Happy birthday!!!!

Yes, Happy birthday Barry!!! Rascallion!!

Okay, today I must start out with a biggie. A top gun, a man. Neil Armstrong!!
When America still had a CAN DO attitude. Today all we have is platitudes.... and self doubt. Sigh... Happy Birthday Niel.... you da man!!

Yes, a true American hero!!!

One of my favorite bands growing up was the Beastie Boys. Today is the bass player Adam Yauch's birthday! Thanks for inspiring my to, fight for my right to party!!!!

Rock on!! yah the Beastie Boys were great!!!
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Rock on!! yah the Beastie Boys were great!!!
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slight correction CJ....ARE great

Yes yes...my bad....apologies profusely given...

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I'll start out this morning with someone I feel has been one of the better directors in recent years. M. Night Shyamalan, does a great job of making it creepy with out going over board!

I really enjoyed the Sixth sense, but haven't seen any of his others. Starting out with a KILLER movie like that is hard to top!


I'll go with Alexander Fleming, who did many amazing things including penicillin! This allows me to watch Sixth Sense without an infection running up my legs... Much more enjoyable...thanks

Fleming!!

I've only seen a few others.. The Village is really good, with a strange twist at the end.

When you've saved as many lives as Fleming you deserve a little recognition!!

I'll check it out..... "the village"


Fleming was a doctor in WW1 and this prompted him to look for better methods of treatment. Can you just imagine the complete medical horrors he had to witness during that war? Shocking....

I couldn't image (or don't want to)!! I know my grandpa saw things in the pacific during WWII that he would never talk about.

Happy birthday Robert Mitchum!



In The Emperor Wears No Clothes there is a photo of prisoner Mitchum sweeping up his jail cell while incarcerated for the offense of cannabis possession.

Oh Shazam, is it Mitchum's birthday? That was one cooool dude. He smoked weed when it wasn't cool to. What a guy....

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Happy Birthday Edge!

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Yoyoyo...Johhny O! yes, great evans, yes.


I'll go with an easy choice... Dustin Hoffman.

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Both great choices!!

I'm going with some one I had never heard of before today. Matthew Henson was the first person to reach the north pole. Quit an accomplishment if you ask me.

Gol dang right it's important. Without any modern technology..... an awesome feat of pure bravery, cunning, and endurance.... Well done!

Happy Birthday Ronnie Spector!

Smokin Johnny!


I'll stay in the medium and throw in a big HB for Ian Anderson who made the flute bad arse, and that's not an easy thing to do!

Great choices both of you!!! I was going to go with Ian Anderson, but you beat me to it.

I've got an interesting one today. Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, is know for having the longest sentence of anybody at Alcatraz.


I found this on wikipedia, thought it was a n interesting read.

Sentenced to life imprisonment, Karpis was incarcerated at the recently formed Alcatraz federal penitentiary from August 1936 to April 1962. For six months in 1958, he had been transferred to the Leavenworth federal penitentiary, but was then returned to Alcatraz. His main job at Alcatraz was working at the bakery. He was far from a model prisoner, frequently fighting with other inmates. However, Karpis is renowned for being the prisoner with the longest sentence at Alcatraz, yet the only prisoner with no escape attempts.[citation needed] In April 1962, with Alcatraz in the process of being closed, he was transferred to McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington state. While at McNeil he met a young inmate named Charles Manson. Karpis wrote about Manson in his autobiography with Robert Livesey, published in 1980):

"This kid approaches me to request music lessons. He wants to learn guitar and become a music star. 'Little Charlie' is so lazy and shiftless, I doubt if he'll put in the time required to learn. The youngster has been in institutions all of his life--first orphanages, then reformatories, and finally federal prison. His mother, a prostitute, was never around to look after him. I decide it's time someone did something for him, and to my surprise, he learns quickly. He has a pleasant voice and a pleasing personality, although he's unusually meek and mild for a convict. He never has a harsh word to say and is never involved in even an argument."

After Manson had actually become somewhat proficient on the guitar, he asked Karpis for help in getting a job playing in Las Vegas as Karpis had contacts with nightclub and casino owners there. Manson even told him he would be bigger than the Beatles, but in the end Karpis decided to leave Manson on his own regarding his music career. Manson was moved to a Los Angeles facility in 1967, which proved to be one of the most ominous prison transfers ever. Later Karpis added "The history of crime in the United States might have been considerably altered if 'Little Charlie' had been given the opportunity to find fame and fortune in the music industry. He later became the infamous Charles Manson."