happy birthday, bean!

For my favorite little Taurus:

Cumpleaños Feliz, te deseamos a ti
Cumpleaños, Cumpleaños
Cumpleaños Feliz

Que los cumplas feliz
Que los cumplas feliz
Que los cumplas querido Joaquin!
Que los cumplas Feliz

Cumpleaños Feliz, te deseamos a ti
Cumpleaños, Cumpleaños
Cumpleaños Feliz

Feliz, Feliz en tu dia
Amiguito que Dios te bendiga
Que reine la paz en tu dia
Y que cumplas muchos mas

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On a Pisces note, my horoscope for today includes this gem (gemmiest part bolded):

You may be pushed outside of your comfort zone today, yet new encounters can ultimately bring joy into your life. Don’t resist the variety of experience that now awaits your participation. This is your chance to explore unknown territory, even if it’s only in your dreams. Remember, your fantasies can show you the way to a sweeter reality if you let it happen.  

Mmmm.   

on this day in 1981

Yesterday marked 16 years since the death of Bob Marley. Now, I’ve always liked Marley at least as much as any girl who grew up in suburban New York. Legend was a required acquisition when I was in high school, and I imagine that it still is. But — as that taste was an affected fashion not unlike the concurrent phenomenon of little girls wearing Grateful Dead t-shirts — this is still a day that would have passed without my remarking it at all, had I not been here in Grenada.

Much more interesting than the fact that I heard Buffalo Soldier on the radio FOUR TIMES yesterday is that there is, apparently, a bit of conspiracy theory surrounding Bob Marley’s death. Not quite full-blown Oliver Stone-style conspiracy theory, but conspiracy theory nonetheless. When I hear that some people think Marley’s fatal cancer was in fact something more sinister and less natural, I am reminded of some of the wackier theories surrounding the JFK assasination.

Anyway, go ahead and google “bob marley conspiracy theory”. Or “bob marley foot cancer cia”.

Or — if and only if you’re looking for a real kick — google “david icke”. Icke is HILARIOUS; he has this theory that the Bush family and a whole bunch of other powerful/influential members of society are actually shape-shifting reptilian aliens from the fourth dimension. It’s so ludicrous I doubt even he takes it seriously. He’s got the imagination of a genius schizophrenic; it’s irrelevant mind candy at its very best.