Showing posts with label Saint Blaise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Blaise. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2014

He’s a smooth operator…





Hello, Ducks!




Starzina Starfish-Browne here with your Eric’s! Daily! Horoscope! for JustaAnotherManicotti?OhSureLikeWe’reGoingToTheAck-A-MeInThisMotherFuckingWeatherMonday, February Turd, Twenny-Fourteen.



Well, more ugly disgusting motherfucking gross snow is falling out of the sky at an alarming rate.  For something new and different.  We just cannot even.



Happy Feast Of Saint Blaise Day to all of Our Catholic Gentle Readers. This, for the edification of Our NON-Catholic Gentle Readers, would be the day when all of Us little Catholic schoolchildren would go to church, where the priest would cross a pair of candles and lay them one on each side of Our little necks in order to bless Our throats. (We are NOT making this up.)  To the best of Our recollection, there was never a day devoted to any of Our other little body parts.



The jokes there, for the most part, tell themselves.



We trust you all had a lovely Superb Owl Sunday.  We Our Own Self Personally did not have owl for dinner, although We have heard that the endangered spotted owl makes a lovely fricassee.  While the rest of you were doing whatever it is that you do on Superb Owl Sunday, We were watching Downton Abbey. Where That Black Man With All The Eye Makeup from the other week returned, and actually turned up at the Abbey.  Whereupon all the upstairs characters looked at him as though they had never seen Such A Thing before.  Maggie Smith was, naturally, the best at this…Maggie Smith giving side-eye may be just about as Superb Owl as it gets.



Also, Happy Belated Chinese New Year…well, possibly not belated; it’s been over half an hour…you’re probably hungry for another New Year by now.  It is, of course, the Chinese Year Of The Whores.  Somehow, We think We’ll fit right in.



We are knee-deep in writing the next murder mystery for the dinner theater, so We really shouldn’t be tiring Our typing fingers with this e-pisstle.  But We just have so many things to say…if only We could somehow double-purpose  these scrawlings…so, if you should perchance attend the next murder mystery, and characters therein begin to prattle on about The Feast Of Saint Blaise or Maggie Smith’s side-eye, you’ll know why.



Happy Belated Birthday, meanwhile, to Terry, who turned twenty-four this past weekend right here in The City That Loves You (On Your) Back, when all of the previous snow had melted and everything in the garden was beautiful. Happy Belated Birthday also to Christine, who also turned twenty-four this past weekend, somewhere in the suburbs of The City That Loves You (On Your) Back.



Also too, Happy Belated Birthday to Chris, who turned twenty-four this past weekend somewhere in Illinois.  Which really wants to rhyme with “Blanche DuBois”, but doesn’t.  (Of course, there is a town in Pennsyltucky called “Dubois”.  And they call it?  “Dooboyz”.  (Again, We are NOT making that up.  (We have no imagination whatsoever.  You would be surprised how little of this crap We actually have to invent.)))  And Happy Belated Birthday to Shawn, who turned twenty-four this past weekend all the way out in El Lay.  Which is where We wish We were, as the weather no doubt looks absolutely nothing like the abortion that’s falling out of the sky here.



And, last but not Lee Strasberg, Happy Bleated Birthday to Harry Styles, who turned twenty this past weekend.  Bless his heart.  True Starzina aficionados are aware, of course, that Starzina has a special place in her heart (and, indeed, in various other portions of her anatomy) for all of the members of One Direction, but especially for Mister Styles.



Speaking of hawtt bois with beautiful hair, the WorldWideInterWebNetz were all agog early in the weekend over the casting of Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman fillum.  In response to which, We naturally exclaimed, “He’s going to shave off all of that beautiful hair?!?”  (Who, dear? Gay, dear? Us, dear?  No, dear.)



Still on the subject of hawtt bois with beautiful hair, We probably haven’t mentioned Milwaukee, West Wisconsonomington since Our friend with the Really Big Wrench and the Silky Smooth Buttcrack* returned from same at the (Non-Chinese) New Year.  The lovely folks at weather.com still think We live there, however, and We neglected to mention that, one day last week, it was actually one degree WARMER in Milwaukee than it was here.  Sigh.



*(“Silky Smooth” is new this time around.  We’re painting a werd pixture.)



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We are currently in the sign of Aquarius, the only sign of the zodiac for which there is only one Starzina’s Time of the Month Horoscope video.  Fortunately, it doesn’t suck.



Our video (Aquarius, for you naked skimmers who aren’t paying attention) is above, and here is the link with which you may share it with your friends:     http://youtu.be/ovOtlxcnC50



Apropos of absolutely nothing, We were procrastinating on a dating site the other day where, in response to “What’s the most private thing you’re willing to admit in public?”, a young gentleman said, “I have an irrational fear of cotton balls, and cranberry sauce that comes out of a can‏.”  We are fairly certain that We’re in love.






And now, the HorrorScope…




Today is Doctor Henry Heimlich (of Maneuver fame)’s ninety-fourth birthday.  Who even needs a horrorscope, with a “sums-it-all-up” fact like that one at One’s disposal?





Namaste, MotherFuckers.



In gaseousness,


Starzina Starfish-Browne


(Your Your-O-Scopes:


(Meanwhile, why We didn’t think of this sooner, We’ve got no idea, but better laid than necking, as they say (and how right they are!).  For real live actual ass(tromlaogical) ho(roscopular) advice, please visit Our good friend AstroGeek here:  http://sett.com/astrogeek895/.  Our Own epistular musings are of use to you only insofar as making you feel better by comparison, but he will give you actual pertinent advice for your very own lives, based on upon the positions and transitations of all manner of planets, planetoids, asteroids, Altoids™, hemorrhoids, and other heavenly flotsam, jetsam, and Jetsons.  Plus, he knows all about Uranus!)

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Starzina Starfish-Browne was born in the wagon of a traveling show…well, okay, not really. She was actually born in Lowake, Texas, the daughter of a beautician and either a garage mechanic or the town mailman. At sixteen, she escaped her humble beginnings by running off with Doctor Browne’s Traveling Medicine Show and, more to the point, Doctor Browne. Following the dissolution of this unfortunate entanglement (Doctor Browne was a Virgo and Starzina is, of course, an Aries), which produced a daughter, Starzina entered a contest in Soap Opera Digest and won a scholarship to Oxford (yes, in ENGLAND), where she earned her doctorate in the newly-created dual major of Astrology and Human Sexuality. There is absolutely NO TRUTH to the rumor that Starzina’s second daughter has Royal blood, despite tabloid photographs allegedly depicting her cavorting on the Italian Riviera with Princes William and Harry, clad only in Prussian helmets and armbands of questionable taste. Starzina currently resides with her daughters in Philadelphia, the City That Loves You (On Your) Back, where she enjoys Double Coupon Day at the local SuperCruise and “encouraging” the coxswain of the Penn rowing team.


                                                                                                                                     

Monday, February 4, 2013

I love destruction


Hello, Ducks!



Starzina Starfish-Browne here with your Eric’s! Daily! Horoscope! for  JustAnotherMaxFrischMonday, February 4, 2013.  Happy Belated Birthday to Christine, who turned twenty-four this weekend Somewhere (That’s Green) In Suburbia.  (We just saw a pixture of Christine on the WorldWideInetrWebNetz…We have those very sunglasses!) Also, Happy Belated Birthday to Terry, who also turned twenty-four this weekend, right in Our very Own neighborhood. (We still didn’t get any cake.)  As for the rest of YouPeople, Happy Belated Groundhog Day (again), and Happy Belated Feast of Saint Blaise.



(Is it just Us, or if you met someone these days whose name was Blaise, would you pretty much expect him NOT to be a saint?  We are thinking Blaise would be a professional mechanical bull rider.  Or a porn star.  Which is kind of the same thing.)



Speaking of the InterNetz, this just in from them:  Vagina jokes are never funny.  Period.



In other news, We had an email rejecting Us from the project We spent most of last week applying for. Which was no particular surprise, and was actually quite polite.  Especially when compared to all those folks to whom We have sent emails, texts, tweets, and smoke signals, only to be left twisting answerless in the breeze.



We shall now be breaking Our moratorium on dream stories, to bring you a rather unique update.  Those of you who find other people’s dreams boring need to nakedly skim ahead several paragraphs now.  This dream involved Joanne, who is a member of the WaitStaff.  To the best of Our recollection, this is the first dream of Ours in which she has appeared.  In Our dream, not only was she a member of the WaitStaff, but also, she was a member of the cast of Glee,  a position which she had apparently held for quite some time in addition to her WaitStaff position, and which everyone seemed to think was no particular big deal.  In the episode of Glee being shot in this dream, Joanne was singing “I Love Destruction” in preparation for her character burning down the school.



(It should be noted that “I Love Destruction” is a song by Cyco Miko, which We didn’t even realize We knew until We Googled it on Wikipedia upon waking up.  And We are still unclear as to where We ever heard it before.)



Our dream never got as far as the actual arson, although there was a very complicated dolly/tracking shot in which Joanne sang her way up three flights of stairs.  She was wearing a yellow dress.  And makeup.



This dream was a lot more interesting in Our dream.



Speaking of the WaitStaff, We shall be playing The VD Match Game on Friday and Saturday, February 15 and 16, at 7:30 at L’Etage.  Please check out Our SitOnMyFaceBook event and say you’re coming:  http://www.facebook.com/events/279672565493605/



In other other news, Karen Carpenter has been dead for thirty years today.  Rainy days and Mondays always fuck a clown.



On the other hand, Alice Cooper is still alive (We almost said “still very much alive”, but that would have required Us to send a fact-checker) and celebrating his sixty-fifth birthday today.  School’s out for EVAH!



Here is a little Aquarius fillum, for Our birthday Aquarians:





And here are the HorrorScopes:




Your emotional side is getting a workout today (Kiss Us quick, We’re Richard Simmons.)


— but that’s more good than bad.  (Should We be wearing a headband?)


For one thing, there are plenty of positive emotions; for another, you don’t want your feelings to get flabby!  (What, they don’t make Spanx™ for that?)



Your compassionate nature has helped you create some very strong relationships.  (Well, naturally.  Ever since We learned to fake sincerity, We’ve had it made.)


But your compassion can sometimes cause you to get upset about problems that are not yours to be upset about. (That would seem to be a problem.  Which would be Ours about which to be upset.)


(This is way too complicated for a Monday.)


Other peoples’ problems are, by definition, theirs! And they need to solve them. You can’t get so involved that you suffer sleepless nights!  (Is anyone else wondering why the middle sentence didn’t merit an exclamation point?  Just Us?  Alrighty, then.)


Try letting go: (Oh, Honey.  You do NOT want US to take off Our emotional Spanx™.)


After all, they came to you for guidance and support, not a quick fix. (Heroin: it’s not just for breakfast any more.)


(What?)


Let a certain someone in a little deeper today. (Hello, Blaise?)


Be honest about your dreams and ambitions, and don’t hold back. (Do you think they’ll pay Us for Our episode of Glee?)


Let the conversation get more intimate than usual. (Talk to Our ass; Our head has had enough.)


If you feel uncomfortable at any time, pull back. (And right away We’re in the gutter again…)


 (Your Your-O-Scopes:


(Meanwhile, why We didn’t think of this sooner, We’ve got no idea, but better laid than necking, as they say (and how right they are!).  For real live actual ass(tromlaogical) ho(roscopular) advice, please visit Our good friend AstroGeek here:  http://agskylab.blogspot.com/.  Our Own epistular musings are of use to you only insofar as making you feel better by comparison, but he will give you actual pertinent advice for your very own lives, based on upon the positions and transitations of all manner of planets, planetoids, asteroids, Altoids™, hemorrhoids, and other heavenly flotsam, jetsam, and Jetsons.  Plus, he knows all about Uranus!)

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Starzina Starfish-Browne was born in the wagon of a traveling show…well, okay, not really. She was actually born in Lowake, Texas, the daughter of a beautician and either a garage mechanic or the town mailman. At sixteen, she escaped her humble beginnings by running off with Doctor Browne’s Traveling Medicine Show and, more to the point, Doctor Browne. Following the dissolution of this unfortunate entanglement (Doctor Browne was a Virgo and Starzina is, of course, an Aries), which produced a daughter, Starzina entered a contest in Soap Opera Digest and won a scholarship to Oxford (yes, in ENGLAND), where she earned her doctorate in the newly-created dual major of Astrology and Human Sexuality. There is absolutely NO TRUTH to the rumor that Starzina’s second daughter has Royal blood, despite tabloid photographs allegedly depicting her cavorting on the Italian Riviera with Princes William and Harry, clad only in Prussian helmets and armbands of questionable taste. Starzina currently resides with her daughters in Philadelphia, the City That Loves You (On Your) Back, where she enjoys Double Coupon Day at the local SuperCruise and “encouraging” the coxswain of the Penn rowing team.
                                                                                                                                    

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

I'm gonna have you n@ked by the end of this song


Greetings, Eerily Repeating Identical Chronicles---


(The above picture is the closest We could get to the Groundhog seeing his shadow.)


Here is your horoscope for Tuesday, February 02, 2010 (Oddly enough, one of Eric’s Daily Horoscope’s most memorable holidays through its torrid, turgid history has been Groundhog Day, which, it seems, has happened over and over again. As a treat for Our longtime readers, and to imbue Our new readers with a sense of the history and gravitas (gesundheit (thank you)) that surrounds the efforts of Your Humble Scribe, We herewith present every Groundhog Day Eric’s Daily Horoscope intro in written history, all the way back to 2004. (Long-time readers (at least those who have yet to be confined to complete bedrest in old-age homes) will note that Eric’s Daily Horoscope actually dates back, as We are fond of reporting to “Since 2001”. Unfortunately, the first three years were presented in cave paintings, which have long since been urinated away by woolly mammoths. Too bad, so sad, @nal s3x with your dad.)) :


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Greetings, Eels Reel Ideal Creel---


Here is your horoscope for Monday, February 02, 2009 (Apparently, it is not bad enough that it is Monday morning. No, the EAC has decided that there should be further fu(kwittery thrown into Our day, and, consequently, they have put a hex on the WorldWideInterWebNetz which has rendered Our
http://www.superalternative.net inaccessible. Thus, We are forced to listen to RadioFreeCleveland, where they spent the morning interviewing some band called the WMDs and bleeping the word “ho” out of the “don’t trust a ho” line in 3OH!3’s song “Don’t Trust Me”. (Seriously…We are NOT making that up. Bleeped it, they did. Hos, apparently, are unacceptable in Ohio. Hostess Ho-Hos™ are a no-no. What the h3ll Santa Claus says when he laughs there is beyond Us.)):


(On the plus side, shortly after We tuned into RadioFreeCleveland, they took Us live to Punxsutawney for the annual Groundhog Day festivities. (Really…they did. We are not making THIS up, either. (Is Our life glamorous, or what? (WHO said, “Or what”?))) We are pretty sure We’ve never actually heard a live report from the very shadow-seeing moment of this auspicious occasion. Because, if We had, We would certainly have remembered that it takes place on something called Gobblers Knob, which We have immediately adopted to be Our new p0rn name.)


(In case you’re even remotely interested, the smelly little rodent saw his fu(king shadow, thus ensuring Us six more weeks of winter.)


Greetings, Exaggerated Response Includes Colloquialism---


Here is your horoscope for Friday, February 1, 2008 (Oh, see, now. Six hundred and eleventy-twelve days of January and, just when it would be a REALLY good time for, say, a May, or a June, what do We get? Fu(king February. Home of Groundhog Day. Over and over again. Not to mention the dreaded V.D. And Presidents Day, just to remind us all how very desperately we need a new one. With a BRAIN, maybe, this time. (Apparently, this has to be specified in advance. Who knew?)):


Greetings, Elastic Really Impedes Circulation—

Here is your horoscope for Friday, February 02, 2007 (Well, well, well. Look at that. Groundhog Day, all over again. Also, happy birthday to Christine, who turns twenty-four today. (And who, I fear, has completely fallen off this hallowed list…Charley, are you still here? Do you have contact info for Christine?) Also, it strikes me that it is also someone else’s birthday, but, as I haven’t my datebook with me, I have no idea whose. (Hey, I can’t do EVERYTHING. D@mmit.) (Also, since when is “datebook” not a word?) But happy birthday, whoever you are, and I’m sure you’re turning twenty-four.):


Greetings, Eels Repulse Iguana Collectors—

Here is your horoscope for Thursday, February 02, 2006 (So many holidays, so little hilarity. Ensuing or otherwise. Happy Groundhog Day (again (see what I did there?)); did the little p3cker see his shadow or what? Happy Feast of Saint Blaise, clearly an excellent day to deep-thr0at a Catholic priest and earn another star on your crown in Heaven. Happy birthday to Christine, who turns 24 today. Happy first day of the new SURVIVOR. Oh, and Happy Black History Month; it was pointed out to me yesterday by my granddaughter (Hi, Mo’Niques!) that I had neglected to mention that it was Black History Month (well, actually, “Munf”). And if there’s one thing We love here at Eric’s Daily Horoscope, it’s Our Black History. Or, as We like to call it, The Cottonpickin’ Chronicles. (Oooops…I’d better bl0w TWO priests, or I’m goin’ straight to h3ll.)) :


Greetings, Eric—

Here is your horoscope for Wednesday, February 02, 2005 (Happy Hump Day! Also, Happy Feast of Saint Blaise! (Although if I were gonna pick a body part that could use some blessing, I’m thinkin’ it wouldn’t be my throat. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.) Also, Happy Groundhog Day! (Of course, around here, EVERY day is Groundhog Day, but maybe that’s just me.) Also, Happy Birthday to Christine, who turns 24 today! Day-um, that’s a whole lotta Happy, all in one Day! And a whole lotta exclamation points! Also known, for the trivia-minded among you, as “interrobangs”! Which I’m just gonna go right ahead and make the Word of the Day! Because it sounds dirty! But it isn’t! Say it with me! “Interrobang!” See! That was fun!):


Tuesday, February 3, 2004:


(Happy birthday to Christine. Also Happy Groundhog Day. And Happy Feast of Saint Blaise. Whose name doesn't sound so much like a saint as it does a p0rn star, but whatever. Happy, happy, happy.)

(Okay, so I did some research. A football game is sixty minutes long, divided into four quarters of fifteen minutes each. How, then, is it possible that ONE football game was on my television for FIVE HOURS???)

(Dear Mister Timberlake: The move you were attempting was actually originated by Mister Mick Jagger in 1985 when he ripped off the skirt of Miss Tina Turner at Live Aid. Of course, Mister Jagger being a highly trained professional, his execution of the move did not result in a display of the aforementioned Miss Turner's c00ter, or any of her other private parts. Also, Miss Turner was not old enough to be Mister Jagger's mother. Because you were no doubt not born yet at the time, it is unlikely that you will recall that neither Mister Jagger nor Miss Turner made any sort of apology or explanation for the incident. Oh, and "wardrobe malfunction"? No str8 boi would ever say that. I'd being firing your PR people at once if I were you. Truly, Tipsy.)

(Dear Miss Jackson: Yes, you ARE nasty. Please go away, and take the rest of the tragic mess you call a family with you. Oh, and if it was such a shocking unplanned incident, WHY WERE YOU WEARING A PASTY? Truly, Tipsy.)

(Oh, I'm sorry...you were expecting a horoscope, and you got Andy Rooney. Oh, well; it sux to be you. Here's that 'scope thingie...)


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(Aaaaannnd We’re back to 2010. Wasn’t that a festive little tiptoe through the tulips of history? Happy birthday to Christine, who turns twenty-four today. We hear tell that she has moved to suburbia, had a baby, and married a Republican, although most likely not in that order. We shall have to make an effort to get back in touch…perhaps she would like to hire a poolboy. At any rate, We trust that you have all ordered your Lunette™ Menstrual Cups (and, if not, please see yesterday’s Epistle to the Rich Corinthian Leathermen at http://ericsdailyhoroscope.blogspot.com/2010/02/bermuda-bahama-come-on-lady-gaga.html (We are nothing if not self-referential)), and so, on with Our-O-Scope…)


Don't be afraid to say what you want or need to at work or to a colleague or client today. (Go on and tell me what you want, what you really, really want…(Oh, come on…you were thinking it, too.))


(Whoever just called Us “Old Spice”, please be aware that We will be over to your place as soon as We’re through here to “bless your throat”.)


You have excellent Stars for being able to turn things around professionally now, (Is it just Us, or does “turn things around professionally” mean “buttsecks” to you, too?)


as long as you're open and honest. (Yeah. That’ll happen.)


Conversations you have now related to work should have a pleasant "quick silver" feel to them. (Um, yo, @sshat? “Quick silver” doesn’t mean anything. Meanwhile, “quicksilver” is mercury. Oh, and Shut. Up. Kelli.)


Aries who want changes at work or for things to happen speedily also have the Stars on their side. (Fine. We’ll take Paul Lynde for the block.)


On another level altogether, Aries who want to get more spiritual have all the celestial support they could ask for. (Wait till Playtex™ hears about this!)


Make it part of life! (To life, to life, lick hym3n! (And here, We thought Fiddler on the Roof was a family musical…))


(YOUR-O-Scopes:


http://www.humorscope.com


cowgrass…we’re getting there.)