wikipedia birthday meme

i hate these stupid blog memes. they’re blogging for the lazy, i tell you! instead of coming up with your own topics (e.g. “my date with a chupacapra”, “how i beat my addiction to ramen flavor packets”, “that’s the last time i ever call crispin glover a ‘nerdy errol flynn’ in front of werner herzog”), you just follow some easy little idea, fill in a survey, copy and paste, and voila! a generic post like everyone else’s. it’s LAZY, i tell you, LAZY. you don’t see dooce doing this, do you?

that being said, my lazy-ass wikipedia birthday meme:

may 14th

three events (just three? how about four?):

• 1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
  
• 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
  
• 1948 - Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
  
• 1973 - Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.

two births (how about groups of two?):
film-men:

• 1944 - George Lucas, American film director and producer
  
• 1952 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director

film-women:

• 1969 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
  
• 1971 - Sofia Coppola, American film writer and director

artists:

• 1265 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
  
• 1952 - David Byrne, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Talking Heads)

one death (just one? sure, everyone loves frank, but i think i love rita more):

• 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
  
• 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

Posted at April 22, 2006 7:37 PM