Prologue: The Henchman

Image taken from the movie The Dark Knight

A story.
A simple idea.
That’s how it all began...

For a long time, the Henchmen have stood by and watched. Always lurking in the shadows, fighting for a scrap of glory and honor. They always remained silent, following their orders, a soldier through and through. They survive in a society where they are nothing more than third class citizens. Their fate chosen by others, forced to stay in the gutters. Their motto, “Make do, or die!”

For years they have served both good and bad. For years their lives had been sacrificed for such unworthy causes. Discarded into the fire, as if they were scraps of paper.

No one dared questioned the Quorum.
To defy them, to defy their laws, meant your death.
You would be erased, swatted away from existence, as if you were a gnat.

And so our story begins.
Not with a hero, not with a villain, but with a Henchman
For his story starts in the most unlikely of ways..

Comment by the me the guy attempting to write an interesting novel:

"For the past few months, I had been kicking around in my head an idea for a story. Which basically revolves around a Henchman who works for a bad guy (I of course would have more depth to the story than that). My thinking about this story is that for a long long time now when stories, movies, and TV shows want to tell a story t's either about the Hero or the Villain. I wanted to tell the story about the person in the behind the Villain and the Hero...the Henchman. With this story I am going to step out of my comfort zone and dabble into writing a dark comedy. Right now I thought I might as well post a Prologue of sorts and give this story (be it short story, or full grown novel) a coming out party. From time to time, I will update the blog with the story of the Henchman. As I have a few stories in my head, but want to work them out on paper before publishing the. Until then...sit back enjoy the on going ramblings that is the Daily Gregisms..."

Moment of Random Thought: Political Ads Suck!

Picture provided from the movie Campaign

I debated with myself for a while.

Debated if I should have made up a story about all the craziness that seems to behind this year's crop of political ads and place it under  “The Underground” tagline, write it as I have plan to do so now, or not even write anything at all. However, for all the times that I’ve kept my thoughts and opinions to myself. I thought I would share my thoughts this one time,and air my frustration and overall sadness with the recent bombardment of political ads on television and radio.

I was once a student of Political Science (Poli Sci is what we kids call it). After bouncing around from major to major, I stumbled by chance into this major. The classes came easy to me. I wasn’t forced to remember a set of equations, break down a sentence, or construct something with my own bare-hands.  To me Political Science was about how people followed rules and order. Basically finding order in a sea chaos, but in learning that you also find how trivial the whole process become and how individuals (in all parties) use it to control a subdued population. And that wherein lies my frustration over political ads. What benefit do these ads truly have?  Other than to rile up a misinformed public, who are apparently too lazy to do any meaningful research on their own, and get them to vote their way. Amazing that in this time of human development people are still so easily fooled and that the notion of self-thought is almost non-existent.

If it was up to me...I would not allow ads that attack. Just stick to what you are about and what you want to do, that’s it...nothing else. I don’t want a scary voice telling me how voting for the other person will start World War 3. I don’t need a woman’s voice telling me that voting for a particular candidate will cause my child to be abducted by aliens and carried off to galaxies unknown. Finally I do not want ads that sound like a pharmaceutical drug company ads that list all the side-effects for voting.

All I want from this political season is for the politicians to have debates, be civil and keep it about the your issues. Is that too much to ask for?

Now I realized I could have gone on with a much longer tirade about the political system. How the crazy amount of money being raised for ads would be better spent elsewhere by these politicians. But I’m tired and I want to get back to writing things that make me laugh.

So on to the next one.