I am a hard working Detroit native who lives and works in Chicago. I work an awful lot, but I need to play as hard as I work. I need to find a woman who appreciates the arts, literature and music. If you are not an NPR listener or rush home to catch American Idol or some other banal type of entertainment, we prolly will not work out. I like good beer and straight whiskey, so if you drink whatever is the latest or hottest cocktail, we prolly won't work out. I am a writer by avocation, so I love neologisms, instead of probably I always type prolly, instead of through I always type thru. These are just examples I can think of right now. So if you have a smarmy need to correct folk's grammar or spelling, we prolly will not work out. I am a race-man, which is different from a racist, so if you do not know the difference, we prolly will not work out. I like women with meat on their bones and larger boobs, I have dated thin flat chested women, but everyone has a preference. I prefer college educated women with an active intellectual life. If none of this repulses you, and you like short, thick guys, send me a message!

I work a lot and am thinking of adding graduate school to that mix. I still manage to have fun on the days off that I do have.

Writing and Listening

My laugh.

John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Burrell, Nirvana, Parliament Funkadelic, Cassandra Wilson, Eddie Jefferson, Morris Day and the Time, Public Enemy, Little Milton, Big Mama Thornton, Elmo Hope, Bill Lee, Stanley Clarke, Galactic, Sun Ra, Son Seals, Sonny Stitt, The Doors, Foreigner, Cameo, Orange Lake Drive, Kimmie Horn, Rod Hicks, Alexander Zonjic, Weather Report, Harry Connick Jr., Mos Def, Eric B & Rakhim, Brass Construction, Gil Scott-Heron, Eric Burden, James Taylor, Cosby, Good Times, Family Guy, Boondocks, The Wire, Different World, Sopranos, Sanford and Son, What's Happening, Trailer Park Boys, That's My Mama, Roots, That Girl, All in the Family, I Dream of Jeannie, Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Star Trek, Seinfield, Their Eyes Were Watching God, In Search of Satisfaction, Baby of the Family, The Known World, The USA Trilogy, The Sun Also Rises, Reckless Eyballin, Shelby Foote's Civil War Narratives, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Things Fall Apart, Horatio Hornblower, Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Black Boy, The Long Dream, Lolita, Invisible Man, Giovanni's Room, Foundation and Empire, Another Country, The Art of War, The Hotel New Hampshhire, The Cider House Rules, Passing, Quicksand, The Dubliners, Native Son, Quicksand, Passing, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, She Hate Me, Forrest Gump, Platoon, Sugar Hill, Patton, Full Metal Jacket, Love Jones, Pulp Fiction, Sweetback, Putney Swopes, Imitation of Life, Brown Sugar, Malcolm X, The 25th Hour, Clockers, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, We Three Kings,

My job, my phone, faith in the universe, close friends, my scrapbook full of life experiences, good health.

Currently, the American Reconstruction Era and it's effect on present day racial politics.

with friends

I liked smoking on trains in Europe.

If you would like to have a drink and chat.