Look left!

Look left!

There’s a little unknown quote that sums up producing, engineering and co-hosting my latest venture, Random Tangents. “When nothing goes right, go left.” Note: I hate a quote drop as much as you, but it fits. Deal with it. Repost it on Facebook. You...
The “R” word

The “R” word

It’s a difficult word to type, let alone the difficulty in saying it or hearing it out loud. Nigger. And while rappers with any self-respect use it instead of pro-nouns, verbs, or qualifiers; I would argue the word should no longer have the same place in the...
Let them eat cake!

Let them eat cake!

Her palms were sweaty, brows furrowed in a quizzical look as she asked me anxiously, “Wait, are you deathly allergic? The bartender says he can’t 100% guarantee the cocktails are gluten free. Even the tequila ones.” “How do you mean?” I...
Get shootin’ mad

Get shootin’ mad

I think it’s tough to be a good kid. In a Facebook-statusing…Twitter updating…pubescent gossiping world it’s hard to keep some semblance of a moral center let alone a secure sense of self. This, all while you’re trying to find what that...

Tapping Out

With a slow turn of the knob, you open the door of whatever sucker in your family decided to open their house to drunken relatives, gravy stains, and a pile of dishes that will take Christmas to clean up. The smell of roasting meat and piles of desserts assault your...

Dying for the story

Source: Eros Hoagland/HBO (NY Times) It was an awkward silence; only broken by a cough in the back of the room. A week after the 9/11 attacks and my freshman journalist class had settled into a routine of homework and facetious inquiry; the result of the boredom and...