Secretary of the Arts

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this, and the country needs the arts -- now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues.

www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

Thanks, copperbadge!

Excerpt from this weekend

As we were leaving the house to go get some brunch:

Drunk: I'll have one of those served New Orleans Style: covered in water!
Marni: You know, a lot of people died in that hurricane. There are people rolling over in their graves that you said that.
Drunk: Yeah, their watery graves.

Hah. Told you I'd be blogging it. *smirks*