The Monsters Among Us!

Who could imagine that an utterly egotistical preening megalomaniac could some day hold the fate of the world in his depraved hands? That's something that could only happen in the overheated environs of the vintage pulps and their progeny the comics. No one in the real world could imagine the entire destiny of the globe to be teetering on the whims of a self-loathing, self-absorbed madman.

But be that as it may, let this month, one dedicated in many ways to inversions, see things here at the Dojo flip and instead of valiant heroes which is the norm, let's take a closer look at evil, the villainy which makes heroics necessary.

This month is dedicated to the bad guys and to evil creatures, and any resemblance to current chief executives of major western powers is merely coincidental.

Also this month I am taking a fresh gander at the delightful television show full of the most civil and polite monsters you'll ever run across -- The Munsters.

If time permits I might also tear into The Addams Family. I have not visited 1313 Mockingbird Lane or 0001 Cemetery Lane in far too many years. So look for references to those vintage shows from time to time perhaps, from a time when the monsters on our TV screens were entirely fictional.

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