Did you know that cassette tapes came out before 8-track tapes? I feel like that’s what’s happening with racism, homophobia, and sexism today.
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Did you know that cassette tapes came out before 8-track tapes? I feel like that’s what’s happening with racism, homophobia, and sexism today.

There are vultures picking at the ripe flesh of society’s open wounds. The misery profiteers glide in with carefully formed statements to get close enough to taste the lucrative honesty of the human condition. Satans in silver suits, tearing at the raw sinew, exemplifying the problem by beautifully harmonizing with the meaningful words of the [...]

This is how we justify our atrocities. This is how we shape our culture. This is how we got here. This is why we are responsible for these desperate times. This is why we are sad, angry, and lost.

These are random thoughts from the past couple of weeks. Some of these I’ve shared on social media, and a few, I haven’t. Maybe there is something here that will connect with some of you which is one of life’s true means of satisfaction. There is no “They.”There is no “Them.”There is only us, and [...]

I’m stoked to announce a new project that I am currently working on with the very talented Alfred Donovan Stewart. We are collaborating on a children’s book about making s’mores, because, who doesn’t like s’mores? If you don’t, you’re killin’ me, Smalls. Anyway, I came up with the concept while eating S’mores Cereal (which if [...]