Gentleman in New Orleans Loses Chunk Of Arm In Possible Zombie Attack. (via Boing Boing. This is not fake news, amazingly)

Not since George Romero’s seminal bloodfest Night of the Living Dead has so much flesh been munched by so many reanimated corpses.

“Other monsters may threaten individual humans, but the living dead threaten the entire human race,” says Max Brooks, author of the 2003 best seller The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead, of the undead’s popularity. “Zombies are slate wipers.”

~USA Today article that features The Forest Of Hands and Teeth, which is easily my favorite book that RHCB is publishing this year.

And across the pond: The public’s unanticipated desire for the unusual conflation of Regency romance and the undead this morning sent Seth Grahame-Smith’s zombie mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies soaring to the top of Amazon’s UK “movers and shakers” chart, which monitors the books which are experiencing sudden demand from consumers. ~Guardian UK

I am so not above saying I Told You So. Zombies are awesome, guys.

Unrelated, Not Awesome: Stay Classy, Glen Rock.

Unrelated, But Awesome: I started making my Peep diorama last night for the Easter festivities. You have no idea how hard it is for me to NOT post a picture of the work in progress here (you know this particularly well if you’re one of the 8 people I’ve already emailed it to– it’s too awesome to keep to myself). I spent four hours building this thing out of a shoebox yesterday and I haven’t concentrated that hard on anything since the SATs. I’m adding the Actual Peeps tonight and will photo-document shortly. Let me just say this– I am Totally Effing Bringing It in terms of Peep scenery, you guys. You’d better be prepared to Bring It in return. My Peeps have a nicer apartment than I do. Now I can’t WAIT for Sunday.

Sound advice.