Cold Drank

Essays and fiction that explore popular culture and politics.

Ether. Where is the chicken on ice? Ether.

Ether. 1. Dear Uncle Jimmy,             As a boy, I knew that there was a rickety bridge between right and wrong. And I learned that I would be disciplined more harshly for even looking towards the wrong side. But like you, I did and didn’t give a fuck. I broke bets I made with myself, defied [...]

Ether. First, we’re colored as folks whose communities are icily imploding from crime because we “don’t snitch.” Now, they want to ridicule Letreasa Goodman as an overzealous McNugget snitcher. Why does this story have shoes, puffy socks and Air Maxes? Because Americans need to believe that above all else, black folks love chicken. And most of [...]

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Ether. How many times in the last two weeks have you heard some fool woman or man talk about how “Chris Brown was wrong for that, but Rihanna shouldn’t be hittin’ him like that?” I’m just not sure what this sentence or sentiment actually means. Can you tell me? Is it kinda like Chris Rock saying [...]

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Feb 2009

Dear Mr. Hip Hop, Brace yourself. Admirable critiques and legitimate attacks are being launched at the New York Post, cartoonist Sean Delonas. The attacks are varied but most claim that the cartoonist, editors and its parent company should know that a cartoon with cops shooting an ape with the caption”They’ll have to find someone else [...]

Are you serious? Ether.

  “I’m tired of folks, them closed minded folk. You know what I’m sayin’? It’s like I got a demo tape and don’t nobody wanna hear it. But it’s like this: The South got something to say. That’s all I got to say.” Andre’ 3000 1. In 1998, I stood in the basement bathroom of [...]

  Ether. I have often spoken to you about good and evil, and this has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world and between the two, there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere unless the ideology being advanced is democracy [...]

Ether. It ain’t trickin’ if you got it. Behold Obama’s new Presidential limo. Gotdamn!