Dear Friends, For the last two days, I’ve been reading back issues of National Geographic. There are about fifty National Geographics lying around the breakroom at my school, and I’ve resisted them until this week. My relationship with each and every one of the National Geographic magazines has been tumultous; I’m ambivalent towards the magazine. The photos repulse me; if I […]
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Archive | November, 2011
Dear Youtube, you’re an afternoon delight…
November 25, 2011 
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I like what you’re doing to me. Keep on doing what you’re doing to me. Don’t you stop it, don’t you stop… don’t stop! Start it. Your love, you’re so good, good love deserves an encore. Gimme your love, give me that love. Sweetest I remember. You made me love you. Engulfed by the power of love, I […]
Read more1) Thank You (my Thanksgiving list in no particular order)
November 24, 2011 6 Comments
A few moments ago, I had a conversation with my housemate R about Thanksgiving. (I must mention that he was standing in his blue towel, and that’s the only way I’ve seen him lately. I’m sure he wears clothes at some point in the day, but when I catch him at home, he’s never in anything but […]
Read moreLove Sponge Cake and Solidarity Cookies
November 23, 2011 2 Comments
Everybody wants a happy end. – Solidarity (Black Uhuru) Dear Friends, I haven’t made a cake since 1989. I used to love baking from scratch: cracking a few eggs, mixing sugar and butter, throwing in a dash of vanilla, adding milk, a touch of nutmeg or cinnamon, and flour. Everyday I’d come home from school […]
Read more“It’s On Fire Tonight… Haha Ah Yea!”
November 21, 2011 10 Comments
Can I get some kick please? – DJ Flex (The Waterdance) Dear Friends, Saturday was a rainy, dreary day, which was absolutely perfect, because I had to work. The only thing more ideal than going to work would’ve been staying in bed all day with a box of anchovy topped pizza, a can of Coke, and […]
Read moreLetter from Tokyo: “Forget About the Worries On Your Mind, You Can Leave Them All Behind”
November 20, 2011 10 Comments
Dear Friends, The last few days have been filled with the essentials: good food, better company and fun. Let’s take a look at the days in review: Thursday: It started as a quiet day with me sitting around twiddling my thumbs. Then it hit me, “I have the house to myself!” I took advantage of my solitude and started youtubing like […]
Read more“You Live the Life You Love, You Love the Life You Live, Everything You Have in Mind Jah Will Give!”
November 17, 2011 10 Comments
Happiness is life-supporting and life-sustaining and therefore generates increase.– Deepak Chopra (“The Law of Giving,” The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success). Dear Friends, In guru Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, he concisely summarizes The Law of Giving: “If you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; […]
Read moreA Letter to Carolyn M. Rodgers
November 16, 2011 0 Comments
A few years ago in the “winter of my discontent,” my friend Darius sent my soul sustenance with an email simply titled “Hey.” In Darius’s message, he included Carolyn M. Rodgers’s poem “In the Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt.” Since then, the poem has been a go-to poem for me… friends, there are answers there; […]
Read moreLetter from Tokyo: I Don’t Want To, But “If I Should Die Tonight”
November 15, 2011 0 Comments
Dear Friends, You haven’t heard from me for the last two days, because I’ve had a killer sore throat. If I can hardly speak, how can I write? It still hurts a little, so this post will be short, scratchy, and tender. I must tell you that the sore throat has been a really great […]
Read more“Living Off the Wall”
November 14, 2011 0 Comments
We’re the party people night and day, livin’ crazy that’s the only way- Michael Jackson (Off the Wall). I grew up in a quiet house. My house was not quiet in volume, because as I’ve mentioned before, my brother M and I played our stereos on high (to be factual, he had a stereo and I had […]
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