Monday, March 14, 2011

Trolls and Elves and Hobbits and Sheens

He's lean. He's mean. He's Charlie Sheen.


Every so often a series of unrelated things will come to my attention, and join together in my mind in a way that seems to make sense, if only to me. The most recent occurrence of this phenomenon stems, as does much of our modern discourse, from the strange saga of Charlie Sheen.


We start with John Cryer admitting that he is a troll . . .


. . . at the same time as this discussion of a rare genetic disorder that makes people look like elves . . .


. . . briefly calling to mind Homo floresiensis, an extinct hominid sometimes known as a hobbit . . .


. . . and finally leading us to the theory that The Lord of the Rings may have been based on a true story.

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