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Dead Love: Eaten Alive ...

You know me, I spend a lot of time around cemeteries, but this time I was nearly eaten alive. Yes, mysterious no-see-ums haunt Magnolia Cemetery, which cemetery superintendent Beverly Donald calls “the best kept secret in Charleston.” No doubt, with these vicious and voracious...

Dead Love: Squirrel Red...

So, if I hadn’t seen three really cute little squirrels this morning as I was drifting about my neighborhood, I wouldn’t have thought of Foamy and my day would have been far more tranquil … or perhaps it was the pancakes and the huge pools of strawberry syrup that...

Dead Love: Roky Erickso...

Tell a zombie cowboy you want to go for a walk with him and he will sing you a song … or send you a link. Here’s what mine sent to me. It’s by Roky Erickson, the co-founder of 13th Floor Elevators, an old 60′s band. Roky blew his mind with psychedelics only...

Dead Love: Zombie’...

I can’t believe their on the prowl again … it seems so soon. Zombies will walk again in Montana’s fifth largest city on July 23, 2010. I don’t have the details yet, but the Big Sky state’s liveliest corpse bride, Jessi Sparkman, says there’s a target...

Dead Love: Best Zombie ...

It begins! Barely back from the shadowy South and my calendar is already filling up with 2011′s best zombie walks. The date for the Fourth Annual Silver Spring Zombie Walk has just been announced. This one is super—maybe you remember my report from last year? Such a lovely...

Dead Love: Zombies Need...

Enough of this staggering around. Everyone knows that zombies lack direction, so yesterday when I found a book entitled How to Be a Zombie, I quickly devoured it. Yum … my umpteenth zombie book. As you know, I have a voracious appetite for this stuff. What I liked about the...

Dead Love: The Atlantic...

Zombies have now hit The Atlantic … the magazine, I mean. You’ll find the undead gracing the pages of the April issue. Does that suggest that they are moving up to headier, dare I say brainier, heights? The GQ article this month clearly marks them as stylish … in...

Dead Love: Zombie Poem ...

It would be friggin’ ridiculous to think that I could be focused on anything but the appalling disaster in Japan right now. Clément is on the scene, of course, high-stepping over the body bags and ranting about how man can make a natural disaster worse. I have to admit, I’m...

Dead Love: The Apple Pi...

Have zombies finally made it onto the pages of gentleman’s magazines? They have indeed. And I enjoyed reading all about ‘em in an article, “Zombies, as American as Apple Pie,” in the March issue of GQ. The funny part: this tastefully treated look at the undead...

12. Born-again Zombie (...

Yes. Absolutely. I could feel him beneath me trying to crawl across the floor. “Slobbering corpse,” he yelled. “Lemme go. I’m only the jan . . . i . . . torrrrr.” He rose to his knees. “Oowww. Get your fingers out of my eyes. You devil! Ow! My face!” His struggle provoked...