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Oscar Grant and Oakland Local

by Boothism | Essays & Commentary, Media, social justice, Uncategorized, Writing

Tomorrow night marks the 1 year anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and emotions in Oakland are running high. From renewed anger over police brutality, to BART announcing it will increase the number of police on call for...
To Kirkus w/love: A book geek’s lament

To Kirkus w/love: A book geek’s lament

by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Writing

I found out a couple of days ago that Kirkus Review is shutting it’s doors and it kinda felt like someone had hit me in the chest with a hardback copy of Infinite Jest, ie. it stung, more than a little. And I know that outside of authors and folks in the book...

World AIDS Day, dads and dancefloors

by Boothism | Essays & Commentary, Life, Writing

Today was World AIDS Day and in 2009 it’s also a reminder that a decade ago this year my dad died of complications related to HIV.  Bad needles, bad sex, bad something.  I never got the whole story and to be honest that’s one tale I’m cool with not...

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