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At some point in my life, I want to be on the giving end on a police sting.

"Stay Black."

Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ turns 20

“White people still ask me why Mookie threw the can through the window,” Lee said in an interview. “Twenty years later, they’re still asking me that.”

“No black person ever, in 20 years, no person of color has ever asked me why.”

Filmed about 10 blocks from where I currently live, in what is now considered ”The suburban part of the ghetto.” The neighborhood is dramatically different from the scenes in the movie, but I sometimes still get an eerie feeling walking around knowing what was happening here just a few years ago.

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Wizard Staff Graveyard

May

and it’s May in Brooklyn but the air is just crisp enough and the sun is just hidden enough and the street is just different enough lined with trees and brownstones and during that one block I’m no longer in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn of all places and it’s no longer May and Summer is not around the bend but I’m in Denver in September and the fall air has settled upon this sleepy sprawl of a city and this is the first night where the chill hits my skin and I smile and walk down this street lined with trees and brownstones and the crisp coolness of the air is just warm enough to keep walking but at the same time reminds me that this is it, that soon it’ll give way to the blizzards of Winter and then the rain of the Spring and then soon enough I’ll be 20, 200, 2000 miles away on a tree lined street in Brooklyn where I’ll look back and think of this one night in a nostalgic way and then I’ll turn the corner off of that tree lined street and away from the brownstones and I’ll snap back into reality and realize that it’s just another day in May.

And then I turn that corner.

Took a walk in Brooklyn today. Saw some interesting stuff.

Hanging Baby (via madproof)

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Best BBQ in BKLYN. Kings County BBQ, run by Chris McGee in the back of a truck parked at Bedford Avenue and Quincy Street.

Go there. Now.

Elk burgers for dinner tonight. Sweet.