Its a cold, hard, world out there
these are cold hard times


Tim Rollins, Red Leaf 2, 2008

* From Harper's November 2008:

-- Number of marijuana plants found under cultivation inside Miami's Mall of the Americas in August: 360

-- Average number of new federal crimes that Congress creates each year: 56

-- Estimated value of U.S. economic growth lost due to the global credit crisis: $2,000,000,000,000

-- Average number of hours per week that an American and a Chinese person, respectively, spend shopping: 4, 10

* Lee Hazlewood performs Cold, Hard Times, on the Rolf Harris Show in 1971.

* "Art is art. Everything else is everything else." - Ad Reinhardt