Monthly Archives: October 2008

Horror Movies Kim and I Watched in October ’08

Night of The Liv­ing Dead (1968) Dawn of The Dead (1978) Two clas­sics that have inspired hun­dreds of remakes, spoofs, rip-offs and homages. My favorite part about George Romero’s zom­bies is how they act as a metaphor for some social state­ment, whether the topic be the civil rights move­ment (as in “Night”) or the advent of Amer­i­can

Happy Halloween

It pains me to say this: AFI would have blown even the orig­i­nal Mis­fits off the stage. Hal­loween — The Mis­fits Hal­loween — AFI

A Lifestyle Reboot

When I set my weight loss goal to reach 215lbs., it was with the thought that I prob­a­bly wouldn’t reach it for awhile. That was in August. Since then I have lost an esti­mated 30 pounds (I really wish I had weighed myself at the begin­ning of this thing, I think I was about 268lbs).

Wisdom from “Dawn of The Dead (1978)”

Peter: Ain’t it a crime. Stephen: What? Peter: The only per­son who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it. Oh, how many times I’ve said some­thing sim­i­lar while tak­ing a test drive on some incred­i­ble top-of-line piece of gear at a music store. I think more pre­mium gui­tars and