Dear readers,

Today is simply a random update (did you really expect anything else?) Well if you did then good because that first sentence was a lie.

In all reality I am writing this for one reason and that is to ask of Midas had donkey ears before or after he got the gold touch. However making a post simply asking that is one of the most boring things ever conceived so I will attempt to think of something else.

While on this topic then why not mythology? Ok let me speak about how insane mythology becomes when one actually thinks about how insane mythology is in the first place. To begin with the origin of all things is insane as either some supreme being calls it into existence, said being is a great turtle or said being walks out of a "Watery Abyss" (see Ra's birth in Egyptian mythology. And yes, the water speaks). Then there must always be a flood myth followed by tales about why we must be good or else the gods punish us by turning us into spiders (arachne) or if you kill your child you get subject to the torment of Tantulus (but only if you lie to the gods about it). Narcissus didn't get off any easier, he died after rejecting a male suitor who he didn't see as good enough for him and the only person he ever loved (himself) caused his own death. In some sense he didn't cause any death as it was his suitor's choice to commit suicide. Let it sink in for a minute, he was killed for deaths that was caused by people over reacting that the most beautiful sixteen year old said no. Did I mention that he was sixteen?

I am now ultimately convinced that we've been reading the wrong myths and that we need to read more myths with great turtles.

Hoping this was of interest,

Mike Hand