Just to prove Mojo Nixon’s theory that Elvis is everywhere, have a look at this Roman sculpture dating to the 2nd Century AD:
Kind of eerie, eh? According to this article, this bust that bears such an uncanny resemblance to the one and only King of Rock and Roll is something called an acroterion, “a kind of architectural ornament often found for decoration on the corners of a sarcophagus, a stone tomb or burial chamber.”
Hm. A burial chamber? So perhaps this is a likeness of someone inside the burial chamber? And how could a man who died 1,800 years ago… look like Elvis? There are those who believe that Elvis was some kind deity… but let us not go there. A more likely theory — which explains a great many things about the truly weird life of Mr. Presley — is that he wasn’t entirely human. Think of it: an entire planet of Elvii who come here in their rhinestone-bedazzled spacecraft every century or so to try and teach our mortal species the wisdom of the universe… or perhaps there was only one Elvis, our Elvis, but he didn’t really die in the bathroom of Graceland in ’77 as everyone believes, he just quantum-leaped to another time and place… ancient Rome, say, where he became a man of sufficient wealth and influence to have an acroterion carved in his likeness.
Or perhaps this is a very silly blog entry being written by a man who ought to be putting his time to better use.
Me, I’m going with the Planet of the Elvii theory.
Via.
Es nihil, sed es canis vacua, semper lacrimabunda.
And this means, for our less classically educated readers (not to mention your proprietor)?
Literally translated: “You are nothing, but you are a worthless dog, always crying.”
Hm… doesn’t trip off the tongue quite as easily, does it?