On Fighting The Good Fight
These past couple of months, it seems I can't go anywhere without being bombarded by a series of harsh, dissenting opinions, each heavily critiquing the general purpose and overall integrity of the self-publishing Internet. The general argument is that with the advent of social medias, we as human beings can't help but plaster the web with an overabundance of our narcissism. Blogger. You Tube. Facebook. Twitter. It's all just a masturbatory tribute to our egos, an unbroken exercise in self-aggrandizing futility. For the most part, these laments come from the technologically incompetent, those old stable horses that can't un

Oh. My. Goodness.
Dear Pop Culture Gods,Honestly. Does it get any more acute than this?I really don't think so.

Race & Racism in The D: Part 4 - Who I Am Via What I'm Not
We live in a strange and wondrously balanced world, filled with as much beauty and love as there is forced anger and unadulterated hatred.A few days ago, I started a mini-blog series about Race & Racism. To Read my prior entries on the subject, please go here Race shall forever confuse me. I grew up the owner of two purebred Indian parents, both born and raised in India before immigrating to America in the early 1960's. For eighteen years, I'd the fullness of living in Livonia, Michigan, the whitest of all white suburban towns (96% of its 100,000+ popul

Race & Racism In the D: Part 3 - The Conversation
We live in a strange and wondrously balanced world, filled with as much beauty and love as there is forced anger and unadulterated hatred.A few days ago, I started a mini-blog series about Race & Racism. Part 1 dealt with a Detroit blogger, Push Nevhada and his historically-based experiences writing about the Black Bottom, or the Eastside of Detroit. (To read it, go here.) Part 2 dealt with my Black Bottom experiences (to read that go here). Par

Race & Racism In The D: Part 2 - My Two Years In The Black Bottom.
We live in a strange and wondrously balanced world, filled with as much beauty and love as there is forced anger and unadulterated hatred.Yesterday I started a mini-blog series about Race & Racism. Part 1 dealt with a Detroit blogger, Push Nehvada and his historically-based experiences writing about the Black Bottom, or the Eastside of Detroit. (To read it, go here.) Part 2 deals with my Black Bottom experiences.In the winter of 2007, this blog of mine caught on fire. At the time, The Years Keep Passing Me By was being hosted