September 5, 2002.

Rocksnobs has dimmed the lights today in honor of Freddie Mercury's birthday.

In fact, why are you reading Rocksnobs when it is Freddie Mercury's birthday? You should be out doing something grand. Below is a suggestion list of things that you can do to celebrate the birth of the world's greatest singer and frontman.


 
-Set your alarm, turn on your charm.
 
-Luxuriate in a bubble bath.
 
-Add a few more Galileos, dear.
 
-Use your fancy patter on the telephone.
 
-Go waltzing to the zoo.
 
-Grow a moustache.
 
-Avoid public transport by selling your drummer's fur coat and taking a cab.
 
-Send someone to the path of nevermore.
 
-Write a song about your cats.
 
-Replace Tim Staffell.
 
-Take a backseat, hitch-hike, and take a long ride on your motorbike.
 
-Light another cigarette, and let yourself go.
 
-Steal a riff from Brian May.
 
-Give yourself a nickname that no one will ever, ever use.
 
-Go painting in the Louvre.
 
-Change your last name to the name of a Roman god. Or goddess, your choice. We can't make all your decisions for you.
 
-Crack a nut at night's noon-time.
 
-Go hyphen-crazy, which is different than Going Slightly Mad or going Stone Cold Crazy.
 
-Wonder what would have happened if Wayne and Garth had decided to listen to The March Of The Black Queen.
 

Choose one or more of the above, and have a son of a bitch of a time.

Then again, incidentally, if you're that way inclined, you can read some other stuff about Queen. You can enjoy the briefest of all summaries on why I love Queen, the tribute to Brian May, or the breakdown of Jazz. If you are really hankering for some non-Queen snobbery, visit the Archives.

Special thanks to my Pirate-like assistant for his contributions to the above-list. And for coming up with the idea to have the site black-out today.

September 5, 2002

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