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50 floors above Times Square for magic hour. Pics soon…

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:21:00 -0500

50 floors above Times Square for magic hour. Pics soon…

Feb 26th snowstorm. 21” in Central Park. Also, the...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:43:00 -0500

Feb 26th snowstorm. 21” in Central Park. Also, the snowiest February on record. Hooray?

Album - Gib’s 27th Birthday

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:41:07 -0500

Album - Gib’s 27th Birthday

Photo

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:18:43 -0500

Some photos from the Double Down - 5th Anniversary Show at Swing...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:19:00 -0500

Some photos from the Double Down - 5th Anniversary Show at Swing 46

Photos from “Madness” at Hunter College

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0500

Photos from “Madness” at Hunter College

http://www.kellipatterson.com/wedding/ Due to an overwhelming...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:27:19 -0500

http://www.kellipatterson.com/wedding/

Due to an overwhelming amount of requests, I have built a Wedding photography page. I am now for hire. Check it out, and keep telling your friends! Thanks everyone!

Album from my first professional gig: White Wave Cool NY Dance...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:14:00 -0500

Album from my first professional gig:
White Wave Cool NY Dance Festival

Andrea and her riding boots.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:53:00 -0500

Andrea and her riding boots.

Photo

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:48:05 -0500

Baked Cheezy Poofs!

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:40:18 -0500

Baked Cheezy Poofs!

I’m officially for hire. Check it out. Tell your friends....

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:27:00 -0500

I’m officially for hire. Check it out. Tell your friends.

http://www.kellipatterson.com

Holden Caulfield

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:21:00 -0500

-I hate phonies.

-People never notice anything.

-People always think something’s all true.

-All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

-Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

-It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.

-Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.

-Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

-If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye…

RIP J.D.

2010 State of the Union Address

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:04:00 -0500

A few points from Obama’s first State of the Union that stuck with me…

So tonight, I’m proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat. I’m also proposing a new small business tax credit -– one that will go to over one million small businesses who hire new workers or raise wages.
From the day I took office, I’ve been told that addressing our larger
challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I’ve been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?
Still, in this economy, a high school diploma no longer guarantees a good job. That’s why I urge the Senate to follow the House and pass a bill that will revitalize our community colleges, which are a career pathway to the children of so many working families. To make college more affordable, this bill will finally end the unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that go to banks for student loans. Instead, let’s take that money and give families a $10,000 tax credit for four years of college and increase Pell Grants. And let’s tell another one million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only 10 percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after 20 years –- and forgiven after 10 years if they choose a career in public service, because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.
So, as temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we’ve proposed. There’s a reason why many doctors, nurses, and health care experts who know our system best consider this approach a vast improvement over the status quo. But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know. Let me know. Let me know. I’m eager to see it.
But what frustrates the American people is a Washington where every day is Election Day. We can’t wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side -– a belief that if you lose, I win. Neither party should delay or obstruct every single bill just because they can. The confirmation of — I’m speaking to both parties now. The confirmation of well-qualified public servants shouldn’t be held hostage to the pet projects or grudges of a few individual senators. Washington may think that saying anything about the other side, no matter how false, no matter how malicious, is just part of the game. But it’s precisely such politics that has stopped either party from helping the American people. Worse yet, it’s sowing further division among our citizens, further distrust in our government. So, no, I will not give up on trying to change the tone of our politics. I know it’s an election year. And after last week, it’s clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual. But we still need to govern.
To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills. And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town — a supermajority — then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well. Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. So let’s show the American people that we can do it together.
As we take the fight to al Qaeda, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people. As a candidate, I promised that I would end this war, and that is what I am doing as President. We will have all of our combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this August.
As we have for over 60 years, America takes these actions because our destiny is connected to those beyond our shores. But we also do it because it is right. That’s why, as we meet here tonight, over 10,000 Americans are working with many nations to help the people of Haiti recover and rebuild. That’s why we stand with the girl who yearns to go to school in Afghanistan; why we support the human rights of the women marching through the streets of Iran; why we advocate for the young man denied a job by corruption in Guinea. For America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity. Always.
Unfortunately, too many of our citizens have lost faith that our biggest institutions -– our corporations, our media, and, yes, our government –- still reflect these same values. Each of these institutions are full of honorable men and women doing important work that helps our country prosper. But each time a CEO rewards himself for failure, or a banker puts the rest of us at risk for his own selfish gain, people’s doubts grow. Each time lobbyists game the system or politicians tear each other down instead of lifting this country up, we lose faith. The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates to silly arguments, big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.
No wonder there’s so much cynicism out there. No wonder there’s so much disappointment.

I campaigned on the promise of change –- change we can believe in, the slogan went. And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure if they still believe we can change –- or that I can deliver it.

But remember this –- I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I could do it alone. Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That’s just how it is.

Those of us in public office can respond to this reality by playing it safe and avoid telling hard truths and pointing fingers. We can do what’s necessary to keep our poll numbers high, and get through the next election instead of doing what’s best for the next generation.

But I also know this: If people had made that decision 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, we wouldn’t be here tonight. The only reason we are here is because generations of Americans were unafraid to do what was hard; to do what was needed even when success was uncertain; to do what it took to keep the dream of this nation alive for their children and their grandchildren.

Josh in NYC - In the Winter 2010 album

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:17:57 -0500

Josh in NYC - In the Winter 2010 album

Christmas in Castine - In the Winter 2010 album

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:29:15 -0500

Christmas in Castine - In the Winter 2010 album

Visiting Shelly in Maine - In the Winter 2010 album

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:26:29 -0500

Visiting Shelly in Maine - In the Winter 2010 album

Drinking and the Art of Settlers - Sculptors of Catan

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:49:58 -0500

Drinking and the Art of Settlers - Sculptors of Catan

Paella Day - In the Winter 2010 album

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:48:00 -0500

Paella Day - In the Winter 2010 album

"Since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, and the service and sacrifice of our grandparents, our country..."

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:25:42 -0500

“Since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, and the service and sacrifice of our grandparents, our country has borne a special burden in global affairs. We have spilled American blood in many countries on multiple continents. We have spent our revenue to help others rebuild from rubble and develop their own economies. More than any other nation, the United States of America has underwritten global security for over six decades – a time that, for all its problems, has seen walls come down, markets open, billions lifted from poverty, unparalleled scientific progress, and advancing frontiers of human liberty. For unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought world domination. Our union was founded in resistance to oppression. We do not seek to occupy other nations. We will not claim another nation’s resources or target other peoples because their faith or ethnicity is different from ours. It is easy to forget that when this war began, we were united – bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by the determination to defend our homeland and the values we hold dear. I refuse to accept the notion that we cannot summon that unity again. I believe with every fiber of my being that we – as Americans – can still come together behind a common purpose. The message that we send in the midst of these storms must be clear: that our cause is just, our resolve unwavering. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might…”

- President Barack Obama - Address to West Point