Ask the 5th graders attending classes at Horace Mann and they can tell you; they’ll even explain the sociological significance of these iconic creatures.

Dead Love spent the day at Buena Visa Horace Mann K-8 Spanish Immersion Public School in San Francisco on Friday, January 27th, 2012, sharing zombie stories with a room full of 5th graders. Many thanks for new ZIA (Zombie Intelligence Agency) member, Nancy A. for setting that up!

There were zombie questions, zombie prizes, zombie jokes, and a super scary taste of the book! The amazing Jack, who blogs for Left Coast Writers, came along and taped some of Linda Watanabe McFerrin‘s talk. Zombie finger puppets, Dead Love buttons and other wacky zombie paraphernalia were flying into clever kids’ hands. Pablo was clearly the most informed kid in the room, though he had lots of competition from the others who were also very well-versed in zombie and other supernatural lore.

No brainless zombies in that bunch!

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

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Art courtesy of Bart Frescura, copyright Bart Frescura

So if you aren’t a zombie yet, you might want some advice on how to withstand the almost inevitable zombie attack. Fortunately, there’s a great deal of direction out there. For example, here’s a video from Common Craft in their signature style with easy-to-follow instruction on exactly what you need to do. Pay special attention to the advice about high altitudes and water!

Now just make sure that the zombies you’re zapping are the real ones. Happy Halloween!

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

Peaches Christ

Tonight, channel your inner zombie at California Academy of Sciences.

Zombie Research Society founder Brad Voytek will give a crash course in zombie science and there will be make-up artists on hand to help you play dead. But you might want to show your lively side and hang about for the Zombie Drag Show & Costume Contest hosted by the unquestionably creepy Peaches Christ and shake your broken bits at the “Zombie Prom.”

Zombies, pssssst, rumor has it that there will be actual brain specimens on hand …

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

You can listen to Lilycat on Stuff on the web at: http://FCCFREERADIO.com on Sunday, October 23rd, from 12-2pm PST.

Call in during the show: STUDIO LINE – 415-513-5239 – to chat or creep us out with your news, views and questions about all things dark and desirable.

Podcast of previous show with Linda and Lilycat: Listen.

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—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

The exhibit is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30am to 3:00pm at 5200 Sonoma Highway.

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

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Your in-case-of-emergency skills will be put to the test as you and your team members are called upon to deal with the undead. Hunt, hide from, and be hounded by zombies for a couple of hours and, hopefully, live to tell the tale … in a bar with your fellow survivors.

Cost to participate: $20. Proceeds go to Project Night Night, an organization that helps homeless children.

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

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Surely you have already about Dead Love being up for a “bloody big award” in Anneli Rufus’s East Bay Express column a few months back:

“All of these nominees were published by megapublishers except for Dweller, which is out from Dark Regions Press, and Dead Love, which was published by Berkeley indie outfit Stone Bridge Press.

The book begins as its narrator, Erin, steps off a plane at Tokyo’s Narita Airport ‘in my short, jade-green sheath and six-inch stiletto heels … my purplish-brown hair up in a French twist.’ Little does she know that soon she will be very nearly made into a zombie and will be pursued across several continents by a lovelorn shape-shifting ghoul, that ‘darkest and dankest of the beings,’ a corpse-eating ‘supernatural low-life,’ as revealed in an EBX profile …”

The big awards banquet is Saturday night and you can watch it live online at 9:30pm EST.

Naturally, Dead Love is the darkest horse, but that doesn’t spook any of this undead crew. Besides, the book is coming out in other countries already and we think a movie deal can’t be too far away … or so the Chinese psychic, Mr. Zhou, told us.

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

Kim Lenz could lure anyone into a dark space for a taste of her groove. The ZIA member who sent this my way was certainly “taken” by her. More about Kim and the Jaguars on her site.

As for me, I’ve been to lots of creepy little venues like this, where the music is killer and the audience gets ripped. Deadly hangover the next day. Just sayin’ …

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

I needed a lift, so when a darrrrrrling Doctor-Who-loving ZIA member sent this lively little chanson my way, I was truly touched. I’m sharing it today because you might need a lift too … OK, also because there is some great zombie footage—or shamblage, or is that stumblage?—in it.

It’s The Limousines performing Internet Killed the Video Star.

It’ll move you … especially if you have trouble in that area.

Here’s may favorite part:

“Like everything we’re doing no ones ever done before
Did you hear what they said?
That rock and roll is dead?
Yeah, it’s like a zombie it will dig its self back up again
Tune in the signal but it’s fading
Some ghost strumming his guitar on the radio
Singing ‘oh the glory days are gone but everything ok cause we still love our sex and drugs just like the good ol’ days’

… We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far
The internet killed the video star …’

—The Limousines

Actually, I am going to rewind.

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice

So are Paris zombies the best? Well, the jury is pretty much hung on that one, but you have to admit:  The setting is killer.

—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice