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Where Did All the Black People Come From?

Kanye West recently said that when it’s all said and done, history will remember him as the voice of this generation. He might be right. His popularity is unparalleled, and it is projected that his new album will sell…
Rehabbing Your Faith

Someone once castigated me for getting an apple cider drink from Starbucks. “I don’t understand why you people always need to drink Starbucks,” she said. “What’s wrong with Starbucks? And what do you mean by ‘us peopl…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Gangsta Brew

I don’t know what Starbucks looks for when they hire people. It appears that they’re criteria includes being an attractive woman between the ages of 18 and 25 who has quasi-aspirations of going to college, or being an a…
Ushering Generation X

I know who Usher is and this is mainly because I had a girlfriend in college who wouldn’t shut up about him. Although I had known of Usher since 1994, it was around 1997 when he was climbing the Billboard R&B charts…
Apartment Foto Friday #9

This is the sign I have on my front door. The words “Days ‘Til Christmas” are painted on, and the number “365” is written in chalk. I put this sign away last year after the holidays and this is what it looked like o…
Futile Attraction

It’s always bad news whenever I start liking a girl. As someone who is unattractive in every sense of the word, I only fall for women who are astronomically out of my league. And when I start to like one of these outra…
This is manilajo n e s

I was told by a friend of mine that I should be a "writer." I don’t know if this was an honest suggestion or not because she told me this in an Instant Message conversation, and I find it hard to gauge someone’s sinceri…
Clandestine Sunday Meetings and the Secret Gay Agenda

Football is a popular American sport in which grown men dress up in plastic suits and tight pants and run around trying to grab and wrestle each other to the ground and pat themselves on the butt after a completing a suc…
Apartment Foto Friday #8

The entryway is my favorite part of my apartment during Christmastime. The cabinets are decorated with lighted garland with candles, lanterns, and pine cones. I think it looks very serene and peaceful, and it makes m…
Understanding White People

There is a scene in Spider-Man 3 that pisses me off every time I see it. The scene shows Mary Jane (played by Kirsten Dunst) and Harry (played by that one dude in Pineapple Express) on a date, except they’re not really…
On-Air with Love and Compromise

Despite being a “talentless hack,” there probably isn’t anything wrong with Ryan Seacrest. At the very least, he’s the hardest working person in show business. His credits include: (1) hosting a daily morning drive rad…
Ingrid's Paradox

It is commonly thought among people that I know a lot about music. This assumption is probably highly inaccurate. For example, because I’m a pretentious bastard when it comes to music, I want to suspect that you don’t…
Apartment Foto Friday #7

Last week I put up the Christmas decorations in my apartment. Here is a picture of my tree which I bought at Target two years ago. It’s artificial with built-in lights. This tree has filled my apartment with Christmas…
My Two Cents in Change

After 200 years of having old white men serve as President, the American citizens have decided that the 44th President of the United States will not be and old white dude. He’s going to be an old half-white dude who lik…
The Proposition Between Love and H8

There is a proposition (Proposition 8) on the California ballot today that, if it passes, will amend the California Constitution to define marriage as a union strictly between a man and a woman. This will effectively st…
Christianity Never; Yesterday Forever

Barack Obama is probably not a socialistic Muslim terrorist. He’s probably not even a Muslim. From what I have seen, it has been well documented that he’s a devout Christian and he goes to Church every Sunday, regardle…

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