By the Mysterious Professor Zoltar
Working at the Westmoreland News in 1994 was the best summer job I ever had. I worked for peanuts and had a two hour drive each way from Richmond, but I got to do it all at a small county newspaper where I was a reporter, feature writer, copy editor, layout editor and photographer (because there was nobody else to do those things). Best of all the paper’s editor, Lynn Norris, gave me the freedom to write whatever I wanted – way more journalistic and comedic freedom than anyone should rightly give a know-it-all 21-year-old writing for a weekly in the deeply rural Northern Neck of Virginia.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20): Keep an eye on the Prime Lending Rate. If the Federal Reserve Board moves it below 3.69 percent, move ahead with the GNMA purchases setup and the NASDAQ greenmail sharetrading on the Japanese corporate market, to receive untaxed bonds and diversionary income. Also, remember to water your plants.
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22): You will receive a patent this week for inventing a new kind of margarine that can be used as rocket fuel. Avoid Scorpios and state police troopers.
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22): You are moving into a new cycle in your love life: you will soon meet “someone special” and begin a wonderful romance. However, this will not make your current “someone special” terribly happy. You will also receive important mail this week. It will be a lawsuit from the “someone special” mentioned above.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21): Let your “sassy” side show this week. Get a little racy. Wear some exotic lingerie for that special someone, unless you are man, in which case you’d feel pretty strange wearing a black lace brassiere. Of course, if you are a man and you don’t feel strange wearing a brassiere, you’ve got bigger problems.
Pisces (Feb. 19 – Mar. 20): This is your lucky week. Enjoy it, because next week is going to be awful.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20): This is an awful week.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19): Do you remember the episode of the Brady Bunch where they are visiting Hawaii and they take a cursed Tiki doll and then everything starts going wrong and Greg wipes out in the surfing competition? If so, you watch way too much TV. Get a life. Avoid Tauruses and rat poison.
Aries (March 21 – April 19): This will be a lucky week if you send me lots of money. It will be a lucky week for me, anyway.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21): You probably should not grow a stylish “Hitler” mustache to win friends and impress people. If you are a woman, you should definitely not grow a “Hitler” mustache. Your star is in a rare harmonic conjunction with Libra this week; it doesn’t actually mean anything, but it’s interesting.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18): If you flip a coin this week, it will probably come up “heads.” Invest in money market accounts, negotiable bonds, and rare Elvis singles. Absolutely, positively do not do the “Watusi” with anyone wearing fur pajamas and green sunglasses this week.
Cancer (June 21 – July 22): Don’t smoke. It’s bad for you.