— My better half brought home a little statue of an angel the other day; you know the type I’m talking about. They’re white resin imitating marble, widely sold at places like K-Mart, and this one stands about ten or twelve inches tall. The angel in it has unfurled wings clearly visible, curly hair, and bare feet. In its hand the angel holds a bird regarding it, the bird (probably a dove) in turn looking at the angel. I laughed hysterically for several minutes after seeing the statue, which admittedly is not a normal reaction. It did, however, reflect the way that my mind works!
I knew what was going to happen next, you see…the angel would open its mouth, and stuff the bird into it, just as Sylvester the cat would Tweety in a Warner Brothers cartoon. Perhaps a stray feather would escape from the corners of the Angel’s mouth. A slight satisfied smile would cross over the Angel’s mouth, and then the bird would somehow force open the angelic mouth and emerge, verbally abusing the angel. The bird would further retaliate by wrecking mayhem upon the angel, in effect sending it to the nether regions. In my mind’s eye, I could see all of this happening perfectly!
Having been raised on Warner Bros. cartoons, I knew that this was simply the way that things happened and played out. Now, many years later, those same cartoons continue to shape and warp my perceptions of reality, strongly shaping the way that I respond to it…Sufferin’ Succotash!
– – It must be the Couch Potato family! Dad’s vegged out watching the tube, Mom’s pecking away at a laptop, Junior’s playing a handheld video game, and Sis appears to be texting
– – We’ve met the MiO Cheeta before and likewise the Rhino, but in this commercial for MiO Energy Drinks we go back to the Watering Hole and re-visit the Rhino again, this time finding him so tired that he’s apparently hired a small monkey to perch on his shoulder and slap him in the face to keep him awake! We see the monkey do this repeatedly, at one point using the Rhino’s convenient horn to swing to the opposite side of his face. But the Rhino needn’t suffer this abuse…a Zebra is there, one with incredible eyes
– – I, for one, don’t like to discover foreign materials when I open an egg carton, and so I find it vaguely disquieting to ponder the notion of discovering a small armored knight occupying an egg compartment when one such container is opened in a Spam commercial.- -Does his rather surreal presence 
– – The off-beat comedy Wilfred is returning to the FX network for another season starting June 28th. The protagonist of the show is a depressed former lawyer, Ryan Newman, who has unsuccessfully attempted 
– – He’s played a raccoon, and now the Allstate 
– – I, for one, enjoy a good creative anachronism, and the Capital One vikings seem oddly at home in this election year, even if they do have seemingly-British rather than Danish, Scandinavian, or by default Germanic accents. We’ve seen these highly-visible Visigoths at places like New Orleans
– – Frontier Airlines boasts wildlife images that appear on the tails (- -where else?) of each of their aircraft! There are more than 60 animals with distinctive personalities and bios that are said to represent the airline’s character, commitment to service, and humor. 
FOXSYLVANIA 
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