Shannon Wheeler ([info]tmcm) wrote,
2009-08-13 00:49:00
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just thought of this

Hamlet's Birthday;

Happy Birthday to be,
Happy Birthday to be,
Haaaappy Biiiiirthday to beeeee
or not to be,
oh me

Pretty stupid. Though I'd rather be stupid and original than clever and derivative.




Birthday today... tonight, tomorrow, whatever. I usually take $100 and go buy myself some stupid things - in the past I've bought leather gloves for driving, a phone shaped like a dinosaur, the speed racer dvd set (the animated series), an emu foot... I don't know what I'll go buy tomorrow.

I bet I will get myself a fancy coffee drink down at Peet's coffee on Hawthorne tomorrow...

Damn. I was just writing an email and I forgot if it was 2008 or 2009. The aughts are almost done. And I don't even know if that's how to spell aught.

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[info]coppervale

August 13 2009, 08:04:33 UTC 2 years ago

Happy Birthday, man!

[info]tmcm

August 13 2009, 08:09:29 UTC 2 years ago

thank you. it's been an honor to know you!

[info]coppervale

August 13 2009, 08:15:30 UTC 2 years ago

You had my loyalty at "phone shaped like a dinosaur".

[info]tmcm

2 years ago

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[info]gothbunnyodoom

2 years ago

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[info]aeire

August 13 2009, 08:27:28 UTC 2 years ago

Happy Birthday!

[info]usmu

August 13 2009, 08:58:30 UTC 2 years ago

Happy Birthday!

[info]nihilistic_kid

August 13 2009, 12:29:50 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday! Btw, that panel got a real LOL from me. I even had to show someone else my monitor because she wanted to see what was so funny.

[info]tmcm

August 13 2009, 16:04:26 UTC 2 years ago

It's one of the un-bought New Yorker cartoons. I have a whole slew of them piling up.

[info]girlracer

August 13 2009, 16:20:12 UTC 2 years ago

you should sell the rejects.

[info]krazyfelioness

August 13 2009, 21:04:56 UTC 2 years ago

Yes, seconded. HAHA, put them in a stamp book and call them NY Times rejects.

[info]americanbeetles

August 13 2009, 12:42:57 UTC 2 years ago

Many happy returns of the day! Here, we got you a doughnut with wildly inappropriate birthday toppings.

[info]tmcm

August 13 2009, 15:58:30 UTC 2 years ago

love it!

[info]moriarty6

August 13 2009, 13:35:12 UTC 2 years ago

Happy Birthday, man. If you send me an addy I'll ship you a pound of my roastery's coffee on the house.

moriarty6[at]gmail

[info]tmcm

August 13 2009, 16:04:49 UTC 2 years ago

cool!

Shannon Wheeler
box 14549
portland or 97293

[info]gothbunnyodoom

August 13 2009, 13:39:48 UTC 2 years ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[info]six_dollar_baby

August 13 2009, 14:43:49 UTC 2 years ago

happy happy happy birthday!

[info]sabotabby

August 13 2009, 15:12:49 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday!

[info]cavorite

August 13 2009, 15:32:43 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday.

[info]glowing_fish

August 13 2009, 15:45:37 UTC 2 years ago

I am glad that falling in love with strangers is being brought to life by you.

[info]tmcm

August 13 2009, 16:05:13 UTC 2 years ago

it's a subject that's close to my own heart.

[info]xiann

August 13 2009, 16:17:44 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday! Hope you find some strangers to fall in love with while you are buying a fancy birthday coffee.

[info]girlracer

August 13 2009, 16:19:15 UTC 2 years ago

Shannon, you should try out ACME coffee on hawthorne & 40th (behind the bike shop), what's UP with all the peet's love?

[info]weaselusrex

August 13 2009, 20:31:46 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  August 13 2009, 20:32:37 UTC

Birthdays used to be celebrated because it was tough to make it another year. These days, except in some of the worst countries, it's fairly easy to stay alive.

So now, to me, birthdays are instead more for the people around you. A happy anniversary of sorts to celebrate the mere fact of you being thrust into this world to share the joy and pain of life with everyone around you.

I do not know you, but I am glad for your existence. I appreciate what you share with me and the public smart enough to look your way.

[insert adjective here] birthday to you--however you want it to be.

[info]krazyfelioness

August 13 2009, 21:08:38 UTC 2 years ago

Have an absolutely delightful birthday of people watching!

[info]varro

August 13 2009, 22:29:16 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday, Mr. Esteemed Cartoonist!

BTW, did the New Yorker intentionally make a Northwest connection by putting the penguin cartoon in Sherman Alexie's piece, or was it just a coincidence?

[info]sharek

August 14 2009, 02:58:03 UTC 2 years ago

Birthday wishes...

I intended to wish you a happy birthday, like all the others up here, but thought better and figured, "Maybe you'll appreciate a mediocre birthday instead, since happiness is fleeting, but mediocrity lasts for several days, at minimum."

Mediocre birthday, tmcm! You're awesome entertainment. ^-^
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