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Birthday Horoscope

From Horoscope.com:

Happy Birthday! The months ahead are likely to start as a rather intense emotional journey as you start carving out a new direction in life – places to go, things to see, but first you’ll have to do some soul searching! There could be a career change for some of you – with opportunities for some travel involved. While it’ll be a wrench to leave home you should grasp these opportunities with both hands! Romance will peak and trough throughout the next few months, but the summer is looking especially frantic as you’ll be juggling all aspects of your life! This will continue well into the fall and after. Taking care of yourself will be very important. Sensible eating combined with plenty of rest will help you recharge your batteries during this hectic time.

Gee, this kind of sounds like my birthday horoscope every year!

I hope Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Danson, Paula Poundstone, Jon Voight, Jude Law, Bryan "Dexter" Holland, Marianne Faithfull and my friend Mike O. have a nice birthday today, too.

Quick Christmas Music Poll 2: Electric Boogaloo

Okay, okay - I totally erred yesterday when I left out both Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and WHAM!'s "Last Christmas" for consideration as modern Christmas classics.  I hate myself for that because I LOOOOVE those songs.  Shoot, I still have the making of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on Beta.  BETA, people.

So let's make a list, shall we?  In no particular order, here are my favorite modern Christmas classics.  Leave a comment if you think I've left one out!  But don't you DARE add that goddamn "Christmas Shoes" by Bob Carlisle - you know, the one where the kid is trying to buy slippers or whatever for his Mom - unless you want me to punch you right in the throat.  It's the stirrup pants of Christmas songs. Bleeurgh.

• "All I Want for Christmas Is You" - Mariah Carey
• "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid
• "Last Christmas" - WHAM!
• "2000 Miles" - The Pretenders (I also very much love Coldplay's cover)
• "Deck the Stills" - Barenaked Ladies

Quick Christmas Music Poll

The best modern Christmas song - the one which could be easily described as a classic - is Mariah Carey's 1994 single "All I Want for Christmas Is You."  Yes or no?  I don't know about you, but it's one of my favorite songs holiday or otherwise.

And for old times' sake, here's a link to the black and white video which I think is WAY better than this one.

Weather Confusion

So our Thanksgiving weekend in L.A. was hot hot hot, and now it's super foggy outside.  Like, the thick as pea soup kind of fog.  What gives, weather?