James E. Elam, IV

06/03/2026

Soooo...I just discovered . Just the boost that I needed to start training with my .

Just in time for my new movie role!!!

They took the wrong man's air fryer. And now they're COOKED!!

06/02/2026

This whole pay-for-pardon thing surrounding Donald Trump is wild.

We're apparently at the point where people show up with bags of cash, buy access, cut checks, and somehow a week later they're walking out of prison. In some cases, not only are they getting out, but obligations to repay victims seem to disappear too.

It honestly makes me wonder if there are some super-rich guys sitting around thinking:

"You know, I never considered committing crimes before, but if the penalty is basically just a very expensive subscription fee, maybe I should revisit the math."

Now, before anybody gets upset, let me be clear: crimes are bad, m'kay? As Mr. Mackey taught us.

But traditionally, if you wanted to do something truly awful and get away with it, Hollywood taught us you'd have to flee to some remote country with no extradition treaty. Now apparently you can just stay home, write a check, attend a fundraiser, and keep your frequent flyer miles intact.

Maybe that's the innovation. Why travel internationally when corruption comes directly to your doorstep?

At this point we're practically running a presidential rewards program.

Commit a crime. Earn points.

You get a crime. You get a crime. You get a crime.

Everybody gets a crime.

Donald Trump is the Oprah of crime.

05/28/2026

05/08/2026

I put on a pair of readers because I forgot I had on a pair of readers. Sigh. I probably have another pair in my pocket.

04/20/2026

Last week I had the chance to guest lecture at Temple, and the professor just sent over this photo. Apparently the class enjoyed it quite a bit, and she said some of the students might even reach out because they were fascinated by the stories and the way I explained how these industries actually work in the real world.

One moment during the talk really stuck with me.

I told them that their generation has no songs. Not across genres. No big songs that everybody knows.

So I dared the whole room:
“Name one song everyone in this room knows.”

Nobody even tried.

Nobody argued. Nobody pushed back. The room just kind of nodded like, yeah… that’s true.

Then I explained what I think happened.

We’re living in what I call the era of the baby punchers.

I could probably get a guy on the internet who punches babies a record deal before I could get someone truly talented a record deal. Some jackass sitting in a dorm room wearing a zebra costume and playing the piccolo might become the next viral sensation before a legitimately gifted singer ever gets heard.

When I was coming up, it was different.
You had stories like Dru Hill singing at work and getting discovered.
You could be in the right place, sing for the right person, and your life changed.

There was discovery.

Now the algorithm mostly rewards provocation.

The funny part? The students didn’t even debate me. They just listened and took notes.

Anyway — great class, great students, and always fun sharing a few real-world stories from the trenches.

(And yes… the Thanos pose in my profile picture felt appropriate.)

04/18/2026

04/10/2026

I asked to animate a photo of me bodybuilding and the result is hilarious. Play at your own risk with artificial intelligence. I don't even know what to say about this.