Sweet Loraine's Snazziness

Moe won't forgive me if I don't post this. Tuesday night my boss, Christine, asked me to come with her to Sweet Loraine's, which is a bar on St. Claude, for open mic night.

First off, I'm not sure if I've mentioned how awesome Christine Brown is. She works full time at Ashe as Carol Bebelle's assistant, runs her own photography business (CFreedom Photography), is a rapper), is a spoken word poetry artist, and a single mother of a hilarious little guy named Devalon who is about to graduate from Pre-K. She's the emcee for his graduation, and also is the president of the PTO. I do not see how she does it all, but she does, and is amazing at it.

Moe was staying with us for a few days before he headed home. Unfortunately he contracted a nasty case of food poisoning, but was feeling better by Tuesday night. He and Austin came with Christine and I to aforementioned open mic night.

Earlier that day, I decided to take a jump and write a spoken word piece and possibly perform it that night. Which much encouragement from the other three of our happy clan, I didn't back out of it, and have this sweet footage to show as a result. Credit to Moe for his filming skills. When they called me up, they called me Tess because my J's look like T's. No matter. Here's the finished product (albeit, extremely unpolished, because it was composed in an afternoon).



Contemplating submitting this as my summer reflection,
Jess