Shameless Birthday Post(and history lesson)

Happy birthday to me! Hello from Shenzhen from me and Rocket. Going to blow your mind with knowledge in this post.

Anyway had a good start with some bacon and eggs on the balcony with my younger half.

and as you can see the view from my balcony was nice and I had good birthday weather.

oh wait that's Lobot. Here it is. You're looking a southeast Shenzhen and Shenzhen Bay across from Hong Kong.

So for this post I thought I would help us all learn something and look up some people who also celebrate the 27th of May. Or used to.

742 – Emperor Dezong of Tang. pretty crappy emporer during the decline of the tang empire. loser.

1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist. The Vanderbuilt. Started poor became one of the richest people in history. Started with a small boat hauling goods to owning all the railroads. Fun fact - he often snarted.

1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer. Man, this guy had an interesting life. If you seen tombstone that's like an understatement of his life. Lot a shoot'n and killin. Hard to tell if he was a good guy or a bad guy. Fun fact - he was shot in the back of the head. ha! but no he was playing poker at the time and he was holding two black aces and two black eights, the so-called Dead Man's Hand.

1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter. Wrote the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade detective stories. Lived in black and white times. Reminds me of one time in 6th grade Social Studies class this kid raised his hand and asked our somewhat elderly teacher if things were really black and white when she was young. That kids probably a millionaire now.

1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic - got the nobel for splitting the atom, fun at parties.

1911 – Vincent Price, American actor. YES. the source of laughter from MJ's Thriller, and star of the saddest scene in movie history where he tries to give johnny depp hands but he has a heart attack and falls down, destroying the hands.

1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor. YES. Saruman! Count Dooku! Dracula! and star of tons of old movies you may have seen on MST3K.

1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State. Asshole. helped Nixon ruin the USA. f*** him.

1936 – Louis Gossett, Jr., American actor and producer. any male alive during the 80's saw Iron Eagle a thousand times on Showtime. Poor man's Top Gun. Or poor man's HBO's less expensive than Top Gun movie targeting the same demographic. Everyone.

1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. Prolific singer songwriter who I can't name a single song by, although I am a musician as well. Apparently political and spiritual. A true musician's musician who is covered a lot but again I can't think of any of his songs. good for him. and his photographers.

1955 – Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager, and producer. Prolific wrassler. I'm sick of finding pictures. Sorry Eric don't suplex me.

1964 – Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter. funny comedian who embraced his inner asshole a little too much. Never go full asshole. Crank Yankers was comedy gold though.

1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English journalist. Asshole. I'll only leave her in this post to make sure you don't get too optimistic about the world. You'll only be disappointed. f*** her and the horse she rode in on.

1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor. he's handsome. and related to a better actor. not that he's bad. He comes from one of those disgusting families descended from high-born whose siblings are all archaeologists and composers and crap. That's why he gets a tiny picture. Because it's my birthday, Joseph. well I guess it's yours too but it's my post.

1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor. Like me some Bettany. Just seems like a cool dude. Probably from a rich family related to Joseph Fiennes, but I'm not looking it up. It's my birthday.

1971 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper and dancer. F*** yeah, Left Eye! remember when she did those safe sex psa's for mtv? that was nice but she definitely didn't give a f*** and would burn your house down if you crossed her. respect. that was probably an accident anyway moving on. She considered her left eye the best "looking".

1975 – André 3000, American rapper. all I can say is AWESOME. If you haven't listened to Aquemini all the way through don't even finish this sentence, just upvote first and then go listen to it.

Ok, I'm super tired now, that's what happens when you get old. I'll end with a selfy.

Yeah baby, still got it!