Goodbye, Gotham

For nearly three months, every other week, I’ve been blogging. It’s been an interesting process and I hope whoever has been reading them has gotten a good sense of who I am. I know it’s only been five blog posts, and this one being number six. However, I think they’ve covered my varied interests and...

My Life Pursuit

For as far back as my mind will allow me to travel, I have desired to be a famous entertainer. At first, I wished to be a NBA superstar and I had a short-lived career in Pee-Wee basketball. I can’t definitively speak on what ended that career, but it just didn’t last. In any case,...

Black Panther is a Tale of Caution and Hope

Warning: If you haven’t seen Black Panther yet, there are spoilers ahead. Black Panther is making waves culturally for all people of color (POC). It’s giving us representation in a medium where we rarely get it, or if we do, then we’re in a typecast role that really doesn’t do justice to the depth and...

Nigga Fest

Many moons ago I encountered an instance of racism that still sticks with me today. My response to the racist remark wasn’t the best reaction, and maybe that’s why it still bothers me so much. It might have been a cold weekend night, but what I can say for sure is that I was drunk...

Always the Reader, never the Writer

I’ve always described myself as more of a reader than a writer. Since I learned to read, I’ve always had my nose in a book. When it came to write creatively in school, I’d always have ideas, but they would always fizzle out once they hit the page. Sometimes I’d get the occasional burst of...

A few thoughts on internet conversation and learning new things

Okay, so it turns out writing stuff to put on the internet is a lot harder than I thought.  Because the whole point of putting your opinions out into the world is to listen to people's responses, right?  Otherwise you never learn anything at all.  And sending blog posts out into the ether feels a...

NYK or Die

Basketball is my favorite pastime--I love playing it, both in real life and virtually. I especially enjoy watching NBA games. It truly is an art: the alley-oop dunks, the jump shots, the finesse layups. My favorite team to watch, without a doubt, is the New York Knicks. New York is often referred to as the...

Stuck

Lately, I’ve been having trouble writing. I wrote that sentence an hour ago. I don’t have writer’s block—I have writer’s anxiety. I love to write, I really do, but sometimes I just can’t. I tried everything. White noise machines, giant cups of coffee, comfortable chairs, uncomfortable chairs. Nothing helped. At first, I thought it was...

Always A Little Behind The Times

I don’t really follow pop culture. Like, at all. Nowadays, I have more of a cursory knowledge of pop culture only because of the inescapable onslaught of media from Twitter, commercials, Facebook, I could go on and on. The reason I bring this up is that it's always been a little weird to be on...

The Bronx: A Love Story

The following blog post is a love story. But it’s not a love story about a boy and a girl, or a man and a woman, or a girl and a girl, or a woman and a woman, or a boy and a boy, or a man and a man. It’s a love story between...