St. Pat Never Wanted It Like This!

Green hats. Green t-shirts. Green beer. Green ketchup (that's right - thanks to Heinz!) on top of your green peas and green beans - yay.  
And all that is most definitely not the worst of it...!

Did Saint Patrick actually want any of this weird stuff?  Knowing what life was like in the first century of our precious anno domini, we can assuredly say... nay!
Ahh, if we could only ask him directly what he thinks...

There are blogs nowadays for everything; we all know that.  And so it does not come as much of a shock at all to see something on Instagram -something quite innocent and cute, actually- that shows us all the silly, if harmless, absurdities that come with ''St.Paddy's Day''...  What's an ''Instagram'' again?  What's an ''Instagram Blog'' specifically?  Well, nothing more than another internet service provided to the users - you know them, the users, right?  They can quickly develop make-believe abs and soon after morph into abusers - duh! They'll use the service for all that it is worth - and as long as it is trendy to do so, too - and then they'll simply drop it like yesterday's newspapers.  (Which are amazingly still alive after all - the internet was supposed to wipe them all out?  Maybe... Eventually... But not yet! Not just yet!  But that is another story...!)

In a word, Instagram is just another virtual place where you can store and share your digital pictures: no more and no less than Photobucket used to be, Picasa might still be (?) and any other Facebook come down the pike can be used as, also...!  I have my very own Luminous Photography blog myself - just look for it here, on Blogger! 

Such exercises in photography can lead to disclosing the truly weird excesses of this St.Paddy's Day tradition - and all of it is considerably less than saintly behaviour! 

Just like St.Valentine's Day and so many other formerly holy days, 

And of course service providers such as Google add fuel to the green flame with their doodles.  However it is particularly fascinating to see the evolution of those doodles: in 2012, it was a homage to the precious manuscript found in a monastery where the saint lived, the Book of Kells, a very special volume ''celebrated for its lavish decoration'' and now transferred, for proper preservation's sake, to the Old Dublin Library of Trinity's College.  This homage begat the following doodle: 

This year, however, the doodle Google gave the world for this occasion focuses solely on the pleasures of the partying - as if it were 1899, maybe, but still, we are drifting away from the saint here, slowly but surely...!  Have a look at the six little dancers - who've surely had a pint of green beer beforehand, each: 

Some have called it a ''sober riverdance number'' - I beg to differ, obviously!  (Must be because I use my imagination - and, using it but for a second or two, I can come up with various possible motives for this sextet for acting the way they do, so early in the morning too (the doodle was up and... dancing, from the very early hours of the day, of course!) 

Come on, people - cartoony doodles or not, you've got to question their motivation...! 

The way I see it, next year, the ''unofficial drinking day'' will be officially recognized by all: maybe even the doodle by Google!  I can imagine a doodle with beer glasses and shamrocks; what's the harm in that, right? After all, they've done everything else they possibly could have, already...!

No wonder Saint Patrick doesn't look amused on that stain-glass window art there...

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DB - as bad as a DC after all?

We must say - we're disappointed with the 

as it appears to have lost all common sense, all direction and all instinct that dictates what is readable, entertaining and worth reporting about!  We know, we know:  we have spoken of this brand of blogging before -of it and of its own affiliated network of blogkins- and we spoke of it with glowing admiration, because that seemed to be, at the time, the luminous thing to do!  Howerver, now, with hindsight being 20/20 quite obviously, and with a new light cast upon it all, as only luminescence can bestow, we are seeing things not as we wanted to see them, shaped in an idealistic mold, but really as they are in abysmal reality! Take, for example, this sordid story on Florida Man that was reported on DB most recently; what a revolting waste of everyone's time, that obviously led to yet more time-wasting all over the place and even right here, on our own network! Because we have considerable greater things to do than lament the fact that these bozos... sorry, these wackos... sorry, these Yahoos... are so desperate to find something to write about that they'll turn to Twitter's oddest Yahoos... sorry, oddest cuckoos... sorry again, oddest twits... in order to find material!  Wackos by any other name indeed: these chronicles in 140 characters or less about ''the world's worst superhero'' are simply not interesting - even if they are ''real headlines'' as they profess to be right there on Twitter.  They are because they merely collect all the news feeds' wackiest headlines about bumbling criminals from the so-called Sunshine State (but clearly not the state with the brightest bulbs in the x-mas tree!) and those happen to be, oftentimes, lone Florida Men indeed! One supposes that some creative license is used whenever it is, at long last, a criminal Floridian chick that is caught with her, er, panties down or something...  For the sake of his Twitter feed, I am sure it is not beneath this ''Florida Man'' dude to falsify the report, substituting ''man'' to ''woman'' so that the trend and motif remain intact...! But this is mere supposition, granted...

What really burns people's butts here is that this comes from a supposedly ''serious website'' and ''serious, reliable and noteworthy news service'' - not to mention cyber media mogul, recognizable brand (meant to be, therefore, a certified quality service) and an e-mail service provider too.  (Maybe that last one should have been all that Yahoo should have ever been, too!  But that is another question...)  If Yahoo pushes the offense so far as to present us with this fluff, and then makes it worse by submitting for our attention further ''RELATED CONTENT'' (such as Florida man pleads guilty in fraud case... And Florida man's license restored as state drops the charges... Or better yet: Florida man and Mexican woman sentenced to prison for trying to sell stolen matisse...!!!) that they urge us to ''EXPLORE'' - and then they further aggravate us by presenting us with yet MORE fluff from their very own penning, in their sidebar, in case we missed the other extremely incriminating pieces of evidence in the case against them as they stand accused of cyberbullshitting us to death (which is that much worse than spamming us, I am telling you, folks!) in this manner:

MORE FROM THE DAILY BUZZ »

• 
  Spiders rain down from telephone poles in Brazilian town 6 hours ago
• Penguin highway in Antarctica proves orderly, uncongested 7 hours ago
• Twitter account documents madness of ‘Florida Man’ 8 hours ago
• Baauer’s ‘Harlem Shake’ inspiring viral video dance craze 9 hours ago
• Extreme Mountain Unicycling not a sport for the meek Sat, 9 Feb, 2013

Well, then, there is one thing left to say and to do with the Daily Buzz, I am afraid: 

Lindsay Jolivet, Yahoos in general that have been contributors, accomplices, 

repeat offenders on that DB thing - and whoever else from the buzzsaw world 

that spawns all of the usual suspects in this sort of thing -

we are sorry but we have to call 

for a complete and irreversible 

boycott of that insufferable 

waste of our time 

called 

''DB''

No more 

Daily Buzz 

- NO MORE!

Luminous Luciano Has Spoken... er... Written...er... Blogged!  

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