Bullsh*t or Fertilizer, our 2001 self-help book, is back on our site by popular demand!

Originally self-published, this book was the reason we first built the site and ventured into e-commerce, back in the dial-up days in summer 2001. It was picked up and reissued by a US gift book publisher in 2003 and made available nationwide in a brand-new edition; in 2004 it was even translated into Japanese! Click here to enter the book’s site for info, reviews, an inspirational column from author Pierre Bennu, and photos.

Original copies are available at this page; leave a note with your order if you’d like it autographed by the author.

 The show “all things considered”  on NPR had a broadcast on about the history of BoomBoxes. For some reason it really struck a chord with me and I was actually quite moved by it. Read the article but be sure to watch the video.

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I’ve tired desperately to attach this story to something to make it some how more relevant or witty or give it a moral. I realize now that some things just ARE.  Like a slug in a middle of parking lot.  They don’t make sense but there they are. Why would a slug try to cross a parking lot? It’s always fun to be the hero of the stories you write even if you’re self depreciating. Somehow you find a way to make even your shortcomings shine. Well this isn’t charming, and I’m not the hero in the end and I don’t win. In this story no one really wins.
It’s just like the slug in the middle of the parking lot .

A friend and I were riding to the post office with about 5 bags filled to the brim with packages to mail off as was the ritual at the end of every day we work at the warehouse. We were stopped by a light and at the corner in the open space between the gas station and the curb were 2 children with bikes. My eyes would have not caught them had it not been for how small one of the children was. They both had dirt bikes but the smaller child seemed dwarfed – somehow he was riding the bike but could barley reach the handle bars. His hand couldn’t even wrap around the handle. It would be the equivalent of an adult trying to put their hand around a half spun roll of toilet tissue.

Me and my friend in the passenger seat smirked at how silly it all seemed, this child’s dedication to being out and on this bike that clearly he was too small for just seemed funny.
Then coming across the street were 2 women. One was holding a child the other was just stomping mad, her anger clearly pointed at the smaller of the 2 children.  Somewhere in the back of our minds we thought that universal childhood theme:  “oooh hes gonna get it” [Read more]

In New York? Check out Jean Grae & Tamar-Kali this saturday!! Click the flyer to see a promo.

- Dear late 80’s early 90’s r&b group, I cant really sing but if I can dress up like you, learn the choreography and just be the guy that says “whooooooo” at the end of the breakdown of a slow song ill be eternally grateful.
- Dear person who says “ValenTimes day” instead of ‘Valentines day’ you should officially receive nothing on this day as you are not pronouncing it correctly. Instead, you should have a holiday called “ValenTimes day”where you receive the empty wrappers of candy and presents from those who do pronounce it correctly.
- Dear fluffer, you are the unsung hero. I salute you from a distance with my clean hand LOL
- Note to self: its ok when asked about your weight to say your putting on pounds for a role in a film.
- Dear pseudo righteous poet type dude, I don’t think here in public is the best place for the ” do you know how good an enema is for you” conversation. PS please stop calling my son “my seed” its just feels weird.
- Dear rasta I’m curious. In my youth I probably devoured  enough chew sticks to decimate a rainforest and build low income log cabin housing for the inner city.  But I still don’t know where chewsticks are made and how they are flavored. Do you? [Read more]

If you haven’t read Larry Wilmore’s  new book your missing out. You can pick it up at the socialist construct called ‘The Library’ or if your some sort of CEO that the government has helped out financially you  can purchase it.

we used what we had to explain to our 9 month old what was going on.  enjoy the photo essay.

Excuse the brevity and scattered nature of what you’re about to read. It’s late/early. The sun has not yet come up.  These are the moments I must salvage to be creative – I’m up editing a documentary and planning for the website and my plan was to also edit the three (count them: 3) new baby blogs that were all unfinished because the baby has been sick.

This being our first baby and our first sickness we work in our strengths. My wife does everything and l look worried and ask what can I do.

Since I don’t have the body full of milk and the hairier face I am the legs of the family. The “could you get me the…”  guy  I’m also the “oh and don’t forget the…” guy and more often the  “did you remember to…” dude.

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my comic strip Drapetomania got picked up by a really hip cool happening new site – http://www.blackpower.com/. check it out check it out check it out.

(drapetomania definition)