Dead Love: Zombie Termi...

Zombies … dead? Oh, no … that’s exactly the point. Humans may WANT to bury them, but zombies are the gift that keeps on living. Just like everything else in the wild-ass world of ours, these crazy cavorting cadavers have something important to share, if we’d just...

Dead Love: Zombie Anti-...

Are you dragging around like a zombie, staggering along, never catching up with whatever it is you are after? That’s how I felt until I found the purple powder. You remember my exercise guru, Nancy Bruning, founder of Nancercize? She’s the one who leads those N.Y. zombies in...

Dead Love: Anime Phenom...

Today my friend Jeff posted on Shonen Knife, and they are pretty cool, but my heart will always meruto for Hatsune Miku, because she’s my kind of pop star and favorite “anime phenomenon.” She proves that virtual gals have a spot … maybe a spotlight … in the...

Dead Love: For the Poet...

Last night I was swooning again (near-zombie occupational hazard) over the glittering, edge-of-the-cosmos-and-mind poetry of Bruce Boston in his recently released Dark Matters.  What can I say? The guy just blows me away. Boston is the author of 45 books and chapbooks and winner of an...

Dead Love: Shout Out to...

Zoe—Bonegirl—is virtually one of my best friends. She’s my online pal and I am hers. See her post: My Friend, Erin. So here’s a shout out to her: I love you, Zoe! One day your book will be out, and I will be celebrating you! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! —Erin Orison, DEAD...

Dead Love: Homage to Ma...

I can’t leave New Orleans without a curtsy to Marie Laveau, the powerful “Voodoo Queen” who captured hearts, minds, and souls here. Born a free woman of color in New Orleans, she was famous as a Voudou practitioner who brought Roman Catholic beliefs and the African...