Mattilyn Rochester to star in Black Nativity

More info to come but I am really excited about performing again.  Fun things on the forefront and I am happy.  The performance will be in Philly and I will post all about it.  Yippie.

I will also be performing I think at Stockton State College doing a piece about Fannie Lou Hamer.

I have a couple of interviews coming up and my OJ Simpson video is going to be really viral soon.  Funny that is something I was just doing to be silly and it has sooooooooooooooo many hits.  Hilar.

Grateful

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Clariton D.  While it removes many of the issues related to the allergy season it makes you hell of tired.  I have been feeling like  am in a cloud all day, the past several days and that seems to be the culprit.

Kichi-Bao (still not sold on her name but will go with it, esp. since she is now responding to it) seems to be coming out of her shock and is all over the house.  She has quite a personality and my mom is growing to love her which does my heart extremely proud.  My mother used to say that she and my father spend loads of money getting my brother and I the best educational toys, toys meant to stimulate child development of the Einstein line, and we always ended up going in the cupboards playing with pots and pans; anything but.  I am noticing the same with lil Kichi-Bao.  She love my undergarments.  I am in the living room with my mother watching television and my mother says, "What is that?"
"Why its my thong mother, my thong"  way to go Kichi.
She loves my clothes, newspaper, toilet tissue and is a very slow convert to the toys I have purchased that the apt head trainer at PetSmart assured me were the "best".

Career is about to shift because I am shifting.  I have decided to be a series regular in some television show by this time next year.  Plausible and quite doable.  Not sure what specifically I need to do to ensure this but I am certain of its outcome.  It's just time.  I have decided that I need to network a bit more and put myself out there more.  Many people don't know this because I am a bit outgoing but at the same time very shy and a bit self conscious.  Especially when it comes to selling myself.  So I am willing be be vulnerable and see what happens.

I'm Buggin (17 of 135)

Okay I somehow was a....I'm to embarrassed to tell......

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Yawn.....a dog is a lot of work.  Cant hear myself think.  Yawn.

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I really enjoy celebrating with other people and for other people.  It moves my energy higher.  I love love, people in love and the idea of love. I am finding it difficult however tokeep my eyes open

two weeks!!! (14 of 365)

So 52 weeks in a year 2 down 50 to go.  I was reading the other day on the train and something very interesting came into my brain.  Most times when I read it is regurgitated information said in a new or interesting way, the same story told better or worse.  This information was like of the AH HA kind.  I forgot the authors name but it was my girl from CALLING IN THE ONE, I've mentioned her before.  And she talked about how we always think we have to DO something in order to get results in life.  She talked about drawing things in, allowing and attracting.  Not as an alternative to doing but a partner to doing.  Doing is a male thing and allowing or drawing in is a female thing.  One no better than the other, each important.  Sometimes we need to do and sometimes we need to joyfully wait.  The brilliance I think is in knowing when to do which.  The balance of male and female, ying and yang.  What a lovely bit of information.

RAT'S Restaurant Review (13 OF 365)

I actually wrote about actual rats in the NY subway stations when I first got back from Japan, the stark difference between the two.  One a musical chaos filled with many characters and the other a homogenous orderly chaos of quiet compliance.  But the Rats of which I am speaking of today is one that touched my pallet in a delectable way.

I have always loved the FOOD NETWORK or is it LIFETIME, well which ever one shows TOP CHEF, oh I thinks it BRAVO. I love TOP CHEF and the three aforementioned networks and I was also very proud that one of Willingboro's own won.  It meant something special to me.  I have traveled the world and come back home to speak and am still holding against the odds dreams of one day winning an Oscar and seeing him win such an honor gave me hope and inspired me.  And since Sunday is Kevin Sbraga's last day at Rats, my fellow foodie friend and I decided to pay the type of homage that gives you an immediate pay off.  Nestled in the throws of NJ's capitol is this eclectic mosh posh of a delightful other continental odd place that somehow feels like home.

I never can say I have been into French food but if this is how the French throw down then I am a fan.  Everything made me feel like I was Padma and I was getting a birds eye view of just what she experiences many days in a year.  She makes food sound sexy and titillating and beautiful.  The show gives me such a respect for the environment food and the sacrifice that goes into good eating.  An art form for sure.  From the blueberry lemonade, escargot in a broth that would make you slap yo mamma, to foie gras which I now have a taste for.  I kept hearing about this damn foie gras I wanted to taste it.  Now the last time I had pate was a taste of my mothers at Charlie Brown's.  I remembered as a child hating anything that had anything to do with anybodies liver, but baby my pallet has changed.  Then a simple lamb.  I understood the reason we say prayers before a meal.  Thanking this precious animal for sacrificing his precious life for my sustenance and thanking whoever prepared it for doing so with such reverence and care, it was almost a religious experience.  You could taste the love in even the bread and butter just special.  Dessert was good, I am not a big dessert person and it was a bit sweet for me but the care and artistry was just divine.



Kevin you let me know when you open your restaurant and I will be there!  I was so busy eating I forgot to take more pictures.