Animals as humans or animals as pets?

Does anybody remember the children's cartoon Arthur? Our central character Arthur is an aardvark, the show follows him and his friends going through life and school getting up to all the crazy shenanigans that children do. Some classic episodes are when they sing the Library song and Arthur falling off his bike and cutting his leg.

Now Arthur is joined on his many adventures by his friends, there is Buster his best friend (a rabbit), then we have brain who is funnily enough the smart one (I believe he is a mouse, though he could equally be an aardvark) Francine, who is a tomboy and my least favorite character, I wouldn't be friends with her if I was Arthur she is so rude to them! (She is a monkey), and many other animal friends for Arthur.

I am all for humanising animals and giving them their own civilisation to live in but I believe there is a massive plot hole in using this device. Arthur has a pet dog.

How can this be possible? How can Arthur an animal, have another animal as a pet? Especially considering that in the show Binky, the class Bully is also a dog! Who decides which dogs are allowed to grow up as humans and which dogs must be reduced to household pets? Also Arthur has a baby sister, so an infant aardvark is being raised as a human and yet a puppy must be raised as an animal in the same house!

What a messed up world Elwood city is. But hey Arthur did teach me that having fun isn't hard when you have a library card



Absolute genius.

I do love a sing song.

Today I watched Grease. Lately i have become pretty rapped up in how musicals are most definitely back, High School Musical and Glee have diverted my attention from almost everything in my life, and I genuinely think that regardless of what you think of them as stand alone pieces of of film and television the impact of them in making musicals mainstream again is undeniable.

Musical's ability to tap into the very core of what makes me happy is insane, for example i went with my best friend to see the Glee 3D Concert film that has just been released. Now it may have been critically panned and bombed at the box office but for a Glee fan i don't think you can go wrong, i was so excited after having seen it that i struggled to get to sleep.

While I love Glee and High School Musical, having watched Grease for the first time in a long while, I believe it is the ultimate high school themed musical. Zac Efron is basically just Jon Travolta except Jon's better because he has a bum chin! (Don't get me wrong I love Zac, I have a picture of him topless on my wall and I am genuinely considering having it made into wallpaper and creating a feature wall.) I just believe that Jon Travolta wrote the rules about how to be a singing teen and everybody else merely follows them and hopes to match his greatness.

If at the end of my life i am still able to appreciate the pure joy in this song then I know I will have lived well.



Well, I sound like a 14 year old.