Artichoke: Best of British Food is #47

Sheila Lennon does a fine presentation of food blogs. 

Reality Sandwich has a cameo on Mystic Bourgeoisie.

dissociative fugue episode

Thanks to Gaspar and to Chris.

Recession

Among the items  receding even further than they were not too long ago:

• Credit Card Company customer service. Call, and get the usual menu of options, only, very hard to locate that human. Living humans are a dying breed.

• Denver, CO and St. Paul MN. If anyone detected actual political activity, i.e., life, during either convention, I'll eat McCain's withered testicle.

• Corporate Infrastructure::Politics = Country Music::Music.

• Abandonment of the needy: The code of the survivalist mooseeating Northern exposure.
  

McCain-*-Pain courtesy of Mr. Locke.

Calling all Concierge VIP Disaster Capitalists

Way back when, in the heyday of the San Diego fire, a friend living out there sent a photo of it:















Some time later, I happened to share it with Christopher Locke, who esemplastically returned it thus:



















I knew he was coming up on another milestone.


And that he'd been consulting many books (small sample):

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I didn't know disaster was so near.