Monday Quick Notes

Exciting news from Britain today! The debate over Britain’s food crisis has been going on since last year, but has exploded since May, when Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty released a report showing that in 2012, an estimated 500,000 Britons relied on food banks to feed themselves and their families, an increase from just 70,000 three years ago. It's cool though, that sort of thing makes for good television.


Local aspiring writers, please let me point you to a class I'm not running: Jay Ridler: Write Fast, Write Furious: Optimize Your Writing Time and Output should be a cool one-day class, Saturday July 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, on picking up the pace of your own writing! Do check it out.

I feel the need to point to my old entry on the film Midnight Run. Also, here's a YouTube vid of Dennis Farina: