In his September 2023 post "Asenath vs. the Son of Baal-ox within the Sawtooth Mountains" (on the old, public blog), William Wright tells a story, which he believes took place in 2020, about Asenath defeating a Balrog in the Sawtooth Mountains and successfully bringing out what he was then calling the Sawtooth Stone. After this, he mentions the Cars song "Good Times Roll" and connects it with this stone:
The day after the successful mission of Asenath and her return home (April 22) a few Good Beings seemed really happy with the state of affairs. After communicating a few thoughts, they referenced a well known song by The Cars "Good Times Roll", by saying basically just that: "Good times to roll!"
The reference actually gained a bit more meaning and humor to me only earlier this year. I had actually not connected the Sawtooth Stone with the stone cut from the mountain without hands (referenced in one of my earlier posts) until just a few months ago, for whatever reason. D&C 65:2 is where we get the very Mormon reference of that stone rolling forth to the ends of the Earth:
The keys of the kingdom of God are committed unto man on the earth, and from thence shall the gospel roll forth unto the ends of the earth, as the stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands shall roll forth, until it has filled the whole earth.
I now believe that the Beings who said that were having fun in tying the title and lyrics of that song to the Stone. A path had now been cleared for the Stone, which will create some Good Times, to do some rolling.
Later, in August 2024, Bill would decide that the Sawtooth Stone is red in color and begin referring to it as the Rose Stone instead.
This morning (Tuesday morning here, still Monday in many countries), I checked a couple of blogs and found a meme post illustrated with this image:
There's that same line, "Let the Good Times Roll," and the picture is a skeleton holding what looks like a glowing red ball or stone -- a pretty clear link to Bill's own use of that song title.
The skeleton looks a bit demonic, and I wondered if it could be a synchronistic nod to the Balrog featured in Bill's story, and if pre-Peter Jackson artists had ever portrayed the Balrog with skeleton-like features. I ran a couple of searches for vintage illustrations of the Balrog scene. Nothing skeletal turned up, but I did find this very strange 1993 illustration by the Russian artist Sergei Lukhimov:
There's a lot that's strange about this picture -- for example, the fact that the Balrog looks like a cross between a flying monkey from The Wizard of Oz and Dark Helmet from Spaceballs -- but the main thing that caught my eye was the eight-rayed "star anise" nimbus emanating from Gandalf's wand.
Included in the meme post was this meta reference to that weird Reality Temple meme:
There was also this, which reminded me of "Two cunning wise ones, 'Wizards,' Blue gowned":
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