For when the ordinary just isn't enough. At least the younger generation has something to get them out from behind their computers and game screens for an hour or two. I might even join them.

My latest article is About Zombies.

About Zombies

Great article! It's weird, the appeal of these creatures. Very slow predators. It might have to do with sleep paralysis and our dreams of not being able to move fast. Just a thought.

I'd love to dress and act like a zombie in a shuffling mob as a pub crawl. That actually sounds fun.

It would be fun. No one would be judging you for dressing poorly or having a bad hair day.

Jilly - I enjoyed reading your journal postings. It remained me alot of the survival stories I've read from fictional apocalypses. If we have to survive anything, I'm going to your house.

The highlight of the pub crawl could be the midnight playing of Thriller in the streets...BWAHAHAHAHAHA [to the sound of Vincent Price laffing]

Alice, i distinctly think we have apocalypse-philia in common.

We should do a collaboration on dystopian stories - you can discuss the horror elements and I can talk about whether the humans are being smart about survival. What did you think about, say, The Book of Eli? I am Legend?

Ooooh: Zombieland!

ps - I'll set you up with a rack in my bunker.

Now that's an interesting idea. Two separate articles with a common thread to link them?

I have a teenage son. He's been playing some "kill'em zombie" game. He reports that not all zombies are alike, some are very slow but take forever to kill, and some are quite speedy but don't require the same amount of ammo. He said the biggest challenge is blasting them when they band together. Personally, I hate zombies!

Teenagers would be all about the gorier the better. I'd have a tough time with that. Although I am an Angry Birds fan and that isn't really so different. Die, pig, die.

My 30 year old son downloaded Joshua Guess's zombie blog to my Kindle on accident. He was shocked to find out I enjoyed it.

Living with the Dead

Josh has been posting his blog for a few years as if he survived the invasion and he gives daily accountings of how he's managed to survive. Alot different then the shoot them up games of teenagers. To read his blog, you'd have to start way back at the beginning or get his ebook. It's a different way to write and tell a story.

What a neat idea on the ebook to blog progress. I like how new media interlocks things and enhances creativity.

Yeah, two articles that can link to each other. Let me know if you get a brain bug about it.