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George Wants To Hug Walter Greatshell!

Congratulations on your FOUR book deal with Berkley!!

Early today while I reviewing blogs and whatnot George let out a giddy girlie scream of delight. Now I'm used to him making comments over my shoulder as I go about my various activities online through out the day, but this was something different. Plus he normally only has snarky things to say about badly knit items, people who can't use Google to save their lives or the hordes of stupid humans who irritate the crap monkeys out of him. It's hard being a forward thinking Zombie in these crazy times. heh.

Yet when his shriek of delight nearly burst my eardrums I too had to take a closer look to see what had ignited him so.

First I noticed in Walter's post of yesterday that he had acquired out of the blue a FOUR book deal with Berkley. *Happy Otter Dance*

Finally! The honey and I have been waiting eons and eons for more of his books to get published. Well at least since 2005, which in Ottertime is wayyyyyyy too long to wait.

You'll notice in the photo that George is hugging two copies of Xombies. Yeah... so the honey found the book at the bookstore and thought it looked good. He'd never heard of Walter Greatshell before but given our love of Zombies decided to give it a try. When he started reading the book he was overcome with excitement and had to tell me all about it. He left out the bits that would have spoiled the twists and turns for me but gave me just enough that I was left impatiently waiting my turn to read it.

Once The Honey had finished reading the book he looked up the Author to see what else he had written. Sadly there wasn't anything else published at that time AND you couldn't get another copy of it anywhere. o.0 Frightening indeed!

This made The Honey extra protective of the one copy of Xombies we had in our possession.

There were RULES to reading the book. We could't take it with us during travels, especially any kind of air travel. (Just the thought of loosing this in some crappy airport or a hotel makes my skin crawl!) We could not read it while soaking in the bathtub. (granted this rule was aimed at me, even though I've never dropped a book in the bathtub ever. *sigh*) We also couldn't read it outside on very windy days. (It's Reno, the wind can rip the pages or even whole books from your hands without any notice.)

One day I was doing a random search through Amazon to see if anything new had been published by Walter Greatshell when they had some "alternative seller" copies of Xombies for sale. I snatched up one pristine copy along with the book The Undead: Flesh Feast (Zombie Anthology) featuring a forward by Walter Greatshell. I wrapped them both up and gave them to my honey. It was one of the best Birthday gifts I have ever given him. :D

Naturally he loved it, but questioned if perhaps we shouldn't just go ahead and get another copy, ya know just in case something happened to the two we now have. *L*

With two copies I still haven't risked breaking any of the rules. It is THE BEST Zombie / Apocalypse book EVER!

It's not just the compelling storyline that makes this book so memorable, but the actual writing skill. I know, a rarity these days for certain. But damn-it these books are wonderfully written with stylish turns of phrase that make you stop and think... and if you're a dork like me, think what a great quote that would make. *L*

The second best Zombie / Apocalypse book ever would be Stephen King's Cell. Great book, but still second best.

So you can see how excited George was at seeing his favorite Zombie Author finally getting the publishing love he deserves. :D

But that wasn't all!

At the end of Walter's post he mentions how he would like to Hug My George! *L* Priceless!

George being all dramatic, as anyone named after the Great Zombie Film Legend George A. Romero can expected to be, then insisted we take a special photo to post on the blog today.

Xombie George!

Now of course we have before us the long task of waiting for the books to come out. o.0

Chances are I'll knit a lot of socks before then. Maybe even some lace. *L*

Hell if I'm real lucky I'll finish the five pairs I have going right now. :P

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Dreaming of Autumn Scarf: Final FO of 2008

Goodness I just looked through my 2008 Completed Projects Thingy and I really didn't finish much last year. I did start an awful lot of new things. Many have been frogged, live and learn and more are just waiting to be finished. A few things were completed but never made it to the blog due to lack of photo taking. Opps.

Here is the scarf I finished last November as modeled by the ever lovely George.

Pattern  : Drop Stitch Scarf by Christine Vogel

Made for : ME!

Size : 8 feet long & 4 inches wide (Crazy Ass Long!)

Needle s: US 7 / 4.5 mm

Yarn : Manos del Uruguay Manos Silk Blend - 2 skeins

Colorway  3109

Purchased at: Jimmy Beans Wool in Reno, Nevada

Notes: Cast On 8/3/08 @ 9:00 pm

The color reminded me of late summer/early autumn when the mums are all out and it’s time to go play in a maize maze and pick your pumpkins. :D

The yarn tends to fuzz up FAST and lose its wonderful shine and luster, still pretty but a bit of a shame. :/

If I made this pattern again I would make it wider and shorter.

Here's a better view of the gorgeous colors.

Now for a bit of random... I love William Shatner.

I was just listening to a William Shatner & Ben Folds song a bit ago. The song is called "In Love".

In general it's a damn funny song, but this bit caught me just right.

"I don't feel enough of anything
to harbor the kind of disdain
that you'll maintain

you painted me into what you
wanted to see,
and that's fine,

but you will never know me"

The bit about the being sworn to secrecy by the international brotherhood of lying fickle males tickles me pink also. *L*

If you haven't heard it yet give it a listen here. ;)

P.S. Every time I come to TypePad everything is freaking different. o.0