Hey, baby.

Twenty favorite things from two thousand ten.

craft

Xavier Viramontes A Life in Print as seen on KLCS

www.xavierviramontes.com * www.alifeinprint.net * www.galeriadelaraza.org

true style

"My style, who I am, is not about my clothing...I am myself, I've always been myself and you don't judge me by what I wear. You judge my by what I say."

-Whoopi Goldberg, responding to criticisms on her clothes

shamrock o'bama

perception

"You see things in a different way, I think, if you've ever taken music seriously. Even if you're not a great musician"

-Bill Clinton, 2008
from Specatacle, Elvis Costello with...

true los angeles royalty

Happy Birthday, Rodney Bingenheimer, b.1947

aka Mayor of the Sunset Strip

birthday rollcall

Happy Birthday Jonathan Swift (b.1667), Mark Twain (b.1835) & Abbie Hoffman (b.1936)

positively brilliant

Cosby Show Opening Credits Seasons 1-8

it says, "the world is changing"

american badass

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (b.1815 d.1902)

cleansing by fire

“The feelings right now are difficult to describe. One of the hazards of monasticism throughout the centuries is we become attached to what we have or where we are. This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. This is a cleansing by fire.”

-Brother Brown, Mount Calvary Monastery

Monks Turn to Reflection With Monastery in Ruins from NYTimes.com

clear enough?

"I promise you this: When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House. Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America."

-Barack Obama
to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles
11/18/08

remember to kick in

modern prophet

Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act? " Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?"

Al Gore
Nobel Prize Acceptance 12/07

gotta get after it

"Never mistake motion for action"

-Ernest Hemingway

a true respect for work

"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits"

-Studs Terkel (b.1912 d. 2008)

author of Working (1974)

and hello to you, bruce

y'argh, it's halloween

Barack H Obama (mid 60s)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies) is the international source for pictures of Obama holding babies. There are occasionally some kisses involved, sometimes the babies are a little too old to be classified as babies, and sometimes we just post pictures of Obama