Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
- Yes, we were too afraid to ask him if he killed Tupac.
: When Kiana and I started
ProperTalks a year ago I was unemployed, living in a new city and in dire need of intellectual exchange. We really…
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Tags: Ang and Keeks, Best of Propertalks, Blogoversary
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Remember the last episode of 'Seinfeld' where Jerome, Cosmo, Lainey and George "T-Bone" Costanza were arrested for watching the fat guy get robbed and did nothing but videotape it and make fat guy jokes? [tony's note: yeah, don't front like you've never
watched it...] They were charged with breaking the imaginary "Good Samaritan Law" which made it illegal to witness a crime without…
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Tags: California Law, Derrion Albert, Rape, Richmond High Rape, Seinfeld, Voyeurism
Posted in Life Talk, Media Talk, Political Talk | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The Derrion Albert story reminds me of one of the
more brillant moments on Sundance's Brick City. A student at Central High had been shot outside of the campus and the principal, Ras Baraka, gathered the student body to talk about it. He told them it was not normal to have classmates die, to fear walking home from school, or to wear rest in peace…
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Tags: Brick City, Chicago, Crime, Derrion Albert, Newark, Poverty, Ras Baraka
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
It's been two weeks since our last post here and so much has happened in the world and in our own lives. Angela started grad school in Iowa (hand clap for Ang y'all) and I've been dodging the
Swine Flu (I swear when I got back to work my coworkers started avoiding me like I was President Carter). I'm also attempting to navigate my twenties without losing my bearings. Right…
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Tags: Ang and Keeks, Dallas Penn, Kid Cudi, Raekwon, Tony Grands
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Late last night CBS showed a picture of a teenage Michael Jackson that nearly brought me to tears. He was sitting in what looked like an auditorium staring at God knows what with this sullen, distant, look on his face. By then he was already a teen sensation, no where near the icon he became in the 80s, but he looked incredibly sad. It was that photo that made me come to terms with his death. By now this has become a cliche,…
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Tags: Jackson 5, Michael Jackson
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