2011 February | Dead Love

Dead Love: A Zombie in ...

Yes, at Reorbit. I have a starring role (hair and make-up for the play by artist Audrey Kawasaki). Reorbit is an experiment in social media theater. A reanimation of well-known historical and literary figures personified by authors/actors today; performed in real-time 140-character...

Dead Love: Zombie Haiku...

Ach, the dead are everywhere. Friends, fiends, fellow sufferers here on this planet of the apes and zombies—we can’t escape. So this a.m., a haiku by Japanese poet, Chiri, who died at age sixteen on the 17th day of September, 1917. Bon wa itsu made tsuzuku koto yara takaotoro —Chiri Translation...

12. Born-again Zombie (...

With one hand I wiped my face clean. I groped toward the wall for support, found none, so I stumbled across the room, bumping into tables, knocking over trays. They clattered to the floor, which was also shockingly cold. Clumsily threading my way through what seemed like an obstacle...

Dead Love: Zombie Potat...

You say potato and we say zombie … Just a bit of zombie fun today, courtesy of self-declared arteest Terry Border, creator of Bent Objects. Check out what those potato zombies are doing with that tomato’s cauliflower brain! —Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

Dead Love: Zombie Novel...

We have a winner! As most of you know, it’s been one year since I launched my zombie blog, “the Daily Slice,” on Valentine’s Day of 2010. A year of extra-creepy news, events, music, film, literature, science, pop culture and more has shed a little light on...

12. Born-again Zombie (...

Like many victims of cerebral trauma, I was reborn with a kind of amnesia. Was it a relief to leave my old “self “ with all its sorrow and disappointment behind? In some ways, yes, but I must tell you that I’ve never felt more isolated than I did when I returned from the dead,...

Dead Love: My Girlfrien...

In keeping with this week’s theme of undying love, I have a little “Ms. Dead Hearts” advice for the lovesick male who is watching the woman of his dreams turn into the woman of his nightmares … which, by the way, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. So for...

Dead Love: Country West...

It’s a nice kind of love hangover that is lingering over the graveyard of the heart this week. Just in case you haven’t noticed, I’m all about hearts and zombies … and this Festival-of-Fragile-Feeling will go on ALL WEEK LONG in honor of all those who die,...

Dead Love: Anti-Valenti...

The undead are relentless, and that is why they are still celebrating Valentine’s Day—in their own way, naturally. We have the Central Valley Horror Club and that terror-ific temptress, Kaci Hanson, to thank for the Anti-Valentine’s Day event tonight, Wednesday,...

Dead Love: A Dark Day o...

Just when I thought I was recovering from one wild and crazy day of dark love and darker chocolate, I find that it isn’t over! No, February 15th is actually the second day of the original festival of lust … the Lupercalia! Booze, nudity, fertility rituals, and their own...