The World According to Chuck

There are no coincidences.

There are, though, events that intersect randomly and have trivial similarities that can look superficially like meaningful connections when they really aren’t.

In my opinion.

So what are we to make of the fact that on July 26, 1958, the day I was born and named Charles Arthur Sigars, after my father, who had conveniently left the room at the time, Queen Elizabeth II gave her son, also named Charles, the title of Prince of Wales?

Probably nothing. Except, you know. Some people really get presents.

At any rate, in honor of Numbers Month here on this site (also referred to as Narcissism Month, but then. It’s a blog), we shall start the list making with the easy stuff. Nearly five million people were born in 1958, a boomlet in a boom. Here are fifty of them.

50 Famous Fifties

1. Ellen DeGeneres
2. Ice-T
3. Mary Chapin Carpenter
4. Patricia Heaton
5. Sharon Stone
6. Holly Hunter
7. Gary Oldman
8. Alec Baldwin
9. Andie McDowell
10. Michelle Pfeiffer
11. Mitch Albom
12. Drew Carey
13. Annette Bening
14. Prince
15. Keenen Ivory Wayans
16. Wade Boggs
17. Bill Watterson
18. Jennifer Saunders
19. Kevin Bacon
20. Kate Bush
21. Mark Cuban
22. Madonna
23. Angela Bassett
24. Eve Plumb
25. Steve Guttenberg
26. Tim Burton
27. Michael Jackson
28. Jeff Foxworthy
29. Chris Columbus
30. Orel Hershiser
31. Andrea Bocelli
32. Tim Robbins
33. Viggo Mortensen
34. Eric Heiden
35. DInah Manoff
36. Jamie Lee Curtis
37. Charlene Tilton
38. Lynn-Holly Johnson
39. Rickey Henderson
40. Bebe Neuwirth
41. Tanya Tucker
42. Matt Frewer
43. Lorenzo Lamas
44. Shaun Cassidy
45. Rick Santorum
46. Michael Flatley
47. Madeleine Stowe
48. Deborah Norville
49. Ron Reagan, Jr.
50. Jake Steinfeld

…I got my AARP membership card and application in the mail yesterday. When do I start getting discounts?

Rick Lazio, who served New York in the U.S. Congress for eight years and then lost the 2000 Senate race to Hillary Clinton, turns 50 today.

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I deleted a whiny post here, as I got the solution as soon as I posted it. So its work is done. What’s a blog for if you can’t count on it for insight from time to time?

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Remember a few days ago, when I wondered what possible use anyone would have for a web cam? Well, here’s one. Let’s say you’re a teenage boy and you want muscles. You put time and effort into lifting weights, and you’re starting to see a difference. Particularly when you’re working out, and you see those bulges and definition. So you turn on your web cam to capture some of this for posterity.

Don’t forget to feed the fish first…