once I’ve publicly stated my somewhat ‘necessary evil’ attitude toward networking. Having said that, I just spent the […]
One more Pay It Forward to end the week! My friends down at the U of MMA are putting on another of their great cards this Sunday at Club Nokia. The show is always a fun night down at one of my favorite hangouts in L.A. Live. I’ve done everything from help put together […]
Today is a Pay It Forward day. Every year, the SAG Foundation holds a charity Poker tournament to benefit a facility I’m very familiar with: the Don LaFontaine Voice-Over Lab. If the name is vaguely familiar to you, then the voice is instantly recognizable: he was THE voice of movie trailers (and several other […]
Where to begin… Let’s begin at the end. Balance. I couldn’t give you an exact day or at this point, an exact year, when I turned to meditation to increase my spiritual grounding. Like everything else, the beginning is the hardest part. You get frustrated that it doesn’t come naturally, you want to quit […]
Alright, I’m over here singing and humming (because I’ve been completely out of the Matrix for a few hours so I’m not caught up on the news), so let’s get this out now while I’m still buzzing. It’s the weekend. Enjoy yourselves! (maniacal laugh…)
I made my annual trip to Griffith Observatory this weekend. I saw a show that wasn’t playing on my last trip, and as usual I marveled at how big the Universe is, and how small we are, and how much we still don’t know. I walked outside; darkness had fallen. I looked out over […]
malikaziz.com 