•October 16, 2009 •
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I’ve been experimenting with letting daisy run around the neighborhood. I thought maybe because the weather was so wet and cold tonight that she’d go to the bathroom in the yard and come back to the door in a few minutes. Well as it was getting close to bed time (at least an hour after I’d let her out) I thought I’d go look for her. Sure enough she was in the neighbors yard, down a few houses. She made me chase her around a while before she got in the car, at which moment I became acutely aware that she had been rolling in cow shit. Rolling in shit and dead stuff is one of her FAVORITE past-times. Unfortunately. Not only was she covered in shit, but her collar was missing. Awesome. And giving her a bath isn’t the most pleasant of activities either. I think it is safe to say I won’t be allowing her to run free around the neighborhood anymore.
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•October 13, 2009 •
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Ok, first off, I kinda hate Halloween. I mean, I think I liked it as a kid…dressing up, getting a @&*! ton of candy (what person under 16 doesn’t like getting a @&*! ton of candy?)…but it was sometime in my late teens that I started feeling like dressing up and asking for candy was lame.
Then I went to UNC where the Halloween festivities are inexorably linked to massive mobs of drunk college kids stumbling down Franklin Street, competing for the most inventive, funny, cheapest (insert chosen adjective here) outfit…and I admit there are some good ones. There’s nothing to DO, per se on Franklin street on Halloween night except people watch and avoid getting pushed into a fire. Well, I partook in said mob my freshman year, and maybe one other time when I was actually of age and, sorry to say…. it ain’t no big thing. Once would have been enough.
Anyway, I digress, originally I wanted to write this post about the resurgence of vampires and zombies in popular culture and ask WTF? Anyone have any thoughts on this? OR firstly, maybe I should ask if people have noticed the phenomenon? Aside from usual Halloween fanfare….haven’t there been an unusually high number of vampire related tv shows and movies? I’m pretty sure the blame lies with the Twilight series… a series I didn’t read. {Anna read them and admitted they were pretty much crap but impossible to put down. Do I hate or love those kinds of books? Who knows.} But my curiosity is piqued by vampires and zombies and I am wondering what it is about them, OR what it is about our current society that breeds this popularity?
One thing that I find pretty fascinating about vampires and zombies and mummies {aside from what I think about their current popularity} is that they all have origins in reality. I actually didn’t know that zombies had anything to do with reality until I listened to this podcast (which is GREAT). And that’s all the time I have right now….
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Tags: josh and chuck, mummies, vampires, zombies