Sword Saints

Wednesday haiku

Which is more Star Wars:
hacked-up originals or
prequel trilogy?

Monsters are monsters

Yes:

"Vampires are monsters, and they should be monsters. And they've turned into, like, cute, cuddly hunks. And I object to that. I think that actually ill-serves women because what we've done is we've taken this monstrous cliche, the idea of the monster-man, as a warning, as a cautionary tale for women, and turned it into a chick-flick. I think it serves women badly."

Tracy Hickman (as transcribed by me) from the Writing Excuses Podcast, Season 2, Episode 23.

I completely agree with him. Sympathetic portrayals of monsters, especially vampires, really raise my ire. It must be my alignment.

Fighting play

"In other words, let your sons play with guns and swords. They have serious play to do in the struggle between good and evil, and someday they will live in an adult world that needs manly men of conscience, without whose actions evil will always prevail."

(From Robert Hart's "Cops & Robbers" in the March 2009 issue of Touchstone.)

Wednesday haiku

Is avoiding good
by hiding behind the law
de facto evil?