Sheit, grrrlz. I finished my book the other day and I need something else to read. Aside Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, what do you recommend?

Porn is an acceptable answer.




And my review of The Living Dead: I love zombies, but the undead bore me just a bit. Out of all these stories in this collection I think I only really got into maybe five. Mind you, those five were really good. But I also full on skipped two stories in this anthology, which I'd never done before.

Overall, considering the variety of writers, the writing was mostly on par and at times just plain engrossing (whether I liked it or not). But on the other hand, there were a few writers who made me want to seek them out and inflict damage on their hands so they couldn't write again. What bugged me was that as far as zombie tales go, this just wasn't what I was looking for.

I need more blood and guts in my zombie lore. SO MUCH CARNAGE!

I'm sick of the serious lack of good zombie literature. I'm talking about zombies in the Romero, Shaun Of The Dead, World War Z, and The Walking Dead comics sense. Mindless killing machines. Hell, even 28 Days Later style. That seems like a lot, but as far as written stories go there's very little good stuff I've come across. Hell, I'm reading the short story collection The Living Dead by various writers, and after three-fourths of the way through I've only actually liked maybe three or four stories-- not that any are what I'm looking for, though.

So instead of bitching about it, I'm gonna write it. Those of you who remember that project I was working on almost two years ago might remember that show Reckoning I was using as a writing exercise for some people at school. Well, I'm using that (seeing as it was my idea, I was running the project, and it was extracurricular I shouldn't run into any problems).

Originally, the premise of the show was going to follow four small bands of people surviving a zombie apocalypse, the story-lines running simultaneously and overlapping at points. For the sake of the books I'm going to break down each storyline and do them all as separate books with characters from each popping up occasionally.

I don't know what I'll plan on calling the book series. The name "Reckoning" worked for the series, since there hadn't really been a show called that. But looking it up on Amazon and Google, it's a popular as hell name for books. I'll come up with something.

And yeah, I'm still doing Death Head (or Half, which is what I'm calling it right now) so I'm not abandoning one for the other.

Payday was yesterday, so it would follow I would blow it on fun stuff! Fun book stuff, considering I just finished reading Contact last night (great book). Here's what I got!

Saga of The Swamp Thing
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, The Universe and Everything
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
The Time Machine (illustrated pocket book)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (illustrated)
The War of The Worlds (illustrated)
Gulliver's Travels (illutrated, for my little sister Robyn)
The Complete Quantum Leap book (for my mom)
ALF trading cards, with gum! Horrible twenty year old gum.
DC Bloodlines trading cards
Buffy The Vampire Slayer lollipop and sticker packet with Xander on the package (the only one with him)

I also got my friend Jono's band Moonlight Squalor's album in the mail. AND SANDWICH!

To me, there are certain inalienable truths about the world. As for a religious person there is a G-d, and to a layman there is a purpose to life; to me there are certain things I unwaveringly believe without realizing right away that there are other ways of thinking. Some grand-scale ideas, even.

( About evolution and the galaxy )

Today was rad for me (not Ash and Eric though, it seems). Long story made less long:

Went to downtown to give blood with Eric. Before we did that we headed to Subway to fill up on food stuffs (I got a roasted chicken breast, yum). There was this guy working in the Subway that was, in my (and Loni's) opinion, pretty damned cute. And gay, but not overtly so. Eric told me as we were leaving that he was checking me out, while I was debating hitting on him. Regret not doing it, damnit! I just have to, uh... make a trip again.

Donating blood was fun. Eric and I continued to crack up the staff with our shenanigans and tales of Gibraltar, the gray squirrel we befriended in the park. I think I'm good to start donating platelets next time I go in, which'll be cool. All in all, OPERATION: UNDERMIND is going swimmingly.

Highlight 1 of the day, though, was after the blood thing when we're waiting at the bus stop. I noticed a fire truck go past, no lights or anything, and immediately lost interest in it. A few minutes later, though, I glance over across the street where there was a 7-11 that Eric kept bitching about wanting to go to so he could get a slurpee. And lo, what did mine eyes witness? The firemen leaving 7-11 with slurpees in hand, and get into their firetruck. The FIREMEN took the FIRETRUCK on a SLURPEE RUN! How rad is that?

We got home and Eric had to go to work, and shortly after Ash came home from work-- so we went to the book store! I bought Archeology Of Elagence - 20 years of fashion photography, the DC Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics, and the latest issue of JPG Magazine. Horray! More importantly though, I got a free soda.

Ash wanted something to drink before we left, so we hit the cafe. They had this new product called Redcane Cola, and when I asked the girl about it it sounded way good. But it cost too much, so I declined. Then she said "I can give you one for free with this coupon I have," and I was totally there in flavor country. This shit was tasty; mixed in store, and capped with cream and this other stuff they sprinkled on it. Totally rad!

Highlight 2 of the day; on our way to the bookstore in the first place, Ash and I were sitting in the intersection talking about... stuff... waiting for the light to change so we could turn. This old dude in the truck next to us calls over to us.

"I have a suggestion for you." He says to me, a smirk on his face. I look over.

"Yeah?"

He leaned out a bit. "Just say 'yes dear.' It works for me all the time."

Ash and I look at each other with total WTF faces, then I laugh and say "Yes dear."

Didn't have the heart-- or time-- to explain that things wouldn't work out: she's married to someone else, and I'm a gay. Oh well! He totally made our day, though.

NOW I AM ON THE INTERNET! :D