Happy Birthday!
Best wishes for the happiest of birthdays to my oldest friend, Danny Boy. We were born a fortnight apart. We grew up around the corner from each other. We met when my family moved into his family's neighborhood, when he & I were two years old; we met ere my erstwhile best friend was born. Throughout my youth he was my brother in every way but blood (yes, I know that is a contradiction in terms given the definition of "brother," but you take my meaning). Time hath no power to diminish such a bond. Happy birthday, Dan!

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Skatalites, "The Guns of Navarone" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)