Ramadan 2013: ‘A Real Man’

  Family is the ‘why.’ We’re all here as the product of two people, and nearly immediately our expectations and worldview of what ‘family’ is becomes formed.  Do we have someone we call ‘Mother?’ Do we have someone we call ‘Father?’  How do those two people (mis)treat us? How do those two people (mis)treat each […]

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 […]

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, […]

Late Night with ‘Natalie Portman’!

  Now the fun really begins… Three shows of ‘Natalie Portman: the Musical!’ this weekend, the first one…Midnight Tonight! This ensemble of ours is a well oiled machine; if you’ve seen the show in our previous incarnation, you should come back to see the newest modifications.  The beauty of sketch comedy and improv is every […]

My Drug of Choice…

  My life at this moment is something like this ‘Work…then go to work…then schedule time for the side projects…and a little me time…try to piece back together a social/personal life of some type…and if I’m lucky…I get a couple hours of sleep. Today my brain hit one of those ‘breaking points’ where I needed […]

Fringe Fest This Weekend!

  Some of you know better than others that last weekend’s show was behind the scenes a comedy of errors.  I honestly only remember two things from last week’s show: the crowd was hot as hell (I think they were cheering before I even said a line), and the girls cracked in the last sketch. […]