Another book I finished this month: Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter. It is due to be published in October. I leapt in and started reading this just on the strength of the title, being a bit of a zombie fan, so I didn’t notice that this is a book aimed at the teen market […]
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Look before you leap
August 1st, 2012 · Comments Off on Look before you leap · Life
People who know me well will know that I am a sucker for advance proof copies of books, and I am fortunate to be able to get one most months. Last month I got two. One was a 100-page novella which took hardly any time to read, the other is more substantial and I grabbed […]
The Return Man
January 31st, 2012 · Comments Off on The Return Man · Life
The other day I finished a proof copy of a book called The Return Man by V.M.Zigo. It is due to be published in March and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It is a book set in a future where a mystery virus has created zombies, but the outbreak has been containe, albeit to a […]
Cowboys and Zombies
November 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Cowboys and Zombies · Life
Zombie films seem to be like zombies themselves. No matter how many you deal with there are always more poping up all over the place. Today I watched Cowboys and Zombies, which has been knocking around the house for a few weeks but which I kept putting off watching because it didn’t look like it […]
More zombieness
February 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on More zombieness · Life, Music
If the film Dead Snow didn’t whet your appetite for Scandinavian zombie-related artistic endeavours, how about this: the debut album from Swedish thrash metal band Zombiekrig, called UndantagstillstÃ¥nd is on Spotify. All sung in Swedish, but does that matter in this genre? I spent a happy couple of hours watching Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth on […]
My current favourite unread author
February 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on My current favourite unread author · Life
Is it even possible to to have a favourite unread author? I hope so, because I have a current favourite amongst all the authors whose books I have never read. In fact I will probably read a couple of his books now, once I have cleared the growing pile of books I already have in […]
More Mala Vida
December 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on More Mala Vida · Music
I include this video of the Astro Zombies doing a version of Mala Vida not because of the quality of the sound or picture but for two very good reasons. They have ‘zombie’ in their name The drummer If it were not for the fact that I know I have never had a red mohican, […]
Dead Snow
November 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Life
This evening I grew impatient waiting for the snow that keeps getting predicted here and turned to the DVD for some guaranteed white stuff, in the form of the film Dead Snow. I picked this up a while ago on the strength of the cover. Not that it is a great cover but it had […]
The Crazies
September 11th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Crazies · Life
As I had to go into town anyway this afternoon to pay in a cheque, I decided to have a browse in HMV. I came out with a nifty DVD of The Crazies, which has the 1973 original on a second disc. Watched the film tonight and really enjoyed it. I suspected that I would […]
Watching telly
June 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on Watching telly · Technology
I had a bit of a surprise yesterday. Jayne came home with a new TV. Only the other day I realised that I was possibly the only person I knew who was persisting with a CRT television, and now I don’t have that distinction as we have one of those plasma jobbies.
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