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.”
(Click the Read More button for video) Tosh.0
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…