The chirping of birds surrounds me as I fade in to the morning,
Sun not quite up yet but its light flooding through my curtains as if it too is stretching,
The sensations of daytime are alluring but not alluring enough to stir me,
I turn over and the sun rises without me.
The incessant beeping and whirring of great trucks outside of my window disturb my slumber,
They stay in the same spot for a hell of a long time considering the racket they’re making,
If anything this makes me want to sleep further,
I turn over and sleep until the bastards have gone.
The morning has since faded into the afternoon without me,
Finally dragging myself out of my bed with a headache I feel more tired than ever,
I curse the invention of the alarm clock for we ignore it,
I slump away and start my day three hours late.
It seems as if, once taking over the world has become too mediocre a threat for the hero to take care of, whether it be in Saturday morning cartoons, comic books, doctor who etc. the threat has to escalate to a point of ridiculousness, usually it’s something akin to destroying the world, but it can go as far as destroying time/reality itself – yes, doctor who gets a finger wag, not because it’s not great but because, as one of my fellow TS writers pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Russel T Davies was basically writing fan fiction the whole times. Sorry for all of you who think that being stuck in a traffic jam for hundreds of years because of giant space crabs is a legitimate science fiction story. It’s not, if anything it’s lack of imagination, which is strange because that was the series when the master came back and everyone went batshit over ‘blink’.
I’ve given this some thought however (the destroying the world thing, not fan fiction, that can stay far away from me) and have decided that there are only very few things that would explain the insatiable desire to destroy the world, and therefore cease all of existence. I should point out that in some stories the villain will be the only one left when the world is destroyed and it therefore goes back to the taking over the world thing, but a villain that wants to be in charge of a universe that consists of purely itself is ridiculous, and therefore they fit into my first possibility:
-Pure stupidity: not understanding the consequences of destroying everything around you due to reduced brain capacity/science illiteracy/having recently watched Superman Returns.
-Suicidal tendencies: the ‘if I’m going I’m taking you all with me’ approach.
-Strange religions: in which you get the best version of the afterlife if you destroy everything in the first life.
-Psychosis: at which point the villain has fallen into the Carnage-esque school of villains where mental conditions drive them to destroy for the sole purpose of destruction.
-Mental scarring: trying to erase Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ from existence by destroying existence. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Possible motive for Galactus?
Having just watched Thor in preparation for the avengers, I have to say that I’m very, very impressed.
I’m generally easy to impress when it comes to movies but Thor was much better than I was expecting, especially from a character that really hasn’t peaked my interests before, and as a lover of Marvel comics that should probably tell you something.
What really impresses me is when the characters of villains decline into dark paths for the sake of a personal reason, and thankfully, not many stories these days seem to go with the whole Saturday morning cartoon version of morality, where one man decides to destroy the world and everyone else tries desperately to stop him.
But really, what would this character gain from destroying the world? Surely he would have everything to lose? Usually they seem to have some vague hunch that this ‘destroyed world’ will allow them to rule over it or an equally strange situation where the villain gives themselves much more responsibility than it’s worth to just get people to listen to them; but that doesn’t really doesn’t make much sense either. Are their new people going to listen to him out of fear? Will there be people left to fear?
It seems on occasion that a lot of Saturday morning cartoon villains just haven’t thought their evil plans through very well to be honest.
I seem to remember in the last David Tennant episode of Doctor Who, the Time Lords decided that it would be a great idea to end time itself.
Now, for beings that exist in four dimensions, that’s a pretty bloody stupid idea. What are they going to do when time is over, just sit there in a game of perpetual musical statues?
Perhaps the point of that story was to make the Master look like the sanest figure in a bunch of idiots, but I thought the Time Lords were supposed to be intelligent?
Back again to bask in the sun of a Sunday afternoon that would have been a Sunday morning if the clocks hadn’t just strafed an hour to the side like some sort of sedentary crab going for its annual half a second aerobics class.
Hmm, perhaps my similes are degrading the longer I write these blogs for?
In any case, my neurons are firing once again and as I try to maintain a loose attention to the outside world on this fine day without getting blinded by the sunlight reflecting off two cars that decided they’d rather park outside my window rather than in the driveway *deep breaths* that I should probably hop onto my laptop and contribute another three hundred or so words to this mish mash of ramblings we like to call the internet.
And so I am forced to close the curtains.
Sundays have changed a lot for me since the days of church and antiques roadshow it would seem.
And on this one I’m wondering if the horn in hand is still doing beer for a pound on Sundays…
I’ll get right on that when my coursework is finished, because yes, I’m still doing it, and by the looks of it I’ll have half of my assignments done by the end of today.
And by that time I’ll be wanting to celebrate by doing nothing productive whatsoever.
Thank you for boosting my enthusiasm university!
As I’m writing this I’m beginning to remember that I committed to making good news/bad news the Sunday segment for this thing…
Now, I don’t believe I said much about the whole psychic Sally debacle, mainly because there wasn’t much definitive to report, however, there was a very interesting (which is surprising considering it was on this morning) discussion about psychics and cold reading, one with rather potent results, or at least that’s how it would appear.
Now until definitive evidence comes in no-one can really say that Sally Morgan pulled a Peter Popoff. It’s possible but just because psychic powers lack evidence does not mean that she was a fraud, or even if she was she could have been faking it another way, with cold/hot readings etc. Many people truly believe they have these abilities and that doesn’t make them charlatans, it makes them self-deceived, and that in itself is a small tragedy, delusions of grandeur after all, can be painful if they come crashing down, and they certainly have social connotations that may not be helpful for the abilities of the person in question to maintain relationships, have rational conversations and other such niceties we expect from someone living in today’s society.
Anyway, here’s the video.
Now, I consider that pretty compelling.
As for Sally Morgan’s claims that she is not a fraud, well, that’s possible.
It is possible that she doesn’t know her abilities are probably not real, it is possible that she thinks she’s helping people with a mysterious force she has received as some sort of miraculous gift from the universe.
However, it’s also possible that she’s lying, and telling the difference is not an easy call to make, even in the cases where it seems the most plausible.
Just for closure, you cannot prove a negative, unfortunately.
I apologise firstly, for the ten times my blog came up on facebook yesterday. That wasn’t my fault, the errors tricked me, I thought it hadn’t sent.
Regardless this post should be about something completely different.
And I can’t use the fact that I don’t know what exactly it should be about as a topic again, I’ve done that too many times and I’m sure that everyone’s sick of it and it’s lack of point.
I’ll tell you one thing that just popped into my head.
Why do mornings exist any more?
It seems to me like mornings are one of those things that in this day and age should really be swept under the rug so we can pretend the very concept never happened.
People like to stay up all night and sleep through the morning, the morning should be phased out completely.
And I know a lot of people are probably thinking: ‘oh but there’s a lot you can fit into the morning’.
And my rebuttal of that is, if you’re going to do something mildly productive in your spare time, it will probably take you until about two pm to start it, and once you’ve started it, you’ll probably make an excuse about how you’ve done enough work after two minutes anyway.
Such is not the case with this blog.
No, this blog was written at 13:37.
The most leet of all times and unfortunately outdated.
