Dyllon Rodillon
Bio
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Feel free to use my link to sign up for vocal+
https://vocal.media/authors/dyllon-rodillon?via=dyllonrodillon
Stories (104/0)
Cake eaters
"Let them eat cake", growing up that quote disgusted me and shook me to my core. How could anyone be so clueless and so cruel to her fellow French men and women. For those of you unfamiliar those are the words of "Marie Antoinette". It's sad to see how little things have changed over the centuries. Day to day I see: people sleeping on park benches with one eye opened nearly freezing to death, mothers having to steal formula just to feed their babies, people selling themselves on street corners, insulin bankrupting innocent people, and veterans being tossed to the streets after serving their country. All of this all while a very select few get to live their life of extreme luxury and excess. Nightly steak and lobster dinners, brand new 100K cars speeding past our neighborhoods, paparazzi telling me I should care who's fucking who. It makes me sick and I'm done with this shit. Sorry, I forgot to mention my name is Dean. Nice to meet you. Allow me a minute to tell me about myself.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Fiction
A winter's night in Kansas
On a cold winter's night, we are introduced to a teenage boy. He stands over 6'0, medium dark hair, fair skin, a strong chin, and very broad shoulders. He's wearing a his faded jeans, an old flannel coat, eye glasses, and a pair of brown cowboy boots. He's standing in the doorway of this old red barn his father build by hand many years ago. For years he has come out here night after night, just to ponder his place in the world. Looking to the stars for answers, but feeling pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Tens of thousands of light years of open space, countless planets both discovered and undiscovered, and quite possibly life beyond the stars outside of Earth. "Who am I?" he mutters to himself.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Fiction
You know wrestling is fake, right?
Growing up I was very much a fan of professional wrestling. I was born near the very tail end of WWE's "Attitude era" and I vividly remember the "ruthless aggression era". Sadly I never got to see the original ECW but I did catch the rebooted WWE version of ECW. However I did unfortunately lose all my interest in wrestling at the start of the dreaded "PG era". I haven't intently watched wrestling for a very, very long time.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced
Vegas Golden Knights vs Montreal Canadiens
After an incredible second round, the Vegas Golden Knights advance to the final four of the Stanley Cup playoff. Waiting for them are the Montreal Canadiens. And even though everything has been wonky in this covid/first post bubble season, it has been confirmed the "conferences" will compete yet again for the "Prince of Wales and "Clarence S. Campbell" trophies accordingly. Then of course the obvious for the winner, a shot at the Stanley Cup in the Stanley Cup final. I felt that was important to mention since the league about a month ago said that they would not be competing for the conference trophies this year.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced
Chris Benoit
A little while ago I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine. I had brought up my belief that there's something very wrong with our society. We have this strange obsession with these monsters that live and breathe amongst us. We constantly talk about them instead of the victims, we have their names and stories burned into our memories instead of the lives of their victims. Then we inadvertently reward this behavior, by giving them endless media attention and straight-up Netflix documentaries. From "Don't f*ck with cats" to "American Murder", etc. Worst of all in my opinion we talk about them while they're still breathing. It's one thing to talk about monsters in a historic sense especially with say the worst of the worst Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, etc etc. They're long gone. But I refuse to speak their names or put the names of monsters that are still alive, in my articles in any way shape or form. I am a firm believer if we as a society refuse to learn these monsters names instead of fawning over them, we take away their power and truly show that we shun their horrendous behavior. Think, when you were in grade school and a very effective but non confrontational way to stand up to a bully was to let them know you refuse to get bullied by them and you won't give them the satisfaction of a response. We need to apply that same principal so we don't keep unintentionally breeding these monsters.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Criminal
Vegas Golden Knights vs Colorado Avalanche
As a Vegas fan let me make one thing very clear, I am very scared of this series. I was actually at the final home game of the season for the Vegas Golden Knights when we lost, and despite only having 15 skaters that night I'm still slightly concerned. Colorado is a very good team and is absolutely on fire.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced
It's been 13 years, where's Wall-E?
In 2008 the world was gifted an incredible film by the name of, Wall-E. The premise being; humans have left earth hundreds of years of years ago leaving behind; thousands of "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" aka "Wall-E". Wall-e's are robots designed to help clean up the earth for us. We currently have some machines, that are kind of like Wall-e except they're in the ocean. Which I love and appreciate, but I want wall-e!
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Earth
Hockey deserves way more respect
I was born and raised in Vegas, unfortunately it took until 2017 for us to finally get the Vegas Golden Knights. This was because "Vegas isn't a sports town". Boy I love how painfully wrong all those Vegas haters are. Currently we have NBA, NHL, AHL, WNBA, triple-A baseball, soccer, and the IFL on their way in only 5 short years. Anyways, because of this the most exposure I had when it came to hockey was: The Mighty Duck films, Miracle, and that one time Wayne Gretzky played in Vegas, however that was long before I was born. Also the Wranglers but I never attended a game unfortunately, so I don't count the Wranglers. However I always had a massive respect to hockey players. Also before I forget I've never played myself but I would love to.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced
Asking Alexandria
If this band rings a bell, you may remember them once again from one of my very first articles. As a quick refresher; "Asking Alexandria" is a British rock band from York, North Yorkshire. Officially formed in 2006 by Ben Bruce, they're still active and running strong to this day. Lead signer Danny Worsnop is arguably their most recognizable member. I have no idea what their name means though sadly and from what I've researched no one really does either. So, sorry if you were wondering if I would explain why they're named Asking Alexandria.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Beat
Ambrose asylum
Yes, I acknowledge how cringe that sub-title is but I don't care. Even though my Undertaker vs Dean Ambrose WrestleMania article did not go viral in any way shape or form, it was still very well received by wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans alike. So I figured why not write another dream booking? This time, it will be a triple threat match between the members of the shield. And yes, we are headed back to the Ambrose Asylum.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced
Did the NBA make a mistake?
I could not help myself from making this article. Now that the 2020-2021 season has come to a close, and the reality of the new play-in tournament is here. Many different NBA players, fans, and even owners have gone back on their word with the new playoff play-in format. So I had to write an article.
By Dyllon Rodillon3 years ago in Unbalanced