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But Daddy, I'm a GROWN-UP!

The Winter holiday season is upon us, the end of yet another year of….whatever it was you did this year.  You’re probably headlong into Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Ramadan shopping with last Thursday’s poultry but a distant memory.  But I’m prone to reflection and I’d like to shed a little light on the meaning of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving [...]

Home is where…?

Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays, or so the song says.  But where is home, exactly?

I live with my Aunt E, in what I consider her home. She’s lived in this apartment for about 20 years, in this town for over 40 years, and raised 2 children here.  Her church is here, as [...]

Why Black folks don't like Twilight

The internet is all agog over vampires with the release of New Moon, the second movie release in Stephenie Meyer’s popular Twilight book series.  The film has broken box office records.  New Moon devotees have taken over social networking sites, declaring their allegiance for “Team Edward” or “Team Jacob,” the two males vying for the affections [...]

Social media: making your movies more like Pooky's since 2009

We live in an electronic age, where information may even be irrelevant if it’s not part of the social network:  to wit, blogs.  Why read a newspaper or a magazine when you can surf the internet for the latest pop culture ramblings from someone you don’t know from a can of paint?*  Today, a new collaboration [...]