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with all this great weather the little is frantically using her favorite word - out. she says it double time. out out. and with a canadian accent. [not sure why but it's true]. basically from the minute she wakes up until the end of her day she'll go to any exit or window and emphatically request out out - out out. it's really cute - except for when you have to tell her - i'm sorry we just came in from out out - or no - we have to stay in in now. what a pathetic and sad face she sometimes makes. occasionally she'll even whimper "out out" "out out". if she could figure out a way to stay outside all the time i think she would.
last week i had the immense pleasure and treat to spend the afternoon with martha of uniform natural . she came out to my studio and we sat and chatted. my parents were here and so our visit was peppered with interruptions from the little, but mostly we were able to discuss art and process and making in a really lovely way. martha is incredibly astute and sincere in her observations and questions and responses [as if you had any doubt about that]. i could feel my body and mind viscerally responding - reverting to familiar territory - thinking more academically and speaking about one's intentions and ways of making in a meaningful and purposeful way.
highlights from our talk: the differences between architecture and art [some of them anyway - revolving around the idea that architects must be more concerned aware of public safety and more concerned about "client satisfaction"] ann hamilton , tara donovan , my desire to visit the walker , and how architects have an incredible ability to accurately access situations/people, and how they are so aesthetically put together [best clothes and glasses. always].
i am so grateful to the internet for providing the means for this to happen.
and so - i have to get cracking. i have a statement to concoct, a website to update, artwork to tackle, dishes to wash, a studio visit to prepare for.... i'm still hoping to write a spring manifesto . happy tuesday!
lauren dicioccio
i really love all her work, but these hand embroidered organza "plastic bags" are just SO delightful.
victoria may
none of the images on her site do her work justice. i particularly love the concrete and thread/organza pieces - like this one .
it's always a treat to meet artists that you have admired and have them be as wonderful as their work. it doesn't ALWAYS work that way - so when it does - well - it's icing on the cake.
a lot of familiar words were batted around: fragility, domestic, mundane, mending, nostalgia, lineage, notion... we all answered why we use thread in our work. i was next to last and really had very little to add on the topic after so many thoughtful responses [which were all interesting to hear]. the dreaded "c" word came up - yet again. i'm talking of CRAFT, of course. i'm not going to extensively rant about this here as i think this topic has been covered numerous times by folks far more intelligent than me, but... here's the short version of what i think....
i'm always disheartened when people continue to want to push a hierarchical divide between art + craft. one artist in particular was speaking about it's all about intention. in essence i can agree to that since ever since duchamp pointed his magic art wand and declared things art - you can "intend" almost anything into art. but i also feel that art can be born even where it WASN'T intended - in some ways it's art even if someone else intends it. this artist also spoke about how they felt that you discover "truth" and "something about yourself" while making something as an artist that you don't while making "craft" [i'm really generalizing here but you get the idea]. honestly - i think that's a load of bull. i think there is "art" that is fantastic/horrid and "craft" that is fantastic/horrid and that you can have an "art moment" [aka epiphany] in front of anything that you please - be it art/craft/utilitarian item. trying to separate them into these meaningful and ultimately elitist categories seems so 20th century [i'm being facetious here - kind of]. i always want my art to be well crafted and my craft to be artful. to me it's not about if macaroni art is "art" or gees bend quilts are "craft" - it's about what moves you in some way in any given moment [and that movement doesn't need to be like or love either]. enough said.
but speaking of said... lindsay sent me a poem that she said was inspired by my work. she writes a poem a day as an exercise [ah how i love daily rituals] and she sent it to me....
She ties the tightest knots,
practices first with her sister
who calls it cat's cradle,
but it's too easy diving her fingers in, out and through,
so she moves on to the living room,
tying the arm of a chair to its leg,
then a chair to another chair,
then a loveseat, a table, a lamp, a book shelf,
the thread like spider silk
that threatens to tangle in ankles
and the cuffs of unlooking pants.
she slips a needle through the patterned wallpaper,
and ties the chairs to the walls,
holding the room to itself.
i loved cat's cradle when i was a child - although i didn't have a sister to play with... how much do i love that last thought... holding the room to itself? so much. thank you thank you lindsay.
her website
her blog
does anyone live in wichita?? i've been meaning to post about this show and keep forgetting.
the show that was at the San Jose Museum of Art has moved on.
my wall drawing isn't a part of the show, but some framed drawings are.
up through December 18, 2009
ulrich museum site . i'm dying to know how it looks there....
I'm also in a group show at Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM called glow. [photos are from the gallery]
up through December 17, 2009
i really like all the work in the show, but these pill sculptures i really dig. they are by jennifer vasher
here's an overview of the show
here's my work
i'm also in a show "Stitched, Looped, and Knitted"
@ The Mills Building through December 4, 2009
220 Montgomery Street in San Francisco
open mon-fri 8-6
this is kind of a funny show as it's in the main hallway of a downtown business building. i really do like how the work interacts with the space. i was only able to take a few pictures before they stopped me [oops].
what's funny is that they framed my work incorrectly. in the bed piece on the left, the orange bed should be facing the other way - but now that i see it this way i kind of like it?? i'll probably switch it back when i get the piece back, but i do like accidental happenstance like this. it makes me look at my work in a new light. maybe how someone else thinks is SHOULD be??
i'm happy the 7' drawing is seeing the light of day. we had to come up w/ a way to put it on white since the walls of the space are yellow... gotta love MDF. yup.
a piece by lacey jane roberts
this is actually the 2nd show we've been in together.
and i interviewed her for kitchen sink magazine a while back. see that here
aliza lelah
other artists in the show: Emily Barletta, Lauren Dicioccio [whose work i really really really loved], Laura Kamain , Ruth Marshall, Esther Traugot, Marina Vendrell . there is some really great work in the show. [and i love the odd contrast of all this hand made stuff in this building - it's really funny]
and because this post can't be ONLY about art shows.... if it looks like fall, smells like fall, feels like fall [finally chilly nights] then it must be fall right??
ok - the little's nap is almost done so i gotta run - but happy wednesday !
my brain is at this very moment on overdrive. i just all of a sudden realized how much i really have to do in how little time. seriously - i think if i make a to-do list i might not be able to sleep tonight between worrying about it and waiting for the little to wake up [teething part 2. in all fairness the sequel is mellower than part 1, but i'm waiting for the surprise ending].
then again - i have been getting what i need to done. sometimes just barely in time, but it still counts if you are squeaking under that wire, right? as long as no one looses any limbs or an eye or something?
yesterday i gave a lecture with the above artist monica canilao . we actually drove up to sonoma state together. this could have been a bit scary considering we'd never met. but we had plenty in common. on the surface : gardening, eating, making art. and then after we both spoke and i got to see more of her work... i was sort of fascinated with how synergistic we were in rather odd ways. sure - we both like doily imagery and found papers - but my work tends to be sparse - hers bursts and busts from the seams. and yet.... besides literal thread there were many threads that connected us. it's always nice to find kindred art spirits. we even got to joke about how people come up to us in airports and start speaking languages we don't know. i don't get to have that conversation with everyone. and she was nice to boot.
it was the first time i spent 5 hours COMPLETELY away from little cc [i'd done up to 4, but not over]. she was with my mom and so i knew she was TOTALLY FINE the whole time. but it really was such an odd feeling. i felt liberated and happy to be doing "adult" things and yet all the while aching and missing her. she squealed when she saw me when i came home and you better believe that my heart melted and a tear almost fell from my eye.
tomorrow we do a trial "full" day at day care - the schedule we'll be keeping when i go back to work next thurs. i'm sure i'll feel equally psycho tomorrow. on the one hand i really need to tackle the 101 things that MUST GET DONE. on the other hand i think i'd rather just tickle cc and make her laugh.
did you see amy's video on lazy envelope making?
500 pencils ? handmade colored pencils. i'm drooling here. kind of really want these [and sorry can't remember where this link came from... it did come from somewhere].
i should have taken a polaroid of this moment for the domestic life series.... i bet though if i had grabbed the polaroid camera the loud clzack zzzz noise that it emits when spitting out the picture would have sent chini and mcnulty running from their spot. and who would want to do that to them?
sometimes i think cats are so lucky. find a moment of sun. lay and clean oneself in the warmth. take a nap. what a life. i find myself secretly wishing that a) i could take a nap in the sun and b) i had the ability to sleep comfortably on hard wood. [although lately in my sometimes sleep deprived state i HAVE fallen asleep on floors and in chairs in funky positions - maybe i am more cat like than i think]
a domestic life :: 07 :: girl's day dolls
in my head this is my attempt at omitting information and trying to bridge the gap between the prince and the princess. see they share certain bits of information. so in my head this ties them together and sort of removes the gender quotient [and this fascinates me. the gender quotient in general and how to remove, circumvent, toy with that whole idea]. it's also sort of funny to me to see how i seem to steer clear of the figure [even in doll form]. if you just look at the drawing what would you think is going on?? i think it reads japanese - but maybe only if you are familiar with the symbolism? i'm not sure. other than that - the space is so funky. floating trees on a colored empty platform? huh?
>>>> art link >>>>>
mia christopher added me as a friend on flickr and i love her work. it's so charming. and she lives in SF. maybe i'll get to see some in person someday. i can only hope. her work has that funny empty space -- what's going on here feeling that i gravitate toward.
have a good weekend!
Labels: a domestic life, artists, ramblings
we lost a good artist this week. david ireland passed. CCA's website has a nice obituary.
above is mr. ireland's house - 500 capp street - it became an art piece in itself - a container showcasing not only objects that could be considered artworks, but a life. a life that had become a piece of art as well. he worked on this house continually for years - stripping it down - adding to it - over and over. this is a concept that i think is actually pretty mainstream now in the artworld. the idea of life as art - especially in a performative nature. but i think for mr. ireland it was natural and not so premeditated. ultimately i look at the photos of that house and think it's gorgeous in it's use and decay.
you may ask why i am choosing to even talk about mr. ireland - i mean there are a lot of artists that die and i don't say anything. well... i actually got the chance to work with and for him for a day.
prior to his oakland museum retrospective i got a call. my friend happened to be the chief installer for the museum. mr. ireland was going to re-create a piece and he needed hundreds of concrete balls made. would i want to spend a day making them?
i was between jobs - just out of grad school - it was summer... a fan of mr. ireland's work of course i resoundingly said YES.
there were a bunch of us gathered in a courtyard of a studio building. it was a nice and sunny day. there were wheelbarrows where concrete could be mixed for us to use. flowers were blooming. we were shown how to make the balls. and then we went to work. we stood around the table laughing, rolling, trying not to get concrete on our noses or in our hair. it felt kind of like a barn raising - a concrete ball raising.
mr. ireland - who was weak and couldn't stand for very long - came out to chat with us now and again and then he would retreat to the comfort of a cozy chair inside. every time he emerged he kept telling us what amazing jobs we were doing and how he was so grateful for our help. and that it wasn't about perfection in the balls - although seeking the perfect round concrete ball became a meditative process. [when i think of it now - even then before i really had my own studio practice -- the repetition of it all was so appealing. i do really like repetitive acts of making]
what i remember most was that he asked and REMEMBERED EVERY SINGLE PERSON'S NAME. he spoke to each of us by our names - and asked us what we did if we were artists. he was so obviously a gentle and kind soul - and i imagine an incredibly thoughtful and insightful teacher. as a teacher now i can only hope to touch a single student that way. in a simple few minutes with sincere generosity.
we each got to take a concrete ball home as a souvenir - one that we had made. i took mine out when i heard the news of mr. ireland's passing and rolled it around in my hand. i feel lucky i have a personal story to tell about a man whose art i genuinely admire.
happy june blog friends.
Labels: artists
bug and grub brought the sweetest treats when they stopped by [tasted as good as they look]. haven't made it to miette yet - but i think it will be a must stop next time i head to SF.
they return next week for a bit more of a visit.
one of the things i love about gwen is that she color coordinates and plans her travel outfits. cutest charts ever! because i knew what colors she'd be wearing i wanted to make her a necklace
i really really like making these. if anyone is interested i might be coaxed into making some to sell? you could give me some color palette options and then i could give it a whirl. just a thought....
i'm about to try and gocco with cc strapped to me... we'll see how it goes. i'm working on some prints for a show. hopefully they'll come out. but i wanted to leave you with some eye candy. a former student sent me this image:
it's work by Maurizio Anzeri . yum. besides the above piece, i really love the photos that have embroidery on them. why didn't i think of that? i've embroidered images from old photographs but never though to embroider on top. duh.
oh! and go check out abby's resurrection of 5 senses friday
have a good weekend. i'll be back next week with images of the 7 foot drawing. finally.
mom! you're famous.... well... that's you in the middle there. artweek reviewed the tattered cultures mended tales show that i was in [in hawaii] and they used the image of your portrait :)
you can read the whole article here
[this shot is better larger]
a girl could get used to 3 days in a row at the studio. i was thinking about what colors i wanted to use for my two new drawings. i tend to stick to a two or three color colorway [with various values in the colors]. but for the big drawing i really wanted to branch out into a little family of colors. [bottom row]. if i get stuck in thinking about new color combos i go and visit kuler .
my karen gelardi book arrived the other day. it's so satisfying. i love that i was a very small part of her installation assembly
and in other paper news:
a while ago i did a little photo shoot with ron nagle
his gallery in belgium was putting together a catalogue and they wanted an artist in studio shot. i ended up taking all these other shots of "stuff" b/c his space was so cool - and they used practically all of them. i love how the designer set up this grid. since i'm not a PRO photographer i get a big grin when i see photos of things i've taken in print.
have a good evening and a great thursday!
on the road to the opening last thursday. i spotted some escaped balloons. luckily my camera was out and i snapped the pic at a red light [no snapping while driving] - but b/c it was a hasty photo there's a lot of funny stuff in it. i rather like this. another check for happy accidents.
six weeks of drawing a day were on display at the gallery. it was a really interesting and well-curated show. lots of different takes on drawing including animation and a "missing" drawing. the space itself is really gorgeous.
i also got to discover the work of wendy crittendon:
i am totally inlove with the pillow drawing. i want to draw pillows now. [i guess drawing beds isn't too far off, but pillows. oh pillows]
john casey has some great install shots of the whole show on his blog . it was too crowded for me to get good shots.
a friend just had a little girl. over the weekend i made these little felt booties from a martha stewart pattern . i hand sewed these, but you could easily production line them with a sewing machine. the possibilities seem endless - color combos... little embroidery or felt add ons.... i could spend all day making them. really.
today i cleaned up part of the studio. it was getting SO messy in there. not good for working. tomorrow [thanks to veterans day] i get a whole day in my studio. i need to start work on a very big bed drawing. right now it's like 7-8 feet long and 40 or so inches high. it will be a challenge to work this big - but i'm excited. i also want to include some 3D elements.... i think i picked out the bed i want to draw...
i think it's time to shut the computer.... see you soon
that's the title of the show i'm in that opens tomorrow night
Thursday - November 6th from 4-6pm
at Santa Rosa Junior College's Art Gallery .
i'll be there [a little late]. i have no idea if anyone who reads this blog lives in or around santa rosa, but if you do and have nothing to do - come say hi....
but.... crossing the line seems to be what happened last night too. today just felt different. is it just me? i've never heard people honking and yelling and excited about an election in my neighborhood before....
anyway - the show is all about drawing. curated by will smith [who teaches there] the participating artist list is pretty great:
a couple are friends ::
jen garrido and jonn herschend
and a whole bunch of other cool folks ::
jen sturgill
kurt kemp
kathryn kenworth
evri kwong
todd barricklow
john casey
jean robison
i have a new art crush on kathryn kenworth...
i'm excited to meet her....
to be filed under how sweet is this?
i washed my slippers and they fell apart. the soles broke and i couldn't wear them anymore. i came out of the laundry room frowning and i told my husband. he went out to buy groceries and also came home with the above slippers for ME. how cute are they? i don't think i would have bought them for myself. i would have gone for basic black or gray... but i love them. pink and green? soft and fuzzy? those little bows? what's not to love?
have a good thurs!
my tara donovan book arrived the other day. it's my birthday present to myself. i can't gush enough about tara's work. she is so smart - her use of materials blows me away. [pencils, plastic cups]. obviously the repetition gets to me. so subtle. so daring. so raw - both formally and conceptually stunning. sigh. how jealous was i that she actually had a little email exchange with aurora ? [who by the way has an amazing show up at the the rice gallery right now]. the book itself is also just stunning. i could cry over the cover. the shade of aqua - how her name is placed and slightly a different shade. maybe if i slip the book under my pillow some of tara's mojo will seep into my brain.
opening tonight is a pretty spectacular show - off-register - at little bird gallery. a whole host of prints by a whole host of really good artists. i wish i was able to check it out in person.
those little birds are also ambitiously launching an art subscription program little bird limited for $200 measly dollars you can get 12 pieces of art. how cool is that?? go and subscribe. a little surprise will visit you every month.
i can't believe it's my birthday on monday. where has the year gone??? a friend asked if i was going to do anything and i immediately said no. i don't like planning things for my birthday. other people's birthdays - yes. mine - no. honestly my plan is to take my studio design to the city for design review and go to the studio. i have to get cracking on some stuff - and it's been awhile since i had a truly productive studio day. i'm getting cranky about it. it's funny because in some ways this is a "milestone" birthday. for several reasons. i can't help but think about how different things will be next year. there are some life altering things in the wings.
my friend says she is planning a tea for me. that will be lovely. i do want to have at least one piece of cake [if andrea was around i'd beg her to make me a red velvet cupcake !]
hope your weekend is going well!
i had a weird moment the other day. the urban outfitters catalogue arrived and as i was flipping through it [feeling old because there are very few things kids are wearing today that i want to wear. we've moved onto the 80's through a hippie lens?] - i came to the above page and paused. wait - that's illustration play. wait. i'm IN THAT BOOK. wait. urban outfitters is selling it? is it in stores? can i walk into a store and have a weird moment of i'm IN THAT BOOK in a hipster college environment? hmmmmm
so this last sunday the new york times included their T style magazine. my friend grace pointed out the above hermes outfit to me. it's pretty great. of course wandering through the snow w/ a yak [or buffalo?] in a million dollar outfit doesn't really seem feasible, but that's what we love about high fashion right?
also in the magazine was a fantastic article on catherine opie . when i was lucky enough to see her ice fishing series in LA i practically wept in front of them. i admire how she constantly looks for different things to photograph. and reading this quote made me see how she ties them all together:
"From early on, I wanted to create a language that showed how complex the idea of community really is, how we categorize who we are as human beings in relation to places we live," ... Her 1995 photographs of Beverly Hills and Bel Air homes aren't so different, she says, from her portraits of the S-and-M community. "They're both about the notion of the facade, and body modification is as much of a facade as architecture."
um yeah. chew on the notion of facade for a few hours and see what you come up with.
hope your wednesday is going well. and thanks for all the studio well wishes. and the underdog ink support. you guys are great!
Labels: artists, inspiration, me me me
in NH we stayed with mary jo and her husband and their adorable dog daisy. i wanted to send a little thank you gift for all of their hospitality. so above is daisy ! i'm not as great at doing dog portraits as my husband is, but hopefully they liked it.
i have a studio visit today so i have to tidy up - there are 4 different bodies of work on the wall at the moment - some that have to go out - some that need to be photographed, some in progress - it's a little congested.....
and here's a link - check out sarah hillenberger i love her knitted body organs [duh]
have a great weekend!
it's hard to believe that i leave TOMORROW for the east coast. lisa congdon and i are going out install our show pigmentary portraits. i am excited to see how our work looks together. i really had a great time researching this show. and i discovered 2 things while making this work that i want to carry over into new pieces.
1. i like the idea of patchworking pieces. each of my pieces in the show has multiple components. some of which i overlapped and hang on pins so that they spatially are on different planes. since i'm using a semi-transparent vellum i'm really liking the effect.
2. i figured out this new way to work with thread and paper. again it's a spatial thing - but i started wrapping it around the corners and edges - it becomes this really interesting formal punch.
the short scoop on the show:
In our own ways we have researched and investigated the historical origins of Indigo and Cobalt blue, Indian and Ochre yellow, Verdigris and Malachite green, Vermilion and Alizarin red, Cadmium and Realgar orange, Tyrian and Mars Violet purple, Gofun Shirayuki white, and Ivory/Bone black.
Our hope was to create a portrait of each pigment - through which we could somehow reconnect with the alchemy of colors' past.
Firm believers in the idea that one's materials can only enhance and contextualize one's work, we are interested in exploring where these pigments come from and how to present their findings in a visually rich language.
artstream Studios
56 north main street
rochester, nh 03867
if you are around i hope you come by and say hello!!
after the show opens we are headed to maine for a few days of relaxing with some friends. i'm REALLY looking forward to this. i'm getting to meet some special folks.
i'll try and post some pics of the show/travels while we are away but i wanted to leave you with some eye candy/links.
diem's piece arrived. isn't it stunning? i didn't realize from photos, but she actually embroiders on a very thin silk and stretches that over the cup. it's really subtle. when you look straight on the illusion of the embroidery being on the ceramic surface is so lovely.....
andrew paynter sent out a summer newsletter with this photo of the band mattson 2. i LOVED this contact sheet so much.
and finally.... i've discovered this new to me blog of paper and things . monica astounds me everyday with her finds. she has a great eye.
AND... the winner of the blogaversary give-a-way is SOSSER - perhaps your "pick me pick me" prayer worked? please email me as your profile is blocked and i can't find you.... :) so i can mail you your prize!
my trip to LA was so good. catch ups with family and friends [we spied nancy reagan], meeting a special baby, shopping with grandma, and the show. oh the show.
this is one of those shows where things just really clicked. i was excited to be a part of this show from the get go, but then seeing all the work together made my heart cartwheel. above is my new tank configuration. round and smaller.... reminiscent of the toxin doily drawings of mine also on view. the best part? ONE PIECE. yes. i succumbed and glued the sucker once i figured out placement in my studio. as much as i love a good installation, sometimes there just isn't enough time.
my work alongside Freddy Chandra's and Jil Weinstock's is simply put a good fit. we are all interested in repetition. we are all so interested in color [the show actually matched - which could be a detriment, but in this case it worked. i loved how green, blue, yellow, bounced around the room in all of our works]. ultimately we are all involved in negative space. but what i didn't realize until i was standing in the exhibition was how we all are invested in material - not only the media that we use to make our own work, but the actual materiality as well. physicality. how we start to touch with our eyes... or want to touch from looking. i firmly believe that artists need to make conscious decisions about their materials for each choice can add another layer to the work. this show proves that point. what happens when you embed drawings into resin that looks like candy, when shirts and doilies are made of rubber, when felt is used to represent a tank or thread is sewn onto paper to give a drawing a new dimensionality? what happens is that the familiar is not. that our perceptions are altered. that what is known to be hard becomes soft and visa versa.
anyway, the show is up through august 16th at walter maciel gallery . THANK YOU to everyone who came out! and to she that couldn't but sent flowers because she was working on a great project.
this week my studio is a factory as i frame and wrap the work for an upcoming show with lisa congdon at art stream studios . it has to go out monday at the latest.... happy tuesday!
Labels: art, artists, away from home, blogland
hi. i guess a week has passed. i don't want to complain. i feel so lucky and blessed. i'm just tired. and feel run down. but soon soon soon i will have some more time to myself and i think i'll be able to use my brain again. i hope so.
in the meantime... i was lucky - so lucky - enough to meet amy ross on friday for breakfast. her show at rare device should not be missed. we had one of those heart to heart talks about life, art, showing, hopes, blogs, regrets, dreams... i hope our paths cross again soon amy!
the above image is for martha's flickr group s t i l l . ahhh. brilliant idea [but of course - it's from martha!]
hope your monday is coming to a lovely close....
and one last happy birthday to shari...
Labels: artists, play along
i came home to this meal the other night. a tapas feast cooked by my husband. what a treat. gwen just posted about how nice it is to be a recipient of a well cooked meal - and i couldn't agree more.
i'm still very much in my own head these days. things are in flux. i have a long to do list - i'm just trying to line ducks up and not let anyone/anything down. instead of chattering about that i'll show you some good things that have been arriving on my doorstep.
a while ago natasha sent me a package of goodies including some yarn that she spun. i immediately crocheted a hat. i wore this hat all winter. all the time. i had more conversations about this hat than any other hat i've ever worn. people would ask me where the yarn came from, whether i made and sold them, could i make one for them.... you can get your own skein of natasha's amazing yarn through her etsy store luxe .
gracia and louise had a little contest on their blog. i somehow won.... so this little bird and pile of goodies landed on my doorstep. the bird promptly told me his name was pietro. he was a bit worried because he had been reading about crime the whole trip, but i told him he'd live happy in a basket i have with a bunch of other soft friends. he has since nuzzled in. [i believe his eye came all the way from portugal via paula . what a global bird.] the embroidery on his backside is so hypnotic. i love it. thank you ladies.
do you live in LA? do you want to attend the Dwell Design Conference? you can use this code: BDODEC to get in for free follow this link . i wish i could go.
i'm off to an opening of my friends work. a 12 year mini-retrospective. kimberly austin's work is really beautiful. her show is happening at braunstein/quay gallery .
been thinking a lot about visual cues. also how i haven't posted any polaroids in a long long long time. i think next week i'm going to just post polaroids with captions. still want to be a bit quiet.
hope your weekends are lovely


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Our team of Year 11 GCSE Business Studies students came 6th out of 20 in the Stock Market Challenge at the University of Ulster this month.
Year 11 students; Adam, Scott, Stephen, Jamie and Dylan have been preparing in class for this test of their stock market knowledge and the preparation paid off. Whilst we didn't come in top spot, we did fend off competition from the likes of Methody, BRA and Antrim Grammar. Just like the high pressure environment of the real stock market, the teams played to win and the event was a highly competitive one.
Playing the game as fund managers, our team had to decide what investments to make to increase the value of their portfolio. Over the course of five sessions they responded to media news reports and adapted their trading to make the best possible investments. The boys needed to absorb, and analyse information accurately and quickly and communicate with each other effectively to ensure they made sound investment decisions.
The event was a fabulous opportunity to explore the risks and rewards of the stock market. Students had to show self-confidence, use their initiative and work co-operatively to assess and manage investment risk. Congratulations to Miss Weir and her band of talented traders!


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Day 14. My natural inclination is to put myself down and to attribute anything good about myself to some outside source. I have a tendency to not give myself credit when it is due. Perhaps this will serve as an exercise in self confidence, which I think every 23 year old person could stand to do.
Describe 5 Strengths You Have:
- I'm a hard worker.
- Is it possible to be a hard worker and a lazy POS at the same time? YES! I am a living, breathing example of this. Though I love sleeping, vegging out, and netflix marathons, I also have a strong affinity to overload my schedule, survive on 5 hours of sleep, and get things done. At one point while I was in college, I was taking a full course load (15 hours), had a part time job (20 hours), had two internships, and managed my own little at-home pet sitting business. So I'm gonna say when I need to, I work pretty damn hard.
- I'm personable.
- Ok, not all the time, and if I gave into my natural introvert tendencies you probably wouldn't hear from me. But I believe when I need to, I can definitely bring a good energy to a group. This isn't always the case and I don't really feel like this, but I've had people tell me this so whatever.
- I stay true to myself.
- Maybe some people don't think this is a strength and take it more as a weakness, which I could see. You are definitely more likely to have a wider circle of friends in your life if you conform to the groups around you. I'm not saying this as an "I'm better than everyone else," because "staying true to yourself" can mean doing things that just aren't right. But, in the end, I enjoy the group of people I have in my life, so I'm gonna say keeping myself the same in all situations has had more pros than cons.
- I'm pretty good at finding ways to make money.
- Maid; nanny; babysitter; dog walker; house sitter; plant waterer; personal driver; I'm above none of these and have, in fact, done all of them. The driving motivation is that I really like to shop and will work any and all odd jobs I can find on craigslist, care.com, nextdoor, dogvacay, etc. to fund this habit. I also used to buy and resell iPhones for a profit, amongst other random finds.
- I'm reliable.
- Ok, I might not always return your call and may cancel plans last minute, but for important things, I'm reliable. If you need a job done, I'll do it. If you need help in a time of need, I'll be there. I care a lot about how my actions effect other people, so it drives me to want to please them, which in turn makes me a pretty reliable person.
You might be thinking to yourself, "Jesus, this girl has a really high opinion of herself." That's simply not true, to be honest. I don't hate myself or anything, but writing this stuff out was honestly really cringey for me and embarrassing. I guess that's what's good about this writing challenge though; it's pushing me to talk about things I don't normally want to. Until next time.


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There are different moments in the journey of bringing a business to success that might excite or satisfy the one who owns the business and who has the job of running it. Doe Deere created Lime Crime, a brand that puts out makeup products that are unique from others out there, and she felt that she had truly found success when she had money that she could share with others. The most satisfying part of getting her business going and bringing in good money with it was being able to give back some of that money to charities such as the Bideawee Animal Shelter and the Red Cross.
Doe Deere plays around with puns and rhymes when it comes to naming her brand's products. She does not feel the need to use serious names for the makeup products that she puts out and she chooses to use fun names that fit with the fun products rather than worry about being serious. She takes words that rhyme with one another and she puts them together to figure out what fits well. She came up with the brand name for her company by playing around with rhymes and trying to find a duo of words that sounded cool together.
Some will try to be professional in order to find success and they will credit their success to their professionalism and to their careful planning. There are some who will work very hard on their products so that they can make them as close to perfect as possible and that will help them feel satisfied with their work and with their journey toward success. Doe Deere believes that part of the reason that her Lime Crime brand has found success is because she focuses on making beauty and makeup fun. She feels that she has found success because of the fun that she brings into the lives of consumers.
Having a blog helped Doe Deere to build an audience for her products, and she received attention for her products right away because she shared them on the blog that she had set up. Those who were following her blog were already into the kinds of things that she was doing and they were happy to have a chance to try out her products once she created them. Doe Deere has been smart in the way that she has gone about marketing what she has to offer. When she chose to get a blog going and share tutorials on that – even before she had her brand up and running – her decision helped her to find success.
To learn more, visit www.doedeere.com.


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Aboud, Frances
There is little support for the widespread assumption that children acquire their racial attitudes from parents and friends. ... Prejudice is biological. ... It's not hatred of the others, it's suspicion of differences. ... Eight is the age of reason. [Children] come out of their egocentric state and realize that there are other perspectives.
Jun. 23, 2001 - quoted in "P is for Prejudice" by Allen Abel, published in
Saturday Night
Prejudice isn't entirely due to ignorance. A lot of teachers feel, 'Our goal is to make kids more knowledgeable, so we'll just give kids more knowledge.' But that ... can make kids more prejudiced.
Jun. 23, 2001 - quoted in "P is for Prejudice" by Allen Abel, published in
Saturday Night
Adams, Michael
... consensus on social values is determined less and less by demographic factors. Among older Canadians, differences in social values are largely determined by such demographic variables such as gender, education and income, but this is less true among younger groups.
1997 - from
Sex in the Snow
Augustine, Jean
We don't want something for youth at risk, we want something for black youth at risk
Aug. 29, 2001 - from a speech in Toronto announcing special Liberal government support programs for black youths, quoted in the
National Post
Barber, Benjamin R.
Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political futures -- both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe -- a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every kind of interdependence, every kind of artificial social cooperation and civic mutuality. The second is being borne in on us by the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers, and fast food -- with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's, pressing nations into one commercially homogenous global network: one McWorld tied together by technology, ecology, communications, and commerce. The planet is falling precipitantly apart and coming reluctantly together at the very same moment.
Mar. 1992 - from "Jihad vs. McWorld", published by
The Atlantic Monthly
Barzun, Jacques
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
1959 - from
The House of Intellect
Bennett, William J.
Discrimination on the basis of race is illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional, inherently wrong, and destructive of democratic society.
1979 - from
Counting by Race
, written with Terry Eastland
Bibby, Reginald W.
In Canada, the time has come to address a centrally important question. If what we have in common is our diversity, do we really have anything in common at all?
1990 - from
Mosaic Madness: The Poverty and Potential of Life in Canada
Bork, Robert
If racial discrimination is to be tolerated whenever the government has some purpose in mind, however trivial the purpose and however attenuated the connection between the purpose and the discrimination, the courts will be in for some very ugly tasks.
Dec. 31, 1990 - from a column in
National Review
Bradbury, Ray
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Brimelow, Peter
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
Feb. 1, 1993 - from an essay in
National Review
Buzuvis, Erin
The past is not rectifiable; and while it is important to recognize and address the evils of history, the baggage of guilt and blame must be dropped by both the majority and the minority in order to build a community without racism and discrimination.
Apr. 04, 1997 - from an editorial in
The New Hampshire
Campbell, Charles M.
[Canadian, U.S. and Australian studies] show that little or no connection exists between immigration and the welfare of the receiving population.
Jun. 1997 - from a speech in Vancouver
Chan, Raymond
As I learned more about the history of Canada, I was convinced that if we have to start redressing everyone there is no end to it.
Chapman, Steve
One of the little-noticed facts about racial preferences in university admissions is that applicants of Asian ancestry are penalized, not helped. Why? Not because they've suffered less discrimination on average than, say, Latinos. But because, as a group, they've been too successful -- particularly when it comes to college grades and law school test scores. The diversity [some universities] seek is an oddly one-dimensional kind. Race overrides everything else.
Apr. 5, 2001 - from "Worshipping 'Diversity' At The University of Michigan", published by Creators Syndicate Inc.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
Jul. 5, 1924
Chigbo, Okey
For many of the black intelligentsia, especially those from the Caribbean, all roads lead to racism, which is both a starting point and an end point for endless discussions about black problems. Racism wields tremendous religious power in that, like a belief in the malignant, pervasive and invisible workings of Satan, it so clearly and simply explains why so much evil and misfortune contaminate black existence.
May 1997 - from "Reading, writing and racism", published in
The Next City
Magazine, Spring 1997
In the U.S. the teaching of African and Afrocentric history in schools with black populations has been going on for literally decades. American blacks have even set up separate school systems. Do we observe significant improvement in the performance of African-Americans? No, we don't. Similar changes have been occurring in Toronto schools since the 1970s in response to demands by the growing black community and its white supporters. ... a plethora of multicultural policies target the schools with equally dismal results.
May 1997 - from "Reading, writing and racism", published in
The Next City
Magazine, Spring 1997
Chr�tien, Jean
Some people think that the American culture is a problem. It's not a problem... don't be afraid to be citizens of the world.
Nov. 31, 2000 - from a post-election speech in Ottawa, repudiating the stance he used through most of his political life to curry favour with nationalists, quoted in "The End of Canada?", by Peter Newman, published in
magazine, Jan. 8, 2001
Clarkson, Adrienne
... European countries are basically tribal. The French, Germans, and Italians are tribes... racism can arise in a country like that. ... We [Canadians] are not a tribe. We are a series, a group, a conglomeration of people. ... That is a positive thing in many ways.
Sep. 9, 1999 - quoted in "Couple used to taking political centre stage", by Luiza Chwialkowska, published in the
National Post
Clinton, William Jefferson
[Thomas Jefferson�s view of equality meant that] you had to be white, you had to be male, and ... you had to own property. ... [Our history is the story of] new and higher definitions - and more meaningful definitions - of equality and dignity and freedom.
1997 - from a speech advocating "a living Constitution", non-traditional interpretation of the American Constitution to accommodate "our changing times"
Connolly, Cyril
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present or in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
1945 - from
The Unquiet Grave
Coulter, Ann
Just when you finally defeat one liberal sophistry for "affirmative action," it drops it into the Orwellian memory hole and a new sophistry appears in its place.
Apr. 5, 2001 - from "Racial Profiling In University Admissions", published by Universal Press Syndicate
D'Amato, Alfonse
Quotas don't help anyone. In fact, they are one of the worst forms of racial and gender-based discrimination.
Nov. 2, 1990 - from a letter published in
D'Souza, Dinesh
It's ... interesting to note that the women's studies and black studies departments, which were originally set up to fight the intolerance of traditional academic departments, are now among the most intolerant places on campus.
Jan. 1995 -
from "Forbidden Thoughts", a discussion published in
American Enterprise
by the American Enterprise Institute
Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues ... activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.
1995 - from
The End of Racism
, New York : Free Press
Proportional representation for ethnic groups directly violates the democratic principle of equal opportunity for individuals, and the underlying concept of group justice is hostile both to individual equality and to excellence.
1991 - from
Illiberal Education
Diefenbaker, John George
We shall never build the nation which our potential resources make possible by dividing ourselves into Anglophones, Francophones, multiculturalphones, or whatever kind of phonies you choose. I say: Canadians, first, last, and always!
Jun. 04, 1973 - Hansard, Canadian Parliament
I cannot visualize Canada without French Canada. I cannot visualize French Canada without Canada. National unity based on equality must be the goal.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
[Racism] Hating other people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Frum, David
... Canadians are determined to fray the bonds of nationhood. We are carving racially defined, quasi-sovereign mini-states out of the national territory for the benefit of Indians and Inuit, funded by Canadian taxpayers but not accountable to them. We actively discountenance the notion that there might be such a thing as a distinctly Canadian way of life to which newcomers to the country must adapt. Despite a tradition of fair-mindedness equalled in few countries on earth, we now seem bent on making amends for the prejudices of the past with a program of racial preferences in public- and private-sector employment. ... Of the world's ten largest free-market countries, Canada is the only one whose political stability is seriously in question.
Dec. 1999 - from "Too Many Solitudes", published in
Saturday Night
Canada's problems are often said to be far from unique: the nation-state is allegedly fading everwhere and Canada's unhappy binationality is even supposed to confer some advantage upon us, by introducing us early to difficulties that the United States, France, Germany, Britain, and other once-solid polities will sooner or later have to reckon with as well. Perhaps that is true, perhaps not. But whatever may lie ahead for those other countries, for the moment at least they can all show a strong sense of national identity and common citizenship. Canada cannot. And this, our greatest national failure, is what we endlessly insist ought to be our legacy to the rest of the world!
Dec. 1999 - from "Too Many Solitudes", published in
Saturday Night
Fry, Hedy
[Supporting her oft-repeated claim of widespread racism and hate in Canada] We can just go to British Columbia in Prince George where crosses are being burned on lawns as we speak.
Mar. 21, 2001 - from a speech in the House of Commons. Fry's subsequent attempts to bolster this false claim were described as "an outright lie" by the mayor of Prince George and contradicted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Fulford, Robert
Complaining about how newspapers thoughtlessly offend this or that cluster of humans has developed into one of the popular folk arts of this era... Those feeling aggrieved happily enlist in the ever-growing army of victims, people who love to insist that they are "hurt." ... It's dangerous to take such complaints seriously: Constant worry about offending will drain the life from journalism.
Sep. 4, 2001 - from "What's wrong with Welsh on a bet?", published in the
National Post
Gingrich, Newt
... while we shouldn't have 'affirmative action' we should have 'affirmative outreach' - especially in education. We want every child to be so well educated that he can pursue happiness without needing a quota. If an ethnic group is not getting enough people into law school, the answer is to reform the local primary and secondary schools. And education is pre-eminently local - local parents, local children, and local teachers. ... In addition, children should go to safe, well-disciplined schools where they are expected to learn the basics.
Nov. 01, 1997 - from a speech delivered at the International Conservative Congress, quoted by
National Review
As President Reagan said, we are far more concerned with your destination than with your origin.
1992 - from a speech to the Republican convention
Goldberg, Jonah
Since the 1960s, activist academics and ideologues popularized the idea that we can make human beings whatever we want them to be if we can just throw off a lot of cultural baggage. Nowhere did this idea gain greater footing than in the realm of sexual politics. Feminists rejected the idea there was anything inherently different between men and women.
May 3, 2001 - from "A Lesson in the Obvious", published by Tribune Media Services
Granatstein, J.L.
The values and traditions of Canadian life should be force-fed to [immigrants]; history should be explained in ways that demonstrate how and why we have regularly settled our disputes without force, how our political system has functioned, and why we have on many occasions gone to war or joined alliances, not for aggressive reasons, but to protect our democratic ideals. Those are the reasons immigrants come here, after all. But do we teach this past to our newcomers? Not a chance. ... Instead the history that is taught focuses on Canada's many sins: Canadian racism, Canadian sexism, Canadian abuses of human and civil rights - these are all studied at length in a well-intentioned, but misguided, attempt to educate children about the need for tolerance.
Aug. 28, 1999 - from "A politically correct history leads to a distorted past and a bleak future", published in the
National Post
Our teaching of the past ... focuses on victimology ... Sometimes these tales [of historical abuse] are accurate, but only sometimes. Not everyone was or is a victim, despite the clamorous legal claims of the present.
Aug. 28, 1999 - from "A politically correct history leads to a distorted past and a bleak future", published in the
National Post
Gwyn, Richard
Multiculturalism indeed may decay into multinationalism, and Canada will lose all sense of being a collective community.
Mar. 7, 1993 - from his column in the
Toronto Star
Hightower, Cullen
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
Hoffer, Eric
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
1955 - from
The Passionate State of Mind
Iacobucci, Frank
Moreover, whenever a judge narrows the choice to a sentence involving a sentence of incarceration, the judge is obliged to consider the unique systemic or background circumstances which may have played a part in bringing the particular aboriginal offender before the courts. As well, the judge must consider the types of practicable procedures and sanctions which would be appropriate in the circumstances for the offender because of his or her particular aboriginal heritage.
Feb. 17, 2000 - from the decision in
R. v. Wells
, describing provisions in Section 718 of the
Criminal Code
of Canada
Jefferson, Thomas
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.
Aug. 1, 1816 - from a letter to John Adams
Kennedy, John F.
The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment,
without regard
to their race, creed, color, or national origin. [emphasis added]
1961 - from Executive Order 10,925, the first official use of the term "affirmative action" according to Roger Clegg in "Beyond Quotas",
Policy Review
, May-June 1998
Krauthammer, Charles
At the start of this century there were (as a percentage of the population) 50 percent more foreign-born U.S. residents than there are today. And yet the Irish and Italians and Jews and Poles and Chinese and Japanese of that immigrant wave assimilated so remarkably into the American mainstream that today they are the American mainstream. The problem today is not unassimilable immigrants but an American educational elite that, in the name of ethnic authenticity and multiculturalism, would like them to be unassimilable. Hence the imposition of such devices as bilingual education -- a euphemism for slighting and delaying English instruction -- that not just celebrate but perpetuate ethnic separatism. California's Proposition 227, effectively abolishing bilingual education, marks a welcome resurgence of American common sense. Immigrants are our future. We owe a duty to them -- and to ourselves as a nation -- to make them American as quickly as possible. We'd better. Immigrants are the magic cure -- the American cure -- for the birth dearth.
Feb. 17, 1998 - from "Saved by immigrants",
Washington Post
Lasky, Melvin J.
One by one, [the illusions of Eldridge Cleaver, the exiled American 'Black Panther', collapsed]. In Castro's Cuba, he found a racism as bad as that he had complained about in the United States; even worse, since back home he at least had the freedom to complain. He began to feel that perhaps bourgeois liberties were not a farce, but the very real basis for extending democratic rights. The 'Left-Fascist' dictatorships of North Africa disillusioned him completely ... [Returning to the USA, agreeing to face trial, his new book, Soul on Fire, 1978] referred to his latter-day sense of burning mission. He reconsidered the importance of constitutional liberties, recognised the collective inhumanity of totalitarian forms of government, and made a return to religious values the basis of personal morality in a free society.
1990 - from an essay in
No. 71
Lemann, Nicholas
Ascribing a society's conditions in part to the culture that prevails there seems benign when the society under discussion is England or California. But as a way of thinking about black ghettos it has become unpopular. Twenty years ago ghettos were often said to have a self-generating, destructive culture of poverty.... But then the left equated cultural discussions of the ghetto with accusing poor blacks of being in a bad situation that was of their own making; thus they would deserve no special help or sympathy from society. The left succeeded in limiting the terms of debate to purely economic ones, and today the right also discusses the ghetto in terms of economic 'incentives to fail,' provided by the welfare system...
Jun. 1986 - from "The Origins of the Underclass", published by
The Atlantic
The view [on the left] that conditions in the ghetto would change only when white society decided to change them seems contradictory to the creed of community development, but it really isn't. The connection is this: if there is not a self-defeating culture in the ghettos, and if the ghettos nonetheless have problems, then white society must be to blame -- who else could it be? The changes by white society that would heal the ghettos were usually described as 'deep,' 'sweeping,' and 'structural.' ... The trouble with this argument is that it is defeatism clothed in hope. This country so far has been unideological and uninclined to engage in deep, structural change except by accident and in order to meet pressing needs. To single out poor blacks as the one group in our society that will really suffer unless deep, structural changes are made, or unless an entirely different value system takes hold, is to consign them to suffering for the foreseeable future.
Jul. 1986 - from "The Origins of the Underclass", published by
The Atlantic
Loney, Martin
The race industry enthusiastically supports the collection of extensive racial data with one striking exception - crime data. This allows the discussion about ethnicity and crime to proceed unencumbered by basic facts. ... Some sources of information do provide insight into the involvement of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds in crime and they suggest that, far from racializing crime, the media reflect real concerns. The Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada, in it's 1997 report on organized crime, noted the role of Jamaican Posse's in the distribution of crack cocaine in Southern Ontario. The Rae Government's Commission on Systemic Racism showed black adults were admitted to prison at five times the rate of white adults, but that Asians were admitted at only half the rate of white adults. The disparity in some offences was striking: The black-white ratio for drug trafficing and importing was twenty-two to one, for weapons offenses, black-white remand rates were nine to one. The race industry claims such figures result from differential policing, but black admisions for drinking and driving offences, a charge in which the police have considerable discretion, are half those of whites.
Oct. 2, 1999 - from "Reporting on the Colour of Crime", published in the
National Post
Loury, Glenn Cartman
A people who languish in dependency, while the means through which they might work toward their own advancement exist, have surrendered their claim to dignity, and to the respect of their fellow citizens. A truly free people must accept responsibility for their fate, even when it does not lie wholly in their hands.
In the absence of a unifying vision of what we should be striving for, various groups of [people] defined by race and ethnicity vie with each other in a zero-sum contest for the moral and political high ground.
May 1, 1997 -
from "Straight Talk Instead of 'Race-Talk'", published by SpeakOut.com
We say people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin; yet, we sort, count, respond to, cavort with and assess one another on the basis of race.
May 1, 1997 -
from "Straight Talk Instead of 'Race-Talk'", published by SpeakOut.com
... the central dilemma raised by the problem of race relations in ... public life is this: We cannot ignore race, but must not define ourselves mainly in racial terms.
May 1, 1997 -
from "Straight Talk Instead of 'Race-Talk'", published by SpeakOut.com
It is a tragic irony that, although realizing democratic ideals requires effective civic dialogue across group lines, the very fact of social division can profoundly undermine a polity's capacity for public deliberation. Arguably, this is now the case with respect to debate on questions of race in our society. These debates have been, by turns, hysterical, demagogic, angry, guilt-ridden, or simply inane.
May 1, 1997 -
from "Straight Talk Instead of 'Race-Talk'", published by SpeakOut.com
Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babbington
... let not us ... fight the battle of truth with the weapons of error, and endeavor to support by oppression...
Apr. 17, 1833 - from a speech in the British House of Commons about tolerance
MacInnes, Gordon
Supporting integration means opposing multiculturalism, the current variant of the old theme of racial and ethnic nationalism. Multiculturism has an innocent ring: 'Respect diversity so we can all get along,' as if multiculturalism is little more than appreciating differences in cuisines and customs. In fact, multiculturalism collides with the American ethos that assumes individual worth is not defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin.
1995 -
Wrong for All the Right Reasons
, New York University Press
Marx, Groucho
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
Medved, Michael
Hollywood has not only abandoned larger-than-life heroes, but the industry seems to have lost all vision of the heroic elements in daily life - the selflessness and nobility of which ordinary citizens are consistently capable.
1992 - from
Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values
Morrow, Lance
We must presumably distinguish between the good, official racism (which is polyunsaturated) and bad racism (which is the saturated fat of the redneck). Well, good racism does not drive out bad. It is weak-minded and dangerously innocent to think one can enlist an immoral principle (sorting out individuals by race) in the service of social justice. The battle against bad racism becomes (like the war in Vietnam) not only unwinnable but self-perpetuating. And worse: the effort to combat racism grows evil in itself. Ideological corruption flourishes in government agencies, as it does in the universities - a kind of moral hive. It destroys immune systems.
Dec. 12, 1994 - commenting on "affirmative action" programs in "The Cure for Racism", published in
I would propose that no African American use the terms racism or racist. The words are a feckless indulgence, corrosive to blacks and whites alike and to relations between them. Such rhetoric has given blacks a leadership that has built its career upon mere race-grievance agitation, and is therefore profoundly, almost unconsciously committed to its perpetuation.
Dec. 12, 1994 - from "The Cure for Racism", published in
Moskowitz, Daniel B.
Two decades of well-meaning programs to erase racism and poverty in the U.S. have left those at the very bottom of the ladder worse off than ever.
from his review of Charles Murray's
Losing Ground
National Post, The
It is fashionable to suggest that today's governments should be held responsible for sins committed hundreds of years ago. ... But sorting out history's guilty and innocent is no easy task. Slavery has been practised for thousands of years by many peoples and races. Native Indians enslaved one another long before Europeans arrived. Before Africa was colonized, slavery on that continent was widespread and uncontroversial. In Sudan and Mauritania, Black Africans are still enslaved. In the past, blacks were bought by white traders, but they were sold by other Black Africans and Arabs. Should the apology and reparations come only from the buyers and not the sellers?
Jan. 31, 2001 - from its editorial "History's wrongs"
Some whites were slave owners in the 19th century and earlier, but others were abolitionists. In fact, the nations of the West are unique in human history in that they abolished slavery due to principled opposition from their free classes.
Jan. 31, 2001 - from its editorial "History's wrongs"
That many African countries are in disarray is beyond doubt. But colonialism is only a small and decreasingly important reason for this. As the United Nations itself concluded in a major 2000 report, Overcoming Human Poverty, most of Africa's current problems are due primarily to tribalism, poor government and corruption.
Jan. 31, 2001 - from its editorial "History's wrongs"
Nisbet, Robert
The ideologies which gained entry into the academy in the sixties claimed that the fundamental intellectual principles of Western culture were illegitimate and must be overthrown. With that destroyed, terms like truth, good, evil, and soul could be discarded.
quoted by Cal Thomas in "The Sixties Are Dead: Long Live the Nineties" a presentation at Hillsdale College
Novak, Michael
Honesty on questions of race is rare in the United States. So many and unrecognized have been the injustices committed against blacks that no one wishes to be unkind, or subject himself to intimidating charges. Hence, even simple truths are commonly evaded.
Sep. 1975 - from his review of
Race and Economics
, by Thomas Sowell, review published by the
New York Times
Parker, Star
... blacks have been convinced that every problem is political in origin and has a government-oriented solution.
May 10, 2001 - quoted in "Star Parker, a Courageous Black Voice" published by United Press International
The inner city crisis is not racial, but economic, and it is economic because of the breakdown of the black family. Blacks and whites must suppport pro-marriage legislation and look for ways to change the cultural attitude regarding sexual promiscuity. Remember, 70% of our welfare caseload were never married and with children. Black leaders need to address this (but will they ever do it?) and so do white leaders.
Aug. 4, 1999 -
from an open-line chat at townhall.com
Patrick, John
We must all examine our intolerances and decide whether they are bigoted or selfishly libertarian, and therefore to be decried and removed, or legitimate, and therefore to be defended. Judgment is hard, but it must be attempted if we are not to be left with a crude and debased culture. For tolerance to be properly exercised, it must be held in tension with all the other virtues.
Jun. 1996 - from "The Myth of Moral Neutrality", originally published in the
Medical Sentinel
Pearlstein, Mitchell B.
The conservative movement has an acute ear for freedom. It needs to improve its ear for equity. The right must demonstrate as much interest as the left in questions of race, poverty, urban decay, and an issue that likely will continue to swell in salience over the next couple of years, that of growing income inequality, be it real or a by-rote liberal charge.
May 5, 1998 - from "The Conservative Movement: What Color For Its Tent?", published by the Center of the American Experiment
Pearson, Lester B.
I had as comrades in my [World War I army] section men whose names were: Cameron, Kimora, English, Gleidenstein, de Chapin, O'Shaughnessy. We didn't fall in or fall out as Irish Canadians, French Canadians, Dutch Canadians, Japanese Canadians. We wore the same uniform, with the same maple leaf badge, and we were proud to be known as Canadians, to serve as Canadians and to die, if it had to be, as Canadians.
1964 - from the debate about changing the Canadian flag, quoted in
Canada: Our Century
by Kingwell and Moore
Richler, Mordecai
I should point out that my quarrel is not only with Francophone separatists, but also with the concept, obnoxious to me, of Canada's two founding races. And the notion that they are some how entitled to more privileges than the rest of us. Our Native peoples aside, we're all immigrants here. Whether they were fleeing penury in Normandy, the Highland clearances, the Irish potato famine, pogroms in Russia, Communist tyranny in Hungary or Poland or the lack of opportunity in China, the Ukraine or India, our ancestors came here in search of a better life, a fresh start. And together we have forged a fundamentally decent society. Yet Thomas Jefferson notwithstanding, 'All men,' and I'd better be careful here, 'or women, are not created equal.' Far from it. We are born unequal in intelligence, talent, beauty and economic privileges. So we should enjoy, in so far as it is possible, equal rights. That is to say whether our ancestors came here three hundred years ago or last week, once we are Canadian citizens there should be no self-serving nonsense about founding races.
Mar. 23, 1999 - from a lecture delivered at the University of Waterloo
Scalia, Antonin
The Court today [changes] ... a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for employment determinations, to a guarantee that it often will. Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite incompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.
Mar. 25, 1987 - from his dissenting opinion in
Johnson v. Transportation Agency
, which supported gender discrimination action under a California transportation agency's "affirmative action" plan
Scruton, Roger
[In their] life and death struggle for survival [under communist oppression] the Czechs were sustained by their consciousness of history and by their religious and cultural inheritance.
Jul. 21, 1998 - from a article in the London
Snow, Tony
[The civil rights movement] What began as a crusade for equal rights under the law has soured into a big-money quest to impose racial preferences. A movement that once united Americans of every class and color has turned into an agent of segregationism, race-baiting and political intrigue. What arose as a populist cause championed by ordinary citizens has degenerated into cults of personality backed by corporate America and shielded from scrutiny by a cadre of enforcers and intimidators. "We Shall Overcome" has given way to "Show me the money!"
Feb. 19, 2001 - from "Justice Thomas steps up", Creators Syndicate Inc.
Sowell, Thomas
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called "social justice" might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society.
1999 - from
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Try getting people to focus on precisely what they mean by overpopulation, urban sprawl or social justice and you are only likely to see the blur become blurrier. Even terms that were once sharply focused, like racism, discrimination or a level playing field are getting fuzzier and fuzzier.
May 31, 1999 - from "Lies, damned lies and blurs", published in
Statistics Canada
Is this person (mark or specify more than one, if applicable): White; Chinese; South Asian (e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sri Lankan); Black (e.g., African, Haitan, Jamaican, Somali); Arab/West Asian (e.g., Armenian, Egyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan); Filipino; South East Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Vietnamese); Latin-American; Japanese; Korean; Other (specify). Note: This information is collected to support programs which promote equal opportunity for everyone to share in the social, cultural and economic life of Canada.
1996 - from the 1996 Census Form, quoted in
Famous Lasting Words
by John Robert Columbo
Steele, Shelby
Race should not be a source of power or advantage or disadvantage for anyone in a free society. This was one of the most important lessons of the original civil rights movement.
Thatcher, Margaret
Be warned. A powerful, radical left-wing clerisy is bent on destroying what every past generation would have understood to be the central purpose of education -- that is, allowing (in the words of Edmund Burke) individuals to 'avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.' A society needs only one generation to abandon the task of learning and transmitting its culture, for that culture to become an alien, lifeless irrelevance.
Dec. 22, 1997 - from a speech at the International Conservative Congress, as quoted in
National Review
If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
Nov. 28, 1986 - quoted in
As I Said to Denis: The Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations
, edited by Iain Dale
We must learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
1978 - quoted in
As I Said to Denis: The Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations
, edited by Iain Dale
Thomas, Clarence
... I [do not] believe gadget ideas such as enterprise zones are of any consequence when blacks who live in blighted areas know that crime, not lack of tax credits, is the problem. Blacks are not stupid.
Oct. 1991 - from an article in
Policy Review
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister. One should not cowed by criticism. In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted. That is required. And that should be expected. For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
Feb. 13, 2001 -
from his Francis Boyer Lecture to the American Enterprise Institute
Thorsell, William
... governments ban the keeping of ethnic data in relation to crime, educational attainment or family breakdown, and journalists are generally pleased to accept these conditions because they, too, fear the scourge of racism and do not want to play any part in contributing to it. Understandable as this is, it is a mistake, especially for journalists. It is the very purpose to report the whole truth about significant social, economic and political events. Had we decided 25 years ago that the truth about conditions on native reserves and territories was "too hot to handle" - in effect, that the public cold not be trusted with the truth - we would have been cruelly derelict in our duty to Canadian society, including the aboriginals.
Tolerance is not concession, condescension or indulgence. Tolerance is, above all, an active attitude prompted by recognition of the universal human rights and fundamental freedoms of others. In no circumstance can it be used to justify infringements of these fundamental values.
Nov. 16, 1995 - from Article 1.2 of the "Declaration of Principles on Tolerance"
Tolerance... involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism and affirms the standards set out in international human rights instruments.
Nov. 16, 1995 - from Article 1.3 of the "Declaration of Principles on Tolerance" [UNESCO seems to see itself defining "dogma" and standards of tolerance. Ed.]
Above everything, we are Canadian.
inscription on a statue of Sir George Etienne Cartier on Canada's Parliament Hill
Vidal, Gore
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
West, Thomas G.
Conservatives often criticize excessive government spending and regulation. But liberals leave conservatives tongue-tied when they accuse them of lacking compassion. No word in our political vocabulary - except perhaps racism - can silence critics of the welfare state more quickly and effectively. Strangely, hardly anyone pauses to consider the easy assumption that it is compassionate to spend money on the poor. Yet we have known for some time that most poor people today have not been helped, but have been positively harmed, by the poverty programs of the 1960s and '70s. Meanwhile, most of these programs are still in place. The numbers of those dependent on them are growing rapidly.
1993 -
from "Poverty and the Welfare State" in
Moral Ideas for America
, by L. Arnn and D. Jeffrey, published by the Claremont Institute
Will, George F.
[Liberals say] art is whatever an artist says it is, and an artist is anyone who produces art. So the word "art" has become a classification that no longer classifies, there being nothing it excludes. How perfect, now that "inclusive" is the day's ultimate accolade because it is an antonym of "judgmental."
Jan. 25, 2001 - from "An artists bill of rights?", published by the Washington Post Writers Group
Williams, Walter E.
History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.
Wolfe, Alan
Middle-class Americans have added an Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not judge."
1998 - from a speech to journalists in Washington, similar assertion also appears in
One Nation, After All
Zeller, Richard
There was a time that ... honorable people could disagree honorably; now, any challenge to the campus sacred cows (feminism, affirmative action, and multiculturalism) is denounced as evil.
Sep. 28, 2000 - quoted by Larry Elder in "The politically incorrect professor", published by Creators Syndicate Inc.


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4 Reasons Why the Sabres Are Winning at the Wrong TimeMarch 4, 2012
4 Reasons Why the Sabres Are Winning at the Wrong Time
This Sabres' team is enigmatic, to say the least. The first half of the year was worst than the fans are accustomed to and the slump went well into 2012.
Now, the team has turned a corner and the Sabres have re-embodied their warrior spirit and are toiling powerfully towards the playoffs.
They currently sit at 11th place in the Eastern Conference just three points out of the playoffs.
For the average fan, all of this is good news and the team couldn't have kicked it into gear at a better time of the year. However, this can be more damaging for the team in the long run.
Teams like the Edmonton Oilers that make Cinderella runs for the Stanley Cup Finals, like the one in 2005-2006, usually end up pretty far down the standings less than a decade later.
The Sabres have been a fringe team for the better part of the last decade and the franchise hasn't reached the finals since the whole Brett Hull debacle.
To win now further delays the process of rebuilding that this franchise needs in order to crack the top echelon of the NHL, something that new owner Terry Pegula is adamant about.
Here are four reasons why the Sabres are winning at the wrong time.
1. Rebuilding Through the Draft
Winning teams rarely rebuild out of free agency, but instead they stock-pile draft picks in order to build a core that will last them five to eight years.
The Blackhawks acquired their two biggest stars using top-five picks in the draft. Jonathan Toews was the third-overall pick in the 2006 draft while Patrick Kane was first-overall the next year.
Except from the expansion draft in 1971, I can't remember when the Sabres picked first overall in the draft (Thomas Vanek was fifth overall). With that pick, they acquired Gilbert Perrault, the team's biggest star to date.
The following season they drafted Richard Martin fifth overall, which helps compose the French Connection.
The French Connection are the biggest stars in franchise history and two out of three players were drafted in the top five.
If the season were to finish today, the Sabres would have a miserable chance to win the lottery and pick Nail Yakupov. As of today, the Sabres might still pick anyone in the top 10, effectively allowing them to pick star center Alex Galchenyuk in the best possible scenario.
If the Sabres make the playoffs, the first-round draft pool becomes much more narrow for Darcy Regier & Co.
With two picks that might be in the 20s, the Sabres won't be able to draft that star, first line pivot that is Alex Galchenyuk.
The Sabres need a star center and the guys are one of the most rare commodities in the NHL and if they keep winning, this player will be almost impossible to acquire.
2. No Real Shake-Up
I'm a firm believer that accommodation is an organization's worst enemy. Unfortunately, the Sabres don't share the same philosophy.
Lindy Ruff has been behind the bench in Buffalo for an eternity and is the longest-tenured coach in professional sports.
Lindy has done an awesome job for during a good part of this run, but earlier this year the team seemed not to grasp his message. The Sabres' rebirth from the ashes started when Lindy missed some games due to broken ribs.
While this is most unfortunate for Ruff, it showed the team that they aren't dependent on him and that James Patrick, along with Teppo Numminen and Kevyn Adams, are capable of running this team.
In my opinion, it's a time for a shake-up that this organization is long overdue.
If the team keeps winning, the rebuilding process will be further postponed. Instead of having the same ill-fated journey that the Toronto Maple Leafs had, why not rebuild once and for all and have a better outcome?
3. Risk of Being the American Toronto Maple Leafs
The story of the Sabres and of the Maple Leafs seem eerily similar to me. Toronto's last Stanley Cup is going to be 50 years old in a short while.
Recent history shows that they were a good team that lost in the deeper rounds of the playoffs. However, they then became a fringe team until they hit this most recent dry spell of not making the cut since the lockout. Last year, the Leafs had two first-round picks in the 20s that haven't given any real benefit.
As for the Sabres, they still have to win their first cup since their inception. In the 1990s, the Sabres were also a good team laden with stars like Dominik Hasek and Alexander Mogilny. They made the playoffs for the majority of Lindy Ruff's tenure, even reaching the Stanley Cup Finals in 2000 and losing in a referee miscall.
This year, the Sabres have two first-round draft picks. One (the Nashville pick) is bound to fall late in the first round and the other has potential to be a top-five.
Then the Sabres started winning.
The Sabres are a middle-aged adult by now and the franchise wants to win. I've said this time and time again. This franchise needs to embrace the rebuilding process because it's just not good enough.
The acquisition of Cody Hodgson is a step in that direction and, in my opinion, it was a steal orchestrated by Darcy Regier & Co. but, the Sabres need top prospects to give them a chance to win.
The Chicago Blackhawks and the Pittsburgh Penguins are examples of teams that used two early first-round picks that have changed their history around. I think it might be time for the Sabres to at least contemplate doing the same.
4. No Top-10 Players
Let's face it, the Sabres have no top-10 league players. Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek are elite players, but they aren't the ones you rush to pick when making your fantasy hockey team.
Tyler Myers and Christian Ehrhoff might develop into top-10 defense men and Ryan MIller is a top-five NHL goaltender when playing at his full level.
The Sabres are missing that top-10 forward that will be the center of the attention like Sidney Crosby (and in his absence, Evgeni Malkin) and Alexander Ovechkin.
In my mind, Jordan Staal suffers from the same problem that Cody Hodgson and will to pry him out of Pittsburgh will take more than a king's ransom, but he has the potential to be that first-line center—much like Joe Thornton—who carries the franchise on his back throughout his career.
Then, the Sabres started winning.
It wasn't long ago that Ville Leino was the cream of the crop in Philadelphia. Drew Stafford never developed into the top-six winger everyone thought he would. Our top North-American prospect, Zack Kassian, has already been traded.
These are all names that might be better off somewhere else than in upstate New York. These assets might be what teams require to give the Sabres better tools to win in the long-term.


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