Quotant Quotables

"I don't do contemporary stuff, like Hip-Hop. I'm more likely to have a hip replacement."

-Dr. David Soren, just before he serenaded our cinema class

"What's the deal with gum? It's not a liquid, its not a food..you don't eat it. It's like a stationary bike for your jaw." 

- Jerry Seinfeld, "The Gum" episode

Fingers Crossed

HR 1913 Passes the House

HR 1913 (The Matthew Shepard Act) was passed today by an impressive margin sending a strong statement about equality and inclusiveness for all communities.  This bill will allow prosecution of violent crimes based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.  It is the first fully inclusive bill to be introduced during this Session. The fate of the bill now rests in the hands of the Senate.  Powerful speeches flooded the floor of the house today.  Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) spoke of the importance of“tolerance, equality and justice.”  Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Florida) declared “people need not live in fear because of who they are.” “Hate crimes are an assault on people’s dignity and humanity” stated Rep. Joseph Cao (R-Louisiana). These statements echoed the support for this legislation that is shared by nearly 300 civil rights, education, religious, religious organizations and thirty one state Attorneys General.

The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, H.R. 1913, when passed will:

• Extend existing federal protections to include "gender identity, sexual orientation, gender and disability"
• Allow the Justice Department to assist in hate crime investigations at the local level when local law enforcement is unable or unwilling to fully address these crimes
• Mandate that the FBI begin tracking hate crimes based on actual or perceived gender identity
• Remove limitations that narrowly define hate crimes to violence committed while a person is accessing a federally protected activity, such as voting.

 

Feist-y

I feel it all, I feel it all
I feel it all, I feel it all
The wings are wide, the wings are wide
Wild card in sight, wild card in sight

Oh I’ll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hope

Can I know more than I knew before
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest, I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk

Oh I’ll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hope

Can I love you more
I love you more
I don't know what I knew before
But now I know I want to win the war

No one likes to take a test
Sometimes we don't pull or flex
Put your weight against the door
Kick-drum on the basement floor
Stranded in the thought of woods
Looking like the winter bird
On my head the water pours
Cops stream through the open door
Fly away
Fly away the one who want to make

I feel it all
I feel it all
The wings are wide
Wild card in sight, wild card in sight

Audrey Flack

"I think that stories live in the collective unconscious of societies. Stories about men and stories about women. You all need some new stories...

Vision is male and female. Until recently, the history of art has been the history of male vision. Women dress, look, feel and see differently. Their vision must be incorporated into the history of art. "

Spotting

It's official: Santa Claus Springs in Tucson, drives a red Yukon and voted for Obama. 

Saw it with my own two eyes. Well, four if you include Kate-as-witness too. 

BAM.

You Thrive on Mistaken Identity

“I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do – you know, instead of pulling a gun.”

"Pictures and words have the power to tell us who we are and aren’t, and I try to engage that power..I  try to make work about how we are to one another."  

                                                        -Barbara Kruger