Dead Love: Hatsune Miku...

Dead or undead, get a life; get an avatar. One of my favorite pop musicians is Hatsune Miku. Miku has a huge following, filling stadiums with frenzied crowds of die-hard fans who adore her. I like to think of her as the new wave in entertainment because she exists in a world outside the...

Dead Love: This IS Hall...

Nothing says Halloween like The Nightmare Before Christmas, so of course I am going to share something from the very emo stop-motion look at Samhain directed by Henry Selick and produced and co-written by master movie-maker Tim Burton. When Jack Skellington, indisputable shadow lord of...

Dead Love: Zombies in J...

True, it couldn’t be a better time to be a zombie … but author Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a die-hard fan with a dark history that goes back to her childhood. I think this interview by Scott James, author of Soma and The Sower, is dead on. Here’s what he uncovers about...

Dead Love: Walking Dead...

I asked my new friend Nacho (we did the Silver Spring Zombie Walk together) to please, please write a review on the new Walking Dead TV series in between his muffin making and literary harangues and he actually came through, which is why I’m currently dead loving him. So here, my...

Dead Love: Zombie Love ...

It was perfect, wasn’t it? Balmy eve. Full moon, fat and silver, peeking out from behind deep blue curtains of cloud. A gentle mob rocking and rolling through the streets, pawing at restaurant and shop windows as the townspeople on the other side of the glass shake their heads and...

Dead Love: Red Is Not D...

If you are a DEAD LOVE reader you know that setting is everything. Last night’s gathering at Eventi, a Kimpton Hotel in Manhattan, really proved this. The scene was perfectly set in the deliciously dark chocolate lobby where friends and hotel guests gathered for wine and a Shinjuku...