UPDATED BELOW
It’s been a tough week all around, so it’s nice that we can end it on a bit of a high note by paying tribute to the most kind, caring, and generous person I know, and I don’t say that simply because she’s a great friend, or because she’s a brilliant writing partner, or because I’ve been conditioned to say it whenever I see the Queen of Diamonds. I say it because it’s true, although faint praise, and certainly not news to anyone who’s been hanging around World O’ Crap for any length of time. And that raises another point — she also founded my favorite blog, and it seems unfair that in addition to being sort of saintly, she’s also amazingly smart and funny.
Which makes me feel even worse than usual about posting this Ann Coulter picture, but tradition is tradition…
Best-selling author Ann Coulter seen modeling a luxurious fur of her own design. No stranger to firearms or hunting, the sleek and stunning coat was handmade by the Constitutional scholar and conservative gadfly after she shot and skinned John Stossel’s mustache.
Please join me in wishing Sheri a happy, and largely cat puke-free day.
UPDATE THE SECOND: Thers wrote a very nice birthday tribute to s.z. over at Eschaton. She is, indeed, the Mother of many snark-children.
UPDATE: I awoke to find that ace relief columnist Bill S. had sent in a tribute of his own. Take it away, Bill…
I just realized this morning that today is Sheri’s birthday. Now, this is a little embarrassing, but the ONLY reason I’m able to remember it is because I once listed a bunch of celebrities who shared her birthday in a comments section, and one of the names stuck in my head so when his birthday rolls around it reminds me of hers.
That, in itself, wouldn’t be so embarrassing, except the person in question is BENJAMIN McKENZIE.
Who, you may ask, is that? Well, he’s a blonde, babyfaced actor who starred on the teen drama The O.C. as the brooding Ryan Atwood, who worked a wife-beater better than anyone since Brando in the 50′s. He’s also played the loser husband of Amy Adams in Junebug, and currently plays a rookie cop on Southland. I can’t imagine why his names sticks in my head. (I was going to include a picture at this point but I’m too lazy for uploading and attaching, etc. Ah well.)
[No problem, Bill! Enjoy the t-shirted synchronicity! -- Scott]
Other people who share her b’day:
H.L. Mencken (b. 1880, d. 1956) author, just like Sheri, except she’s not a crypto-anti-semite, and hasn’t given birth to a whole generation of toxic imitators like Roger Kimball, or the consonant wasting R. Emmett Tyrrell.
Maurice Chevalier (b. 1888, d. 1972) actor singer who set the standard by which all other charming Frenchmen are measured, and inevitably fall short of.
Jesse Owens (b. 1913, d. 1980) Olympic athlete and sticker in Hitler’s craw.
Desmond Llewelyn (b. 1914, d. 1999) Welsh actor whose surname I can never correctly pronounce.
Ian Holm (b. 1931) dependable character actor
George Jones (b. 1931) Dependable country legend. (And What Becomes a Legend Most? Silky fur coats from the Ann Coulter line of Mustache Minks!)
Linda Gray (b. 1940) actress, AKA Sue Ellen on Dallas.
Maria Mulaur (b. 1943) bluesy pop singer best known for the guilty-pleasure (for me anyway) “Midnight At the Oasis”. (A song which, were she to sing it in public nowadays, would probably get her burned in effigy at one of Pam Geller’s anti-Park51 rallies)
Barry White (b. 1944, d. 2003) Eternally cool R&B singer.
Joe Pantoliano (b. 1951) actor
Peter Scolari (b. 1955) Actor, remembered best for his roles on Bosom Buddies and Newhart
Ben Folds (b. 1966) musician who’s rockin’ the suburbs just like Quiet Riot did.
Louis C.K. (b. 1967) Funny human.
Paul F. Tompkins (b. 1968) Funny human
Amy Yasbeck (b. 1962) Actress, widow of John Ritter
Rachel Ward (b. 1957) ridiculously attractive actress
Paul Walker (b. 1973) ridiculously attractive actor
James Frey (b. 1969) author who was stupid enough to think that he could lie to Oprah!
Yao Ming (b. 1980) ridiculously tall basketball player
Jennifer Hudson (b. 1981) actress and singer who won an Oscar for Dreamgirls, but years earlier competed on American Idol.
Two other former American Idol contestants nobody remembers or cares about.
and last but not least, Jason Statham (b. 1972), action hero.
Holy Hugnuts! Of course I’ll wish S.Z. the happiest of birthdays. Lady, you have been a brightly shining spot on the intertubes for me for a long time; I set aside (aka waste, but who cares?) a big part of my early work day routine rollicking through the Wo’C universe.
Thanks, and have a great day!
Left by heydave on September 12th, 2010