Stories

"Heroes" is on television tonight, so that means I'll be skipping Dio's, for once. It's a good story, I enjoy following it. A bit recycled, perhaps, or too derivative of the comic book genre which is so openly references itself. Though I can relate to the cheerleader. I had to pack up and move once myself on short notice due to an incident with a garbage disposal back in the 1960s. Damn I miss that apartment.

I hope I can pull Ares in off the sidewalk to watch with me. He did once, but I think it depressed him. Sometimes I can't figure out what he expects, honestly. We haven't none of us seen any real action since the war, and he seems so empty, I just don't see any fight left in him. I don't know what if anything could light a fire under him. Maybe a woman... he always did like the ladies.

The problem is, to fight, to fight with honor, an enemy is required. An enemy of equal caliber and resources and a stance worth fighting for. And I don't know if we'll ever have that again, any of us. The world has become far too relative, and we have no unifying leaders among us. I blame that Einstein fella.

The pointlessness of it all envelops us. Life without death is meaningless. What is there worth fighting for? We have no people to protect, no children anymore... and I think I had come to terms with that in a way Ares has not, until I heard a line on a television program a while back. I am still mulling it over, but it went: "If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." It was on that show "Angel" and i think it laid bare a great truth. Maybe Ares is saner than I am, babbling, drool and all. He needs to do something that matters, and since he cannot, he lies broken.

I bet that Joss Whedon has some ichor in him. Here's to hoping Calliope has him on her radar, anyhow.