Melrose and Wilton

"I was broke in December, but January... I called that pan-handling month."

As we all dig into our free lunch complimentary of the client we were working for, I sit at the head of a long table amongst a dozen other "starving artists", speaking about the hole that our economy has sliced into our suddenly sparse pockets. The hair stylist chimes in, and couldn't have made a more well put statement.