White tigers have been in the news a lot lately, and not just because one of them tried to make a sequined canapé out of either Siegfried or Roy. “Like I care which one.” An Argentinean tiger recently gave birth to sextuplets in the Buenos Aires zoo, for instance. There’s so much tiger talk that Yahoo news has a white tiger slide show, where I found two pictures. The first one reminds me of one of W. Eugene Smith’s famous photos, which depending on which Google search you believe is either called The Walk to Paradise Garden, A Walk to Paradise Garden, A Walk in Paradise Garden, Walk Into Paradise Garden or Those Damn Kids Are in the Garden Again.
Now here’s another white tiger cub photo. Could it be any more different? It almost seems as though this tiger has a publicist telling him, “Don’t work the cute angle. The cute angle is overplayed. Go with funny. Gimme some yucks. When I get done with you, kiddo, they’ll be saying Kangaroo Jack who?