Just took this awesome test! Go see what your musical taste says about you and what it tells others. Here's my result:

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take your own test here: http://www.outofservice.com/music-personality-test/

And I should say this test is a real measure used by psychologists not one of those fake fun ones.

Don't quite know why but I'm feeling a little burned out. I have all these fun ideas racing around my head to do in metal and with beads but I haven't done them yet. Maybe I'm burned out by them staying in my head rather than being translated to my hands. I think I'm also a little stressed about the price of sterling and all the supplies I want/need to order. I also think I need more sleep. bah.

I try to steer clear of anything that is not beautiful, funny, helpful, or insightful on my blog but the statement above bugged the heck outta me. "We're not ready for a Black president." This was the assertion made by a male caller into C-Span radio last night. For that reason he was voting for Hillary in the primary and then if she were the nominee, he'd be voting for John McCain in November. This guy said he is a Democrat (not that any of this matters for my point. Just wanted to let you know where he was coming from). Apparently we're not ready for a woman president either.

So when, pray tell do you think we'll be ready? This is just absurd to me. Putting aside the whole race thing for a second and the fact that it's 2008, it's mostly absurd to me because I don't know how many people are ever ready for change until it actually happens. What I mean is, you adjust. My husband had this quote on the wall for the longest time that went something like this:

Three stages toward acceptance of a new idea:

1. ridicule
2. opposition
3. obviousness

So let's have an example shall we? Let's use me and cell phones:

1. "What a dumb idea to carry a phone on your person"

So I just started reading this book, Winning The Race, by John McWhorter. The whole premise from what I can see is that black people are in the state they are in today because we have engaged in therapeutic alienation.

I've only just started so this not a review just my thoughts. It seems so far that therapeutic alienation is a few things:

- talking a whole lot of good game about change but not necessarily doing any work
- embracing being the outsider culture
- reveling in the idea of revolution

I'm trying to keep an open mind while reading this. I'm intrigued but also a little put off by this dude. We'll see.

One thing he said that I agree with is that we seem to think there is a need for a second Civil Rights movement to bring about change, to make The Man see the fault of his ways. He seems to say The Man has always been here and he ain't going nowhere so we have to work this out ourselves. I tend to agree here.

My shop got featured on Etsy's online newsletter!
I thought it was a long shot, but there you have it! :D
Go check out the piece for more wonderful artists of color!

http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/thisHandmadeLife/article/black-histo...