Shaun of the Dead: Best Zombie Movie Ever

After a week of tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides, Jon Gosselin, and David Letterman, its good to know that there is at least one school that thoroughly prepares for every possible disaster. There is still one school out there that takes the safety of it’s students very seriously. They believe in protecting them from hurricanes, and global disease, and zombies.Yes, zombies.

The emergency plan for the invasion of the Undead ( “flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals.”) Is not quite clear, what is clear is that in the event of an outbreak, there will be “documentation of lots of strange moaning.”

The not quite complete article is here

Wouldn’t you know it? This university is in Florida, the state which simultaneously has an incredible amount of elderly people and is being invaded by Burmese pythons. So I guess they know something about effective disaster prevention.

I swear John has written about this EXACT same thing.

The follow up to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? (you knew there had to be one - what with it catching on so well and being turned into a movie and being kind of a remake) Bets anyone? Emma and the Scurvied Pirates? Mansfield Park and the Mummies? No? Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters!

How to make P&P&Z even better? Alliteration! Duh!

Fans of the first book beware - that author is currently writing a story about Abe Lincoln hunting Vampires (hopefully it involves dispatching of Robert Pattinson)…

It’s been almost a week since SciFi became SyFy and the world hasn’t ended. Legions of SciFi fans with access to light sabers, nunchucks, swords and pet dragons have not risen up to destroy the network.

Instead, they chose to mock the network (not an illegal action). There were a whole bunch of logo mock-ups made (my favorite was Imagine Grammar) but now I can’t find them!

Apparently they chose the new logo because not only was it phonetically the same, but more importantly it could extend the brand, its something the channel could own (rumor is the word SciFi is a genre and therefore cannot be owned by anyone)

And it turns out - syfy is a slang term for syphilis. Somewhere out there, an ex-marketing person is laughing.

The Good News about this? Networks have the freedom to alienate their audience and change their names, because they think changing their name doesn’t matter so much. Which may actually be true since their ratings were not down last week.

My garbage disposal just started gurgling, unprovoked. I’m scared.

Wow, and I thought my luck was bad.

This story first came out Thursday and read something like this: Woman replaces her mother’s mattress, throws away the old one, later discovers that her mother had hidden $1million in it, runs to the nearest dump, and persuades them to let her search through garbage.

On Friday, the story had morphed slightly: turns out the woman knew about her mother’s lack of trust in banks, also knew that it contained less than $1million, but still hid a lot. She says her brain “simply blew a fuse.”

The only thing that remained the same: the money was never found.

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In more chocolate/candy news….

So the past couple of weeks have been insanely ridiculous. With the single act of a phone call, I am about to uproot my (very comfortable) life and move to another city (where the weather isnt any better). Yes, the job will be interesting and it is probably the right move, and if not now, when? But in my head all I can think is “What the hell am I doing?!” I have vowed to come back as many weekends as possible, but its a strange to constantly think “I may never walk down this street again”…

I digress - the purpose of the above paragraph was to point out that there is a lot on my mind - and what better to help with that? Why, booze and chocolate, of course!

And now, some (very smart) people in LA are combining the two in a most delicious fashion (not like those mini chocolate liqueur). The Single Malt Scotch Bar is a combination of fancy scotch, fancy chocolate, caramel and sea salt. Seriously, I need to buy some right now.

Happy Easter!

Since I’m too old to hunt for Easter eggs (well, to have someone hide them for me), or eat so much chocolate that I don’t sleep for three days, Easter means only one thing - the annual Peep Show contest! (and there isnt only one - they have popped up all over the country). As a person who doesn’t like Peeps, I have to say that this is the best use of their post-apocolyptic survivorable qualities.

This years Washington Post Peep Show Contest winner? A re-imagining of an iconic art piece. But, I have to hand to it to those Washingtonians - they’ve also made the cute, fluffy pseudo marshmallows into survivors of US Airways 1549, inmates at Guantanamo Bay, and baby Chinese gold medalist winners.

Jon Stewart (via Fox News) informs us all of the good news: 30,000 Burmese pythons are on the prowl in Florida, heading for a plane near you – so according to Stewart, its great news for anyone that had “termination by snake” for the “how is the world going to end?” question.

This is completely unbelievable, in every sense. First, that it could happen, and second, that the boy is going to be okay.

Whilst playing during the Holi festival, a six-year-old Indian boy fell on a 6ft rod. Not quite sure how he fell, but the rod went straight through either side of his stomach, in the direction that would make it very difficult to walk through doorways.

Doctors on the scene gave him some necessary first aid (don’t know what that means, but it probably involved saying “oh S*&$” in Hindi a couple of times) and then he was transferred to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (soon to receive a lot more funding due to their new “We Perform Miracles” add campaign)

There, doctors spent four hours removing the rod, to quote the BBC article:

The doctors said he had lost a lot of blood and suffered liver and stomach injuries but “nothing major” [Read more →]