Sunday, October 09, 2005

28 Up (and Down)


As in, the Flick Picker has been kicking around for 28 years as of today. It's a pretty big score to have a birthday that almost always falls on a holiday weekend, so I'm down in Virginia spending the weekend with my mom and my brother. And grading 64 student essays. And nursing a slight cold. And worrying about Derek's bronchitis that won't go away. And, most importantly, helping my mom around the house and to her hospital appointments, as she has just been diagnosed with a pretty rare and probably temporary nerve disorder that's making it hard for her to walk or pick things up. Scary, but it looks like she'll be okay, and she has at least tested negative for all the really frightening diseases this sounds like.

Glad as I am to be here for Mom and have family around, I'm hoping my patron saint is having a more auspicious birthday—her 36th—than this. Even though, to quote pre-nipplegate Janet Jackson, PJ doesn't even know that I'm alive, it's still fun to share a birthday with popular music's biggest living genius. My laptop's CD player/burner went kaput yesterday, so I've been impeded in my usual ritual of cranking out b-day recitals of "I Think I'm a Mother" and "Hook" and "Rid of Me" and "The Sky Lit Up" and "Dress" and "Darling Be There" and "Shame" and "97°" and the inexhaustible well of other PJ classics. (Editor's note: all PJ songs are classics.) Plus, honestly, to take Mom's interests to heart, I'm not sure that "Meet Ze Monsta" and "The Faster I Breathe, the Further I Go," et al., are really what the doctor ordered in terms of convalescence music. Unless you're me: if I'm ever in the ER or the ICU, my neighbors better get ready for the purrs and the slink and the wit and the caterwauls and the offhanded genderfuck. Blow out those candles, PJ, and turn out the joint with a new album sometime soon!

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9 Comments:

Blogger NATHANIEL R said...

Happy birthday babe! May you and PJ have another incredible and inspired year going into 2006.

8:13 PM, October 09, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK!! I MISS YOU!!! AND LOST YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION...
THANK GOODNESS FOR NICK'S FLICK PICKS: THE BLOG, AND ITS ORIGINATOR, NICK'S FLICK PICKS: THE ORIGINATOR.

LOVE LOVE AND HOPE TO TALK SOON,
ANGELA
P.S. PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR INFO!

11:50 PM, October 09, 2005  
Blogger par3182 said...

happy b/day, nick. what a joy to share it with one of your icons (i share mine with ONJ, who's not necessarily "popular music's biggest living genius" but it does make the special day a little more special each and every year.

28. baby.

11:56 PM, October 09, 2005  
Blogger NATHANIEL R said...

ok... just so i don't get left out of the birthday club. I also get to share mine with a personal icon: the singularly hilarious and pop-culture obsessed (just like me) Sandra Bernhard. Yay!

7:19 AM, October 10, 2005  
Blogger qta said...

Happy Birthday Nick and PJ!

11:51 AM, October 10, 2005  
Blogger summer of sam said...

happy burfday, nick. go shawtay!!!!

3:46 PM, October 10, 2005  
Blogger Dr. S said...

Nick, I'm sorry I didn't get a happy birthday message posted for you yesterday.... happy belated birthday! Hope your mom's OK, and that Derek's bronchitis is just a response to fall and moldy leaves, or similar.

love, S

4:44 PM, October 10, 2005  
Blogger Dr. S said...

also, nice Apted shout-out. they're working on 49, did you know?

11:08 PM, October 10, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Happy 28th! You know I really loved PJ even though I complained sometimes.

5:49 PM, October 11, 2005  

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