Dec 1Kanye West is a Nazi“I like Hitler,” said Kanye West to Alex Jones. I could never have imagined writing that sentence even 2 years ago, yet here we are. One of the most celebrated musical artists of the last 20 years, now a vile shadow of his former self: a public Nazi apologist, and…Kanye West5 min readKanye West5 min read
Oct 29On “Voices” by Antonio Porchia, Part 3From Antonio: “To wound the heart is to create it.” We often only notice our own hearts when they hurt. When love passes on, stinging in its wake, we feel our hearts yearn. It is once damage is done, that we can find what has been wounded. …Love2 min readLove2 min read
Aug 18On “Voices” by Antonio Porchia, Part 2“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence” — Antonio Porchia The blood hurdling around your arteries, dashing back from your limbs, and surging into your skull would be deafening if you could hear it. It is in you, moving, coursing at…Literature3 min readLiterature3 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Aug 13The Disappearance of AnimalsShe appeared, there on our brick windowsill, illuminated blue by the light of our TV, outside our window and mewling desperately. A small gray kitten. I ran to the window and begged to let her in, I would have been 6 or 7. We did take her in. The first…Animals10 min readAnimals10 min read
Jun 19On “Voices” by Antonio Porchia, Part 1This may be a series. I’m not sure what it will look like precisely. What I want to do is expand on my thoughts, my reactions really, to different aphorisms and stray musings from Antonio Porchia’s “Voices.” We don’t actually know that much about the man. He was born in…Memory3 min readMemory3 min read
May 21Kendrick Lamar is No One’s SaviorKendrick Lamar is a man. He is a father. He is a poet. He is not your savior. Nor is he anyone else’s. He quite literally apologizes for not meeting that superhuman expectation of him on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his fifth studio album. He felt the need…Kendrick Lamar7 min readKendrick Lamar7 min read
May 11To Every Mother I KnowYou a carry a world and with it you uphold our world. For many of us, you taught us our first lessons in love. How to receive it, how to give it. How love extends through hands we hold ourselves up by, from the arms that carry us, from the…Mothers Day2 min readMothers Day2 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Apr 6Marijuana Has Always Been A Gateway DrugAnd it shouldn’t be. Marijuana is absolutely a gateway to other drugs. And that is only because it is illegal. Anyone I’ve ever met who uses or has used drugs started out with smoking weed. This includes people I’ve known who were addicted to serious drugs like heroin. Their exposure…Marijuana Legalization4 min readMarijuana Legalization4 min read
Mar 28Cold War Kids, “We Used to Vacation” and the Sound of DesperationCan a song sound like denial? Can it sound like a man knowing and not wanting to know? Can it sound like the clanging, distracted, hopeful, screaming and pleading of desperation? Can a song be the embittered, tearful confession made quavering with a coffee in Styrofoam in one hand and…Music4 min readMusic4 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Mar 11When Did Racism End?I once met a Black man whose great grandmother was born a slave. In the year 2009, I shook hands with a man who was held and partially raised by a formerly enslaved person. Never has history felt more present, more near to me. We shook hands in South Carolina…Racism10 min readRacism10 min read
