Diary of a Genial Black Man

Taken in San Francisco, ground zero for this bullshit Your next hire won’t want to work from home Your next hire doesn’t want dumb things like healthcare and dignity Your next hire likes when you call them “sweet tits” Your next hire can’t take the kids in the middle of the night Your next hire won’t tell you to be quiet through clenched teeth Your next hire can’t sue for justifiable…

*It happened the day that I’m writing this, but it can be evergreen. Racism is fun like that! On a chilly November afternoon in San Francisco, I approached the bus stop with packaged coat from a consignment shop in hand. As I neared the stop, I saw an old white woman sitting on one of the four available seats under the awning. I considered whether to stand for the six-minute wait or to reward…

Image via Twitter “Elon needed something to do.”“Who’s Andrew Yang?”“We took one try at a name and gave up.”“We didn’t have the budget for a Photoshop license.”“It’s White Power Time.”

Image courtesy of Spotify This one took almost as long as the previous entry! Nearly a year after my last MP3 Mix playlist/mix CD/stubborn attempt at maintaining normalcy in chaos, I decided that this collection of 22 songs, totaling 79 minutes, would be pushed crying and screaming into the world. Spotify tells me that I started this playlist New Year’s Day 2023 — three months BEFORE MP3 Mix 16…

Image courtesy of Apple Music Memphis Fuckin’ Up The Disco (Imma) Li’l Bitch I’M BLACK Man of the Woods – Part II Drown Liar (Ft. Fireboy DML) Cuck Me I Hate Women (I Wish, I Wish I Wasn’t) Such a Bitch Check Out My Blaccent! I’m A 43-Year-Old Man Ashton Kutcher is the Punk Pretend It’s 2006 Through Science or Magic Selfish Remember *NSYNC? (Imma) Li’l Bitch – Reprise Man of the…

It keeps knocking things over Has a mind of its own REALLY into crypto Main Character Syndrome Has problems with alcohol

Image courtesy of Tenor.com A fun thing about dating rejection is trying to square that away with whatever good things they say about you (e.g., “you’re a good guy” or “I’m sure whoever ends up with you is lucky”) and not take it personally that they don’t want anything to do with you. I’m sensitive to this type of rejection. (Can it really be called rejection if the person bases their opinion…

Image courtesy of usa-traffic-signs.com * I’ll flesh this out so as to make this palatable. I recently got a wordy job rejection email that was confused in its mission to indeed reject me from the job. Starting with a big block of text that noted that the job ad I had applied to would be taken offline for the weekend and reposted early the next week, it then proceeded to state that it would…

Previously on Genial Black Man Goes to Spencer’s Gifts: I tentatively stepped inside of its boorish walls. What do these so-called “bitches” smell like? And then I saw something. Something that made me realize that this place needed to burn. Friday, February 24, 2023 It had been nine years since I set foot inside of a Spencer’s. Thoughts of tacky, misogynistic t-shirts and drinkware haunting…

Image courtesy of cnet.com Prequels (television, movies, video games, books, nepo babies’ parents) are nothing new. And with properties like Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and 1883 and 1923 (TV ancestors to cultural juggernaut Yellowstone) on the horizon or delighting your conservative parents, it’s only natural to wonder what prequels will come next. After all, Hollywood is creatively and…

Brand New Home 2 – The Sequel to a Hodgepodge Mixtape

Image courtesy of Spotify And I thought the LAST one took awhile! While there was an 11-month gap between MP3 Mix 14 and MP3 Mix 15 mix CDs/Spotify playlists, there was over a 20-year gap between the first Brand New Home mix. That’s the difference between college and being middle-aged. You might be wondering, “What’s ‘Brand New Home’?” and I hope you do, because I need that validation. My…

What dumb shit will Warner Bros. Discovery do next?

A Venn Diagram of Good Ideas

Someone’s view of San Francisco, probably. (Image courtesy of IMDB.com) I overheard two people at work talking about how easy it would be to commit murder in San Francisco and how crime here is bad. Considering that I work with white-collar folk, they probably believe that people who don’t look like them are bad! This is a common thing for people who have the means to avoid interacting with the…

How To Tell I Find Something Funny

Here’s a handy guide to know if I truly find something funny. If I feel like I have to laugh or am being polite, my laugh will be lower in pitch like Barry White. Think a Ricky Gervais anti-trans joke if laughing literally meant life or death.If I’m mildly amused, my laugh will be slightly higher in pitch. Think Michael Jackson’s real voice laughing at crypto bros losing their apes.If I am…