Send More Cops… No, seriously, Send More Cops

My favorite zombie blog is Send More Cops, which you can see here.  It’s written by a group of zombie-savvy contributors, one of whom is a nice young lady I met briefly when I was invited to speak about zombies at Columbia College in Chicago. Send More Cops is a great resource for cool andContinue reading “Send More Cops… No, seriously, Send More Cops”

Movie Review: Night of the Dead

The other day I rented the 2006 indie zombie film Night of the Dead.  It was far beyond terrible.   But I hate giving bad reviews, so instead of just enumerating upon the ways in which it was lousy, poorly directed, and ham-acted (which were divers and ample), I’m going to talk about one of theContinue reading “Movie Review: Night of the Dead”

Non-zombie post: I am proud of Arnold Madlangbayan

As I’ve noted before, not every post on this blog will be about zombies, and today I want to write a post to recognize my friend Arnold Madlangbayan, guitarist/singer/songwriter in my band the Blissters for doing his first feature print interview!  It appeared yesterday in The Windy City Times, one of Chicago’s gay newspapers.  (Chicago doesn’tContinue reading “Non-zombie post: I am proud of Arnold Madlangbayan”

All the angels want to wear my Reg Shoe

One of my favorite zombies of all time–up there with “Bub” from Day of the Dead and “the Tarman Zombie” from Return of the Living Dead— is Reg Shoe from Terry Pratchett’s awesome Discworld fantasy/satire novels. Reg Shoe is a more than a zombie, he is a policeman in his local municipal Night Watch, and anContinue reading “All the angels want to wear my Reg Shoe”

Poetry: Zombie Haiku

Ryan Mecum has written a marvelous new collection of Haiku poetry called Zombie Haiku.  He has also produced an interesting and original zombie-themed YouTube video to plug it.  Of both of these things, I must strongly approve! The poetry in Zombie Haiku is not just a bunch of poems about zombies (though there would, of course,Continue reading “Poetry: Zombie Haiku”