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  • Yeah, I Think I Hate Halloween

    On the “Things I Happen To Hate” spectrum—which, unfortunately, seems to be lengthening as I age—Halloween is nowhere near the pinnacle. In fact, it is a basement/replacement-level hate, down there with beets and “black Republican male haircuts”—acceptably hateable things that aren’t worth the bandwidth necessary for an active antipathy. My Halloween hate exists at the…

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  • Kanye West's Jesus Is King, (Not) Reviewed

    Kanye West's Jesus Is King, (Not) Reviewed

    Ha! Got you, didn’t I? You clicked on this—hastily, lustily, thirsty as a motherfucker—to read a review of Kanye West’s Jesus Is King. But there will be no review here today, or tomorrow, or whichever day comes after tomorrow cause I’m really very sleep-deprived right now and I’m not quite sure what day it is.…

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  • If Everything Is a Lynching, Nothing Is a Lynching

    I’m reminded, today, a day after Donald Trump called his impeachment inquiry a lynching—and an hour after reading that good ole’ Uncle Joe Biden once made the same analogy about Bill Clinton’s impeachment—of last week’s round of “So, Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Nigger But Wants to Say Nigga?” Specifically, my thoughts are centered…

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  • Zion Williamson Is Basketball Bo Jackson

    You can find some of the very worst people in the world on Twitter, in barbershops, at bars, and anywhere else the upcoming NBA season is being discussed. If you need help distinguishing these repugnant motherfuckers from the rest, just listen in on the conversation, wait until Zion Williamson is brought up, and witness their…

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  • I Just Thought of the Perfect Comeback to Something Said About Me 30 Years Ago, and I Couldn't Be Happier

    I am being generous (to myself) when thinking that half the people reading this will have at least one of the following responses to this title: 1. Wait, what? 2. Why do you even still know what was said to you 30 years ago? 3. Or care enough to still think about a comeback that,…

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  • The Emperor Has No Jokes: How Come None of Y'all Told Me That Joker Was So Damn Boring?

    Mostly, Joker was what I expected it to be. I’d read and heard enough about it in the past several weeks that I knew what to anticipate. I knew it’d be a goulash of loud and important-sounding themes— “mental health!” “economic anxiety!” “capitalism!”—without actually saying much about any of them. Ellipses on a neon billboard.…

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  • There Are No Good Apples

    It was somewhat disconcerting for my cousin, a cop in Washington, D.C., to attend my book event at Politics and Prose in March. Not really for me, since I knew he was coming. But when he walked in towards the end of my talk—in full vested, booted and armed cop gear—the atmosphere shifted, and I…

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  • Black Man With (Possible? Probable?) Hair Plugs Complains That Black People Care Too Much About Our Hair

    Perhaps the most telling aspect of thrift shop fedora repurposed as a strip club daytime shift buffet tray with sentience Jason Whitlock’s continued descent into Take Perdition is that there’s no variance with him. For someone who frequently decries SJW groupthink, he’s as predictable as a burp after a sip of soda. If a black…

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  • Uber Driver, The Equalizer, a Home Depot Manager and More Things Joe Biden Should Be Instead of President

    Joe Biden has settled into the BarcaLounger and Burn Notice phase of his life. Which is fine! My dad is there too, and in a slightly less-imperfect world, they’d be going on adventures to the mall and linen-soaked jazz cruises together. Instead, Joe Biden is running for president of the United States. And, well, here’s…

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  • I'm Sorry Y'all, But I Just Can't Find a Shit to Give About Donald Trump's Impeachment

    So before I write this thing, I have to admit that, right now, I’m about to do a version of a thing that deeply annoys me. Someone will write a thing. (Let’s say about libertarian marsupials.) And the people who care deeply about libertarian marsupials will respond to that thing. Maybe they’ll leave comments on…

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Damon Young is a founder of VSB, and the author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker (Ecco/HarperCollins), which won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor


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