Flipskript Ink

I start this post off by tipping my hat to the multifunctional full-timers holding down many jobs. This includes 24/7 parents, freelancing side hustlers and the unemployed who are looking for work. Making sure I count my blessings for having a day job, I try to remain positive about the various aspects I could take from what I do. Long story short, I work at a bank. The skills I have learned along with the financial experience can allow me to write some personal finance articles to the up-and-coming genereations who, hopefully, will have some sort of financial resource to start with. I say this not to be mean, but to be real. Not everyone's situation is the same. A set of parents may have set aside some type of account or trust for their child/children for financial stability while another family, despite limited resources, put forth whatever effort (and energy) to give their kids all they've got with what little they have. Either way, someone is doing something as times are ge...

While my original plan was to work on some outlines for future projects, I spent an hour in the library watching Awkward Black Girl on Youtube. I mad that this web series started back in February and I'm just now finding out about it from the Poughkeepsie Journal . Just from the name itself, I didn't know what to expect. Issa rae, the director, writer, and producer of the web series, stated in an interview that the reason she created the show was because she couldn't find anyone on TV she could relate to. I couldn't agree more. I rarely see this type of original, down-to-earth entertainment on television anymore. For this show, awkward isn't a bad thing. I consider it more avant-garde. It seems that the majority of the characters Rae created are putting J on the outside, therefore J acts like the outsider. When she unknowingly brings a few close people inside her world (Fred, CeCe, White J), she doesn't know how to navigate life after the fact. I love how her ...

You ever felt like things were spiraling out of control? Or couldn't get a firm grip on life because your mind was going in circles? Fortunately, I just got out of that weird place and am slowly trying to come back. I've been so busy at work and such that I forgot I used to write (oh em gee). At the same time, it's been so frustrating because it is easier to get an unpaid writing internship anywhere than it is to get a full-time, or even part-time, paid writing gig. After snapping out of it, I realized that I wasn't falling out of love with journalism; I was angry with it. I'm not slow or anything, so I knew that the industry was in trouble. New media is taking over and it leaves many to wonder the destiny of the newspapers that are creating new blog ideas everyday; not to mention trying to keep up with a day job. After a constant battle royale with the workplace, its politics, dispassionate people, and angry philosophies, I've been lacking the energy and concen...

Photo courtesy of thegrio . I did I again. I let another month slip up and didn't post anything on my blog...I got to stop doing that. Anyway, I was reading the current issue of Essence (the one with Alicia Keys on the cover). There was this awesome story written on redefining the Black woman. Saying that the story impacted me is just an understatement. I've been making moves and taking actions that some people throughout my life have not understood, i.e., my decision to go away to college, learning how to speak Chinese, prefering to read my Bible instead of going out on Friday nights, etc. Obviously, May was a busy and trying month and I felt myself slow down a little bit; but I feel myself getting it together. As long as society's citizens have remembered, the American Dream was to work hard, make a lot of money and have a nice house, family, and car. Today, with the job market and economy the way it is, people are barely there getting by. For the current iPad generation...

I'm still shocked and saddened about the Armstrong tragedy that occurred in Newburgh earlier this month. I'm even more concerned about the continual trends in unemployment, gas prices, and the various suicides due to bullying. However, when I find time to watch television, the Royal Wedding is everywhere, like acne at the first stage of puberty. So, why is there a problem here? This is not to say that I'm happy for the future husband and wife. But I'm not gonna waste time and electricity to watch people exchange vows, do the shuffle, and eat cake. Some could call me a hater and think I'm nuts, but the truth is that I just don't care. I wanna know why Black unemployment is twice as high as the national unemployment rate. I mean I know there are a variety of reasons, but let's discuss these reasons. I wanna know why there are more insults for a sexually loose female than there are for a sexual male. Flavor Flav and Bret Michaels are getting praise for their ...

Unpublished, September 2010 As a young kid, I had a hard time understanding Prince because of his falsetto voice and his display of sexuality. After hearing this song and watching his Purple Rain movie in high school, I began seeing the Purple One in a new light. The first time I heard this song, I was sixteen (2003) and home sick from school. I happened to catch the last few scenes of the movie on VH1. As crappy as I felt that day, I found myself spontaneously dancing to the upbeat tempo. The song just made me feel better emotionally. Suddenly the song lead to another memory I had of not him, but his picture when I was three years old. Let me repeat this for reference sake, I was a three year old little kid who understood little (or nothing) about Prince, his music, and color. It was the Arsenio Hall Show in the early 1990's and they showed a picture of his album cover, LoveSexy. When this picture popped on the TV screen, I cried to my mom screaming, 'MOM! There's a naked...

As I sit here listening to Jennifer Hudson's new album, I'm reflecting on the latest news stories that have been popping up for the last 24 hours via the internet and radio stations. This is what I came up with so far: Legendary Hollywood icon, Elizabeth Taylor, dead at age 79 Elizabeth Taylor's Final Resting Place Water poisonous for Tokyo infants Japan struck by another major earthquake Another Chris Brown thing Another Charlie Sheen thing Ohh, comparing Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen (Breezy brought up a good point, but I digress) Little girl loses leg saving her sister N----r Heaven...? What does baby mama mean? Now, because I choose not to tell you, the free-willed citizen who reads whatever your heart oh so desires, what to do, I'll let you pick out which one of these stories is more important to you. I'll just end this post with words from my sister's status... RIP Liz Taylor but there's still entire families dying in Libya right now... P.S., realizin...