May All Your Days be Circus Days

"Elephant husbandry" is an excellent pachyderm term. Sundara is an excellent brand-new pocket-sized pachyderm starlet, and will soon appear in the Greatest Show on Earth. Why, again, aren't we elephant trainers?

Pink Elephants on Parade

"Look out! Look out! Pink elephants on parade, here they come, hippety hoppety!" Dumbo, my first movie theater experience: as I recall it was both a revelation and utterly terrifying. Sinister pink elephants! On parade! Clippety Cloppety. This 5-inch plastic MOMA store exclusive is decidedly less haunting. In part because there is no Coke-and-popcorn-and-Red Vines drunkenness. But, sadly, it doesn't ski like Dumbo's Technicolor pachyderms.