I'm back!

Well, I've been back in town since Friday night, but I didn't even try to really delve into LJ. Suffice to say, long trip, followed by long weekend of Elayna's birthday party. No time for rest, much inclination towards climbing a clock tower.

I'm sure I'll still be behind on LJ tomorrow, as I've got plenty of work to catch up on.

Random stuff:

First, today is Elayna's actual birthday! Woohoo! She's now nine. Halfway to college.

And during the week I was gone, Bookslut was updated, with my column focusing on nihilistic_kid's anthology The Urban Bizarre. Yeah, I took the Columnist Cop-Out and used a review as a column. Sometimes, you need a break. Fear not, as next month I'll be writing my regular column as well as two separate reviews (including nihilistic_kid's novel Move Under Ground and Charles de Lint's latest, Medicine Road

And, as always, if you're only reading my columns (or even my columns and the blog), you're missing lots of great stuff there; there's not a single columnist there that you shouldn't read.

Oh, and Emory folks should read the current Onion (as should everyone else), as they have "Ask Kenneth Cole," starring one of our most famous alums.

Congrats and best wishes to my buddy and co-worker Lee, whose wife Melissa is in labor and in the hospital as I write this. If Baby Clontz (gender still unknown) pops out today, s/he'll share a birthday with Elayna, which would just rock.

Anyway, off to catch up on work.

Braaaains!*

Saw Dawn of the Dead. It was good. Damned good. A metric fuckton or two better than any zombie movie in 26 years or so. I'll need to process a bit to decide if it was better than the original. How good was it? It had two cast members from American Psycho 2, and I still liked it. Bigger review to follow tomorrow.

(and no, it's not perfect; there's yet to be a perfect zombie film)




* For those who don't realize it, none of the Romero Living Dead movies (or their remakes) actually had the zombies uttering "braaaaains." This was something from the Return of the Living Dead movies, which purport to be in the same universe, but aren't.