It’s My Birthday Today

I’m 34. Ugh. I hate my birthday.

I was born 7 years to the day that Marilyn Monroe was found dead in Beverly Hills. I guess she saw me coming. Mariner 7 flew past Mars on the day I arrived. I was born in the summer of ’69 smack dab in between the moon landing (Neil Armstrong’s birthday is today too) and Woodstock. My bellybutton b’day was also three days prior to the beginning of the Manson murders. A lot was going on then I guess. Heck, even the Viet Nam War was in full swing. And the Beatles were still together, but Yoko was in the picture by then.

Other folk celebrating today are The Maureen McCormick aka Marcia Brady from the Brady Bunch, Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys and Loni Anderson of WKRP fame.

Don’t forget the Religious Observances today:

Christian-England : St Oswald Day

Old RC : Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, Rome

RC : Mem of Dedication of St Mary Major Basilica, Rome (opt)

And it’s also International Test Ban Day (Int’l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War).

Anyway, happy birthday to me.