A Day That's All About Me
Some people will (or have) used their blogs today to rant about the commericialism or anti-single-people-ness of Valentine's Day, but I... I will instead revel in birthday wishes. Yup. It's that exciting time of year where stores, nationwide, decorate for and celebrate MY birthday. Isn't that good of them? Restaurants serve special meals for you to savor with your sweetie, just so you can think of me, and my sweetness. Cards in envelopes of pink, red, and white are passed from loved one to loved one, because, well, let's face it -- not everyone has my address. Chocolate and flowers are exchanged. Presents are given. People everywhere try to get in on a little of my birthday celebrations, and really, who can blame them?
Not I.
And I'm generous about it. For those of you who didn't realize you were celebrating my special day (and I'll admit there may be a select few of you who didn't get the memo), to steal a line from Alisha, I'll just say
May you all be smooched on or sexy-glanced at or deliciously self-indulgent.Happy Birthday to me!
posted by ktbuffy at 9:58 AM
14 Comments:
Also, this is very very funny. Valentine's Day poetry!
2/14/2006 10:10 AM
Happy Birthday!
2/14/2006 10:28 AM
Happy Birthday KT! Go out and enjoy yourself all day today! :)
2/14/2006 10:34 AM
Also…
Helen Baxendale
Simon Pegg
Meg Tilly
Teller (as in Penn and Teller)
Gregory Hines
Alan Parker
Michael Bloomberg (Go and hang with the Mayor today…)
Paul Tsongus
Vic Marrow
Florence Henderson
Murray the “K”
Hugh Downs
Jimmy Hoffa
John Barrymore
Thomas Malthus
Drew Bledsoe
And for the Geeks out there…
EINAC was first displayed on this date.
2/14/2006 11:57 AM
happy birthday :)
2/14/2006 12:06 PM
Happy Birthday, Kate!
Also on this day:
1349 2,000 Jews are burned at the stake in Strasbourg, Germany.
1400 The deposed Richard II is murdered in Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire.
1549 Maximilian II, brother of the Emperor Charles V, is recognized as the future king of Bohemia.
1779 American Loyalists are defeated by Patriots at Kettle Creek, Ga.
1797 The Spanish fleet is destroyed by the British under Admiral Jervis (with Nelson in support) at the battle of Cape St. Vincent, off Portugal.
1848 James Polk becomes the first U.S. President to be photographed in office by Matthew Brady.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the thirty-third state.
1870 Esther Morris becomes the world's first female justice of the peace.
1876 Rival inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both apply for patents for the telephone.
1900 General Roberts invades South Africa's Orange Free State with 20,000 British troops.
1904 The "Missouri Kid" is captured in Kansas.
1912 Arizona becomes the 48th state in the Union.
1915 Kaiser Wilhelm II invites the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin in order to confer on the war.
1918 Warsaw demonstrators protest the transfer of Polish territory to the Ukraine.
1920 The League of Women Voters is formed in Chicago in celebration of the imminent ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
1924 Thomas Watson founds International Business Machines Corp.
1939 Germany launches the battleship Bismark.
1940 Britain announces that all merchant ships will be armed.
1942 Japanese paratroopers attack Sumatra. Aidan MacCarthy's RAF unit flew to Palembang, in eastern Sumatra, where 30 Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed A-28 Hudson bombers were waiting.
1945 800 Allied aircraft firebomb the German city of Dresden. Smaller followup bombing raids last until April with a total death toll of between 35,000 to 130,000 civillians.
1945 The siege of Budapest ends as the Soviets take the city. Only 785 German and Hungarian soldiers managed to escape.
1949 The United States charges the Soviet Union with interning up to 14 million in labor camps.
1955 A Jewish couple loses their fight to adopt Catholic twins as the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to rule on state law.
1957 The Georgia state senate outlaws interracial athletics.
1965 Malcolm X's home is firebombed. No injuries are reported.
1971 Moscow publicizes a new five-year plan geared to expanding consumer production.
1973 The United States and Hanoi set up a group to channel reconstruction aid directly to Hanoi.
1979 Armed guerrillas attack the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1985 Vietnamese troops surround the main Khmer Rouge base at Phnom Malai.
1989 Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini charges that Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, is blasphemous and issues an edict (fatwa) calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie.
Born on February 14
1760 Richard Allen, first black ordained by a Methodist-Episcopal church.
1817 Frederick Douglass, slave, and later, activist and author.
1819 Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter.
1845 Quinton Hogg, English philanthropist.
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel.
1894 Jack Benny, comedian, radio and television performer...and violinist.
1894 Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson, founded the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC) and was appointed to President John F. Kennedy's National Committee on Music.
2/14/2006 12:07 PM
Or, alternately:
On Feb. 14, 1929, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
On this date:
In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Star and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
In 1894, comedian Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan, Ill.
In 1895, Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James's Theatre in London.
In 1903, the Department of Commerce and Labor was established. (It was divided into separate departments of Commerce and Labor in 1913.)
In 1945, Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joined the United Nations.
In 1979, Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
Ten years ago: Texas Sen. Phil Gramm bowed out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination following his poor showings in the Louisiana and Iowa caucuses.
Five years ago: A Palestinian crashed a bus into Israeli soldiers and civilians standing at a bus stop in Azur, Israel, killing eight. (The driver, Khalil Abu Olbeh, was later sentenced to eight life terms.) The Kansas Board of Education approved new science standards restoring evolution to the state's curriculum.
One year ago: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated. A gas explosion inside a Chinese mine killed 214 people. President Bush said he would nominate Lester M. Crawford as head of the Food and Drug Administration, a position Crawford had held as acting commissioner for nearly a year.
Today's Birthdays: TV personality Hugh Downs is 85. Actress-singer Florence Henderson is 72. Country singer Razzy Bailey is 67. Jazz musician Maceo Parker is 63. Movie director Alan Parker is 62. Journalist Carl Bernstein is 62. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is 59. TV personality Pat O'Brien is 58. Magician Teller (Penn and Teller) is 58. Cajun singer-musician Michael Doucet (Beausoleil) is 55. Actor Ken Wahl is 49. Opera singer Renee Fleming is 47. Actress Meg Tilly is 46. Singer-producer Dwayne Wiggins is 45. Actor Enrico Colantoni is 43. Actor Zach Galligan is 42. Rock musician Ricky Wolking (The Nixons) is 40. Tennis player Manuela Maleeva is 39. Rock musician Kevin Baldes (Lit) is 34. Rock singer Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) is 34. Actor Freddie Highmore ("Finding Neverland") is 14.
Thought for Today: "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." _ Jack Benny (1894-1974).
2/14/2006 12:09 PM
Uh... Aside from all the accumulated history of today (is there any day that is solely happy events?)... Happy birthday you!
2/14/2006 2:10 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DELICATE TULIP.
2/14/2006 2:15 PM
Happy birthday.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Pretty much happy everything.
There. That outta cover it.
2/14/2006 2:52 PM
Have a joyous birth celebration! (I just didn't want to be like everyone else and say "Happy Birthday.")
2/14/2006 3:23 PM
Happy Kate Appreciation Day!
(A friend of mine declared that she would no longer have birthdays, as birthdays signify age.)
2/14/2006 5:38 PM
I couldn't send chocolates, or flowers in a vase. I don't know you well enough to do so in any case. One thing I can and will say. The world is blessed each year on this day.
Happy Birthday Kate, May your year grant all that you desire of it.
2/14/2006 6:22 PM
Awwww... you guys all rock! Thanks!
2/15/2006 12:29 AM
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