Kudzu, Mon Amour

Love from Poland

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

I did a really cool interview some months ago for an online Polish jazz magazine called Diapazon and then I totally spaced it. Just tripped over this link on last.fm and I'm really quite taken with...

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I did it!

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:30:00 +0000

i worked on the 20 pages of my submission for nyfa until noon and then i caved and ran out of the house to run errands in midtown. after that, i was too wound up about what i had written to go home...

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Day One

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:55:00 +0000

No time to blog. I'm working my way through rewrites for a New York Foundation for the Arts 2010 Artist Fellowship submission in playwriting/screenwriting. It's so easy to get lost in it. Time...

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Help!

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:56:00 +0000

if anyone knows where i can get some white lightning this far up north in yankeelandia, please contact me via this blog. that's right. i'm steady on the look out for real, honest-to-goodness...

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ah, the best laid plans...

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Yeah, so -- I honestly meant to glide through this weekend and blog all about it but I was having way too much fun to bother. Such is life in the big titty. It ended on Sunday with an impromptu...

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...and what are YOU doing this weekend?

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:33:00 +0000

yeah, i got big plans. i'm singing at the bootlegger's ball at the infamous burden mansion on e. 91st street in manhattan. it's some real turn-of-the-century, robberbaron type stuff -- which i...

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yes

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:46:00 +0000

i'm going to do nablopomo this month. the theme is HAUNTED. to kick things off the right way, here's a creepy home video some stooge made of what happened at his cousin's house in florida after...

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auditions and callbacks and go-sees, oh my!

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:24:00 +0000

sorry i haven't written anything in a minute. things have been a bit hectic, in a good way. i got a call on friday for a commercial audition on saturday, and then i got a call on sunday that i got a...

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my box has red roses in it

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:49:00 +0000

shockingly, i have nothing to report. oh, wait a minute. yes i do! i haven't paid the mechanical license fee for the standards to harry fox agency, i haven't even thought about the artwork, i've...

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so...

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:55:00 +0000

now that the jazz cd is almost finished, i'm already hard at work on the next album in my head. i honestly can't help myself. maybe that's why i'm usually steady at it, making lists and drawing...

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Scholarships for College

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:05:00 +0000

Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with someone who does, and to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations...

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Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:39:00 +0000

more old kudzu from a few years ago that i'm rethinking/reconfiguring. enjoy. Just when I thought we were in the clear, I woke up to a near blizzard a few days ago. It was the worst storm the city...

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...you're not going to believe this one, but...

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:55:00 +0000

i got it. i auditioned for a soap opera - on camera work right here in new york city - and i got it. it's a small role, and i'm over the moon. i'm not playing a crackhead or a drug addict or a...

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My Right Guard Rite of Passage

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0000

This is a little something that resurfaced from my old "Kudzu" blog, and that I'm rethinking for later publication. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------- When I was...

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In Defense of Black Women, Black Hair and Michelle Obama (...not that they need it...)

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0000

fyi: this essay was previously posted in the notes of my facebook page in response to what my friend tanya wrote on the subject....

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your inner svengali

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:51:00 +0000

i've been auditioning a lot this summer for on camera work: mostly commercials and independent film, but occasionally a short here and there. i usually get a callback and then i don't get the job,...

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The Farm of Tomorrow

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:06:00 +0000

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The House of Tomorrow

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:04:00 +0000

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The Car of Tomorrow

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Classic cartoon that's got this month's "tomorrow" theme all over it. Enjoy.

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A book review - "Are You Somebody?"

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:30:00 +0000

Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain My rating: 3 of 5 stars When a really cool black female friend presented this book to me as a gift, she told me that...

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another day, another list

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:01:00 +0000

when i said most actors have to do more than one thing well to make a living, i meant it. you don't even want to get into what i've done already, so here's a list of all the stuff i do currently....

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Black Man Fridays: Bayard Rustin

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:06:00 +0000

this is a clip from the documentary brother outsider: the life of bayard rustin. most of us know this brother as a tireless activist, a civil rights strategist and the architect of dr. king's march...

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DIY

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:34:00 +0000

if you're an artist, you learn pretty quickly that you are your own business - especially if you're an actor. maintenance and upkeep on all fronts is understood. expansion, vision and growth? now, ...

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i've got it

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:46:00 +0000

i'm not sure exactly when the moment happened but i think i now understand the readjustment that's necessary when acting for the camera and the difference between that and what it takes to readjust...

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on the road again

onequeenesther@gmail.com (queenesther) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:14:00 +0000

i have nothing further to add. not yet, anyway. leaving this sunny little town in a little while but first i'm making a pit stop for blueberry soda, sarsparilla, blueberry maple syrup and any other...

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