Happy Birthday Janet!

It’s my little sister’s birthday today! I love her very much – even when she pulls shit like this. So please wish her a bad-ass birthday in the comments and join us tonight at Silvertone if you’re so inclined. Back to the scene of the storm.

May 6th has been a tragic date throughout human history – so it’s probably no accident that Janet chose to emerge 29 years ago today. Let’s look at the facts:

- On May 6, 1937 the hydrogen-filled German dirigible “Hindenburg” burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board.
- In 1942 some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
- In 1996, the body of former CIA director William E. Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he’d disappeared.
- George Clooney and Tony Blair were also born today.

So we can all take some solace in the fact that she was inevitable. Have a great one, sis, and I hope we get to do this for another 30 years.

If you liked this post...:

1. Happy Birthday To Me. Again. December 7th was once described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as “A day that will live in infamy”. A great line – and I wish I could take credit for inspiring it. But he was, of course, referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I have to thank those dastardly Kamikazes for taking just [...]...
2. Happy Birthday, Chairman “You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.” Although I’ve always been tickled that I share a birthday with Larry Bird, Tom Waits and Aaron Carter simply being born under the same astrological sign as Frank Sinatra is among my greatest joys in life. Francis Albert Sinatra was born 92 years ago [...]...
3. 33 Reasons Janet Rules I could actually list 33 reasons my little sister is the coolest – but that would take all morning. Will you good people settle for a quick 5? “What’s with all the bubbles, bro? Mom says there’s no such thing as sea monsters.” She looks just like me. Not the other way around – I was here [...]...