Is there something being added to the water every July 26th?

It's Frey's day . . .

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.-- Rita Mae Brown

A long list of creatives were born on today's date. I'll leave the linking up to you. Google away.

Writers:

Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) was born in 1894 Surrey, England, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 Dublin, humorist Jean Shepherd (“Ralphie, you'll shoot your eye out”) born in 1925 Chicago, Illinois

Film biz:

Director Stanley Kubrick, born in New York City in 1928, Actors: Helen Mirren in 1945 London, Kevin Stacy in 1959 Orange, N.J. and Sandra Bulloch in 1964 Arlington, Virginia.

Speaking of water:

While the Seine is being filled today with the creative Opening of the Athletes, how about putting the arts back into the Olympics?

A tsunami is brewing in the Watercourse: Rupert Murdoch has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. – George Bernard Shaw

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man. — Jean Shepherd.