Author: Gareth

(Swiped from pretty damn near everyone)

1. Go to Wkipedia and enter your DOB minus year.

2. List three historical events, two births and one death that happened on your birthday.

June 13th

Three Events

• 1889 – Fish fall from the sky in Holland – (not from Wikipedia, since most of the entries are boring. This one is a fortean event.)
• 1920 – The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

Two Births

• 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1892 – Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)

One Death

• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman

Nifty steampunkish graphic novel coming out in May:

True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain’s connections and Tesla’s inventions, they went into business, selling world peace.

So what happened?

Only now can the tale be told– in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of the mankind.

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla versus Thomas Edison and J.P Morgan. Heh. Sign me up.

It’ll be in bookstores and comic shops, or you can pre-order it from Amazon.

For those who like to browse, here’s a 22 page B&W preview PDF (cover and such in color, interiors in b&w — which will be color in the final).

It’s still just a bit over two months away, but I’ve started thinking about what I might want to do for my birthday.

June 13th is a Tuesday, so that’s right out….but I’m thinking of having a party of some kind on Saturday the 10th. So pencil it in.

Any suggestions? Doing something social with friends is about as far as I’ve gotten.