The Purple Wyrm
Fantasy, Magic and Legend
Well… really, I am legend. I’m a flippin’ dragon, for Chris’ sake.
And, being a dragon, I can’t exactly go to the theater with Melanie, so I wait and see all the new movies when they come out on DVD. I caught “I Am Legend” with Will Smith the other night and I have a question.
Why do zombies always look like a mixture between the Mummy in The Mummy and the heads that scream out of the wall in Pink Floyd’s The Wall? I mean… freaky and all that, but why can’t some have hair, or green skin, or moss hanging off them, or something!
Michael Jackson, freak though he is, knew how to do a good zombie.
Need to do more research…. maybe over at All Thing Zombie.
A slender serpent spreads his wings, shaking his golden horns at the sky; a formidable guard indeed for a sacred crystal sword! Glorious ruby, bronze and amethyst glass is a striking complement to fiercely gleaming fangs and crest. A fairy-tale figurine of awe-inspiring beauty! Glass with mirrored base. 3″ diameter x 4 1/8″ high.
As much as we can wax poetic about the Earth being a living organism and Gaia and all that jazz, the truth is a little different. See, the Earth is an egg. All this stuff growing on it is like moss, and bacteria. Bacteria that’s learn to build and destroy stuff. But it… we… can’t destroy the egg itself. That’s up to the Cosmos and the Grand Omniscient Dude floating somewhere out there in the soup of stars and vacuums.
This photo was sent to me by my oceanographer pal (who choose to remain nameless, since he fears being called a raving lunatic). He was floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere (he won’t tell me exactly where… something about the increase in boat traffic upsetting the migration of the Boring’s Grouper.) and spotted this THING in the water.
The Earth, remember, is an egg. This THING appears to be… well… a giant sperm. Not a sperm whale, you know. Nothing as simple as that. Something is trying to fertilize the planet.
I asked my pal why he didn’t try to kill this thing when he saw it. He grumbled and called me a few choice names, but, once he realized I was asking out of academic interest only, he replied.
“Imagine what it will hatch into, Louie!”
I pointed out that we’d probably all die if the Earth cracked open and something big and slimy popped out of it, but he didn’t seem to care. If there are sperm that size gliding around in our oceans, looking for an opening into the core, worrying about what the Earth might hatch out is just stupid.
My weekends at the Jersey shore are out though, I can tell you that.
I’m a dragon, for fuck’s sake. I’m not going out by being eaten be a giant sperm.
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Fantasy enthusiasts and animal documentary aficionados alike are sure to get a kick from this imaginative blend of adventure and nature special that purports to investigate the discovery of a dragon?s corpse in modern-day Romania. Director Justin Hardy skillfully balances the framing story of a British scientific team that attempts to understand the creature?s unique capabilities (flight, fire breathing) with documentary-style “re-creations” (narrated by The Lord of the (more…)