Today I pressed the button on my Blizzard hardware token and nothing happened. For an hour I sat there mashing the button before I finally came to the realization that like everything else in old World of Warcraft, it’s gone. The tokens were made by Vasco and I had gotten mine back in 2009 when …read more.

My cat Emet does this oggling thing from across the room when he’s ready to eat. He just sits across the room … and stares at me. When I sense him doing it and I look over, it’s pretty unnerving.

Today’s weather was a disappointing drop to the 40s after a warm week. The highlight was a visit to a Mexican restaurant where a ground beef burrito was enjoyed, though only an image of the empty plate remains to document the meal.

I attended Zoe Keating’s concert at Le Poisson Rouge, stood in line to scan my e-ticket, and enjoyed a sandwich and tequila while seated mid-venue. Keating played a mix of old and new songs, joking with the audience. Post-show, I recognized and conversed with journalist Amy Goodman, discussing her work and my discovery of Democracy Now!. It was a memorable evening meeting both Keating and Goodman.

At the end of January, I was laid off and I ain’t even mad.

I was only in the store 10 minutes. Came back out and the building next door had a tower of black smoke raging out the roof. FDNY arrived in less than 5 minutes. I swear today was wild. Never a dull moment in this city.

A few days ago, a shooting broke out on the A train because two guys and a woman drank testosterone for breakfast and chose violence putting the lives of everyone in danger. And just now, I’m on the N train listening to my music when I suddenly see a bunch of people getting off and …read more.

Sleepy Emet

The Black psychiatrist who said that white people enslaved themselves through colonization Frantz Fanon, born in 1925 in Martinique, was a towering figure in post-colonial studies, whose work has profoundly influenced anti-colonial liberation movements worldwide. His experiences as a member of the Free French Army and as a psychiatry student in France, where he wrote …read more.

A Critical Response Essay of W.E.B. DuBois’ “The Souls of Black Folks” In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois, a prominent civil rights activist, published his essay, “TheSouls of Black Folk” where he analyzes his life as a Black man in the United States. In theessay, he calls out the hypocrisy of white Americans because it had been …read more.