Archive | August, 2011
What is one opportunity you believe you missed out on when you were younger?
I should have traded college tuition for a downpayment on a 2-family brownstone in Bed-Stuy. You don’t want to know much I could have gotten a house here for in 1998. It would be almost halfway paid off by now. Especially since I dropped out.
What is the number one motivator in your life right now?
Arrogance. I have to be right about the choices I’ve made in my life, especially the ones that aren’t producing results at a speed other people can be comfortable with.
If I gave you $1000 and told you that you had to spend it today, what would you buy?
I would buy a new smartphone, a couple of lotto tickets, and good meal.
Can Food Network Chefs Help Solve the Obesity Crisis? – Jane Black – Life – The Atlantic
I catch Paula Deen’s cooking shows every now and again and a lot of times, I’m gasping at the screen in what I’d call heart attack/coma food. But for the most part, I ain’t mad about what she’s doing. Side note: I am mad about her partnership with Smithfield Foods and an overdependence on the [...]
PCRM’s Plan to Solve the NYC Food Stamp Controversy
Some have argued that it is wrong to limit what economically disadvantaged people can purchase with Food Stamps. I take a different view. It is demeaning to assume that economically disadvantaged people feel a need for junk food. They, like everyone else, recognize that unhealthful foods are creating a serious problem and we do not [...]
When did you not speak up when you should have?
There was an incident on the train several months ago. A man was soliciting funds from passengers for his granddaughter’s funeral, the victim of a stray bullet. He sounded pitiful, crying over not being able to afford the funeral and how devastated he was and ohh the violence in black communities and how we needed [...]
What is your favorite fictional story? (Novel, movie, fairytale, etc)
Mama Day The first time I read it I couldn’t get through it – it wasn’t the right time for me. When I went back to it, I couldn’t put it down.
Where or who do you turn to when you need good advice?
I have a small circle of people I trust to give me straight, honest feedback, but in general, I just sit still and breathe.
What artistic medium do you use to express yourself?
Back when I was using an artistic medium to express myself? Photography and clay.
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