The day starting with the flurry of messages that comes with my birthday.
Happy happy birthday Joe
All the best, all the time. I’m so glad you’re in my world!!
Happy birthday!🎁
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day!
🥳 Happy Birthday, Joe! 🎂
Happy Birthday to you Joe Joe ❤️, enjoy your day and make memories
Happy Birthday Joe! I hope your day is extra special! 🎉☀️🌊🎈🎁💕
Truly my cup runneth over.
Here’s an image from Flickr from 10 years ago, Gideon is no longer my nephew but I love getting a Birthday Bot:
New bot from nephew Gideon. Birthday Bot!
March 21, 2014
And here are some old tweets of mine on the subject of birthdays:
The birthday playlist today: Floyd Norman/an animated life; Beauty is Embarrassing; Letterman/Seinfeld interviewing each other; Late Night with David Letterman 10th Anniversary Special; El Norte. (March 20, 2022)
I’ve seen 3 cars tooling around San Diego this summer with the greasepaint message “it’s my 21st birthday buy me a drink VENMO ______”
Our futuristic future is inane. (August 3, 2021)
Two distinct life insurance advertisements in my paper mail today, both of which mention my upcoming birthday. In case you were wondering where I stand, demographically. And actuarially. (March 1, 2021)
For my birthday last week my sister masterminded me getting sung to and it melted my heart
My whole wide entire family managed to throw me with a birthday party and my father traveled 2400 miles. All of it a giant surprise. I am so lucky.
Very proud to share my birthday with Mr. Rogers, Spike Lee & Lee Scratch Perry. March 20, 2019
Complete irrelevance of Google Plus indicated by lack of birthday greetings using Google Plus. Social networks need birthdays to thrive. March 20, 2017
My usual measure of Facebook vs Google+ is birthday message count. Facebook continues winning by terrifying margin.
March 20, 2014
You know who I miss? I miss MC 900 Ft Jesus, that’s who. Do we celebrate his birthday? If not, why not. np: “I’m going straight to heaven” December 8, 2007
I just had the last of the amazing strawberry cake my mom made me for my birthday. March 24, 2010
And that was the last strawberry cake my mother ever made.
I will definitely be re-watching Floyd Norman: An Animated Life and Beauty is Embarrassing today because those movies inspire me. Animated Life in particular is about defying expectations and age and creating no matter what.
Lastly, here are past blog posts I made on my birthday
- 2001
- Another late night following my bliss.
- 2002
- Useless Information About My B-Day
- 2003
- Moms Rock (or rather, MY MOM ROCKS)
- 2004
- Today is: National Corndog Day, also my Birthday
- 2006
- I am 36.
- 2007
- Daily Links
- 2008
- Hollywood Mobile Movie
- Thirty-Eight Today
- 2010
- I am 40.
- 2014
- Birthday early morning dental appointment!
- 2015
- Today began with a new bot from my favorite person, @leah7peah to wish me Happy Birthday!
- Post birthday dinner whimsy at Messhugah Shack!
- 2016
- Yesterday was tops. Tomorrow’s even better. 46 here I am.
- The Aquaman collection at Comics Toons n‘ Toys is lovely. Not for sale.
- 2018
- I kind of love these corporate birthday greetings.
- 2019
- Birthday Cake March of Robots Robot
- Farewell Google+: “Save your Google+ content before March 31, 2019”
- My nephew drew me a robot for my birthday and he gave me permission to color it. SO I DID!
- 2020
- New Bot Day! “Gonk. Gonk. Gonk.” says the GNK power droid the first time we see it in Star Wars. Welcome to my toy robot collection Gonk! Lovably goofy. Perfect to close out Birthday Bot Week! Happy Birthday to me!
- I switched from giant gorillas to robots in the intervening decades. But that’s me! Thanks everybody for your sweet birthday wishes 💛 I am so so lucky.
- 2021
- New Bot Day! iBoy was given to me today, my birthday! A terrific find from Kelly and made by @classicbot_toy! I have nearly 200 bots and it’s hard to surprise me but she did! Flanked by greeting cards! I am so lucky ❤️
- b. 1970
- 2022
- My birthday is a fine occasion to clean off the art table and toss out some used palettes. But first a photo!
- 2023
- Yesterday at the Jetty there was a fella taking his goat for a walk. I live in the right place. #SanDiego #PacificBeach #petGoat
