An Eye Opening Experience

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had been posting and collaborating on hitrecord.org, an art collaboration hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. A lot of times, he presents a challenge. In this challenge he sets parameters for what the topic is or how he wants it presented.

One of his challenges was RE: The Bible.

I know, unique and interesting. I had to look into it. One of the challenges was to “remix” a story from the Bible and tell it from a different point of view. That sounded like a great idea to me, so I decided to do it.

So this is it. DTRAiN’s remix of the Gospel of John Chapters 7-8.

Again, I gave a song that I thought really set the scene. I hope you really enjoy this one. 
I enjoyed writing it for you.

RegularJOE made the call. The Bible was the topic.

I have heard from many people that they try to read the Bible, but the can never understand it. Or, sometimes, I have heard people say, “Yeah, the Bible is OK, but I can’t relate to it. Nothing in it has anything to do with me.”

So, I decided to tell a story. Actually, a story that was already told. I would like to mention that in popular culture and opinion, the woman in this story is depicted as Mary Magdelene; however, that is not mentioned. The woman in this story is nameless, so I am not going to buy into popular culture depictions of "characters" in the Bible. I am am going to tell the story as it is presented. That being said, as many of you know, I do enjoy showing illustrations with text, so I tried to use the best ones possible.

The Gospel of John, Chapters 7-8 (a creative narrative)

It was the day after the Festival of Tabernacles. The city was already stirring for what had occurred yesterday. There was doubt. There was dissension. But for Eliezer, there was hope.

There was word that someone had disturbed the festival the day before, but rumor had said that he had left. Why were the High Priests against him so much? Many people called him a good teacher, who taught from the scrolls with knowledge and authority. Certainly, he was a learned man. A Levite? Certainly, a rabbi. Regardless, this man had left the Temple courts, and going to listen to the teachers in the Temple was one of Eliezer’s favorite things to do.

It was not because he was a very religious person, but more because he took a lot of joy in hearing the teachers and rabbis talk of Moses and the prophets, especially during the Festival Sukkot. In many ways, he felt that it was his favorite holiday. His father had told him that he was named in honor of the festival, “my God has helped.” Eliezer had also known firsthand and seen with his own eyes how the God of Jacob and Moses had helped him and his family through the years, especially in these difficult times of the Romans.

Eliezer’s grandfather had told him many stories of how cruel and wicked Babylon was to Israel many years ago, but grandfather had never seen anything to compare to the atrocities that Caesar was doing to God’s people. Israel had been crying out for many years for Messiah to come and rescue them from this existence and restore her to the glory of King David, but Messiah had not come.

It was for these reasons that Eliezer found comfort in going to the Temple courts this day.

As usual, it was crowded. Many groups of people surrounded various rabbis that were reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes, which was common for the Festival and the upcoming Sabbath during Sukkot. There was, however, one particular teacher that was commanding a large amount of attention off to the left side. Eliezer decided to see what the commotion was about. As he approached, he heard the rabbi reading from the Book of Ecclesiastes as well, but something was different. Usually when a holy man read in the Temple, most people would sit quietly and listen. With this man, people where whispering and pushing to get closer to him. It was very distracting.

That’s when it happened. The crowd opened up so quickly that Eliezer almost fell over. A small child was shoved to the side and pushed to the ground.  Eliezer quickly kneeled to help her up. As he was down on his knees, he looked to his left and saw the mob. It was a large group of officials and the teachers of the law pushing their way through the crowd dragging a woman by her hair. She was stumbling and crying out in pain. The tears had created smears on her face from the dust in the commotion. Still by her hair, they threw her forward to the ground in front of the entire group of people that had been dispersed.

He looked to his right, and noticed the rabbi who was teaching. It appeared to Eliezer that this mob had intentionally brought this woman to the Temple courts specifically to be in the presence of this man. The man put down his scroll slowly. He didn’t seem angry that he was interrupted. The man had an incredible peace and love about his very presence that could not be described. Then he stood up and looked at the mob. Something in the man’s eyes gave away the truth.

He knew. The man knew!

He knew that they were trying to trick him or force him to make a judgement!

He then looked down at the woman.

Eliezer watched this entire scene unfold. It was completely silent in the Temple. All teaching had stopped. All whispering had ceased. The only sound was the woman horribly sobbing on the ground.

One of the main officials stepped forward. He was so proud and pious. No longer did Eliezer see a holy teacher of the law. No, he saw a man that was filled with hate and anger. With sin.

He spoke in a voice that shattered the silence in the room, “Teacher! This woman was caught in the act of adultery.” He spat on the ground as he finished the sentence. This disgust in his voice was obvious. The disdain that he held for this wretched woman was noticed by everyone surrounding the area.

“In the Law,” when he started up again, he pointed at the scroll that the man had just placed down, “Moses commanded us to stone such women! Now what do you say?”

It became clear to Eliezer. This was the man. This was the teacher that had caused the commotion yesterday. This was the man who people were talking about. This was the man who said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

People called him The Prophet.

People called him Mashiach.

He was Yeshua - Jesus of Nazareth.

The teachers of the law stood before Jesus smug, demanding an answer. If he said the wrong thing, they would surely say he was blaspheming the name of the God of Jacob. The room stayed silent.

There was no sound, save the silent weeping of a woman who was aware of her pending death, a death that by all rights of the law would be well deserved. Her adultery was explicitly talked about in the law, and her sentence was clear.

Jesus knelt to the ground and began writing in the sand. Eliezer could not see what was being written, but it was obvious that there were words being spelled. Eliezer pushed forward to catch a glimpse of what was written.

This silence infuriated the Pharisees even more and they began to push the issue. They demanded a ruling on this issue, and still Jesus wrote in the sand saying nothing. Until he stood.

When he did, it felt as if all of the air was instantly sucked out of the room. Even the woman stopped crying. Eliezer glanced at her. There was terror in her face, as she knew that this teacher was about to pass judgement on her. Then Eliezer glanced at the faces of the Pharisees. Their faces betrayed their true emotions, and they were ready to condemn anything that Jesus had to say.

When Jesus spoke, Eliezer instantly felt his heart beat quicken. He felt tears in his eyes. He felt his mouth dry up. He was torn in the sense of wanting to look away, because this man was so different than any other man – and yet, Eliezer couldn’t look away. He was captivated by this man’s voice.

People called him The Prophet.

People called him Mashiach.

He was Yeshua - Jesus of Nazareth.

“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her,” Jesus said.

It was that simple. He knew the law, and he knew that the Pharisees knew the law too, but what did he just say? He told them to stone her if they too were without sin! Eliezer could not believe his ears. There was no one in the room that could throw a stone. Eliezer knew that every sin written in the Torah required a punishment, and yet, these Pharisees were only pointing out the sin of this woman.

Jesus kneeled down again, and began writing in the sand again. At this time, Eliezer was not interested in what was being written; he was focused on the mob that had dragged this poor woman into a public shaming, ready to kill her. The older men in the mob began exiting the area. The Temple courts began to clear out. Many of the men ready to stone her turned and walked away. They could not say that they were without sin. Not a one of them. As the crowd emptied, Eliezer slowly walked away as well, but he stepped slowly to the wall so that he could see Jesus with this woman.

As he finished writing, Jesus touched the hand of this woman, and she looked into his face. They both stood up together. Her clothes were dirty and torn in areas. Her head covering was nowhere to be seen, and her hair was uneven and torn from being pulled and dragged by the men. It was at this time, that Eliezer began to silently weep. He too knew that he could not throw a stone at this woman, and yet, Jesus stood next to her and spoke.

“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you,” he asked.

“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Jesus turned to where he had put the scroll down, and rolled it back up. Many of the people who had been listening to him returned, and many more joined. Eliezer turned and walked out of the Temple courts. He heard Jesus begin teaching again, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life…”

Eliezer began to run home. He needed to tell his family about Jesus. He needed to tell them the wondrous thing that he had just witnessed. He needed to show them where Jesus was teaching.

People called him Mashiach.

He was Yeshua.

Jesus of Nazareth.

Routine Procedure - Part 2

I did an exercise a while back. It was 600 words or less relating to just a picture provided to me. If you want to, you can read it HERE

I received an enormous amount of feedback regarding it, both here and at hitrecord.org. The main sentiment by everyone who read it was.....tell me more.

As many of you know, I'm a big music fan, and I live my life in a movie soundtrack. For this entry, I would like you to play this song by a band called Dead can Dance. It's an interesting piece that I think captures this narrative quite well.

So without any more yakking by me, I give you the latest chapter in this story.










Routine Procedure - Part 2

As she sipped her vodka tonic, she looked down at the headline on the Newsweek once again. It seemed so unreal, and yet when she looked out of her window from the airliner, there it was. The planet seemed so close that she felt that she could reach out and touch it through the glass. It made no sense to her. Why now? What did it all mean?

“Scientists still unsure of the cause for the planet’s appearance,” the article read.

“Three months ago, a bright orb appeared in the night sky fascinated astronomers across the globe. What at first was deemed a newly discovered comet pushing its way through our galaxy, has been determined to be a planet. Lead NASA analyst, April Franke said, ‘We know that the planet’s density and gravity match our own. In many ways, the planet appears to be almost identical to Earth.  What we cannot determine is the cause of its appearance, and why its approach to Earth has stopped. All we have discovered at this point is that it is sharing our orbit, and it shows no signs of disrupting our gravitational pull.’”

April sipped her vodka again and sighed. Her flight began its descent to JFK International. She received the call yesterday that there had been a development, and that she was needed immediately in Washington. Going to DC, especially at a moment’s notice was the last thing that she wanted to do for her weekend. After being swarmed by the press and being swamped at work, she had some well-earned vacation time waiting for her in Montana with her boyfriend. He had been sympathetic of her increased work hours and understood that she was unable to talk about the planet with him, but this get-away at the cabin was something they were both looking forward to.

The plane touched down and started to taxi its way to the terminal. She looked out the window, but noticed that the plane was passing the terminal where it would connect to the jet bridge. At first, April thought nothing of it. “I guess we are going down some stairs the old-fashioned way,” she thought to herself. She downed her drink, and put her tray up. The other passengers on the plane grumbled because the inconvenience as they all stood to get their carry-ons from the cabin hold.

“Uh, ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated until the attendants give you instructions. Thank you,” the captain said over the intercom. Passengers continued to grumble as they sat back down, and a baby started to cry.

“Great,” April said, “That’s all we need.”

A silence moved through the plane starting with first class at the front. Despite herself, April shivered once she noticed the silence. It was coupled by unease, a peculiar feeling that people were looking at her.

The Secret Service was standing in the aisle next to her, expecting her to go with them immediately.

“You know, you guys could have just met me in the terminal and not held up all of these people,” April said shortly.

She grabbed her bag and walked down the aisle. There were two agents in front of her and two agents behind her. The amount of attention she was getting from the passengers as she walked made her aware of the situation. She glanced to her left out the windows and saw the five car motorcade waiting on the tarmac.

Once outside, a man in a grey suit and glasses approached her.

“Miss Franke?”

“Yes. You know, this is all really unnecessary. You could’ve –“

She was cut off by a sting in her neck, a burning sensation that felt like an object was just put into her body. She looked around and saw one of the agents holding a device that looked like a syringe, but something from a movie.

They pushed her into a black SUV, and the motorcade began driving.

“What is all of this? What is going on here?”

“Miss, there has been a development, and your research is compromised.”

“I have Top Secret clearance. I assure you, I know more about my research than you do!”

“I doubt that, miss. We have some questions for you.”

“Keep waiting. I only report to the President, and I am sure that she is going to love this blatant ignorance and misinformation!”

“You don’t understand April, it’s the President that ordered this.”

...and he returns

I know.

I know.

I deserve it. I abandoned you all for the better part of three months. Inexcusable.

Let it be known, I have not sat idle.

Have you ever heard of hitrecord.org?

It’s a collaborative art experiment that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has put together. He also has a show called hitRecord on TV. His vision is to gather artists of all mediums together to collaborate on a number of different themes.

Well, after I saw the show, I decided to join. I was truly inspired.

Aside from this humble apology, I will be posting two pieces for you today.

Enjoy.

Elevated Nickels

We live in an instant gratification society. We like to be told what to like, told what to think, told what to do, and told how to do it… and we want it fast. It really has become fascinating watching our culture turn into drooling idiots that spend an average of 7.5 hours a day staring at one type of screen or another. You’re looking at a screen reading this. I was looking at a screen writing it. When I get done writing this, I will answer some text messages, and when I get home, I will watch TV while looking at a tablet.

And so on

And so on.

And so on.

Surprising that Japan is so low on the list.

As a matter of fact, even the information that we receive on those screens has changed to the growing need to have instant access. Now, THIS phenomenon is something that I have just noticed in recent years. It started by me just noticing it on websites or blogs on geek-culture, but it has become more and more mainstream.

Heck, even I dabbled into it here on Happenings and Happenstance, which can be read - HERE.

I am sure you have figured it out by now. I am talking about the “Top 5 List.” 

Ah yes, the fan favorite of little nuggets of information presented in a way that is fast, informative, usually funny, full of opinion, and a way to engage the audience. In fact, there are even Top 5 or Top 10 lists that explain why Top 5 lists are so popular.

Soak that in. 

A list to tell a person why they like lists.

Worlds within worlds.

We have truly entered into a Bizarro world, where on the surface, it appears that we have abandoned all reason and rational thinking. It scares me to even entertain the factuality of that statement, but there it is.

So, in truly Bizarro fashion, I think I will join with my fellow mouth-breathers and provide some helpful assistance.

The Top 5 List Of Topics You Can Find Top 5 Lists For! 

(abridged version)

1) Top 5 “Pop Culture Anything”

For all intents and purposes (yes – it is not intensive purposes), this particular type of Top <blank> list can be glommed together with movies, music,video games, or really any type of entertainment based media.

These types of lists run the gambit from the Top 5 most violent video games, to Top 10 dumbest movie plot twists, or even Top 10 most underrated prog rock albums. The categories are endless. If you want to find any information concerning any type of entertainment, I guarantee that there is a Top <blank> list to outline it for you.

It's like seeing who can out-cool the next person.

Here’s a crazy thought though, why don’t YOU decide what the most violent, underrated plot twist is?

Well, we all know that isn’t going to happen, so when you get a free chance, check out the website WhatCulture.com. 

This website is almost exclusively lists based on entertainment media or entertainment themed subcultures. When I was checking this website out, it almost appeared that this website alone has created the template for short attention span blogging. I just googled "whatculture" and got:

Ranking Blink-182’s Hit singles from worst to best

10 Superstars that hit rock bottom after WWE

The Cure’s Top 20 songs

10 YouTube celebrities who earn more money than we ever will

25 best Alex Turner songs

Blah, blah, blah….kill me!

This website even gets more absurd with: 10 Movies that are one mistake away from being masterpieces. Give me a freaking break! It’s websites like these that encourage the sentiment that one opinion matters, but another doesn’t.

One of the movies that was “one mistake away from being a masterpiece” was Prometheus. I got some news for you Mr. Writer Guy, that movie was so disjointed and pointless, even fixing one mistake wouldn’t give it “masterpiece status.”

Next thing you know, this guy is going to try and tell me that The Graduate is overrated. Oh wait, someone just beat him to it: Smiling LDS Girl's Blog: Ten Most Overrated Movies (yes The Graduate is on her list)

How can this ending shot be anything BUT genius?

Don’t get me wrong, expressing your opinion is great, but when did an anonymous blogger become an authority on what is or is not overrated?

I want to be perfectly clear on this, I encourage making and speaking your opinions. I do it myself, and I support the blogging community. What I am attacking is this societal ideal that if you read something, it must be taken as an expert opinion.

Maybe that’s a blanket statement, but make your own opinions! Don’t let strangers make them for you.

2) Top 5 “Random, Useless, Garbage”

Have you ever thought to yourself that some people seem to know everything – well, what I really meant to say, people who think they know everything? Yeah? Me too.

Or, have you ever watched Jeopardy and thought to yourself, “How in the heck do they know that?”

His Jeopardy swag is FIERCE!

Do not worry your pretty head, dear reader. 

There is a Top <blank> list to help raise you to the status of those fortunate individuals who have an endless supply of potpourri uselessness filed away in their heads. 

So much uselessness, that it appears to be useful.

I know that this may be a shocker for most of you, but there is a website called…wait for it… Top5.com. This was the freaking mother-lode!!!!

It was everything that I ever wanted right at my fingertips, and right at the top of the page, there it was. It was a shiny beacon of hope calling out to me to explore everything that embodies "Top 5": AMAZING FACTS.

Not only were these facts amazing, they were broken down into history, science, and RANDOM!

 random AND amazing???

It can't be, can it?

Yes!

Top 5 things you didn’t know about gold

Top 5 most garish celebrity graves

Top 5 strangest things found in the belly of a shark

Top 5 most terrifying roller-coasters

And my personal favorite…

Top 5 crappy, shameful, junk-on-wheels, American cars

I just LOVE the judgmental, indignant tone of that last one. The mere idea that the opinions of whoever wrote these lists is espoused as credible or noteworthy takes narcissism to a whole new level.

The authors of that blog.

Not all lists that purport to provide the reader with amazing insight to useless information are as bad as I might be painting them out to be. Take, for example, the website Buzzfeed.com. This website can actually make the reader become dumber for wasting time on it.

Their list, 23 useless facts that you totally need to know is a lighthearted piece that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is literally 23 useless facts. 

In a lot of ways, it’s hard to take Buzzfeed seriously at all….even their attempt at news.

3) Top 5 “I have traveled to this place to make you feel jealous”

Ah, travel! So many do it, so many others wish they could. Did you guys hear about that Dutch student who faked an exotic vacation “as a project” for her university? It was all done through Photoshop. She simply took pictures of exotic locales and shopped herself into them so well, that the pictures looked extremely authentic and believable. Her reason for doing so was to demonstrate how our online lives can be manipulated to become anything that we wish. We can do or be anything without anyone being the wiser.

Doing it right!

As a point of research, this experiment is really fascinating to me, and true with anything that goes viral, not only this project became a meme and joke unto itself, but it created a trend of fakecationing (like what I did there – with that portmanteau of fake and vacation?). 

It actually created a nice Top 10 list, Ten ways to fake the ultimate summer vacation.

So this presses me to ask a question: Why is it necessary to create the illusion that our boring, mundane, 9-to-5 lives are filled with glamorous retreats to exotic destinations?

Simply put, because everyone else is doing it.

The website HomeAway has an incredible Top 10 list called “The 10 best vacation spots you may not know about.” 

How exciting would that be? You and your loved ones or your closest friends taking off to a place that is so incredibly awesome that the only people that know of its existence are its residents!!!

I tell you what. You would have plenty to brag about on Instagram and Facebook.

This list includes such exotic locales as Charleston, SC; Orange Beach, AL; and Lake of the Ozarks, MO. When did South Carolina, Alabama, and Missouri become places of interest?

We don't take kindly to city-slickers.

The Nest's Top vacationing spots list is a little more what you might think would be traditional locations to truly want to go to: Paris, Brazil, Greece, Hawaii, etc. But hey, why bother even going?

Purewow’s 8 Easy ways to go on vacation without leaving your home can give you that perfect experience without stepping on a plane. Once you choose the right filter with your Instagram account, you will be painting your friends’ faces GREEN with envy from all of the pictures from the exciting adventures you have been on.

4) Top 5 “Things we noticed, because we don’t get out enough”

I think that it is funny how something that is made of plastic with children’s candy hidden inside has become synonymous with “kitchy-meta-reference.” My friends, I am talking about the easter egg! 

Not that one.

Lately, it seems that movies and video games (especially video games) have really made a lot of effort in providing little inside jokes or clues to let the viewer or player part of the inside joke. It isn’t anything that is new, but it just feels like it is becoming more and more common.

It is agreed upon by most that the first easter egg was in an Atari game called Adventure, where a programmer secretly inserted his name in the code, so the player could find it if he or she wanted to spend the time looking for it.

Yay! You found it, now go outside and play!

There’s the rub. If they wanted to spend the time looking for it.

So there are two things that are possible here. Either, gaming journalists have extensive teams constantly seeking out any possible easter eggs in video games, or there are waaaay too many people with toooooo much time on their hands.

                                         

I say this because easter egg lists are everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE, and they are extensive too.

I went to Gamespot.com and simply typed in the words “easter egg” with the ‘articles’ filter selected and got over 50 articles with talk of easter eggs, including the list: The Greatest Easter Eggs in Gaming.

I tested it against Google, simply typing “easter eggs” with quotes around it. This search yielded pages and pages of video game and movie hidden secrets that I’m supposed to be impressed and amazed by.

The 5 most elaborately hidden video game easter eggs

All the ‘Jurassic World’ easter eggs you may have missed

17 amazing Google easter eggs

10 Skyrim easter eggs that will make you want to replay it immediately

11 amazing Marvel movie easter eggs you never saw

The 50 best Pixar easter eggs

The list doesn’t end…ever.

It’s like EVERYTHING has an easter egg now.

"What do you mean by - everything?"

There are so many easter eggs available to learn about, there is even an online archive that lists them all ranging from movies, software, games, TV shows, and books!

Why do we as consumers care about or enjoy these things? Well, without doing any research whatsoever, I think it’s because we all like being a part of something. 

We enjoy being “in the know.” We like being “in on the joke.” And, with the creation and popularity of social media, many of us like being the first to know the secret to either share it or brag about knowing it.

I actually tried digging up any reason as to why we love easter eggs so much, and yielded no results - only more lists, and a few instances mentioning Adventure and how it was the first one.

This damn game again!

Is it a cultural phenomenon??? I don’t know.

Being a gamer, and a lover of all things geeky, these are some lists that I love so much. The funny thing is, I never look for them, and if I find one, I don’t even realize it.

For example, I love the Fallout series of games. They are spectacular open world adventures, which place you in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. As with any Mad Max scenario, weapons are a must. 

There is one weapon in Fallout: New Vegas that is an exact replica of Harrison Ford’s laser tube from Blade Runner. In the game, it is referred to as “That Gun.” When I found it, I didn’t even realize that I had found something special or what “That Gun” was even referring to.

Wasn't impressed.

The gun sucked. I dismantled it and used it for scrap parts. Then, one day, I’m on WhatCulture.com (that site is addictive), and I see it on a list of Top easter eggs from Fallout games you may have missed, right there at number 8.

Truth is, I didn’t care. Having that gun didn’t change my experience playing that game, nor did I feel compelled to tell a friend that I had discovered it.

It just…was.

5) Top 5 “We know you like lists, but we can’t think of anything to make a list of, because anything about everything that can be put in a list has already been put into a list”

Here it is. This is the end all, be all of lazy writing and complete garbage being fed to us as consumers and denizens of the internet, and also, I’ve been trolling you this entire time.

The Original

You see, my wife told me that while she enjoyed the content that I posted about Seven Lions and the story surrounding that, she really couldn’t get that deep into it. She wanted more variety and topics that were beyond what I was pigeonholing myself into. 

I spent so much time thinking about new and different content that I ran into a pretty hefty bout of writer’s block.

This, but with less paper.

I promised you, my faithful readers, a post that was not Seven Lions related, and I struggled at what that could be. My initial thought was to create a list of some sort, but why? 

The more I researched, the more I realized that there are very few topics that have not been delivered in list format already.

If I were to provide you with the “Top 5 most action packed car chases” because I was just inspired by the complete awesomeness that was Mad Max: Fury Road, it would be no different if I posted the “Top 5 most incredible episodes of Game of Thrones” just because Season 5 just ended.

Those lists already exist.

They exist, because we demand them to exist. We demand them, because that has become the norm in blog-based journalism.

You deserve more from me.

That is why I gave you this.

I hoped you enjoyed our exploration of this topic. I think I provided you enough links and options to satiate your list craving for some time. But, take this into consideration – there is no reason why you can’t make a list of your own. People love them! Why not be on the end of providing something unique and spectacular or some form of insight that was never thought about before?

If you don’t think American cars are crappy, then make the “Top 5 reasons why the guy who said American cars suck is wrong.” Your opinion matters as much as anyone else's does. Express it. Don’t just take what some anonymous talking head on the internet said as the bottom line.

Unless that anonymous talking head is me!

Road Map to the Stars

Things have picked up around here, especially surrounding the "Seven Lions Trilogy" postings. A large amount of interest has been generated with where it is going.

Well, based on my stats, there are a lot of people that are new to my stuff, so I would like to just give the blog a bump and show a few things off.

Like a road map:

Not THAT one!

 For starters, for those interested:

The Introduction to the concept behind the "Seven Lions Trilogy" can be found - HERE

The outline of the "Trilogy's" mythology and the mix of the music can be found - HERE

My outrageously funny and somewhat sadistic approach to coulrophobia can be found - HERE

From there, I think the rest of it can be navigated by using the tabs at the top of the page.

Yeah, THAT one.

I will be posting this weekend, but it will not be a Seven Lions posting. Sorry, I know that there is a big demand, but I don’t want to just let you guys “binge” on the one topic and then split! Nope, we encourage a variety of issues and topics to be discussed around here.

As usual, you can find the FB “like and share” button on the right side bar, and there are a couple of share buttons for different social media at the end of this post. Just find the correct logo and click away.

I would appreciate it so very much.

What do you guys think about a giveway?

A contest to be a guest blogger on here?

Let me know what you think. If you have some ideas, just message me on google+ or FB.

(Obligatory outdated meme)

Have a good one.