My First Acting Idol…

  My body and soul are running at full capacity at the moment, so today is a little bit of a cheat post. My annual appreciation of the first brother I saw on screen who made me say, ‘That was AWESOME!!!!!’ I’m fairly confident you’ll know him when you see him…

Ramadan 2013 – ‘Apostle’

  A few years back, I went to those closest to me and described my endgame in a few simple words (a pitch, basically).  In the relatively short amount of time since then, I’ve knocked out several smaller tasks that all feed back into that larger, singular purpose: Getting my passport. Kicking my Arabic studies […]

Ramadan 2013: ‘A Life, Jimmy, You Know What That Is?’

   ‘Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman? You were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn’t come back. Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there’s this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I’d sit there and order a Fernet […]

Ramadan 2013: ‘Message to the Blackman in America’

  For the second year in a row, I’ll begin Ramadan entering into a peak period of my life.  I’m no longer ‘hitting’ my stride, I’m living in it.  Around my birthday, I wrote a post referencing what it meant when you start living on ‘third base’.  Deep fundamental changes start taking place… We all […]

Venus Vs.

  Just finished the premiere of the new ESPN 30 for 30 doc, ‘Venus Vs.’, directed by Ava DuVernay.  It’s a good doc; all of this happened in our lifetimes, but I know I’m not the only one who kind of takes for granted now how much ground Venus broke within our generation. The main […]

Malik on Nickelodeon – Now Available!

  Good news and bad news… A few of you mentioned that you missed my appearance on See Dad Run on Nick at Nite when it aired.  Bad friend, bad friend!  It’s come to my attention you can stream it online now…BUT since you took your time about it, you’re gonna have to pull out that debit […]

Song of the Day: Boys of Summer

  First, thanks to everyone who came out for the last run of Natalie Portman.  Last night especially we had one more close to full house and we went out a high note which is how you always want to go.  It sounds like the gang will be reuniting later this year for a new project, […]

Song of the Day – ‘Paper Doll’

  ‘You’re like 22 girls in one…and none of them know what they’re running from…’ Yep… someone’s been dating in the Hollywood scene… Yep… someone is going to make me pay for co-signing that statement in a public forum. Oh well, I’m digging the song.  Happy Monday!