I don’t wanna be a poet.
Cuz I don’t wanna blow it.
I don’t care to win awards.
All I wanna do is dance,
And play music, sex romance.
Try my best to never get bored.
(Prince, from album “1999”)
Rodney O. Lain wants to
make you mad. He wants to make you laugh.
He wants to make you think. He wants to
make you forget. But most importantly,
he wants to make you read. And he has
come to Applelust through an arduous,
curious and circuitous route to do just
that.
Well known on the Mac Web for an uncompromising
writing style that unabashedly segues
from wit to pathos to downright controversy,
Rodney has written regular — and
irregular — columns for a veritable
slew of Mac web sites over the last few
years: "The Angry Mac Man,”
at TheiMac.com; "The Realist,"
at MyMac.com; "The Iconoclast"
at the now-defunct MacSimple.com; and
a few others for local newspapers and
other Mac web sites.
Most recently, he wrote the "Mac
Spirit" column at Applelinks.com,
before readers, advertisers and the Speech
Police demanded that he be fired for using
the word "nigger" in a column.
His most popular writing appeared at
MacAddict.com under the "iBrotha"
moniker, until the first wave of dot-com
shake outs earned him a pink slip. "iBrotha"
now resides at MacObserver.com.
He also writes "Things
Macintosh" at LowEndMac.com,
and writes at other sites, where he is
allowed to say things like “nigger,
nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger!”
to his heart's content.
Rodney lives in Minnesota, where he is
an MIS manager for a pretty big Fortune
50 company. Sketchy biographical and personal
interests are deliberately scattered throughout
his web site at http://www.ibrotha.com.
He won't tell you anything more definite,
because he thinks you are all just jealous
and are out to get him.
He swears that he isn’t paranoid,
though.
rodneyo@applelust.com
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