Lunch Break - a photo/New Depression tip/More Lennon/Mr. O'Toole recites a sonnet

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The photo is from a friend stationed in Baghdad - though clearly it was not taken there - it came to him from a fellow solider in Bamberg, Germany - and he passed it along. It makes me feel all Christmassy... though I have no idea why - I'm from So-Cal and Christmas never looks like this...still I love the photo

New Depression tip:
Okay not really a tip for hard economic times but in keeping with my very gloomy famine post this morning - if things really go haywire in the next few years...a self reliance course from Cody Lundin may be in order.

Reclaim your sense of preparedness and confidence by spending seven days at the ACES off the grid homestead learning time-honored skills...

Why not - I know I would benefit from some "Palin-tology" ie: learning to kill and skin a...whatever...animal...food...thingy.... a deer? a squirrel? Actually I'm not sure what wild protein sources would be roaming in Griffith Park if disaster struck L.A. Coyotes? Bobcats? Confused Endeavor agents? Dazed Beverly Hills trophy wives? David Geffen's pool boys?

Music: More Lennon...


Some Shakespeare:
Peter O'Toole recites a sonnet...

And finally a quote:

"Economics is a form of brain damage."
--Hazel Henderson