CHIPPED: Writing from a Skateboarder’s LensMy second book CHIPPED has been out for a few months now. Some updates:Nov 13, 2024Nov 13, 2024
Review: “The First and Last Picture Show” by Joey SinkoIt’s comforting knowing there are kids in suburbia still dying their hair jet black and finding freedom through a driver’s license and the…Jan 6, 2020Jan 6, 2020
Quartersnacks Best of 2010s Tribute: Quasi “Mother” & Brandon Westgate “MADE: Chapter 1”Note: This post is inspired by Quarternsacks Best of the 2010s reader survey. I decided to write reviews for some of my picks that made…Dec 3, 2019Dec 3, 2019
How Samuel L. Jackson Became Mister Señor Love Daddy in Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing”A Greek chorus in Brooklyn. Not your Uncle but your Uncle’s sometimes degenerate friend. A referee. A trivia game answer sheet with a…Jun 19, 2017Jun 19, 2017
Still Fits #1: Free Mumia (1999)Still Fits is a series documenting the stories behind my old concert t-shirts.Feb 23, 2016Feb 23, 2016
Cuba in Fragments: 2001A step-down joint outside of Havana. Barely lit small tables with bars in the back. Waiters carousing loudly knifing paths through the…Oct 5, 2015Oct 5, 2015
“Sunrise Shift”My last day of work and they’re still asleep in their cars. Everything sits right beside them: canteens turned makeshift pillows lodged…Jul 15, 2015Jul 15, 2015
’93 (Lex Slams Yoko)a scripted bodyslam of nationalist intention circa 1993 {POEM}Apr 5, 2015Apr 5, 2015
The Silencing of a Radio LegendArt Laboe’s Los Angeles legacy threatened by new IHeartRadio leadership.Mar 13, 2015Mar 13, 2015