do you remember the commercial when we/you/your son/your mother were/was a kid/kids where the scene was of a child's birthday party and all the kids were sitting around the honoree, singing happy birthday? the child blows out the candles, and then the voiceover says, in a business-like tone: "this child has just spread german measles to all of his friends." could that be? is that really what happened? or is it just something i imagined, like the time my sister and i saw, we SAW, in a split-second commercial break on television - a close up of someone's hands, holding up a copy of our mother's check. it was her check, her signature, her handwriting--everything. JUST FOR A SECOND! we both saw it. so i'm sure i saw this german measles thing. or was it rubella or mumps or are those all the same thing? i can't keep up with the diseases of my parents'/your son's/your grandfather's generation. polio, measles, chronic fatigue syndrome. have you heard the song by queens of the stone age that goes: "nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol!"? it's pretty cool. it's very rock. in the way that rock can be rawk. i am thinking i'll do a song that goes: "polio, measles, tetanus, rubella, dyptheria and wizardry!" i know that wizardry isn't a disease, but it fit the rhythm of the song. i know wizardry didn't attack us! I KNOW THAT! anyway, hoping that nobody gets rubella or gastro-intestinal disease or the junta virus or whatever is going around, i would like to wish a happy birthday to august loved ones: mom, donna, lisanne, nick. it's a good month. a little muggy, but good. today will be muggy, followed by toogy, weggy and thurgy.
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