Southern Fork. They had copies of it. Two bloggers at Tully’s coffee house were raving about Terrence father’s memoir; and doing it so loud that he could hear it 20 feet away at the counter “You know, I just found this book at a swap meet” said the man on the left side.  “I’ve never had … Continue reading →

Ward/Kovalev 2: Quit Crying.

    In the organic action of a fight- when one boxer is in the middle of throwing a punch and another fighter is moving to a certain position different to where he was before fighter A threw the punch, and fighter A’s punch ends up low-the punch is not an intentional foul. In the … Continue reading →

Review: Respect, The Life Of Aretha Franklin.

  She drank some. She had deep agonies in regards to  severe childhood abuse. She was “moody”. She went through a horrible violent relationship. Afterwords, she liked to eat, smoke weed, and have lots of consensual sex. And did I forget to mention she was “moody”. She was not remembered too fondly by her two … Continue reading →

Joshua/ Klitschko: Requiem For A Cosmopolitan Heavyweight

  Sports fans will come to really appreciate Wladimir Klitschko. Cultural critics might come to appreciate him on several levels.  A big, hard punching, but flawed fighter who spent the first half of his pro career being averse to conflict, he hired Emanuel Stewart one of the greatest trainers in the history of the sport … Continue reading →

Dave Chappelle: American Bro.

https://blarceny.tumblr.com/…/key-and-peele-offensive-boss-… I thought of this skit when hearing Dave Chappelle protesteth too much about Key and Peele. What did i think about the specials? In the times when he wasn’t trying to be Americas creepy old hipster black friend from the frat, he could be hilarious. In the times he wasn’t being hilarious, he was … Continue reading →

How The Week After Biggie Got Shot Ended My Hip Hop Fandom.

The day I really began to develop a dislike for mainstream hip-hop was the Monday after Biggie was shot. I was a senior in high school and only had been in a stable home for about five years, after considerable drama and living in a nasty housing project. Feeling the sting of being made fun … Continue reading →

A Liberal Heretic’s Notes: On Yeats, Lost Friendships, And The Pain Of Being “Magic”

Writers Notebook: There is a poem of Yeats’ that makes me nauseous, but I totally understand if people love it.(taste is personal) “Song of the Wandering Aengus” is one of the better-structured poems of his early neo-romantic period; he had just found the effectiveness of sprung rhythm and slant rhyme, and it reads better than … Continue reading →