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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