May, Helicopters, and Peterkin

Well, today is May Day. A festival of...fertility.

Oh man.

In any case, it's got to be better than the 24 hours of misery that made up yesterday. I exaggerate. Maybe it was only 23 hours.

There are some things I just don't understand. For instance, on Tuesday I went to get a couple shots for Ghana. In the waiting room, some kids show was on the TV, and from what I gathered, the show was about computer-animated flying vehicles, except they had human faces. Giant human faces. The helicopter was basically a severed head with a propeller.

What I don't understand is the whole trend of kids shows/movies being about animated inanimate objects. Their lives aren't that much more interesting than peoples', except with slight advantages such as being able to fly. Or drive. Or have extra arms. Of course, they are at a drawback when they have no arms at all.

Maybe if I were 5, I'd got nuts for it. I guess the people who make these shows assume that.

I was going to explain my blog title. I read this collection of fairy tales called The Wonder Clock, and one of them ended with this guys Peterkin marrying a princess, and it was described, "The princess was pleased too, for Peterkin was a good, smart, tight bit of a lad, and that is what the girls like." Then, another story mentioned a character "plucking an apple from his thinking tree. I got a real kick out of that.