Vampire at the cosmic bar . . .

Saturday, October 4, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . Forecasts indicate moderate Southeasterlies to continue warming TulseyTown today, in the upper 80's. The ten-day promises dry cooler conditions.

The list of creatives' birthdate notices in today’s mailbox was a long one …

The prolific and often humorist writer Roy Blount Jr. turns 84 today. He was born in 1941 Indianapolis.

Actor Susan Sarandon is 79 today. The AcademyAward laureate was born in 1946 New York City.

Also on the list: Buster Keaton and Charlton Heston,

And, the author of Interview With A Vampire, Anne Rice, was born in 1941, New Orleans, Louisian.

Speaking of which, Rice's vampire saga has been adapted to film and presently into a critically acclaimed tv series (by AMC) and now running on Netflix, if you are so inclined.

And, On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite inaugurating the space age, and heightened Cold War competition between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.

Bukowski at the Cosmo Bar

Mother, Father Mahayana,

how do I know if I am

enlightened?

Such an outrageous question

might find an appropriate answer

from someone like Bukowski

muttering from some cosmic bar

on a star a billion miles from here:

“Dude,” he'd say,

“if you have to ask, you ain't there.”

– jab