Special Birthday...

I wish we could do what they do in Katroo.
They sure know how to say "Happy Birthday to you!"
In Katroo every year on the day you were born
They start they day right in the bright early morn
When the birthday honk-honker hikes high up Mount Zorn
And lets loose a long blast on the big birthday horn.
And the voice of the horn cries out loud as it plays,
"Wake up, for today is your day of all days!"
(from Happy Birthday to You, by Dr. Seuss)

Unfortunately for the world, Dr. Seuss will not wake up for today, his 100th Day of All Days in Katroo, having died in 1991. However, next week, he gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is in line for a postage stamp.

There is good Seuss news, though on this Seussentenial. A New York Times article quotes Mrs. Geisel, overseer of Seuss Enterprises, as saying, "Let's just say after `The Cat in the Hat' film experience we've decided not to go with live actors."

For anyone interested in the grown-up side of Dr. Seuss, I recommend Dr. Seuss Goes To War, a collection of his political cartoons from WWII. After seeing the stack of turtles with the turtle caricature of Hitler at the top, you will never look at Yertle the same way again.