Did you know that Eric Clapton was born on March 30? (I love this Eric Clapton quote: "Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.")

Vincent van Gogh was also born on March 30th.

Paul Reiser, that guy from "Mad About You"? March 30th.

Some guy from the Moody Blues was born on March 30th.

So was Warren Beatty.

Tracy Chapman was also born on March 30th.

***This just in!!! Norah Jones was born on March 30th, in 1979.

And in 1968, on March 30th... Celine Dion was born.

If ever there was proof that Astrology is bunk, it's this: Celine Dion and I were born on the exact same day.

I *am* the Anti-Celine.

"Oh, but Allan," you say, "it's not just what day you were born. It's what *time* you were born..."

Horse-hockey. There were literally *dozens* of people born on this planet at the exact same time as Celine. And yet, she's the only pop-diva of her ilk that was born on this day.

"Ah," you point out, "she may be the exception. The stars do not dictate our paths, but reveal possibilities. There were also literally dozens of people born all over the world at the exact same time as you were, and I'll bet most of them are disaffected, fat, bitter, cranky coulda-beens, just like you."

Well, I don't know if that argument supports the notion of astrology, but at least I can take heart in believing that there's more of me than there is of Celine.

...as any scale will tell you.