Cranky Large Medium reading, 8 November

Go away.

Go on. Hightail it out of here. What are you waiting for? Oh, right. You wander up my mountain for a glimpse of the truth about yourself. Well, my stars and garters! Look at yourself, here:

You are pigheaded, secretive and reactionary. Your tastes are fastidious and you fancy you deserve to be couched in luxury and style (it is to laugh!). You are a hyperactive lover who tends to hear music when nobody else does, and are shrewdly resourceful paranoiac few can work around.

Are you happy, now? Why not? You certainly are better off than these stars in garters (or out of them), all of whom hightailed it to the next life on this date in history: Louis the Child, Pope Agapetus II, King Louis VIII, Michel Rolle, Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Hannspeter Winter, Duns Scotus, Jerome Emser, Mordecai Kaplan, John Milton, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Andrea Appiani, Norman Rockwell, Francisco Guerrero, César Franck, Lester Bowie, Basil Poledouris, Wendell Corey, Bucky Harris, Natsuka Masaie, Robert Catesby, John Henry "Doc" Holliday,

and Ivory Joe Hunter.

Now I've met you, baby, you can leave.
Happy birthday, anyway.