Infected Worldmind
Who am I?
I'm general counsel for a medium-sized tax-exempt organization that helps court-involved and other at-risk populations clear barriers to success in the community.
I'm also a development/fundraising professional and provide legal advice and guidance to start-up entertainment firms.
I'm a contributor to Funnybook Babylon and my ever-expanding bookshelf is here. I infrequently write about food and take pictures.
I'm also the happiest newlywed in the world.
That's everything.
Life Hasn’t Been Very Kind To Me Lately…
Thoughts on Kendrick Lamar, Killer Mike, Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton, trauma and freedom.
The official video for Reagan, off Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music (still best hip-hop album of ‘12).
“[T]hanks to Reaganomics, prisons turned to profits. Cause free labor is the cornerstone of US economics.”
Random thought: Wouldn’t Company Flow’s Patriotism be a great B-Side to this track?
“I have four children, and I was a terror. My daughters made me believe in a thing called karma. I’ll never forget saying to my older daughter, ‘Why do you want to go to a Halloween party as Marilyn Monroe? You couldn’t think of another woman to be?’
“I gave her the litany of why you should want to be Zora Neale Hurston and Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. I gave it to her, and she turned and looked at me and she said, ‘But Dad, Pony Boy is Freddy Krueger. He’s Freddy Krueger. You didn’t tell him to be Malcolm or Martin or Frederick.’ And I just looked at her and said, ‘I like the wig.’
“And she went as Marilyn, and what I had to understand from that experience was for her as a young woman, one of her first definitions of beauty are going to be these superstars. This woman has been a definition of beauty for 50 years, and there’s nothing I can do to combat that. All I can do is embrace that and tell my daughter, ‘You’re the most beautiful chocolate Marilyn I’ve ever seen in my life.’ That allowed us to get closer because she could see that her dad didn’t have expectations that were beyond her and not for her brothers.”
Killer Mike - “Big Beast” (Official Video, ft. Bun B, T.I., Trouble, & El-P) (by noisey)
watch this video and put some south in your mouth
Great video. Love the Reagan reference. From R.A.P. Music, Killa Mike’s collabo album with the infamous El-P. Hip-hop album of the half-year. On a slightly related note, I’d kill to get this version of T.I. back. There was a moment when he was one of the best mc’s in the game, good to see he still has it.
(via iamdavidbrothers)
