Why are there so many songs about rainbows (and only one about unicorns)

 

And take some of them green alligators and long-necked geese

Some humpty back camels and some chimpanzees

Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born

Don't you forget my Unicorn"

--Shel Silverstein, The Unicorn (performed by the Irish Rovers) 

It is National Find a Rainbow Day. But I didn't have any t-shirt designs about rainbows and I couldn't quite bring myself to creating any. I did have some about unicorns and unicorns and rainbows seem to go hand in hand.

Not trying to be sexist or show a gender bias, but raising a daughter, I had my share of My Little Ponies, unicorns and rainbows.  And as you can see from the quote at the top of this post, I am familiar with The Unicorn song by Shel Silverstein. Though I only knew it as an Irish Rovers song. When I was a kid we would go to this place called Skateland and they would always play the "Unicorn" song like clockwork. And though my blog title suggests there is only one song about unicorns, it should more accurately say there is only one song I remember about unicorns. My AI friends tell me that there are are several others including a metal song called "Unicorn Killer" by The Sword. Needless to say, I never played that one to my kids when they were growing up.

Though most people turn against unicorns when they reach a certain age. Maybe it is that rebellion against fantasy they've been led to believe is real for so many years.  Funny, when I was a kid I didn't really believe any make believe thing was real. I didn't make a big deal about it, but I knew there wasn't a real Santa, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy.  Part of me believes in them now, though.

It is also National Chocolate Mousse Day and National Tweed Day as well as Good Friday. None of those just scream funny t-shirt to me. Well, chocolate mousse maybe.

 

No fool like an old fool

 

It is of course April Fools' Day! But isn't every day April Fools' Day here at Dizgraceland.  I realize I recently posted this image here already, but I kind of like it because it makes me look like the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World from their commercials. I see they have brought him back recently (though he is starting to show his age). 

I asked ChatGPT to make me into Poisson d'avril, or the April Fish as the French call April Fools. 

I was thinking more of me with a fishlike head, dressed like a fool, but this works. Not sure why it gave me two tails, but ChatGPT has been a bit off lately so I try not to confuse it more. This morning I asked for a humorous version of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken for a t-shirt design for National Walking Day and it gave me this:

I would have thought it was its idea of an April Fools' joke, but it was dead serious with it and didn't take kindly when I told it not to include images of me in designs unless I specifically asked for them. I also said this didn't make any sense. Then it gave me this which wasn't much better. 

It looked like a friggin' Black Hole. Finally I got this one:

I think it finally captured the spirit of what I was trying to convey (though I don't think Robert Frost would have thought it was funny). I'm not sure poet's have senses of humor anyway. I wonder if anyone ever asked Robert Frost if he was related to Jack and did he like to nip at people's noses, too. 

Bet he never heard that one too many times.