Apparently, I look like a monkey and smell like one too*

*blows out candles and offers cake to all*

Happy birthday to Diana Ross, Keira Knightley and Aerosmith's Steve Tyler! Oh, and to me too. Am I being over-sensitive, or is March 26 a dud date as celebrity birthdays go?

I bought the new Augie March album, "Moo, You Bloody Choir", as a present to myself (even if I didn't like the band, I think I would have bought it for the title alone). I'm going to spend my birthday finishing an essay with the album in the background. But I thought, "Why keep the gift of music to myself? Why not offer it to all?" ( So here are my birthday gifts to you! )

* I wrote that before I realised not all readers would know that these are the last two lines of "Happy Birthday" for the easily amused.