The phrase "pet lion" has appeared once before on this blog, in the June 2024 post "The horrible hairy homeward-hurrying hogs of Hieronymus," which discusses Albrecht Dürer's engraving Saint Jerome in His Study, where the saint's pet lion sleeps on the floor, and connects it with Animalia's lazy lions in a library. But Levon Cade is "a working man," suggesting the lions may not be as lazy as they appear.
The fact that the same actor plays the Pet Lion and the Dove is a link to my March 7 post "Lions and Doves," in which another pet lion (the title character of the book Library Lion) appears to have a pigeon alter ego.
The 2023 post which discusses Meg 2 also refers back to my December 2022 post "Nutmeg is a drug." By a strange coincidence, last night, hours before I read WG's comment leading me back to that post, my wife was cleaning out some cupboards, found a nearly-empty jar of nutmeg powder, and asked if I wanted it. I haven't used, or even really thought about, nutmeg for a year or two.
That post also discusses a place in Dinotopia: The World Beneath called Gold Digger Trench. This is a link to the gold-digging ants of Herodotus, discussed in "I've been a miner for a heart of gold" and recently contrasted with the lazy lions. The ants in Animalia are interested in the Ace of Hearts. When I rewatched the trailer for Meg 2, I found that it uses the song "Barracuda" by Heart.
"Barracuda" mentions a porpoise a few times, which is a link to recent dolphin syncs. The Wikipedia article on Meg 2 quotes a negative review calling the film
a plodding, poorly made giant shark movie that inexplicably lets the giant shark take a backseat to an evil underwater drilling operation.
That's a direct link back to "Britbong dolphin (600, 300)" and Dolphin Drilling.
It occurred to me today that the lazy lions might be connected with my December 2024 post "Pro-cat," in which a lion is labeled "pro cat." Cats are notoriously lazy, so a "professional cat" would be someone who doesn't really do anything. That post ends with a picture of two cats that are each closing one eye. This made me think of one of the first cats I owned as a child, who was named Pirate because when he was a kitten he opened one eye several days before the other. Having connected "professional cat" and Pirate, I soon found myself humming the Muppet Treasure Island song "Professional Pirate" (by Barry Mann, creator of the immortal "Who Put the Bomp?"):
Two lines from the song link back to "Sticks united, lazy Leonard, and Eldridge Street Synagogue." That post references Leonard Cohen as a "lazy bastard living in a suit" and two songs in which he takes the suit off. In the pirate song, one of the benefits of being a professional pirate is that "you don't have to wear a suit." The post also references the Three Musketeers and their motto "All for one, and one for all." The pirate song is sung by Tim Curry, who plays Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island and also Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's 1993 The Three Musketeers. "Professional Pirate" includes the line "It's one for all for one."
When I searched for a clip of Curry as Richelieu, the first one that came up has him comparing the Musketeers to the Knights of the Round Table, a link which was also made in the "Sticks united" post.
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