Notable birthdays today:
J.-K. Huysmans
William S. Burroughs
and .... as Cabaret Voltaire opened on February 5, 1916 in Switzerland, today is also considered to be the birthday of Dada.
go fish merry!
Okay, yesterday may have been the birthday of Dada, but I swear today IS Dada. Look at the people who were born today and tell me why, why, why were all these people born on this date?
Christopher Marlowe
Aaron Burr
Babe Ruth
Ronald Reagan
John Lund
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Patrick Macnee
Sixten Jernberg
Rip Torn
Francois Truffaut
Mamie Van Doren
Mike Farrell
Tom Brokaw
Fabian
Bob Marley
Natalie Cole
Axl Rose
Robert Townsend
Kathy Najimy
Barry Miller
Rick Astley
And if that wasn't enough to make my hair stand up on end, Laszlo's birthday happens to be today. I gave him the list of people whose Aquarian birthday he shares and can see how he fits on this list for certain. If only because he's as weird a juxtaposition as any o' them.
And I tell you, it's an odd thing to live with a juxtaposition.
Happy Birthday, Laszlo!
An old friend of mine, Michael (aka Nina Rage), started a blog recently partly because he's been trying to find a viable outlet for his semi-dormant creativity. He thought keeping a blog might be a good way to force himself to write on a more regular schedule. His blog is called La Belle Epoque or....
He asked me to check in on it and to yell at him if he starts to slack off writing in it regularly. I told him that for him I would take on the role of a Muse of Nagging for his little project and do so.
Nagging muses, I guess, can be as valuable as inspirational ones in certain circumstances.
Oh, I was far too amused by this wicked little list of French military "highlights" from Professor Bunyip.
I've noticed there's been a lot of sniping at the French lately in various blogs (in response partly to the things Chirac has recently been going on about) -- as if it should have come as some surprise that the French can be perhaps a bit spuriously irascible at times.
That very tendency of theirs is actually one of the main reasons I do so enjoy delving into French history. I mean, really, try reading the full text of some of the decrees issued by the Committee of Public Safety back during the French Revolution, if you doubt it.
The entire French Revolution could, I believe, be explained entirely by hats. When Kallisti and I were working on a project that involved a lot of research into the French Revolution, I kept threatening to do a Flash animation of a sort of hat montage about that. Still hope to get around to that one of these days.
Of course, it isn't just the French and their history that can be so strangely entertaining. Humans have always been such funny critters, indeed.
Almost as entertaining as cats.
I'm not speaking here politically in the least, please know. More sociologically, anthropologically. As in politics, human foibles and tendencies become so less forgivable, disheartening, and even potentially dangerous. And, today, at any rate, I just don't wanna go there. Ain't my forté.
