Cranky Large Medium reading, 7 December

Go away.

Will you get out of here? Get out! Go, man, go, but not like a yo-yo schoolboy... just go, cool boy. Oh, right , you want your reading, first. Well, here you are:

You are shrewd and shrewish, and can't sit still for a second. You like to brag about overcoming difficulties (most of which you likely created for yourself) and carrying out your little plots. You can be persuaded to follow another's plans or ideas, if you can take credit should they succeed, but you will not be forced into anything. Your love is ostentatious, and you pride yourself on having a comfortable (for you) home and a genial (in your mind) nature.

Are you happy, now? Of course not. That's what happens when you're shrewish. Nothing ever satisfies you except yourself... but never the truth about yourself. Well, kid, at least you have a life, which is more than we can say about all these people, who, on this date in history, went to their last rumble: Cicero, Pope Eutychian, Otto II, Pope Innocent IV, King Boleslaus V of Poland, Potter Stewart, Peter Carl Goldmark, Wolfgang Paul, Charles Garnier, John Oldham, Thomas Hamilton, Thornton Wilder, Robert Graves, Thomas Nast, Reuben G. L. "Rube" Goldberg, Jerry Scoggins, Florent Carton Dancourt, Huntley Gordon, Sada Yacco, Joan Bennett, Lefty O'Doul, Charles McClendon, Michel Ney, William Bligh, Élie Ducommun, Azie Taylor Morton, Jeane Kirkpatrick,
Mervyn S. Bennion, Herbert C. Jones, Isaac C. Kidd, Thomas J. Reeves, Franklin Van Valkenburgh (plus 2,340 other military and 57 American civilians. But we don't hold grudges. We simply remember and respect)

and Jan Paul Beahm aka Darby Crash.

You're not the first or the last, the worst or the best. Another day... no, today.
Happy birthday, anyway.