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One of my favorite 90's TV shows is the episodic series My So Called Life . The short lived ABC drama only lasted one season but it's by far one of the most critically acclaimed prime time t…

(My Mama and I) I felt real emotional and needed to get some thoughts out of my head (probably a combination of that and the end of the semester papers). So these next few words truly come from the h…

*All sarcasm intended So you go to an art school, huh? Is it feeling pretty normal? That’s only because you’re doing it wrong. You see, there are so many expectations attached to schools of this natu…

I’m not much of a scaredy cat. Seriously. I remember watching Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th movies as a child and instead of feeling frightened I was laughing at the stilted performances and c…

Can someone please tell me why almost every day I see “Jaden Smith is crazy” tweets all up and down my twitter timeline? While this criticism against 15-year-old actor Jaden Smith has been slowly es…

I really hope you can’t relate to what I’m going to talk about in this post. That would mean you probably had a well adjusted childhood, a decent adolescent stage, and are now a happily functioning a…

I started watching The Cosby Show reruns when I was nine years old. I was close to the same age as Rudy at that time and I lived vicariously through every episode that aired. I remember when I saw …

In about week, I will embark on a brand new academic journey in a new state, city, and school. Starting August 29th I will be pursuing a PhD in African American Studies at University of California B…

Are you a mommy or daddy blerd? Would you like to know what its like growing up blerdy? This podcast will feature a panel of hosts who are parents raising their children to to become the future ble…

It has occurred to me that the word Nerd umbrellas many types of people. There are academia nerds, comic-book nerds, outdoorsy nerds (the ones that go to the beach and read). I am of the socially i…

I don’t know my father. I know his name, I know he looks like me and I know we share the same taste in music. Outside of that I’m clueless. Now, before you start jumping to conclusions that this is o…

Confession: My name isn’t Shelly. That’s my author pen name: The face that I present to the world that sounds friendly and generic. My real name is LaShell. And no matter how many times I say it, it …

My students during sports day. It was twelve years ago when I called my parents up and announced that shortly after graduation I would moving to Japan to become an English teacher with the Japan Exch…

Remember the dude that made the funny sounds with his mouth and hands from the Police Academy movies? Whatever happened to Michael Winslow? I mean he was like a huge star in the 80’s thanks to the pl…

South Central Debut April 1994 Canceled by Fox in June 1994 There was a TV show called South Central starring Larenz Tate that came out in 1994.  The show only lasted one season, but it was one of th…