Jay Smooth on being first

Here’s the latest entry from Jay Smooth, host of Ill Doctrine – a hip-hop video blog:

I discovered this blog a week ago from this excellent list of the “Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading” on Fimoculous. Rex Sorgatz, the blogger behind Fimoculous, writes:
When Ze Frank sadly abided by [...]

Random act of kindness

Taken while checking on my car (the silver Prius) to make sure I wasn’t getting a ticket while reading at Barnes and Noble in Old Town Pasadena. Two girls bring food and drink to a homeless woman with two cats. They didn’t just drop it off impersonally; they knelt down to talk briefly [...]

The Best of “What I’ve Learned”

My favorites from Esquire’s The Best of “What I’ve Learned”:
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. –Jimmy Dean
Garry Shandling always said to me, “Don’t get mad, get funny.” It changed my life. –Rip Torn
Sometimes I think there’s no [...]