My mind goes through so much subject matter with all that’s going on. My more precise thinking disappears before I can get my fingers to march. Flit flit go the pages.. Flit flit the remarkable sentiment Obama unearthed deep in America’s heartland on Super Tuesday, flit flit Recession panic circling the globe showing how much the [...]

I’ve been listening to Nina Simone a lot lately. She always helps me through my winter blues. And I see a lot of parallels between the two of us. We’re both from the east coast. We’re both black. We’ve both fled the US on occasions. We both play the piano (she was naturally gifted, [...]

Here’s one of the better, more succinct trend articles of the end of the year discussing the impact of High Net Individuals, the growing middle class’ ever-shifting definitions of luxury, and a consumption cluster effect the writer calls “spheres” which combine experiences, physical goods, and other self-identity purchases and behaviors that go beyond individual hard [...]

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It’s on the topic of the Design Moment and it’s published in this first issue of Terrace by the founders of the brilliant and inimitable Trace. Pick it up at your local (better) newsstand. By the way, that’s me with the hat in the lower center square.

I used to think if I pursued art, it would be like spitting in the ocean. Who would care? Who would hear me? I told my 25 year old self, if you attach yourself to brands and big business, play not by the rules of making money, but in acknowledgment of them, you can get [...]

Before I landed in Biarritz in July, my MySpace Page was a carefully manicured lawn. Flickring was my scrapbook and practically my full length mirror. I added Facebook to my arsenal and occasionally opened mail from Friendster. But lately, I don’t fish around on Small World. I don’t upload, stumble!, google, youtube, or [...]

Read about the “My Black is Beautiful” P&G Initiative I worry that one can’t really make a difference working in big bad corporate America, even when teetering at the top, but one Mrs. Najoh Tita Reid pulled it off. Bravo.

Email from my friend “LL” working freelance as a copywriter at an Ibanking firm in Boston goes as follows: “Subject: PROOF …that offices like this are not generally populated by single people. Top topics of overheard conversations: Grills (im serious!) Babies Houses/real estate Cars Commutes Spouses Health Top topics of conversations in my own head: Hair color options Returning 30$ nail polish to barney’s at lunch Italian men Brazilian [...]

Hi, it’s May 29th and I just returned from Berlin last night. I’m still stirring the pot so-to-speak but here are a few links that embody the core of my interests. Insights into action (brokenlink) Make not Represent (brokenlink) For Betterment not Tricks