“I’ve always felt like a kid, I still feel like a kid, and I’ve never had any problem tapping into my childhood and my kid side.”
~ Paul Reubens, b. 27 Aug 1952
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Jorge Luis Borges (b. August 24): “It is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger.”
24 Aug
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges, b. 24 August 1899
Keith Moon (b. August 23): “I can’t believe that person is really me.”
23 Aug
“I can’t believe that person on the television is really me.”
~ Keith Moon, b. 23 August 1946
Kristen Wiig (b. August 22): “It’s dangerous to care what people think.”
22 Aug
“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.”
~ Kristen Wiig, b. 22 August 1973
Ogden Nash (b. August 19): “You’re only young once…”
19 Aug
“You’re only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
~ Ogden Nash, b. 19 August 1902
The Shaming of the Shrew
15 Aug
The Shaming of the Shrew is a ribald comedy written by William Shakespeare, believed to have been penned in a burst of manic creativity between midnight and sunrise on Midsummer’s Night, 1591.
The main plot depicts the courtship of a mischievous nobleman and a headstrong shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various sexual torments – the “shaming” – until she becomes a compliant and obedient mistress.
The play’s apparent misogynistic elements have become the subject of considerable controversy, particularly among modern scholars, 
audiences and readers. However, apologists for Shakespeare who have examined his diary, his handwriting, and the many clay pipes that he used that summer, said he was smoking an inordinate amount of cannabis that year. Shakespeare was 27 at the time.
The Royal Shakespearean Society has also weighed in, saying that his reputation should not be judged on the basis of this single “stoner sitcom” in the Bard’s oeuvre. In his defense, they cite the evidence of his diaries wherein even “Wild Bill”, as he was known to his intimates at Ye Olde Fumitorium in downtown Avon, frequently admonished himself not to take too seriously anything he wrote under the influence of “the inventive weed.”
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Alan Annand is a writer of mystery novels, most notably his New Age Noir series featuring an astrologer whom one reviewer has called called “Sherlock Holmes with a horoscope.”
Astrosexual: a definition
14 Aug
Alan is a writer and astrologer. His New Age Noir mystery series features an astrologer whom one reviewer has called “Sherlock Holmes with a horoscope.”
Ernest Hemingway (b. July 21): “We are all apprentices…”
21 Jul
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
~ Ernest Hemingway, b. 21 July 1899
Robin Williams (b. July 21): “You’re only given a little spark of madness…”
21 Jul
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
~ Robin Williams, b. 21 July 1951
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For an astrological analysis of Robin Williams’ life, see:
http://www.navamsa.com/?p=2019
Carlos Santana (b. July 20): “My job is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music.”
20 Jul
“My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.”
~ Carlos Santana, b. 19 July 1947
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