April 26 birthdays

Eugène Delacroix, Carol Burnett and Jet Li

Death of Sardanapalus (1827), Louvre

Death of Sardanapalus (1827), Louvre


April 24 birthdays

EASTER SUNDAY and DIVA DAY

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, PAULA YATES, SHIRLEY MACLAINE and BARBARA STREISAND

I spat the dummy today in honour of all strong, hissy fit-inclined women.

This is my karaoke favourite:


April 23 birthdays

23rd APRIL  is also ST GEORGE’S DAY.

George slayed the dragon to save the king’s daughter. George explained to the king and his people that it was his Christian faith that gave him the superhuman strength to do it. George was originally a pagan.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE and SHAKESPEARE were also born on this day.


April 22 birthdays

JACK NICHOLSON and GLEN CAMPBELL

I love his hair and the outfit in this clip


April 21 birthdays

QUEEN ELIZABETH II and IGGY POP

I’d love to be at their joint birthday party


April 20 birthdays

Today’s star couples:

Joan Miró and Edie Sedgwick

Ryan O’Neal and Caresse Crosby

Caresse Crosby invented the modern bra

The Tilled Field


April 19 birthdays

TODAY’S STAR COUPLES:

JAYNE MANSFIELD and TIM CURRY

DUDLEY MOORE and LUCREZIA BORGIA


April 18 birthdays

KATHY ACKER and RICK MORANIS

“I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.”

— Kathy Acker


April 17 birthdays

POSH SPICE and DAFFY DUCK


April 16 birthdays

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD and SPIKE MILLIGAN