Black Like Me is back.

Once upon a time, I wrote a small column for a Philadelphia based newsprint-format publication, which will go unnamed. This column was called "Black Like Me" and I wrote it for little under a year until it was removed from this Philadelphia based newsprint-format publication because of budget cuts the publication suffered due to decreased revenue from advertising sales (or so they claimed). While it did exist though, Black Like Me was wildly (un)popular and attracted the contempt of much of its Philadelphia reading audience as well as much of the staff at the Philadelphia Wee-- Fuck, I almost gave it away, huh? Well I'm not that simple reader! Who do I look like? Mixelplix? You'll never find out what paper I wrote for! Anywayzzz: Occasionally, some junkie ragamuffin or beatnik would come up to me, smelling of heroin and jazz music, and say "I really enjoy Black Like Me." This made me feel good, because for all the zany (drug-addled) gobble-dee-gook (gobble-dee-gook) contained within Black Like Me, I was really just a clown wanting to make people laugh with my silly clown words. So it is with great pride that I can announce that I will recommence writing Black Like Me for the Mad Decent blog on a biweekly (that means a fortnight, for some of you older folks reading this) basis. Some of you may know the Mad Decent record label through it's aryan front man/super producer Diplo, and some of you may know Diplo through the Grammy nominated track he produced called "Paper Planes" for Sri Lankan foot model turned freedom fighter M.I.A, and some of you may know M.I.A from her signature brown skin and blue wig. So to wrap this all up, please check out the first of many Black Like Me's at the Paper Planes blog. The link is below. I’m pretty rusty at the whole thinking and writing thing, but I promise they’ll get better as I go along. Or not.

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Selah.