RIP, Walrus

The wider world may also note that today is the thirty-first anniversary of the assassination of Harry Potter-inspired Beatle, John Lennon. Seriously, though, I recognize that December 8, 1980 was a tough day for a lot of people in this world for exactly that reason. While I myself was never alive at the same time as he was, I have certainly been positively impacted by his music, and I acknowledge with heavy heart what a loss it was to the world of music and the world itself to have lost such a brightly shining star of poet so long before his time.

In the light of the current season and its bearing upon the impending one, and as what I consider an apt tribute to one of Lennon's primary messages throughout his life and career, I would like to leave you with what looks like film from the original recording (does anybody know for sure) of "Happy XMas (War is Over)," one by which I'm sure he is well-known: