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My Wife’s Away and I Have No Clean Laundry
For the past three weeks, my wife has been in Vietnam, staying with my relatives in a small mountain village. It’s so surprising to the simple villagers to see a real Black person that
Read More »The Principles of Good Cooking
Dear readers, last year, I started a blog called “Lazy-Ass Vegan,” a forum for recipes that you can prepare during commercials of “Law and Order.” However, I was too lazy to update it. Plus,
Read More »Diary of a Brown-Thumb Gardener
After months of darkness and despair, Spring is finally bursting forward like things featured in pictures from Representative Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account. Which only means one thing: Time to break out the hoes! For
Read More »An Asian Dude’s Experience with Black Culture: Episode 2 – A Little Racism Can Be Fun
Dear everyone, becoming a humor writer is not something to be taken lightly. Like Spiderman from the Broadway musical would say, “With great power, comes great…aiiiieeeee!!! Arrghh, my leg, my leg is broken!” When
Read More »An Asian Dude’s Experience with Black Culture: Episode 1 – Hot Dang It’s a Hot Comb!
Every once in a while, I realize my wife is Black. Which gave me the brilliant idea of doing a series of blog posts called “An Asian Dude’s Experience with Black Culture.” In this
Read More »How To Increase Your Chances of Getting a Plaque
In two weeks, the International Examiner will be hosting its annual dinner to recognize local unsung heroes. If you are like me, you dream about standing up there on stage, sharply dressed, holding a
Read More »Memoir of a Wedding Reception Survivor
For the past several months, Jameelah and have been trapped in a profound vortex of darkness, a bottomless well of agony and despair. (i.e., we were planning our wedding reception)
Read More »Let’s Stop Treating Our Teachers Like Crap!
Every day, my wife, a fourth-grade teacher, comes home exhausted. She then stays up late grading papers and preparing for the next day. Lying in bed waiting for her to go to sleep, I
Read More »Gauging the Next Generation of Writers
This week, I was dragged to Jameelah’s fourth-grade class as a “guest writer.” This shows just how poor the quality of our education system is, when I am a guest speaker for anything. The
Read More »I May Be Tweeting, But I’m Still A Human Being!
My friends, if you have been reading Jagged Noodles for the past two years, you know of my vehement disdain of Facebook and Twitter. And I don’t use the word “vehement” lightly … mainly
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