You walk into a situation and you think you are entering reality. A work meeting. A date. Some social event where everyone is holding a drink and pretending they are not nervous. But most of the time you are not walking into reality at all. You are walking onto a set. A lot of what…
Tag: Opportunity
Somalians Notice Opportunity
The storefront sat back from the road behind a bank and a nail salon and a place that sold phones in glass cases. The sign above the door had letters that leaned as if the wind had set them there wrong and left them. QUALITY LEANING CENTER. A child’s plastic slide lay on its side…
Tell Him Big Xi Did It
Notorious B.I.G.’s song “Gimme The Loot” about street robbery careers makes scoffing reference to prey who have no practical means of resistance. After a discussion about the ease of robbing women, he simultaneously anticipates and mocks a threat of retaliation, announcing that he knows no effectual response will be forthcoming. Bitches get strangled for their…