Celebrity Birthday- Ziyi Zhang is 30

Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang is 30 today.

She has appeared in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "2046," "Hero" and "The House of Flying Daggers."

We won't mention that she was also in "Rush Hour 2," or a former spokes model for the Korean mineral water 2%.

Quote of the Day_ Lauren Conrad

Right in time for Valentine's Day (eyes rolling):

"Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone."

Six Degrees of Separation- Rin Tin Tin (Entry 7 of 11)

Today, we check out how many degrees of separation actor Kevin Bacon is from a golden star of the silent film era Rin Tin Tin, who is pictured above. This is the first time we have linked the star of "Footloose" and "A Few Good Men" to a dog!

Rin Tin Tin was in "The Show of Shows" with Ann Sothern in 1929. She was in "Crazy Mama" with Cloris Leachman in 1975 and she was "New York, I Love You" with Bacon in 2008.

Therefore, Rin Tin Tin is three degrees removed from Bacon.

During the research of this piece, we learned there is a modern-day Rin Tin Tin dog (www.rintintin.com) who does things like visit school children in Tulsa!

Coming this Weekend- Blogathon II

Yes, I will trying to play catch up again as we will attempt to post seven new entries both here and on our sister blog "The Daily Vampire."

I want to take a moment to congratulate the Radford University's men's basketball team for beating Winthrop University from Rock Hill, SC- which is my cousin Mike's alma mater.

Go highlanders!

Songs of Our Youth (7 of 11)

"Devil Inside" by INXS.

This song was also banned by K-92! And, some people still wonder why I'm a Democrat.

Songs of Our Youth (6 of 11)

"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode.

This song was actually NOT played on our local top-40 station K-92 FM out of Roanoke, Va., when I was did because the station didn't want to to offend the Jesus People.

I find it ironic that I live in the heart of the Bible Belt, but I am not a religious person at all. Then again, I don't go to NASCAR races either.

Celebrity Birthday- Shelley Berman is 83

Today is the birthday of tv actress Morgan Fairchild (59) and cinema/tv actress Blthye Danner (66), who is also known as Ms. Paltrow's mom, but we chose to devout our celebrity birthday of the day to actor/comedian/writer/lecturer Shelley Berman, who I presume is one of the subjects in cartoonist Drew Friedman's book on Jewish comedians. Berman also has a recuring role on "Curb Your Enthuiasm" which garnered him an Emmy nomination. Speaking of Morgan Fairchild, does anyone remember the early 80s show "Flamingo Road?" Yeah, I didn't think so.