A letter to my child, regarding my ass.

My wonderful, amazing, beloved, child:

You may have heard that I have eyes in the back of my head.

This is true! So don’t, you know, try anything.

However, I do not have eyes in my ass. Shocking, I know. This means that when I am standing at the sink washing dishes (a chore I hate, and thus you whining and moaning through the entire ordeal adds NOTHING to my joy) and you come up behind me and shove an open book against my ass repeatedly?

Yeah. Not helpful.

Sadly, I am unable to multi-task and both ensure the dishes are clean and won’t poison us with salmonella or e-Coli or whatever, AND read you “Mike Mulligan and his Freaky Machine Wife Named Mary Anne” yet again.

I’m working on this.

I promise.

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Mirrored from Now Showing!.

Overplayed, but I still like them.

Mirrored from Words, words, words, art..

Have you seen the trailers for The Eagle? It kind of sounds like it could be GLORIOUSLY AWFUL (note the pagan rubes who coat themselves in mud and dance around fires worshiping a flag with a bird on it), or it could be cool. I’m not sure yet. But I saw the spot on tv:

And my first thought was “wouldn’t it be cool if there were zombies”? Think about it. You’ve got your well armed, well trained invaders who have… swords. And shields. Pikes. Fortifications. You have your locals, who have guerrilla tactics and hiding. You have long distances between settlements. And in between? Zombies. Fast moving, slow moving, whatever. Maybe they came off a Viking ship… one lone longboat kind of washes ashore, at first it seems to contain nothing but dead or very ill men. Then one or two “wake” and start infecting others. And nobody has guns, or chainsaws, or lawnmowers, or any of the modern killing conveniences.

I know zombies are kind of overplayed, even clichéd, but I still love a good zombie story. It’d be so, so awesome to see one in a pre-gun setting. Maybe as part of a Bubonic Plague story. I’d watch the hell out of that movie.

Hm. It’d make a good RPG, I think, too. Maybe I’ll run one.

Edited to add: There are two youtube videos embedded in this post, but they aren't showing up. If you click through to the original post you can see them (in all their theme-breaking glory).