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I broke one of my general rules last weekend, and went to a nightclub. But it’s different when it’s a Latin nightclub, right? A...
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I broke one of my general rules last weekend, and went to a nightclub. But it’s different when it’s a Latin nightclub, right? A...
I keep to myself a lot. Despite the appearance of knowing many people and being all up in the party scene, more times than...
Oh, if I could be a black hipster. I laugh at Portlandia, so maybe I’m close? I’m already a black nerd, and there’s a...
If you’re ever looking for inspiration on a day off, turn to The Jeffersons. The adventures of George and Weezie movin’ on up the...
So many thoughts about Django Unchained. It’s incendiary, profane, hilarious and ultra-violent in classic Quentin Tarantino fashion, but there’s more under the surface. To...
Merry Christmas, everybody. If you celebrated the day, whether religiously or as the secular-cultural juggernaut Christmas has become, I hope you had a good...
I bawled my eyes out when I saw The Dark Knight Rises this summer. Not a few tears or a sniffle, but full-on, open...
Hi, my name is Marvin, and I’m a black guy with a white-sounding voice. At least that’s what people have told me for so...
Hello, dear readers, Good to be back. I’ve been away this past month getting married. It’s easy to say that the wedding day went...
I’m getting married next week. Bam, there it is. So much going on in those few words. It has that standing-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff kind of feeling...
Dear DC Comics: It’s been fun, this whole New 52 thing. We’re now a year in, and I’ve got some things to say. Remember...
I watched Doctor Who for the first time last week. Is that shock on your face, my dear nerdlings? OK, I’ll let it wash...
As it was with many folks, my life recently was taken up by the Olympics. Yes, those two insane halcyon weeks of glory, sweat,...
Hello, nerds. We all know what’s happening this Friday. On that day, he rises again. Batman. The Dark Knight Rises. Oh, I can’t...
Isn’t everyone talking about Magic Mike, the movie that has male strippers in it but isn’t really about male strippers? The fiancee saw it...
They’re 7 feet tall and hunters built for menace. One with sickening mandibles. The other has a stabbing second mouth revealed between a set...
In the many months that I’ve spent writing this column to unpack my blerd identity, there’s been a lot of man-without-a-country stuff. Never quite...
I’m getting married in October, so I’m deep in wedding stuff at this point. Doing so has forced me to confront whatever ideas I’ve...
The older I get, the harder it is to be what I call a geek trouper, someone who can put in the extreme time...
First I heard the voices – female, dozens of them – declaring their beauty in Ndebele and Zulu words. Shosholoza … shosholoza. Repeated again...
The Avengers movie is coming next month, and I am so ready for this. I’m not even a Joss Whedon fan, but I know...
OK, I give up. I give in. I saw The Artist last week. And now I’m reading The Hunger Games, and then I’ll see...
I miss Dwayne McDuffie. The comic book and cartoon writer’s death a year ago at age 49 was a shock to the world of...
I love race comedy. And a big reason for it is because I’ve never quite understood bigotry and racism. I mean, I know them....