lord i want to be a zombie in my heart

Greta invited me to the Zombie Walk at University Village and I’m glad I went. There was a whole zombie army–I’d guess about 200 of us. And what a huge variety! There were dead cheerleaders, a Jesus zombie, a dead doctor offering bites of brain Jello–every color of the zombie rainbow. We shambled through the [...]

back from michigan

What a lovely time it was. All three of my siblings appeared for the first day or so and we all went on a geocaching adventure. It took us to numerous backwoods locations, cemeteries, and curious spots where we found hidden caches of trinkets and log entries. On our second trip we found a cave. [...]

two toad-lickers

How many people in a Halloween party crowd would accept the invitation to lick the toad on my head? Two.
End of story. But it wouldn’t be right not to mention the bufo alvarius, one of the varieties of psychedelic toads–the Sonoran Desert Toad. It is said that with this particular species, you can [...]

where’s danno?

Home…where the steers and the pork farmers play. Fresh apple cider. Fierce dogs. Golden autumn leaves. Evangelicals. I leave Thursday. Be back next week. (Cemeteries and creeks. The smell of the old newspaper office. Ink. Lead type.) When I’m back in Seattle I’ll be doing the zombie walk at U. Village. Went to an Ignition [...]

kexp comes to ballard

I finally gave the member-supported KEXP-FM a little money this year while they were having a neighborhood vs. neighborhood fundraising contest. My ‘hood was the winner, so I found myself on a private party guest list at the Sunset Tavern. Free food and a band from Brooklyn (The Mugs). I knew I’d be the [...]

the quack of the nashwan

So the report is that a large portion of the sound in our Nashwan movie is crap. Un-listenable. But this can be fixed. All we have to do is get the cast into a studio, re-record the lines, and edit them into the film so seamlessly that you’d never know anything had gone awry. Our [...]

glue your eyeballs

Ran into an acquaintance at a party who told me about her movie that’s posted on pawky.com. Rent’s Due is a keystone-cops-type escapade with characters who live in laundromat dryers. While I was there, I noticed that one of my favorite films from a science fiction film festival (shorts only) was also there. I highly [...]

hokey-pokey in port townsend

After hearing about the Kinetic Sculpture Race for many years, I decided I’d better get over to Port Townsend and see it. Turns out it was worth the drive and the ferry ride. The race consisted of a bunch of nutcases driving wacky duct-tape-and-water-wing vehicles through town, into the freezing Puget Sound, then back on [...]