Fight Week

  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 […]

Song of the Day – ‘Hey Jude’

  Wilson Pickett did a cover of ‘Hey Jude’?  Really?  How do I not have any memory of this? Well, it sounds like a great idea on paper, let’s taken a listen… (clicking Play…) (GASP!!!) (Creative Adrenaline Rush!!!) (acting out and writing the sequence Kerry Washington throws my character and my trumpet out in the […]

U Mad?

  As someone who literally wore an ‘Angry Black Man’ t-shirt during his college days, I feel uniquely qualified to drop my two cents on this one… First, here’s the truth about 90 percent of the ‘angry black people’ you see… Now, I know anger.  My blood has boiled red hot, especially in the younger […]

‘The Fault…Is Not In Our Stars…’

  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 […]

Brave New World

  So let’s start with something Rashida put out there last week: IMHO, the most salient issue in the next decade will be privacy. EVERYONE'S: Man, woman, celeb, not celeb. No question about that… — Rashida Jones (@iamrashidajones) September 2, 2014 We’ve all been talking about this and debating the issue of ‘privacy’ for the […]

American Muslims in Public Service @USC

  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 […]