the tea you’re sipping could poison you too

What is it about villains like Lydia from Breaking Bad that stick with us long after their story ends?

i promise you,
i think about her often.

she was cold,
calculating,

and had this neurotic obsession with control.
she let others do her dirty work,
thinking she could sit comfortably on her untouchable pedestal.
in the end

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make the price of eggs great again

This is what it said when I went to the store this morning.

i just started making bomb omelettes too.
ugh.

you know the saying:

“You don’t know what you got til it’s gone.”

well,
i think the first to go in the new world order is the eggs.
eggs use to be like 4/carton for me.
nowadays

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america is about to be great any day now (anyyyyy day now)

So when exactly is America supposed to be great again?

it’s four days in and it’s looking more like a sequel to chaos than anything remotely “great”.
with our new president diving headfirst into his rollback agenda,
undoing policies left and right,
i can’t help but wonder

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burned out in la: joie chavis and the cost of independence?

When i went to the Beyoncé concert two years ago,
it wasn’t because i scored a last-minute ticket or splurged my savings.
It was a gift from a rich Foxholer who knew how to make an impression.

he’s black,
successful
,
and didn’t flinch when i mentioned the date or seat.
price be damned,” he said,
like a true wolf king.

this wasn’t his first time stepping up either.
he has popped up in the past when i’ve needed help and honestly,
he’s a rare breed.
realistically,
most rich black males i’ve encountered just want to flex.
this is where i understand where joie chavis,
the professional breed machine to rappers and a baller wolf is kinda coming from.
after the la fires,
she is in a tight spot

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“you know you were dating work wolf, right?”

“Jamari,
your readers can’t tell you what we saw.
We were there and you were dating that dude…”

there was also many things i didn’t share.
so i was having a conversation with karaoke today.
we got into a bunch of topics about relationships,
but the one about my relationship with work wolf randomly came up.
i never wanted to believe i was dated work wolf.
i thought dating was something completely different

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grandy glaze: attentionisto hits peak boredom?

I couldn’t resist.

i see a lot of folks praising OF star,
jacobi.

i’ve seen comments like:

“He always turns out all the sexy straights.”

…and tbh,
i’ll give him that but from what i saw with grandy glaze

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