— As we enter Easter week, it would seem that Peter Rottentail made an appearance at past Easter egg hunts at Bancroft Park in Colorado Springs, causing that event to be cancelled because of some parents leaping over guide ropes to blatantly grab eggs for their children! This avarice caused other children to go eggless while some raked in the eggs, and kinda spoiled the supposed mood of the event. We will bypass tempting economic and political analogies represented by this occurrence to state the seemingly obvious to the offending parents and their ideological clones elsewhere: egg hunts are for kids, to paraphrase the great Trix Rabbit, who can teach us much about the nature of desire, frustration, and deprivation. –Wise, long-suffering Trix Rabbit! One may learn so much from him, and profit from his instruction! But I digress…
Things seldom get as distasteful and as thoroughly messed up as when parents seek to live vicariously through their children, expressing their greed and Alpha-male dominance needs through them. We can see this mentality represented in youth sporting events where some parents convey the notion through action and word that yes, winning is everything! Some even curse other child competitors, or get into physical altercations with other parents. It’s a mentality that their child is the only one in the universe, or that in a world of supposed equality, some are more equal than others, remembering George Orwell.
I shall mourn the tainting of the humble and lovely tradition of the Easter Egg hunt, which was never intended to be an ego-invested greed fest. Perhaps it is as worldly philosopher Homer Simpson once observed that we all want the same thing: preferential treatment!
— It’s not easy being a demigod; everyone expects great things out of you! Pity poor Perseus; as if whipping the Kraken wasn’t enough in 2010’s Clash of the Titans, now he has to beat a whole host of other assorted monsters in Wrath of the Titans. There will be a slew of them to boot in this special effects extravaganza, everything from a thirty-foot high Cyclops to a Minotaur to my personal fave, a Chimera…I just like things with multiple heads and incongruous parts that spew fire, that’s the way I roll! Mighty Kronos himself enters the fray, just dripping with lava…what more could a boy want? Yes, I know, robots, zombies, mummies, aliens, and werewolves are extremely cool too, but you can’t have them all in the same movie and preserve artistic integrity.- -Besides, I’d die of too much happiness!
– – 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. 
– – A rhinoceros, a cheetah, and a gazelle walk into a bar…it sounds like a hokey joke, but it’s the theme for a Kraft MiO liquid water enhancer commercial
– – Although he has a human visage, Alec Baldwin as seen in Hulu commercials is an extraterrestrial of an unknown alien species who together with other aliens harbors evil plans of world decimation, planning to consume the brain matter of the entire Human race! 
FOXSYLVANIA 
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