Despite a hiatus in his writing work, Moses gets an invitation to serve as a guest host on the popular pop culture podcast. Topics include hip hop theory, reviews of new movies, technology culture, etc...

If you've never heard, have a listen for the sake of hearing its two remarkable hosts,… Read full post »

Warsaw, Indiana - Several members of the local chapter of White Aryan Resistance (WAR) expressed extreme confusion last week regarding the emerging trend of right wing protesters depicting Barack Obama as Adolf Hitler, and likening recent White House efforts to reform health care to Na… Read full post »

I had a backward vision of heaven.

Everyone else aspired; lived righteously, prayed nightly, confessed monthly, flossed weekly in hopes of one day attaining paradise. They hoped for a future rise towards a celestial kingdom of happiness populated by all their loved ones who’d passed. Bu… Read full post »

The latest shot out of Judd Apatow's golden cannon, Funny People, opened in American theaters last weekend. The film follows famous but forlon comedian George Simmons (played by and based on the comedy, but not life of, Adam Sandler) through a near death crisis, which he weathers… Read full post »

Last Friday I watched The Hurt Locker.

This a war movie, perhaps the truest war movie I've seen. I'm not a particularly big fan of the genre; I recognize the inherent greatness of films like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, etc. but don't run to the theater everytime… Read full post »

Thanks for all your emails last week. Hova loves to bless y'all with street wisdom! Keep 'em coming, and as promised, we answer them here: 

I'll show you how to do this, son!

Hey Jigga,

I've got a great job, but I'm not so sure about my boyfriend. He lost his job last… Read full post »

What follows is a reprint of something I wrote in May regarding Michael Vick's potential reinstatement, seemingly appropriate given NFL Commissioner Goodell's recent decision to let Vick play. My hope remains that people use Vick as a dummy to practice tackling their own lack of g… Read full post »

As a teenager I didn't always make the best decisions. I was smart, for sure, and had the grades and piles of precocious Po-Mo paperbacks stacked on my bedside table to prove it. I was even street smart, sort of, or at least I had the rap cd's and empty nickel… Read full post »

Recognizing the futility of this debate, this clip is still a pretty sick example of both their freestyle skills. As for the winner, hard to say. Personally, I've always had a partiality towards the Notorious one, much more so than Tupac, whom I like but don't l… Read full post »

Big up to CNN's Science & Technology Blog for dropping some knowledge on me yesterday re: www.sunnygram.com, a new web-based communication service for people who think Mt. Rushmore was carved by lightning.

For $10 a month, you can now email people who don't get… Read full post »

Expect to enjoy this simple and delicious salad as an intro or aside from your regular nightly consumption, or savor it all on it's own. Preparation is quick but a little messy.

Ingredients (Salad):

• 6 oz fresh spinach, washed and left wet
• 1 large mouth-watering cucumber, thickly
… Read full post »

One of my first "real" jobs out of college was working as a residential counselor at a therapeutic boarding school. For those unfamiliar, a therapeutic or "emotional growth" boarding school couples the traditional boarding school concept with a highly structured and specialized program for speci… Read full post »

I'll show you how to do this, son!

Hey Jigga,

I'm looking to start a consulting business, helping folks in low income housing save energy cost by bringing their buildings up to code with LEED. I've got a great concept and a business plan drawn up, but it's so hard to… Read full post »

I went to Madrid in early fall of 2004. Fresh out of college, and without any real job prospects, I'd managed to save a couple grand working over the summer and figured that would last a month or so, get me on my feet.

And what a month it was! I holed… Read full post »

1) 10-10-420

Much like the wealth of low-fee long distance companies that popped up a few years ago, 10-10-420 will advertise late night on cable. Preying on the naive but disposable income dispensing 18-24 pothead demographic, 10-10-420 commercials will hint at something stoneresque w/o reveali… Read full post »

The question on the tip of so many blogs (Ist Bruno bad for Gays?) presupposes that the purpose of the film was to expose latent (and not so latent) homophobia among Americans, much the same way that Borat exposed racial and religious prejudice.

Was it?

Fans of the Da Ali G… Read full post »

Ah Miami, the city so sexy your every breath  hits like a hot blast in the mouth.

The 305, where vehicular homicide gets you less than 30 days, provided you have a good lawyer. 

Mi-ami, the place to go when you want to give your culture a bad reputation.

Hauteville sous la pays.… Read full post »

This morning I flew to Miami.

We made the trip on one of them small planes, the ones where they make you actually walk out on the tarmac and climb the little set of stairs to get on board. The planes with just one seat on either side of the aisle. The… Read full post »

I love my mother. Really, she's a generous and loving person who wants nothing but the best for all her friends and family.

With that disclaimer given, perhaps I can now move to the business of slagging her off. Because I've gotten to know how that generous and loving mind of… Read full post »

Read everything on the web? Tired of cloying high school chums on facebook bombarding you with pictures of their recent trip to Michigan? Angry that the Dateline NBC folks ruined myspace.com? (You only wanted to mentor the boy!) 

Visit Omegle.com, a website that boils th… Read full post »

Although I'm rapidly closing in on 30, tomorrow will only be my third Fourth of July.

Let me explain. My family fled Cuba in 1959, planning to wait out the whole pesky revolution thing with a vacay in NYC, and then head back to Havana within the month. Well, things have been delayed… Read full post »

Last night we saw Away We Go. I liked it, with the standard disclaimer that I see few movies and tend to enjoy quirky, plotless independent films. Though reviews have been lukewarm at best, I decided I needed to watch this one.

For starters, it's a hardcore indielectual name dropper: written… Read full post »

(Warning: Quotidian) 

Last night I returned from a company-wide meeting in Atlanta; I've been at the company for two months as an intern. While dinner was nice and the Holiday Inn Express gave me superhuman abilities, I'm ragged from introducing myself and going the motions of&nbs… Read full post »

At dinner last Thursday:

Moses, did you hear about Michael Jackson?

No, what happened?

Oh my god, he died this afternoon. It's so tragic.

Oh, no. So do you think we should drink red or white wine?

Michael Jackson's heart attack stirred little emotion in me. I'm not totally sure who… Read full post »

(Warning: ASSinine)

A few months ago I made a fundamental life change- from buying baby carrots to buying the big bags of real carrots, then peeling and cutting them into dippable sticks. (I dip them in hummus.)

Today, at the publix, I was buying those two things, hummus and carrots, when… Read full post »