I’m a lover, I’m a fighter I’m a saint, I’m a sinner I’m a loser, I’m a winner But I’m just a beginner I’m a chief and indian … buddhist, egyptian I’m the future, I’m the power, I’m the help, I’m the problem, I’m the father, I’m a husband, I’m a son I’m a … lover, I’m [...]
I promise to always love you, and our love will sustain us, Through Melody, and through Disharmony. In Cleanliness, and in Funkiness. In Brokeness, and in Wealth. Through Fitness, and through Fatness. Through Screaming, and through Silence. Through Weaves, and Receding hairlines. Through Veganism, and through meat eating. In Cities, and on Farms. In Revolution, [...]
After sleeping in the parking lot of the Hotel Oloffson the night before, we headed to David’s mother’s (Mama Tita) house. Her home, which was mostly destroyed, will serve as our home base. These words destroyed, demolished, leveled … they have new meanings for me after seeing things in Port-au-prince and even more so in [...]
Fortune smiles upon us, though Fate lays a challenging path. Last night all seven us of, David, Charles, Jeremiah, Johnny, Jesus, Marly, and myself sat down all together for the first time and talked. We needed that talk as a group of strangers meeting for the first time to engage in politically and socially tricky [...]
After an early flight out of JFK, Marly, Jesus, and I arrived safely in Santo Domingo without any friction or major problems (other than JetBlue trying to ruin me by taking an extra $500 by mistake and refusing to fix their mistake in a timely fashion … don’t get me started. More on that later). [...]
My partner Marly and I have reached out to our close friends and family asking for help. We’v both reached the point where the thing to do that makes the most sense is to get to Haiti to help folks there in whatever ways are possible; we’ve asked people to help us get there and [...]
So … I’m a brother. Aaaaaaaand I snowboard. There might be one or two other things that I do that are kind of rare within brotherhood, but snowboarding definitely ranks highly up in that mix. It’s all very strange. Like most brown skinned folks I know, I hate the cold. I mean, I hate the [...]
The past few times I’ve handed out businesscards (which tend to be custom made, spray mount unique treats!) I’ve noticed people noticing my card carrier, which is a repurposed, plastic cassette case. You need one too. Here’s the quick, low-fi tutorial on how to rock it.
They say it can say a thousand words. But really, there’s probably no limit to what any one picture can say. The picture above, for example, says many things to me. It’s a photo of a part of my working space – right in front of one of the monitors. That monitor and a 60w [...]
More than a year ago, in an attempt to wrangle in all the paper in my life along with the great ideas I think I have constantly marauding around in my mind, and to prepare myself for self-employment, I got into a strong productivity kick. There are many systems to do so, the one I [...]