One Bad Cookie

Musings of a Girl Gamer & Sometimes Writer

Thursday, September 29, 2005

I'm so into Zombies right now

It has nothing to do with George A. Romero's 'Land of the Dead' - which was slightly disappointing and not nearly gory enough, but I'm really into Zombies at the moment. I'm not quite sure where it all began - if it was too many late nights playing Resident Evil games until my eyes resembled one of the recently deceased, or whether it was the band called 'The Zombies', or whether it was simply having to endure the crush of London Transport (East Croydon in particular)...but I kinda like the fumbling, staggering things and have developed something of a penchant for Zombie roleplaying games. Despite having found many unforgivable spelling, grammar and punctuation errors on the cards that accompany the Zombies!!! board game - it's a great game to play with 4 or more people, when slightly inebriated and sure beats spin-the-freakin-bottle or pictionary ^^

So...some fantastic zombie sites:

http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/ (fantastic zombie simulation)
http://www.zombiejuice.com/
http://www.brains4zombies.com/
http://consc.net/zombies.html

Monday, September 26, 2005

hibernating

I seem to be in a temporary state of writing hibernation. Somehow my thoughts will not be penned. Instead they seem to flit passed me, unwilling to see themeselves in type. I've done a lot of travelling lately, but still nothing seems to come to mind to write about. I have an idea for two new short stories 'The Golden Gun' & 'Lucie in Pearls' but that's about it. The first is inspired by my dad's wild days growing up in South London, during the fad of mods & rockers - the second by my gorgeous Louise Dear painting of the same title. Hopefully they will be ready soon...sigh...but there's a flat to clean before then. I've been doodling with digital cameras - my page boy haircut sucks at the moment and I'm desperately trying to grow it again...but alas...it just remains messy and unkempt; a shakespearean extra with severe stagefright. I thought I would let it grow...to see if I had any grey streaks...but it just begs to be ruffled and dyed.