And they offered me a million dollar deal, and had the check ready. Said I wouldn’t be able to use my name. I was fighting my brother, because “Man, you shoulda took the million dollars!” I said “No, what you think I’m worth? If this white man offer me a million dollars I gotta be …
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Our Crisis of Racial Justice
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is my hero.
I tried to work it away, but that made me even sadder
When you are unapologetic, you are free. The truth will set you free.
Army of Me
If every threat is (but isn’t) A boss / If every challenge is (but isn’t) To diminish me, What if I realized that it wasn’t The tutorial fight at the beginning of a Final Fantasy game / But that I am my own Party army party / my own chain combo is here, And when …
Scammers in September, Arrested.
Bad Hair Day patch for purchase, by tittybats September was a really rough month for me, like a routine Dragon Ball Z beatdown. The kind from all directions where all your senses and defenses are affected. Even when I am not surprised by the lows to which people sink, it’s not as if I’m not affected …
Moodboard: Surround Sound on a Saturday Morning
Sketchbook art by Phillip Light Nara – Nara Leão (1964) Self-Titled – Jorge Ben (1969) Sons: “Gostava Tanto de Você” by Tim Maia (1973) “Gloriosa” by Erasmo Carlos & Os Tremendões (1970) “Assim falou Santo Tomaz de Aquino” by Jorge Ben (1975) “Soul Train” by Destiny/Princess Nokia (2015) “Soul Finger” by the Bar-Kays (1967)
A Sound Wednesday (21.09.2016): On Loop #1
A Sound Wednesday (21.09.2016): On Loop #1 from prismpower on 8tracks Radio.
Saudades
Is it hypocritical to miss a place that just months ago you were counting the days to leave? And I remember that I miss a place that has its beauty and small, quiet wonders interwoven with its stressors. I am in love with a place that is difficult to love, and I miss it. It’s …
19.09.2016 – Self Reminders
Maybe it was a mistake to think that I wouldn’t have to struggle while taking 15 hours. Maybe it was a mistake to underestimate what it feels like to go back into the States and resume school without taking into account reverse culture shock. Or the feelings of inadequacy and slight hopelessness that come with …
Messy Blogging In An Internet Wasteland, Revisited
By way of conversation – both online and offline – I have been revisiting my thoughts on the internet. In all honesty, I don’t believe I have departed much from my post a couple of months ago. Currently, I think what I said, about forging our own path past electronic, capitalist waste, is now even …