Year of the Ox
Jan 26 2009 starts the year of the Ox
Lao Tse on an ox (via)
Obama is a solid Leo/Ox as was Napoleon Bonaparte. (pretty scary thought) Ox leaders include M. Thatcher, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Maybe the Chinese should choose a new animal.
J.S.Bach, Vincent Van Gogh and Charlie Chaplin were Aries Ox. (more famous Ox people here.)
Johanne Sebastian Bach was a majestic Ox
The Tramp was a melancholy Ox
The Ox directed by Sven Nykvist 1991
Here is a terribly depressing movie to go with the current troubled times.
And finally visit two Art and culture Ox blogs – Unmuzzled Ox (By an editor of magazine Unmuzzled Ox) and La Vache qui lit (Mme Levy an expat living in France)