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About Me

My name is Adrian. I write good. I write good stuff that make people laugh. People like to laugh. People like ice cream. I do not make good ice cream. Thank you. The end.

I am a writer of film, television, theater, and contributing writer for "The Humor Mill" comedy e-magazine.

Check out these pics from our latest short, "The Corporate Adventures of Sweet Black Terry" - Coming soon to a Cadillac near you!!!

A. Dukes Masterpiece Theater

Written by yours truly and my partner Chuck Burks

Another Dukes creation this time starring my man Chuck and Dean Edwards

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My Interests

Breakfast cereals.

I'd like to meet:

In addition to Bill Gates, Rodney King, Stedman Graham, Batman (not Bruce Wayne), the person who invented velcro, and Colin Powell, I'm also interested in meeting fellow writers, filmmakers, producers, investors, agents, managers, production people, actors, publicists, musicians, artists, and animators.

Music:

Max Roach, 1924-2007

Movies:

LOTR, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, School Daze, Dazed and Confused, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Clue, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harlem Nights, Bustin Loose, The Wiz, The Color Purple, The Last Dragon, Boiler Room, Enter the Dragon, Downward Spiral, Malcolm X, Life, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Annie Hall, Dumb and Dumber, Napoleon Dynamite, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Friday, Boomerang, The Mack, The Dirty Dozen, Oliver Twist

Television:

Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Sanford & Son, Lost, Smallville, Heroes, Reno 911, The Daily Show, The Price is Right, Two and a Half Men, The Amazing Race, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, My Name is Earl, The Office, Entourage, Good Times

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird, the Bible, How to Write Treatments that Sell, 10 Minutes to Pitch, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Star Wars novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Black Boy, Master of the Dew, Of Mice and Men

Heroes:

Langston Hughes, Spider-man, and Rebie Jackson

My Blog

Id Like to Buy a Vowel

The end of summer is upon us and for most kids, school is back in session. With the help of a good friend of mine who works in the public school system, I have compiled a list of ghetto names of some...
Posted by A.dukes on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:59:00 PST

Black American Idol

Unless you've spent the past four months in a cave with Bin Laden, you are well aware of the whole Michael Vick situation. I've joked about learning a lesson about White people from this ordeal: they...
Posted by A.dukes on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

The Way of the World

I know it's only August, but this has already been an interesting year for celebrities and sports figures in the news. Ever influenced by pop culture and celebrity, I decided to share with you some o...
Posted by A.dukes on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:07:00 PST

Transformers

With the assistance of my writing partner, Ms. Adrienne Taylor, I've decided to do a little community service and take on one of the biggest problems facing women today: men on the down low. To help ...
Posted by A.dukes on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:17:00 PST

Hip Hop, We Have a Problem!

Growing up, I recall some Saturday nights when my aunt or some of my mother's friends would come over to hang out. What started as simple spades games often ended with somebody throwing on an ol...
Posted by A.dukes on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:11:00 PST

Confession of a Crack-TV Addict

I was in college when I first heard about this new sensation and thought I'd give it a try. The show was MTV's "The Real World." It answered the question of what happens when seven strangers forced ...
Posted by A.dukes on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:30:00 PST

Weight Loss Program

I have recently been taking inventory of the people in my life whom I call friends and realize the time has come to start cutting some of them off. I don't mean the ones who are a shoulder to cry on ...
Posted by A.dukes on Mon, 21 May 2007 08:49:00 PST

Thank You, Easter Bunny!

Easter time has come and gone yet again. The time of year where we all rushed to the mall for the perfect outfit, dusted off those big white Bibles, and made our annual cameos at church in celebratio...
Posted by A.dukes on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST

So Hard to Say Goodbye

March 10, 2007 was an emotional day as I said a final goodbye to my uncle at his funeral after losing him to pneumonia seven days earlier. Sadly, it was also the same day that the world said it's fin...
Posted by A.dukes on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:52:00 PST

Please Listen to My Demo

The other day I was having a conversation with my cousin who is a pretty successful music producer. I was amazed as he told me about the number of grown men over 40 who approach him trying to get on ...
Posted by A.dukes on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST