The Tangential

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  • Why Sarcasm is For Losers

    Why Sarcasm is For Losers

    When I was an angsty youngster, mad at the world for making me black and smarter than everyone else, I had one consistent solace in my sea of wrath: sarcasm. At the time, I thought it was the Communication of Gods. It effectively alienated those not in my cabal and made my insecure, pimply being…

  • Eight Really Bad Things I’ve Done, and the Paybacks I Got in Return

    Eight Really Bad Things I’ve Done, and the Paybacks I Got in Return

    Offense: In kindergarten, I climbed up a slide with a big rock and dropped it on another kid’s head. His head split open and there was blood everywhere. He got taken away in an ambulance. Payback: After the incident, I was waiting for my mom to pick me up. I was in so much trouble…

  • On Being Mulatto

    On Being Mulatto

    Being biracial is way less of a drag than people assume it will be. Apparently when my white mom was planning to mate with my black dad, people would whisper, “What about the children? They will never have a racial identity.” I guess they were right – we don’t have a racial identity and that’s…

  • How to Be Way Too High in the Airport

    How to Be Way Too High in the Airport

    Oopsies. Looks like that chocolate you just ate out of your brother’s fridge was laced with weed. Your flight is in 1.5 hours. Congrats, you are now going to be really, really high in the airtport. Here’s how to make it through without getting the ‘ol oil check from TSA. Dress appropriately. It’s no coincidence…

  • Black People: A Guide for Whitey

    Black People: A Guide for Whitey

    Black people do not love sleeping over at your house. The amount of loot American black people (especially girls) spend on hair products is way higher than the GDP of Kenya. We drop hundreds on relaxer, hairspray, Murray’s Oil, weaves, moisturizer and perms each month.  Cotton sheets destroy fresh hairdos, so if you expect us…

  • Why Snooki Deserves More $ Than Toni Morrison

    Why Snooki Deserves More $ Than Toni Morrison

    If you follow the Twitters or other illustrious publications like PerezHilton, you likely know by now that Snooki was recently paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers, whereas Toni Morrison was only paid $30,000. As a white person, you also likely used an adjective like “shocking,” “disturbing” or tweeted it with the hashtag #signofthearmageddon. But come…

  • What Your Cigarette Brand Says About You and How You Want to Die

    What Your Cigarette Brand Says About You and How You Want to Die

    Menthol: You’re not afraid of dying and/or you are a member of People More Prone to Get AIDS (gay/black/ultra-promiscuous). How you want to die: At a pot luck, in a room by yourself watching TV, or doing poppers in the bathroom. You’re living life and not giving a fuck.  American Spirits: You’re a hippie or…

  • A Guide to Quitting Smoking

    A Guide to Quitting Smoking

    You have to quit smoking at some point. Not today maybe, but definitely before you turn 30. Smoking is totally cool during your teens and early ’20s, but if you don’t stop before you’re three decades old, you will get wrinkly, get cancer and then die. Even the surgeon general acknowledges that you can almost…