I've already recommend my man Brendan's blog. But this morning I got some insight into how good it actually is. The thing is completely apolitical and filled with just weird-ass entries on Dehorning Paste and firefighters who turn to arson. I was trying to find something to excerpt, when I simply gave up--every entry defied synopsis. You guys should just go see it to believe it.
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Holy crap, does he really know about this stuff pre-post, or is he doing research? Either way, he's apparently knows about 23 times as much stuff as me.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
The caps on "Dehorning Paste" made me think it was going to be another post about an NFL player, the talented Mr. Paste. Nope.
It is pretty awesome. I've been commenting a lot because I enjoy that kind of esoterica.
Good blog indeed...he's got great taste in music too!
"there's no end to your list of men...
and everybody knows how u love to bend..."
Microkhan is brain food.
Holy crap, does he really know about this stuff pre-post, or is he doing research? Either way, he's apparently knows about 23 times as much stuff as me.
Thanks for referring him.
I get the impression that it's some of both.