Black Is The New Orange (Season 2): 9 People Who You Think Are Spitting In Your Food

Last week, Netflix released season 2 of their hit women's prison dramedy, Orange is the New Black. In celebration of the return of Piper, Pennsatucky and the rest of those wacky inmates, its only right that I hit you with season 2 of the Quick Blurb original series, Black is the New Orange. For those who aren't familiar, you can check out season 1 here.

Neighbors Insurance Crusade

The beginning of 2013 saw the city of Chicago author several stories of pain and mindless violence. This year, it seems there are many citizens out there that want to help co-write an alternate, more positive ending for the Windy City.

Let me introduce you to DeMario Trent and the Neighbors Insurance Crusade. DeMario is on a mission to help make sure 10,000 children and young adults in Chicago (particularly in African-American communities) are covered under life insurance policies by the end of 2014. His ultimate goal is to see this number reach 100,000 by 2020

New Year...New Name...New Game

Happy New Year everybody! Many of you may already know that I am not one for making New Year's resolutions, so please believe that what has taken place is in no way some fake ass promise to you or myself to be better. I mean let's face it, I'm as good as it gets, so the only promise I can make is to give you more. I've had this plan in motion for while, it's just a coincidence the name change happened on January 1st, so suck it

When I started Conscious Residue, it was mainly just release therapy for myself, but the more I wrote, the more curious I grew as to what this could evolve to. I was able to provide a space for other creative and like-minded individuals to express their thoughts on various subjects and contribute great content (Dustine, Tim, and Jeff), and two others who claim they will eventually write something for the blog (I'm not going to name any names, but for argument's sake, let's just call them Allycia and DeMario). With these new partnerships, CR was able to get over 12,000 unique views in 2013.


I know what you're thinking, "12,000!?!?! That ain't shit! I seen a kitten wearing a bow-tie and tube socks on YouTube get 12 million views in 2 days." To that I say blow me. I think 12,000 views is not bad for a medium (the Internet) that is geared towards a partially illiterate audience and having a strict marketing budget of posting on Facebook. My goal is to at least double that in 2014.

Which brings me to the name change, #Culture. Even though I love the name Conscious Residue, it just didn't have that ring to it like major online media brands Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, or Grantland do. Let's face it, Conscious Residue sounds like an album title from a pretentious jazz artist or a new strand of marijuana some hippy in Montana cultivated.

Yes, technically the name #Culture dumbs it down, but it still gets our point across. In Twitter terms, the hashtag (#) means trending or the current hot topic. Not only will we showcase trending topics, but I hope to have #Culture itself trending in 2014.

We will still rant about dumb pop-culture nonsense, hit you with the standards (Week Sauce, The A.D.D. Report, Daily Throwbacks, etc...), and give you a few new things (WacGyver Podcast and live event reviews). Who knows, we might be able to get Jeff Donovan to complete his 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days reviews list...wishful thinking.

I'm excited about the work I plan to put into this blog this year, and hopefully one or two of you will enjoy the outcome. For the first time this year...you're welcome.

By The Way...F*ck You Facebook & YouTube

You can include George Lucas and Shanice on that list too. Happy birthday, Olivia.

Accidental Racist Recap

After my post on Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's ridiculous collaboration, Accidental Racist, I was kind of accused on Facebook of not "understanding" the meaning behind the song.  Generally I'm an asshole towards such criticism, but this time I thought maybe the overall ridiculous sound to the song prejudiced my opinion. So I thought, maybe I need to read the lyrics to get a better understanding of the song.  I ventured out into the inter-web to find the exact lyrics, not before responding to my nay-sayer with some undeniable knowledge.

I found the lyrics and read them.  Before I give you my opinion, I figured I'd post them and let you formulate your own true opinion.

Week Sauce (3/17 - 3/23)

Trying to get it in early, since I've been late the last couple of weeks.  I'm not gonna lie, bigger things could have happened this week and I might have missed them.  I don't care, its March Madness, snitches!  This tournament is the only important thing going on this week, ask Obama.  He dropped everything to fill out a bracket.  That man loves his TV time.  

Here's what stood out, let me know what slipped through the cracks.

Hudson Mohawke – Sweet Silverskin

With this post, I should hit 1000 readers, and it only took me 2 years.  I guess that's what I get for entrusting the world of Facebook to actually read something outside of a meme.  Pathetic, but I'm pretty sure this is how Hemingway started (Wikipedia that shit if you don't believe me).  To celebrate the milestone, I got some new music from G.O.O.D. Music signee, Hudson Mohawke.  He released this jammy-jam today on BBC Radio today.  This kid has a future.  His instrumentals are cold as ice, and I can't wait to see which emcees requisition his talent.  The next G.O.O.D. album coming out is Big Sean's Hall of Fame, and hopefully Mr. Mohawke is all over that.  Until then, enjoy some Sweet Silverskin.  You're welcome...and if I hit 1000, thank you.