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I Thought I'd Never See a Finale as Bad as Game of Thrones's. Then I Watched Showtime's Your Honor
“I just don’t get what you get out of watching this” my wife said to me, several times over the past two months, while I watched Showtime’s Your Honor—the Bryan Cranston-led limited series about a series of increasingly terrible moral quandaries a New Orleans judge finds himself in after making a series of increasingly amoral…
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John Fetterman Has Had Eight Years To Apologize For Pulling a Shotgun on a Black Jogger in 2013, But Still Refuses. Why?
It’s not completely accurate to say that Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has recently emerged as a nationally renowned darling of liberals, mainly because it’s a status he’s possessed since he was the mayor of Braddock, Pa. But his star has risen in the past several months, as more Americans have come to recognize this…
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Eat Your Grits However The Hell You Want To
Before I began writing this, I finished eating a makeshift breakfast of two-and-a-half scrambled eggs mixed with shreds of pork pulled from the leftover ribs of last night’s dinner order. It was a slightly disappointing meal—not because of the taste of the food, but the temperature of it. I sat down to eat it at…
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Everything You Need to Know About the GameStop, Reddit, and Stock Market Story, Explained
Thank you! For what? Explaining this story. I’ve keeping up with it and trying to understand what’s happening, but I haven’t been able to find a clear deconstruction of it in terms I can understand. That’s what I’m here for! So yeah, before we begin, let me tell you something. There’s no nobility in…
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A List of People Who Asked for Apple's Limited Edition, Black History Month, 'Black Unity Collection' Watch
1. No one 2. Nobody 3. Nathan 4. Nan niggas 5. The people in the room when Apple devised the following paragraphs: Members of the Black creative community and allies throughout Apple came together to design an Apple Watch Sport Band and Apple Watch face to honor the ongoing fight for racial justice. Inspired by…
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Red Lobster Is the Greatest Place on Earth and I'm Tired of Y'all Pretending Like It Ain't
I do not remember the first time I went to Red Lobster. Which is fine. I also do not remember the first time I saw Halle Berry. But I know that my reaction was the same: How does something so perfect exist and are there more of these in Cleveland? As a Black kid from…
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Yup, That Image of a Mitten-Clad, Socially-Distant, Errand-Running Bernie Sanders Is the Greatest Meme Ever
It’s been 12 years since I last felt how I felt while I begrudgingly watched some of the inauguration yesterday. Whatever relief experienced in ridding of the outgoing president (minimal) or pride in witnessing history (eh), was flattened by anxiety that something terrible was going to happen. And so from the time President Biden and…
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Unify With Deez Nuts
In less than 24 hours, Joe Biden will become the president of the United States of America. During his inauguration ceremony tomorrow, he will deliver a speech, and it will revolve around the concept of unity because he is a sentient shoestring and unity is his entire steez. In fact, pledging to take a shot…
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The NRA Just Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Here Are Some Hoodies I Own.
I bought this at Uncle Bobbies in Philadelphia after a book talk there in 2019. It’s a little snug, but I enjoy wearing it because it makes me feel like Daniel Craig. Also, one of the women working there was wearing the same hoodie, and we took a picture. Hoodie pictures are always fun. This…
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Everything Y'all Say About Clubhouse Makes It Sound Like the 4th Ring of Hell, So Please Stop Inviting Me to It
It was 2008. I was working at Duquesne University, and one of my colleagues was telling me about Burning Man, which I’d never heard of. He was planning on attending the next year and was pitching me to come with him. At first, it sounded like something I’d maybe be into. (“It’s a yearly festival…
