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The Worst People To Walk In On You Having Sex, Ranked
Last week, I had a conversation with someone about whether it would be worse for your parents or your children to catch you having sex. She thought the answer (parents) was obvious. I agreed, but thought it depended largely on age-related variables. Your parents walking in on you when you’re grown is not the same…
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Movies That Make My Eyes Sweat Even Though I'm Super Hardbody Real and Stuff.
I’m pretty much the hardest, realest dude I know. I don’t always make my bed in the morning. I almost never pay my mortgage on the first of the month; sure, I pay it before its late but never when they ask me. I’m that real. Sometimes I even get three donuts at a time…
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How To Get Over Writer’s Block When The Rainbow Isn't Enuf
Hi. I’m Panama Jackson. I’m a writer. As a writer, one of my least favorite things on this planet is comic sans. Coming in at close second is writer’s block. If you are a writer, there’s a better than 100,000,000 percent chance that at some point you’ve experienced a case of writer’s block. What is…
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Fresh Prince Characters Other Than Will, Ranked, From Least To Most Important
7. Little Nicky Like The Godfather III, my early aughts affinity for Von Dutch, and the entire state of Delaware, it’s better for everyone to just act as if Little Nicky never actually existed. 6. Ashley As an adult, I’ve come to realize that Ashley was much, much, much more important to me — a…
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12 Things I Want And Need To Happen On Super Bowl Sunday
The 50th Super Bowl is happening Sunday. Some of the world’s best athletes will come together to risk life, limb, and terminal brain injury so that we can scream and point at them with our buffalo sauce covered fingers. As a Giants fan, I’ve had no skin in the game for quite some time. But,…
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Five Things People Need To Stop Saying When Police Dogs Are Killed
Last weekend, 37-year-old Bruce Kelley Jr and his father were drinking alcohol in a gazebo on the busway in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Police officers noticed they were drinking from open containers, and asked them to stop. Words were exchanged, and a fight ensued between the officers and the drunk men. Kelley Sr was…
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A Tweet-By-Tweet Breakdown Of Peak Kanye Going Peak Kanye And Breaking The Internet
Wednesday afternoon at approximately 2pm EST, Kanye West, fueled by his unfathomably and ridiculously awkward “beef” with Wiz Khalifa, began the Twitter rant to end all Twitter rants. When did the rant end? I’m not exactly sure. It’s 3:57 EST at this moment, and he apparently is still going. And I’m still processing that A)…
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20 People, Places, And Things Still Somehow Less Petty Than Janet Hubert
Early Monday morning, Jada Pinkett Smith logged onto Facebook to tell the world that we should all boycott the Oscars because the Academy didn’t see it for Will Smith’s interpretation of an Igbo accent. That same MLK day, “Blacktress” Janet Hubert popped open her MacBook, picked her favorite filter on photobooth, poured some of her…
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Chicken Soup For The Fuck-Less Soul: 10 Great Books For Those Who Give No Fucks
As President Obama is proving by the day, giving no fucks can be a liberating, freeing, and refreshing experience. In fact, if you don’t feel liberated, free, and refreshed at the end of your journey to Nofucksville, you just might be in the wrong city. Perhaps you took a wrong exit and ended up in…
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Five Common Facebook Villains And How To Defeat Them
The Internet in general is a dark and twisted place. Insidious ads disguise themselves as slideshow articles, faux “x’s” float around the periphery of browser windows waiting to ensnare your computer with a virus, and YouTube comments can make any sane Black person consider if they should pack up their things and get the Garvey-ing…
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