I wish I had a better picture of this one to share. If I were an animal, there is a good chance I'd be a rhinoceros, so they pop up in my doodles a lot. This was one of them that I decided to expand upon. My dad sang as a tenor when he was younger, so while I didn't really listen to it until after he died, I remember hearing opera when I was a kid. Any time Pavarotti was on TV, it was on in our house.
This one was inspired by the opera Pagliacci. Whenever you see a reference to an opera in pop culture, you either see vikings, or the sad clown. Pagliacci was the opera with the sad clown. The most famous aria takes place right after the main character catches his wife with another man. In it he's getting ready to go put on his comedy show, in which his wife is the co-star, and is wondering how he's going to make the crowd laugh while his heart is broken, and whether he is a man, or just a clown. Anyway, the phrase Ridi Pagliaccio is in that aria a few times, and it translates to "Laugh Clown." So this one is "Laugh Rhinoceros."
Random factoid of the day: The aria I'm talking about is called "Vesti la giubba," and a recording from 19-0-something was the first record to ever sell a million copies.

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