I should have watched them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m spending too much time in darkness, thinking critical thoughts of others and myself. It\u2019s necessary, but\u2026 enough!<\/p>\n
The function I serve is an important one. I am the Dark Lord of the entertainment industry. In addition to my place of training, toughening up, and guiding (if not actually parenting!) young celebrities, I do that ugliest and most important of all tasks- that of delivering honest, unflinching criticism to those who need it but never hear it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a tough thing to do, so I make sure to be thorough and confident when I do it. It\u2019s important that I do this, it\u2019s very<\/i> important that I do this\u2026 but\u2026 next year, I\u2019m going to watch the Grammys. Too much criticism of others is counterproductive.<\/p>\n
And besides, I started this project to have fun- to bring some much needed levity into my life. The stereotypical story path of a necromancer or a vampire is a dreary one indeed. I\u2019m thinking now of Sauron living in the midst of a sea of bumbling orcs in Mordor, Lord Voldemort obsessing over dark magic and immortality to the point where he loses his humanity, and Bram Stroker\u2019s Dracula, which showed vampirism as a curse, not a cool blessing. To spend an eternity in some lonely crumbling castle, with your only company being that of whatever girls you\u2019ve kidnapped to feed upon\u2026 yechhh.<\/p>\n
That stuff isn\u2019t real, of course, and the life of a cubicle-occupying software developer who lives with his parents is a looooong way from anything I just described, but wow, would anything even close to those fantasies suck in real life. Wow. <\/p>\n
So, enough with the darkness. <\/p>\n
I must remember that. I must make fun a priority. This means more dancing and more skits with my girlfriends. I\u2019ll make them funny and lighthearted. Hopefully, that\u2019s what I need.<\/p>\n
Besides, when I finally do get with Swifty, I\u2019ll need to make sure that I haven\u2019t burned all my bridges beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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