Nearly a year after my last MP3 Mix playlist/mix CD/stubborn attempt at maintaining normalcy in chaos, I decided that this collection of 22 songs, totaling 79 minutes, would be pushed crying and screaming into the world. … Read More MP3 Mix 17 – They’re Only 17! (Not in THAT Way!)
A fun thing about dating rejection is trying to square that away with whatever good things they say about you (e.g., “you’re a good guy” or “I’m sure whoever ends up with you is lucky”) and not take it personally that they don’t want anything to do with you. I’m sensitive to this type of… Read More Dating Rejection (or: A Surface-Level, Navel-Gazing Pout Session)
Season 11 of “Married At First Sight” includes a couple where the (Black) man, Miles, is admittedly easy with expressing his emotions, and the woman (Karen — uh-oh!) of the couple is uncomfortable with being with a man who is at ease with expressing himself — which she learned through his Instagram videos. Perhaps his… Read More A Brief Rant About Black Masculinity And Reality Dating TV
I recently got a wordy job rejection email that was confused in its mission to indeed reject me from the job. Starting with a big block of text that noted that the job ad I had applied to would be taken offline for the weekend and reposted early the next week, it then proceeded to state that it would offer advice on how to tailor my resume for the position and DOING so within a GIANT block of paragraphed text.… Read More A Quick* Word on Unsolicited Advice
A little over a year after the last in the mainline MP3 Mix series, I decided that this grouping 22 songs, totaling 78 minutes, would be the mix. The playlist started taking form around October — trying to stay true to my promise to not dawdle on these things — after some life stuff [breakup, work stress, travel, start of a new relationship (?), more work stress, degradation of relationship (?)]. And then I dawdled some more while more life stuff (breakup, more work stress, dating stress, holidays, dating stress, became an uncle, dating break!) happened. And then I decided to poop into the pot I was sitting on.… Read More MP3 Mix 16 – Sweet 16 (Not in THAT Way!)
It had been nine years since I set foot inside of a Spencer’s. Thoughts of tacky, misogynistic t-shirts and drinkware haunting my sleep. Casual racism in wearable form driving me to burn again. I needed to find the antitheses of gross consumerism. I found it in the Bay Area of Northern California. Or so I thought.… Read More Genial Black Man Goes to Spencer’s Gifts 5: 5pencer’s (NSFW)
Prequels (television, movies, video games, books, nepo babies’ parents) are nothing new. And with properties like Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and 1883 and 1923 (TV ancestors to cultural juggernaut Yellowstone) on the horizon or delighting your conservative parents, it’s only natural to wonder what prequels will come next. After all, Hollywood is creatively and morally empty, so it’s only a matter of time!… Read More What Prequel Will Come Next?
Diary of a Genial Black Man 