the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Yes, we produced Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar. One of the greatest basketball players of all-time and one of the top 5 centers in league history. He went to school at Saint Jude (204th street) and lived in the famed, Dyckman Projects (two blocks away from me), in Building 7 which is home to [...]

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I love taking you folks into my life. I don’t really like keeping stuff under wraps. This is my blog right? Anyways, as you already know, I’m a lifestyle manager at this company called Great Seats in mid-town Manhattan. It’s a job I landed through a friend’s friend. Not sure if its long term as [...]

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Spurs lose series 4-1. Eliminated from the 2008-2009 playoffs by the hated Dallas Mavericks. Whenever my boys lose, its usually depression for a few weeks. I even have trouble watching playoff basketball after watching them disappear from the landscape. Man this hurts… But, it was the best thing that could’ve ever happened to us. How [...]

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I’ve decided that I will report any cab that decides to ask me where I’m going before I get in the car. I’m specifically talking about the yellow cabs – no others. The sad part is that the ones that always ask me are minorities. When I get in the cab, I tell you where [...]

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Its a strong possibility that in the near future I will be working on a documentary focusing on racism in the Caribbean and Latin America. I will keep you posted. In the meantime, you can check out the email he sent me a while back. Re: Helping Blacks Combat Racism and Prosper Economically in Latin [...]

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What I do like? 1. That we have a QB in Daunte Culpepper, who has made mistakes in his career and can be an example for Stafford to not make the same errors. 2. That he is not a typical SEC QB; he’s not arrogant like the majority of them – most notably, Jay Cutler. [...]

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Location: 237 Dyckman Street Hours: Noon – Midnight 7 days a week. Mamasushi.com Tucked on the corner of Dyckman and Seaman Street, is the new Latin/Asian (Japanese) fusion restaurant, Mama Sushi. A growing restaurant strip west of Broadway on Dyckman Street is beginning to mirror restaurant strips in other parts of the city; Madison Avenue, [...]

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Some never before seen pics before I had a digital. I had to flick these with my digital and upload them to share my experiences in Chicago, Frankfurt (Germany) and Cancun. In Chicago, I stopped by Harpo, the United Center, Michigan Ave, the South-side, Gino’s and the rest of downtown Chicago. In Frankfurt, I went [...]

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Is the only place I find myself writing away. I know – how the hell can I write in a packed train in the morning with the noise and commuters all around me? Somehow I just can. But I don’t write on a laptop or a notebook, I write on my blackberry. I found that [...]

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