Things To Take Notes of

Some of my reading choices are that of a 14 year old punk kid.

I worked on a photo shoot with Yoko Ono on Monday. She was really cute, nice and in AMAZING shape for being 75 years old. I poked around her website and found this interesting quote.

While I don't consider myself a pacifist, It's still interesting.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along wether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictator. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

-Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

I kind of have a great idea for an eco-friendly fashion company..

Too bad I'm like going thru bankruptcy, and basically have no money to do this.. 

UPDATED: I almost entirely forgot about this..

So apparently I posted the wrong version of this.

Below is a more hilarious version of the same sketch.

Kangaroo Hunter

like being on the moon

I'm going here next week for work:

So I haven't posted anything interesting because I've been so busy. I brought Belvedere home and he's amazing (photos to follow in another post.

But I thought I'd also start posting about all the crazy geneological research I've found over the last several months. I've taken an interest in history of the Dark Ages.

Why?

Because I managed to find out that 10 generations of my ancestors lived here:



Basically, on my mother's side, if you go back far enough you find that one of our lines goes back to a super rich plantation owner in very early Virginia. You go back further through family trees and discover that the line goes back through men who have "Esquire" attached to their names, and within four generations or so you discover Govenors of Bramburg, essentially, the rulers of Northumberland.

This goes back for 10 generations beyond that to sometime in the 11th or 12th century.

So how did this person get such a fancy castle you ask?

Because my 16th great grandfather or something ridiculous like that, saved King Richard the Lionheart from certain death in the 3rd Crusade at a battle in Israel, basically the first battle right after landing there.

If you start to read about military during that time, those who traveled with the king came from nobel birth and if you go back further in the 1st Forster of Bramburg's linage, you discover, his great grandfather was the brother of Matilda of Flanders, the first queen of united England who was actually french. So basically the story gets really crazy from there and the lines of those two can be traced back to Frankish and Germanic Kings that trail off somewhere around when you get to the Caroligians and Charlemenge, the father of united Europe.

Granted, none of this matters now but I think the history of it is pretty cool...