Cranky Large Medium reading, 10 January

Go away.

Why do you still stand before me, here? And don't even think of sitting and getting comfy. Did I ask you to come here? I don't think so. So, you haven't left. Why? Oh, yes, the reading. You want to know what it is I see when I look at you. Mmmm, you really don't, but here you are anyway:

You are glib and fast on your feet: you should work in advertising or politics. You should work on your poise and at least learn to fake self-esteem. You attract the opposite sex, but they only want you for one thing... and it's not what you hope it is. You are unusually popular among your friends, and will have a loyal following -- so loyal they won't let you sleep until they're sure you know how hard-working they are as your followers. And then you won't be able to sleep at all (if you still have a conscience).

Are you happy, now? Of course not. What would be the point? But then, you're ahead of these people, who, on this date in history, ceded the point completely: John I Tzimiskes, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Nicholas Culpeper, Carolus Linnaeus, Georg Forster, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Samuel Colt, Erich von Drygalski, Yoshio Nishina, Pope Agatho, Pope Gregory X, Lyman Beecher, W.A. Criswell, Mary Russell Mitford, Sinclair Lewis, Dashiell Hammett, Fawn M. Brodie, Elspeth Huxley, Alexandra Ripley, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Sir John Lavery, Benjamin Godard, Frank Bridge, John Brownlee, Don Gillis, Anton Karas, Sheldon Leonard, Sam Jaffe, Carlo Ponti, Joe Penner, Basil Sydney, Richard Boone, Paul Lynde, Spalding Gray, Katherine Alexander, Marion Hutton, Edwin Flack, Hughie Critz, Bo Rein, Jack Horner, Dr Samuel A. Mudd, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Marinus van der Lubbe, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, George Meany, James Forman, Bradford Washburn,

and Chester A. Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf.

How many more years? No telling.
Happy birthday, anyway.