"Stupid People Shouldn't Breath" or Why I Needed A Second Blog

I've already got one blog, why would I need another one? It comes down to the fact that D'nah Reads-A-Lot doesn't represent me very well. The template I chose is very nice, dignified and appropriate for the sort of book reviews I hope to do. But there's a lot more to me than that. I tend to be more quirky or exuberant than dignified and..

I love quotes! I collect them from, and keep them, everywhere. It's hard to find a container in my possession that doesn't have one or two quotes written on scraps of paper, napkins, even coded on the back of fortune cookie fortunes.

But somehow, I had allowed this bit of self knowledge to slip away. Until yesterday. Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that said "Stupid people shouldn't breed" and it reminded me of one of my favorite quotes: "Stupid people shouldn't breath." No, that's not a typo. Let me tell you the story.

One semester, when I lived in the dormitory at college I had a roommate that I didn't really get along with, but we managed. I took a dry erase marker and wrote my current quote on the mirror. Roomie didn't like this, she didn't like seeing the words show up on her face, so we compromised, and I wrote only on my half of the mirror.

This worked for a while, but one of Roomie's friends, in a fit of frustration on Roomie's behalf, wrote a message on the other side of the mirror. And I kid you not, but what it said was (the by now infamous) STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREATH. My friends and I (being intellectual snobs and able to spell breathe) found this hilarious and made reference to it not infrequently.

So when I saw that bumper sticker today, this all came back to me. And I could not help but think that what I really wanted, was a blog about quotes. Most, though not all, of my movie and book posts have a quote in them, but I wanted something more. A place to revel in quotes! Sometimes from movies or books, though more often from overheard or remembered conversations. Sometimes with some background information, insight or story. And sometimes, just to throw out those quotes, completely unadorned.

So that's what this is. I just want to share with you, Dear Reader, a quote, with or without baggage.