DC = the Sixth Borough…. Well it's better than Staten Island, so it can actually be the Fifth.

And the walking everywhere just eats up your shoes. I've had salt consume a pair of leather chukkas I owned and have replaced the soles and heels on multiple pairs of shoes many times.

I think the cold has more to do with the fact you walk everywhere here, so except maybe Chicago (where I've only been to at the tail end of the winter, aka June), we're spending the most time outside.

I'm pretty sure NY black women invented Thai Food for when they watch Scandal.

Yeah, you just need to drink in the really dirty places in the East Village and Brooklyn (and c'mon drinking in dirty places seems essential to being an alcoholic). There's a bunch of places where you can get a (can of) beer and a shot of well liquor for $5.

The idea of having their whiteness noticed by non-white people seems to make too many white people profoundly uncomfortable and there's nothing more dangerous to the fate of humanity than a white person feeling racially ill-at-ease.

I feel you on this man, I was working at a law firm in NY that I hated, and I was considering taking a legal position in tech finance out in the Bay last summer. I ended up backing out of it (1. because I'm from the NY area, 2. cause of the lack of diversity and 3. I learned my lesson about taking the first good job…

"And if I got a brown nose for some gold then I'd rather be a bum than a motherfuckin' baller" -Kendrick Lamar giving VSB his pov.

Outside of prison, he seems like the most uncomfortable black man in America.

Topics will include:
-Can white people use the N-word?
-Mac N Cheese: Black Thanksgiving Tradition for your Table
-Obama: What Black People Really Think
-Megyn Kelly: Hit it or Nah?

When I listened to this, I definitely picked up a lot of the same musical vibe I'd get from the Coup (especially the "Steal This Album" era). The use of funk felt a lot more musical than it would in your classic Dr. Dre album. I wonder if he was a fan of the Coup when he was coming up?

"Going ethnic" is what I call it when I listen to Arcade Fire while sipping a pumpkin spice latte.

I had terrible handwriting as a kid (like it was so bad I couldn't read it), so they assumed "little black kid must be messed up, let's put him in remedial math." I was in accelerated math two years later when they realized I just had crap handwriting.

I feel like taking a job in Japan, even if it sounds like your dream job, without getting the opportunity to meet your potential co-workers first (especially considering it's your first real job) is a profoundly bad idea. Maybe I'm too risk averse in my late 20s, but I don't feel like there was really a choice there.

"Why do I keep walking into these situations with her?"

I feel like a lot of people complain about a lack of ethnic diversity on this show, but I think the show is intentionally playing with that narrative. Patrick get's criticized for his app feeding into stereotypes, he gets told he looks too similar to Kevin and when he finally moves in with Kevin it's with a bunch of…

My understanding is it was largely a backlash against the view that gay men were promiscuous and were largely associated with the AIDS crisis in the 80s. The belief was, if you presented gay people as wanting to be married and monogamous, this would be viewed as less threatening and more "normalizing" to straight…

As a straight black man from the North East, I can definitely say I've felt where your ex is coming from. I think it's a misconception that people who live "alternative lifestyles" (how my grandmother would describe how gay family members live) have it easier because they're not under the same "obligations" (because…

Two things about the excellent zoo scene: (1) Megan is pissed that Pat gets "privilege" because he's gay. While she's saying this her mother gets to cash in on her "adorable old white lady" privilege (that's a thing right?) when one of the zoo staff sees she's clearly breaking the rules. (2) Megan also called out a…

"Power" had to be a huge influence on "Empire" but considering how bad the acting in Power is (Naturi Naughton should have stuck to singing) I can't really be mad at Empire.