May 2013
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The Good Night...
…and the banquet room.
Esquire disappeared while everybody else was waiting in line at the club downtown. Different voices around me kept saying, “He went to the McDonald’s down the street!” So we walk there. I go upstairs and find him with his head resting on the table. He was drunk and didn’t even know I was standing next to him. Once the rest of the group got there, I...
April 2013
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“I see more hate and hidden aggression now than ever before.”
– Erykah Badu
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Boston...
…and the Asians.
I was trying to think of something funny to post but it’s not coming out because all of my thoughts and energy is focused on what happened Monday. Not the Boston bombing. When I saw that on tv and read about it on Twitter as it was happening, I honestly felt numb to it. Almost as if it didn’t matter because of what was going on Monday. I was in a drive-thru on my lunch break with...
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“It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a...”
– Roger Ebert
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White Women...
…and the barbers.
For my barbershop to be so small, it can be so loud. Yelling, arguing, and debating about current events and personal stuff. This one dude was talking about letting his girlfriend move in with him and everybody pretty much told him that he might as well marry her ass because it’s such a strong commitment. The short barber started going off about how he’s been...
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“I never liked dealing with money. It comes between real shit. Friendship,...”
– Nas
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March 2013
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Stupid Little Dances...
…and eye contact.
You ever met somebody or ran into them by mistake and when you locked eyes with them, for the life of you, you couldn’t look away? And the best part was the person was staring at couldn’t look away either? Not from a distance, I’m talking about up close. This has happened to me three times from what I can remember. The first was at this little concert my...
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“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous...”
– Charles Bukowski
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High Definition...
…and Girls.
I’m watching television for the first time in true HD. During basketball games, I can hear the players yelling out plays and directing each other on defense. I can see every pore on anybody’s face. But most importantly, I have HBO for the first time in like 4 or 5 years. Scrolling through the channels, I came across this show called Girls. It’s on right now as...
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“We are a part of the generation who honestly thinks we can change the world by...”
– Unknown
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Paul...
…and Sam.
My father had this friend named Paul. He was this old white dude with gray hair. He was going bald but he still kept it in a ponytail and wore glasses. He owned this shop that specialized in making doors and windows with frames and glass that he crafted by hand. The shop wasn’t too big. Popeyes was right next door and that was the only real reason why I let him drag me to...
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“People like to act like we should go back to “the good ol’ days” before...”
– Cliff Bleszinski
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February 2013
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Tiny Chicken Wings...
…and Brazil.
I tweeted about my coworker coming back from Brazil this week. He was there for 8 days and today he had the deadest look in his eyes. He turned his head towards me and said “R.J. I’m not even here right now, I’m still in Brazil.” He talked about how the statue of Jesus really does look over the city. But the thing that caught my ear was about this girl...
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“Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to...”
– David Byrne
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McDonald's...
…and airports.
We got to the shooting range and they had this line outside the booth, which was right next to the front door. You had to pick up to 5 guns you wanted to shoot and your target sheets. A white man holding a hostage, a killer clown, zombies, etc. Honestly, if you play video games, you would recognize half of the guns they had so it was just a matter of which one you wanted to...
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EVE.
esqxr:
Peace. For any one that’s listened to my music and remembers my older project “Oliver” this is the sequel. Inspired by Temptation
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01. Autumn Serenade 02. Deja Vu 03. Metro 04. She Wrote, Murder 05. La Luna 06. I.H.A.D. 07. Baccarat 08. Azul (&JulietIsYou) 09. Eve 10. Jane 11. Internal Affairs 12. Black Saint and The Sinner Lady 13. Anubis
*all instrumentals...
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“He was the quiet one. He wouldn’t ever say he was coming by. He would just pop...”
– Kelly Clancy
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Kmart...
…and neck rubs.
I was stressed to the point this morning that I just stared at my computer screen at all of the emails that wouldn’t stop coming in my inbox. My earbud was in my left ear playing this basketball podcast but I really wasn’t listening. I wanted to go home. Or rest my head in a woman’s lap as she rubbed the back of my neck. That’s what I need. This was...
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“Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place...”
– Gil Scott-Heron
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Abortions...
…and disablities.
The older I get, the more concerned I am about my money. Just having enough of it to support by myself. But there’s a clear difference between me and most of the people my age that’s friends with me on Facebook. Damn near all of them are married, are in a long term relationship, and/or have kids. So the way they operate is a little different. When I’m...
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“When you’re young, you’re still “becoming”, now at my...”
– David Bowie
January 2013
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Mansions...
…and rodents.
When I was growing up, I used to ask questions about white people to my father. I didn’t have any white friends until high school and some of the stuff I would see on tv I never understood. I didn’t understand why they all had these huge houses with picket fences and we had this flimsy gate that crackheads used to hop over all the time so they could break in our...
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“Please appreciate all that you have. Because your enemy wants it really bad.”
– Ted Bawno
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Fake Boobs...
…and Dwight Howard.
We walked in and within three seconds there was a 30 year old stripper in my face chewing gum. When I sat down she sat on my lap and asked me if I liked her boobs (I did). Eventually she stood up and started shaking her ass in my face but I told her we can’t get that intimate because I don’t know her like that. She grabbed my hand and we walked towards the...
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“You can tell when people are making shit for you to like. And I hate that.”
– Danny Brown
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New Stars...
…and New Years.
There’s this game called Super Double Dragon that I’ve been looking for since 1992. I only played through it once after I rented it from Blockbuster, even though I wasn’t old enough, and I never played it again. I loved it. But after that weekend I rented it, it was like the game disappeared off of the planet. I found an old school video game store when I...