As ColdChef noted, it's after midnight, Lisbon time. So...
. . .let me be the first second to wish our favorite boulevardier, bon vivant, flaneur, cult author, drug pusher, failed political candidate, wedding-brochure model, newspaper columnist, record label owner, International Man of Mystery, and (oh yeah) functional alcoholic a very, very happy birthday.
Even if you do think he's really a 48-year-old housewife from Hoboken. (Ma'am? Take the PATH and get thee to Angel's Share forthwith.)
Posted by: Vidiot on July 24, 2003 11:35 PMOh yeah, and a belated present will be on its way soon. (Migs? Are there really supposed to be all those little circles (like degree symbols) in your address?)
Posted by: Vidiot on July 24, 2003 11:36 PM(cluster of monkey birthdays lately, huh? Me too, in a week or so!)
Don't know where The Mighty Mig has been lately, virtually speaking, but I hope he comes back.
I will raise many delicious beverages this evening, and many of those will be in Migs' honour. Happy birthday, amigo.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on July 25, 2003 12:18 AMMiguel! A cold pint of Kolsch, 9.5% alcohol, brewed by my own hand, lifted high in your honor! And a Cutty back.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning,
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Feliz aniversário! Quero alguma coisa para beber!
A poem for Migs on his *mumble* birthday:
Alcohol.
That which steals the tender love and mercy
from the heart of man,
That which fills the mother's bosom full of
bitterness and woe,
That which makes of noble family a base,
ignoble clan,
That, of all existing evils, is the greatest
that I know.
--Colfax Burgoyne Harman
A very, very happy birthday to you, Miguel. Thanks for your wide-hearted friendship and the careful elegance of your pen. Not to mention the boundless joie-de-vivre, the limitless generosity, the unflickering grace. I hope it's a year full of luck, love, and light. Here's wishing that all stays good, and that any books-that-must-be-finished are. Here's also wishing that I spoke Portuguese.
Posted by: Marquis on July 25, 2003 12:48 AMHappy birthday, Miguel. Please keep up with the not dying.
I don't have the wherewithal to make suggestions involving those weird hieroglyphs which make otherwise useful king's english "european", your little slashes and motley crue dots and so forth, all I can say is this :
Miguel, I want to have your baby.
Er, I mean that in the Paul Anka sense, not the catholic archbishop sense.
People across the globe are united in one wish: Happy Birthday, Miguel! *ssmmmooooch*
Someone send Mig's phone number to Witchstone so she can sing to him! Her Marilyn is so arousing.
Posted by: tizzie on July 25, 2003 08:41 AMMigstah!!
I shall hoist a beer skyward in your honor this evening you bourbon swilling swain, you.
It would've been hoisted anyway, but now there's a purpose to it's existence. Kinda nice.
Posted by: jonmc on July 25, 2003 09:01 AMMiguel, happy birthday! I raise a glass of bitter green digestif in your honor, or whatever it is you furriners drink.
::mwah::
Happy Birthday, Miguel!
You will always be my favorite evil twin.
Posted by: bunnyfire on July 25, 2003 10:08 AMB****fire and G***ill return on the same week? Did we send out a newsletter or something?
Posted by: ColdChef on July 25, 2003 10:24 AMThey travel in pairs. One can not exist without the other. goneill is the anti-bunnyfire.
Posted by: jpoulos on July 25, 2003 10:28 AMBirthday greetings, Miguel. May your fantasies of Ute Lemper remain fantasies--because really, would your wife want to share you with a torch singer?
Posted by: witchstone on July 25, 2003 10:40 AMHappy Birthday, miglet. I tried to get Audrey Hepburn to give you a lapdance, but she's otherwise occupied at the moment.
Posted by: ufez on July 25, 2003 10:44 AMHappy Birthday! I'd buy you a drink, but that's illegal in my home country.
Posted by: insomnyuk on July 25, 2003 10:46 AMMiguel, you can add my acclaim to the avalanche of accolades accorded to you on this glorious day!
May your next 63 years be just as productive, eventful and sublimely euphoria-inducing as all the years you've already had!
*clink*
Posted by: Chico on July 25, 2003 12:01 PMHappy Birthday Miglet! And come back to #mefi...haven't seen you in awhile.
Posted by: salmonberry on July 25, 2003 12:26 PMAaaaw....
And here I was feeling deeply unloved and forgotten. Seriously.
Thanks for the super-charged fillip, my dear friends!
I'm having a big party tonight and you shall be toasted accordingly by all!
Thanks ever so much, you lovely bunch of coconuts!
Posted by: Miguel on July 25, 2003 01:13 PMAnd here I was feeling deeply unloved and forgotten. Seriously.
Miguel, if it's any consolation, vidiot, jon, chico and I did a photo napkin shoutout for you last week, but we were threatened with a Hague tribunal if we published it, and thus, it was deleted. But it's the thought that counts.
Posted by: cowboy_sally on July 25, 2003 01:44 PMToasting us appropriately?
Do they have malt liquor in Portugal?
Posted by: jonmc on July 25, 2003 01:57 PMAye, 'tis true. Those internationalist thugs, spoiling our good time.
Miguel (he said, waggling his finger unnecessarily at the screen), you have no business feeling unloved or forgotten. Save that pity party for one of your characters, pally. When we get around to building statues here in Monkeytown, yours is going up in the town square, right beside the eternal flame. Which shall be high enough to reach the tip of your cigar, forever.
(And you know this much is true: no mere napkin could contain the depth of our esteem for you.)
Posted by: Chico on July 25, 2003 02:08 PMWe have Rolling Rock, Jon - will that do?
Otherwise, it's the old malt whisky. Your being half-Irish, half-Italian and 100% American - and therefore a 200% sort of guy - I think an American cocktail like a Bushmills Manhattan (Irish whiskey and Italian vermouth) would be appropriate.
Honestly, I'm very touched. I miss you all a lot. Without knowing it, I've grown accustomed to your faces - well, OK, your faeces too - and now, even when I'm frantically working, I too often find myself wondering how I ever made it through the long, dark night when I lived without you.
Not you, Jon - you all!
Posted by: Miguel Cardoso on July 25, 2003 02:12 PMHey it's Miguel! I told you a birthday thread would bring him back!
your faces - well, OK, your faeces too -
Oh how sweet.
Over the pond across the ocean to the shores of the lovely Mediterranean; wishing you a Big Happy Birthday Celebration Mig. My first 12 pack will be toasted/hoisted in your honor. Cheers Mig! Hope you don't mind the pool water in your toasts because that is where I'll be.
Miguel, my hubby knows a Portuguese fellow at work who knows who you are. For some reason I thought that was cute.
Posted by: bunnyfire on July 25, 2003 03:57 PMHappy, happy, Migs! Beverages of the alcoholic variety will be hoisted in your honor this evening.
Posted by: aine42 on July 25, 2003 04:45 PMi like my new name
miggety migs - happy birthday yo.
i didn't realize when i went to my neighborhood bar, sin city, that i should have been drinking to you.
Posted by: g*****l on July 25, 2003 06:21 PMMigs, all the drinks I serve tonight will be in your honor.
Except the apple martinis.
Posted by: Cyrano on July 25, 2003 07:55 PMThe last guests have left, the house is full of glasses and plates and bottles. I toasted every one of you by name as you were crucial to the party's success.
And I missed you.
Someday. Someday!
Posted by: Miguel Cardoso on July 25, 2003 10:07 PMAw, and I missed it.
Glad you had a Happy Birthday anyway, friend. Many, many, more.
Posted by: yhbc on July 25, 2003 10:34 PMsorry I missed it (pinched nerve in my back has had me out of comission)
happy birthday Migs
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