Still on Vacay-But FYI...

But didn't want my... Um, three lovely awesome followers!  To think I forgot about them!  No, I did not!  In fact, while in Torrid in the Tacoma Mall I found some awesome Zombie High Heels!  And I asked the store manager if I could take pix to post here and she said "Of course!"  I told her that I'd mention them.  Sadly, the comp I'm using right this second dosen't accept my photo card, but I will post them when I get back to Alaska.

Also, another upcoming event here on Brains: Not just for Zombies anymore!  I'll be doing a make up tutorial so that you all can do your Zombie make up and look like you paid someone to do it, with PHOTOGRAPHS!



AND HERE THEY ARE:




Even the bottom has design!

On Amazon they even have the GLOW IN THE DARK ONES!

Zombies: The last true monster?

As I look around I see Vampires with feelings, Werewolves with angst, and Bogymen with beat boxes.  Apparently monsters have gone "gentle into that good night."

Not so Zombies.  You don't see the Zombie worried about his girlfriend, family reaction, or angst over his hair.  Even in the most comic movies and books Zombies still remain flesh rendering homicidal creatures who shamble after the unwary and nom them. 

So I say cheer on the Zombie!  Something we all can remain afraid of in the wee hours of the night when something is tap tap tapping on the window sill.

Oh! And Frankenstein can come too!

Where the heck have I been?!?

I've been building an RP site over on InvisionFree about... yeah, you guessed it...Zombies.

What is an RP site you may ask...Well my darlings, it's a play by post interactive story telling where you have one or more characters who take turns telling a story. There are thousands of them out there on varied free and paid hosting sites.

A sample may be like:


I write as Dusty:

"Dusty stood up from where he was working sucking gas out of an abandoned Ford for his bike, the cool Febuary breeze lifting his sandy blond hair gently. He thought he'd heard something. These days, you don't just shrug it off. It makes a man jumpy, but it also saves your life. Probably should have hunkered down somewhere and just waited it out. But for someone who thought he didn't need folks all that much he got lonely terrible fast. Or maybe it was just him fighting against hopelessness. Surely there had to be someone out there besides him. Someone cute, with spunk and knew how to cook preferably.


Again, the scrape, and he pulled his shotgun from the leather holster on the side of his Harley Sportster, his icy blue eyes scanning the other dead cars, bushes, dry grasses of the broad expanse of the Northbound I-5. "Damniit." He muttered. "I hate having to be jumpy all the damn time."


He unbuckled his saddlebag with one hand, his eyes restlessly searching and pulled out his binoculars to scan. Scopes and shotguns don't go well together, but the five round pump action shotgun did more than just pump lead into a zombie, it pushed them back until he could get that critical headshot.


Looking thought the binoculars he didn't find the source of the noise, but he did see something that made his heart nearly seize up in his chest. A vehicle headed towards him, weaving drunkenly though the snarl of abandoned cars. "

Then another person playing a different character writes their bit, and we go back and forth.  Simple, no?

If you'd like to check it out, come on by to:  Double Tap: A Walking Dead RP

Grand opening is March 3ed, but you can come join anytime if you'd like to try it out

ComiCon

We went in 09 and we are going again this year. I'm so excited! I, of course, wanted to go as Zombies... but was over ruled and we are going as Steampunk instead. Which is good, of course. I love Steampunk. Steampunk is grand.

But it's not Zombies.

Let me give you all a link to ComiCon and then a slide show of some photos I took in 09. This year I should be able to take even better photos, since I'd taken my classes and have a SLR camera rather than a point and shoot.

Comicon 2011

Silly slide show stopped working! *shakes a fist*

The Walking Dead (TV Series) Rant

OK, so, there's this one little thing that bugs me about this show...

Their mode of transportation.

"We need a new hose for the RV."

Say Whut?

Did you not pass like 300 different dealerships where you could have strolled into any one of them and gotten a much better, new, fuel effective RV?

And while we are on the subject, why are they keeping their old beater cars/trucks anyway? Hybrids, hello! That old beat up truck they tool around in gets probable 7 miles to the gallon when they could be using up that battery power and be comfy to boot.

And with those shiny new cars/trucks instead of camping in tents they could have travel tents or pop ups. Much more effective at keeping brain hungry zombies out than a thin sheet of nylon.

Speaking of which, in the episode where the zombies attack the campground... Why didn't they have any simple warning line? String with cans tied to it around the outside of the camp would have warned them all in plenty of time.

Oh well, no one liked the wife beater anyway.

For simple traps and such try out the book below:

Book Blurb:

"This book will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use ingenuity and household items to solve your problems scientifically with a bit of primitive know how thrown in. A complete and detailed section utilizing explicit drawings and easy to understand photographs covers thoroughly the topic of survival trapping using Modern Snares, Deadfalls, Conibear Traps, and Primitive Snares. This book is dedicated for long term survival in the country or the suburbs to insure you survive and thrive! Build a solar oven or pasteurize water its all in here! Catch your dinner, then cook it or preserve it too! Food procurement is the name of the game along with purified water in a survival or disaster situation. Are you ready?"

Zombies! By Twilight Games

This is one of my ALL TIME FAVE games! I have most of the expansion packs, and we bought little figures to use as our tokens rather than the ones that came with it.

Basically, it's a multi-tile game so each time you play the 'board' changes. Each turn you pick up a street tile, lay it where you want, add zombies to it, make your movement, and fight said zombies as needed, picking up bullets and hearts along the way... and hope you are the first one to the helio pad.

Easily adaptable to house rules such as fighting each other if you land on the same square etc etc we took this game camping with us and played it on the tent floor.

Really a good buy!

Book Review: The Joe Ledger Books

Patient Zero is the start of a fabulous new series by Jonathan Maberry that really kind of impacts home when we look at our returning soldiers from current war zones and think: Is this what is going on inside their minds? Written back and forth between POV's Joe's is certainly the more entertaining and spooky as he tracks down terrorists who...yes, you guessed it... are trying to infect the Midwest with a zombie virus.

The second book was just as good, as just as eerily relevant to current events in some parts of the world though the Nazi angle is a bit worn thin.

I haven't read the third yet, but am getting it soon.

What makes these books so creepy is that it pulls at the curtain between "Never could happen" and "Ongoing research could lead us to...."