Back when I’d picked myself up off the brain-surgery ward and started to write again, I’d gotten a few emails asking how to find some stories I’d written before. Strangers wanted to know, which I considered complimentary, not rubbernecky. Initially,…
“The only thing better than the cutest kitty in the world is any dog.”
Hey, get your pants off the ground.
And here I didn’t realize Larry Platt, editor of Philadelphia Magazine, was black with a good voice, creative songwriting ability and a desire to make people pull them drawers up. Oh wait, it’s a different Larry Platt, a general? Say…
Shawn Norman vs Janice Norman
I’ll be honest wit all y’all: Minute I laid eyes on Janice Norman, I thought of that scene in New Jack City when Chris Rock is in an alley with a fellow crackhead who vehemently maintains that she was “the…
This Week’s Metro Column…
… is sure to win me some neighborly goodwill, I’m sure. But hey, I says what I mean and I mean what I says. Guess what, anonymous rat-fink neighbors: In eight decades, you’ll be remembered as classists from a holier-than-thou…
Leshon Kirkland vs Christina Dominguez
Well I think it’s safe to say that this case of Kirkland v Dominguez can be encapsulated in just one quote from Christina. And this here’s the quote: “If I is giving up my goods, you is gonna be mine.…
Weekend Reading Roundup (The Day After Edition)
Sorry for the delay with this. No excuse other than that I just didn’t get to it yesterday. Sue me. No, seriously, sue me. I’m getting bored ’round here. But enough about me. Onto the stories I noteworthied this week,…
Happy New Year, hit-and-run drivers
Well, I guess I’m talking specifically to the dirtbag that ran me over when I say, “Oh, you must have missed the sarcasm. I actually wish you the worst year imaginable.” I thought of you today, though, when I read…
Tomorrow’s future leaders
Oh man, I really just can’t get enough of Jersey Shore. I guess this has something to do with living in Sea Isle — technically, Townsend’s Inlet — from the ages of 23 to 27 or so. I wasn’t a…