Mental Purgatory

Yesterday, I attended the expansion celebrations at the Queen Afua Wellness Center in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve never heard of Queen Afua, but Erykah Badu was supposed to be there so I went, press badge in hand. Walking around with a small Nikon compact camera and my IRiver for recording, I was the odd man [...]

At work my boss suggested/asked/recommended that I read a book called The Pragmatic Programmer. While the book is great and deals with a lot of interesting lessons in computer programming, I decided to write about it here for its applicability in your every day life.
One of the concepts that struck me most was this idea [...]

Everyone’s heard the question before. If a tree falls in the woods and nobody’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? That’s roughly the question I’m going to be asking today, which, put in other terms, is “If you live alone and do something by yourself, does anyone care/does it really matter?” Perhaps [...]

Two questions I find myself asking myself all the time:
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
If only I knew the answers…

Have you ever confided in someone and then felt betrayed when suddenly everyone knows your secret? Or have you ever been shocked when something about someone else reaches you? Ever wondered HOW this information got out, how it got to the point where you were finding out these private things about someone? I’ve been wondering [...]

As I’ve done in the past, I’m hoping to use a song here to elaborate on something I’ve been thinking about. Okay, in this case, I hadn’t really thought about it and instead, just had the song stuck in my head. However, listening to the lyrics, I couldn’t help but think how powerful they were. [...]

In the list of random questions I’ve had, this one is the latest. The basic premise: If prostitution is illegal, why is porn legal? If I pay a woman to have sex with me, I get arrested, but if I pay her to have sex with me while I record it, it’s perfectly legal? Whaaaaa? [...]

It’s an idea you see all over the place. The movie Butterfly Effect was all about this idea. There was a TV show that lasted about three episodes (just long enough for me to realize it was great before they turned it off), called Then & Now that dealt with the idea. You hear the [...]

The other week at school, someone posed the question of “What song describes your life?” Being a huge fan of music, I thought about it for a while, trying to think of what song fit best. Finally, I settled upon Tony Rich’s “Nobody Knows It But Me.” For the uninitiated, I’ve included the song below:

While [...]

I have a poster of Martin Luther King in my room that says “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” I also have one of Malcolm X which says “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
For good [...]