The FG Archives

  Sometimes we forget that we are a part of society. We sometimes feel like a grain of sand in a beach, too small to make a difference. We’ll cite the media, government, but you know who else comprises of society? You, me and the neighbors; together we make up society. Instead of feeling like [...]

Allen Gregory is a new show that premiered on the Fox Network two weeks ago. It features the voice talents of Jonah Hill as the self titled protagonist and one of my favorite 90′s sitcoms “3rd Rock from the Sun” French Stewart as his gay father, Richard Delongpre. (I would go into the other characters-the [...]

I have two websites, personal and professional. With each website I’ve identified two problems. This, my professional website has a bangin’ design courtesy of WooThemes and no clearly marked brand. My personal website has a clear brand without a banging design. With these two websites I know that Content is King because it’s much easier for [...]

I have an affinity for Jamaican men. I have an affinity for Haitian men. I have an affinity for West Indian men. I once dated a man whose Jamaican accent was so thick I couldn’t understand what he was saying if we hadn’t talked in a while. In these men, in their patois I feel [...]

My former roommate dropped by for a long overdue girl’s chat. She looked the same, but she had something new. She was wearing a hajib. She was always Muslim, even when she lived with me, but her hair had run free then. In living to the Koran’s edicts more stringently she explained that her hair [...]

Commitment is a wonderful thing to have, it really is. It makes you reliable, it bestows a sense of character, makes people view you as integral. And for the past few months I’ve been committing to blogging once a week here. And then I wrote my life list. And then I started evaluating my life [...]

I really didn’t know what to write today. But I said fuck it. I made a commitment to myself to write at least weekly on this here blog. Writer’s block is just a gat damn myth. I figured the easiest thing to do is to let you know some personal shit. With all this blogging [...]

You can’t call yourself an artist unless you’re practicing the craft. Feathers get ruffled when people call themselves artists and they’re not practicing the craft. You are not a writer if you… Are not writing at least once a week. If you’re not improving the basics through workshops, conferences, and classes. With the craft there [...]

Working at my day job when opening the store we have to be let in by the manager. Oftentimes, they’re in the back. Usually I’d just call to let them know I was outside. This fateful morning I left my phone home. I had to bang on the window. But she didn’t hear me. I [...]

I recently visited my cousin in the hood. On the walk from the train station a dude walking with a woman told me he liked my sweater. I said thank you. She proceeded to remark that I sounded mad stank. He ain’t trying to holla at me, she’s his girlfriend she remarked. I turned around [...]