It’s only a matter of time before the greeting card industry gets into the act, so let C&F be the place where we beat them to it and wish a
HAPPY BLOOMSDAY 
to Dubhlinn, Bloomers and anyone else who feels concerned.
Uhm… is this 'cos it’s Mukade’s birthday today?
Or are we celebrating one of the following:
1862 Battle of Secessionville
1890 Stan Laurel born
1904 James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora
1940 Marshal Petain becomes premier of occupied France
1958 Leader of Hungarian uprising executed
1961 Russian ballet star Nureyev defects
1966 The Miranda rights are established
1977 Brezhnev is Soviet president
Why, thank you. 
Well, how would one know if one were an anyone else who should feel concerned?
It helps if you’ve read Ulysses. 
Aha so it’s 1904, thanks John (“Who is that guy?”) 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAN LAUREL!!!… and Happy Bloomsday everyone else. 
Well, I read that entry in Wikipedia, or whatever. I’m afraid that will have to do. I do hope you have your Edwardian costume on. We’d love to see a photo, I’m sure.
Yes, it does In my case, it helps if you finish it.
I hope this doesn’t mean we all have to go out and buy a “Bloomsday” device… 
Happy Bloomsday to everwhan!
White pudding, made from the blood of vampires…
yum!
There’s an interview with James Joyce in the current issue of Granta (a great magazine, and the only one I subscribe to, because it comes out only four times a year. I can actually read an entire issue before the next one comes out).
The interview was conducted in 1930 by the Czech writer Adolph Hoffmeister; the interview was conducted in French and this is the first full English translation. Joyce talks about Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, time, the near-impossibility of translating his works, the connections between his novels, and more.
I’m proud to share a birthday with the great Stan Laurel, but Bloomsday just doesn’t have a good ring to it.
Mukade
— Is that he? Haines asked twisting around in his seat.
— Yes, Mulligan said. That’s John Howard, his brother, our city marshall.
Now there I go mixing up Ulysses with politics again. Very clever that Joyce chappie to anticipate Australian conditions all those years ago.
Happy Bloomsday. And an especially happy day to all you baby bloomers.
I turn 50 today! (Oh, the pain…) Born in Dublin on Bloomsday. woohoo!
Tony
Ahh turned 50 what Tony? Oh that turn!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!
May you have many more blooming days!
MarkB
Fantastic day for a Dublin boys birthday Tony
Happy Bloomsday one and all.
http://www.ulysses.ie/home/default.asp
Slan,
D.
Spokane’s Bloomsday is the first Sunday in May.
From their website:
Founder Don Kardong chose the name, which is a joining of Spokane’s favorite flower to the word James Joyce scholars use to describe the day events in the novel “Ulysses” take place. Confused? Intrigued? Read on…
According to Kardong, a road race is an odyssey, not unlike the one Ulysses endured in his return to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey described in great detail by the Greek poet Homer. In 1917 James Joyce wrote “Ulysses” about one day in the life of a man (Leopold Bloom) in Dublin, Ireland. Bloom spends the day wandering through the streets of Dublin in a rough parallel of his Greek counterpart Ulysses, and that day (June 16) has become known to Joyce scholars and aficionados as “Bloomsday.”
The 7-1/2-mile odyssey through the streets of Spokane was dubbed The Lilac Bloomsday Run, combining Spokane’s moniker “The Lilac City” with the premise of Joyce’s novel, which is that ordinary people are involved in unassuming and yet heroic journeys every day of their lives. A citizen who travels 7-1/2 miles on the first Sunday of May encounters trials, hazards and monsters during his or her odyssey through the Lilac City before ending up back home.
Here’s the link if you want more info: http://bloomsdayrun.com/