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Update: Fighting the Good Fight (Part II)

Remember when I fought the good fight for free tortilla chips with a bad Yelp review and won...

Akilah GreenDecember 23, 2015akilah, akilah green, black, black woman, blog, comedy, comedy writer, comic, life is once, nachos, side of my neck, tortilla chips, woman, writer, yelp

How-to-Half-ass Halloween

What do you wear to a Halloween party when you just don't give a damn?

Akilah GreenNovember 2, 2014akilah, akilah green, black woman, comedy, comedy writer, comic, half-ass, halloween, halloween party, party, stand up, trick or treat, writer

It's Been a Year!

I arrived in Los Angeles exactly one year ago today! On April Fools’ Day. This is my "Year-End Review."

Off the Grid

There is something really wonderful about moving away from everyone you know to a place where you know virtually no one. This inaugural anonymity only lasts for so long because you can only be new to a city once. So I’ve been off the grid.

What Day Is It?

I’m unemployed or not in school for the first time since I was 2. And I've become a total bum.

Akilah GreenJuly 9, 2013akilah, akilah green, blog, comedy writer, employed, hollywood, life is once, los angeles, self-employed, writer

Life is Once

On April Fools’ Day 2013, just a year shy of eligibility for partnership at my swanky Washington, D.C. law firm, I packed my things and moved across the country to Los Angeles to pursue my childhood dream of becoming a TV writer...

Akilah GreenJune 25, 2013akilah, akilah green, blog, comedy writer, dream, dreams, faith, hollywood, lawyer, life is once, lobbyist, los angeles, writer