*In my email. This is their *second* austerity Christmas party. At least they're still having parties, noble Italian souls that they are.
*I used to resent the gaudy consumer orgy of Christmas... so calculated, so excessive... but a midwinter feast-day was clearly invented to prevent people despairing when the sun never seemed to show up. One senses the hard-won folk wisdom of a people with many winters.
*I like the multi-generational aspects of this picture, the Auld Lang Syne of class poverty. Throw a little Photoshopping on that, and it's precarious creative-class all the way.
