Thursday, April 29, 2021

A metaphor for the last 20 years of my life...


For about 20 years now, I've been fighting Saruman the Silver Tongued and the Orcs.  That's a metaphor.  The Orcs don't believe in metaphors (or science for that matter).  Silly Orcs.  I had a poorly written blog post here about that fight, but the last 20 years of my life can't be explained in a blog post.  So here's a scene from The Lord of the Rings as a metaphor for that fight... my against the douchbags of the real world.  Saruman got the upper hand early on, but he loses in the end.  Here's how he goes out, he gets stabbed in the back by one of his lackies.  That's probably how the real world saga I'm referring to will play out as well.  Time will tell.

I'm focusing on two new blogs these days...

Crazy California- This blog's about weird, cool, funny, historic, and interesting locations in California.

Stench: Homeless Super Hero- I'm writing a fiction blog now about the world's first homeless super hero, Stench. 

Lego Set Designer- the dream job you never thought to wish for

I watched this Lego documentary recently, from 2016, and it's pretty fascinating.  It follows a couple of stories, one being a guy apply...