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You're all dooooomed!
Happy Friday the 13th (except those of you with Triskaidekaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia or Friggatriskaidekaphobia, obviously)!! It is also my brother's birthday, which is cool. He was also born on Friday the 13th. I FedEx'd him a big box of cookies--oatmeal with chocolate chips. They wouldn't all fit in the box, and they are pretty tasty.
In honor of the holiday, I'll make mention of the Friday the 13th film series. The first film, featuring Kevin Bacon, came out in 1980--the same year as Animal House. It was a busy year for Mr Bacon. A new Friday movie came out every year after that. Literally for like, ten years. It was ridiculous. And they got progressively more terrible, and the casting even more surreal. Ron "Horshack" Pallilo appeared, as did Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and a host of 80's horror standards. But I gotta say, I saw the first 2 at the drive-in, and the next 10 in the theatre. I couldn't help myself. The first one is damn scary, and the plot being a backwards version of Psycho was kinda bold and awesome, if overtly derivative. And the sequel? I'll just say that the scene where Alice opens the fridge and the head is in there...and then Jason is right behind her and kills her? That scene has not completely left my psyche. If I'm feeling particularly manic, there are nights when I won't open the refrigerator door no matter how thirsty I am. For serious.
I've plotted the next three chapters of the zombie novel, and I think I've come up with a title. But I have to do some checking to make sure it's going to work out. The story is coming together pretty quickly, and the characters are already taking on a life of their own--which I guess is the sign that I'm on the right track. There's only the vaguest sense of some characters and dynamics from the early draft, but some characters I've kept and expanded. I say this, knowing that possibly as many as 3 of you have actually read that draft.
I'm getting impatient because I still don't have cool stripes in my hair like I do in the above zombie South Park icon of me and JoJo. I'm gonna do one pink stripe and one blue one, because I am awesome. My friend Sara from work was going to come help me, but we haven't gotten together yet. Dang and Fie!
In honor of the holiday, I'll make mention of the Friday the 13th film series. The first film, featuring Kevin Bacon, came out in 1980--the same year as Animal House. It was a busy year for Mr Bacon. A new Friday movie came out every year after that. Literally for like, ten years. It was ridiculous. And they got progressively more terrible, and the casting even more surreal. Ron "Horshack" Pallilo appeared, as did Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and a host of 80's horror standards. But I gotta say, I saw the first 2 at the drive-in, and the next 10 in the theatre. I couldn't help myself. The first one is damn scary, and the plot being a backwards version of Psycho was kinda bold and awesome, if overtly derivative. And the sequel? I'll just say that the scene where Alice opens the fridge and the head is in there...and then Jason is right behind her and kills her? That scene has not completely left my psyche. If I'm feeling particularly manic, there are nights when I won't open the refrigerator door no matter how thirsty I am. For serious.
I've plotted the next three chapters of the zombie novel, and I think I've come up with a title. But I have to do some checking to make sure it's going to work out. The story is coming together pretty quickly, and the characters are already taking on a life of their own--which I guess is the sign that I'm on the right track. There's only the vaguest sense of some characters and dynamics from the early draft, but some characters I've kept and expanded. I say this, knowing that possibly as many as 3 of you have actually read that draft.
I'm getting impatient because I still don't have cool stripes in my hair like I do in the above zombie South Park icon of me and JoJo. I'm gonna do one pink stripe and one blue one, because I am awesome. My friend Sara from work was going to come help me, but we haven't gotten together yet. Dang and Fie!
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This has never happened before.
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I'm not on the other side of the world.
YOU are!
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