achtung zombie?

I was at a video store yesterday and saw a promo blurb on a video box for "the best of the Nazi zombie movies yet." I didn't even realize that such a genre existed. Are the movies about WWII-era Nazis that became zombies? I don't think that the fallout from Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have drifted that far west. Maybe Dr. Mengele was the German version of Herbert West from Re-Animator. Or do these movies focus on modern-day neo-Nazi zombies? Hmmm, neo-Nazi zombie sounds redundant, doesn't it?

I just Googled "nazi zombie movie" and found this interesting history of movie zombies. Turns out that in the 1940s there were many movies wherein Nazis attempted to control zombie armies to do their dirty work. I have a mental image now of one Nazi and three zombies seated around a card table playing Risk.

Are there any other subgenres of zombie movies that I should know about? Maybe ambient zombies--they only bother you if you pay attention to them. Oh, wait, those are mimes.

what i heard on my spring break

Today is the last day of my eleven-day vacation, and I feel physically and emotionally healthier than I have in months. I feel lighter yet more solid, more real, more me. Maybe that has been the goal of all my reading, all my therapy, all my meditation: not to become a better person but to become the real me. Slowly discarding my once-useful, now-harmful defense mechanisms, I'm discovering the truly decent guy beneath all the armor.

Being away from the usual distractions and conflicts, away from the external and internal noise, I have allowed many lessons to resonate clearly inside myself. The true challenge now is to keep the resonance going once the noise and distractions resume. The true challenge is to reach inside and touch the sound.

pure genius

Tyler Durden is really Hobbes

i must see this movie

The Wayward Cloud

photoshop phun

This is what I'd look like if I were in the film Begotten.