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 the Dyckman [...]

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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 its [...]

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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 can you say [...]

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You already know how I feel about these topics…

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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 America/Caribbean [...]

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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.
3. That he [...]

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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, Chelsea and Tribeca to [...]

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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 everywhere from [...]

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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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