Meet My Little Friends
May 27th, 2007 by 
Rory Harper
These are my new entertainments, Little Tex and Secret Kitty.
Yeah, the Toxoplasma rulez. We all might as well just get down with it. Between me and Rachael and Caroline, it’s gonna be all kitties, all the time, here at EOB.
I haven’t posted much recently because She Who is Awesome has been hanging with me here all week. We camped last weekend in the forest with the WildAssed NeoPagans for a late Beltane celebration. Usually, Beltane gets a little over-heated. This one was relatively serene and reflective, and I enjoyed it a lot. Therefore, I must be getting old. I found a fair amount of time for tree-worship with the sacred Martin DC1E, and wrote a new rock song in the process.
As an antidote to leafy green calm, last Sunday Rach and I caught ’28 Weeks Later’.
It’s a well-executed fast-zombie flick, as I’m sure you know. However, the main characters and the military have to do some absurdly stupid things to move the plot forward. I can recommend it, but you have to turn off your brain occasionally. I wanted to strangle the lead kids in it a couple of times. Which, as it turns out, would have been a Good Thing.
We’ve both read ‘World War Z’ this week, and I recommend it without any reservations at all. Best zombie book ever. I can’t wait for the movie.
The main thing that both of these pieces of high art make obvious is that slow zombies are tough enough to deal with, no matter how silly they might seem. If it’s fast zombies, we’re gonna need lots of motorcycles with flamethrowers and shotguns. A donation now to the RnR Motorcycle Modification Fund could save your life next year. You can calculate your chances of surviving the Zombie War at the World War Z site. Rachael got a current 49%, which is disheartening. Need more guns and flamethrowers.
The kittens are mind-rottingly adorable, of course. Unfortunately, they have to share the house this week with Texas, Rachael’s cat. And he hisses and goes all Charlie Manson on everybody when he sees them. So we’ve bifurcated the apartment, with Texas getting the living-room and kitchen, and Little Tex and Secret Kitty getting the bedrooms and bathroom.
I’m not sure whether they entirely like that division. One of them has recently taken to peeing on my feet in the middle of the night. I don’t know if that’s an editorial comment or youthful exuberance.
They’re both playful, and as charming as hell, and are working hard to destroy all of the magazines in my bedroom, and I already adore them. Of course, that’s probably the Toxoplasma talking…
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Pic Credit to Rachael Harper.
The Secret Number for 05/27/07 is 254.
Posted in Cats, Daily Life, Horror, Rachael is Awesome, Rory, Zombies | 
6 Comments »
May 28th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Aieeeeeee!!!!!
More adorable kitties. Cheese and crackers, how am I supposed to get anything done with the sight of adorable cats in my head?
Must . . . pet . . . cat . . . now. . .
May 29th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Hi,
Cool post. I, too, saw 28 Weeks Later. I thought it was pretty good (I’m sucker for zombie flicks, too) and I agree with you they some did some stupid things. Like whatever happened to the quarantine? Overall, perhaps the movie just illustrates the UN’s and the U.S.’s inability to fix every problem. At least that was my impression.
I also read most of World War Z. The first part of it was good and I did like it, but it kind of lost me in the middle and towards the end, maybe I’ll go back to now. Did you ever read Max Brooks’s first book “The Zombie Survival Guide”. That’s an entertaining read. There are nights when I lie awake agonizing that if there is a zombie attack, we are just not prepared! Have a good one.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Caroline — Yep. We’re both obviously infested. I just got back in from a day in Austin with Rachael, and the littles lined up in the living room to greet me home. It was adorable.
Dain — Yeah, on ’28 Days Later’. Some folks are reading into it an allegory for our occupation of Iraq. Going in with confidence and the belief that you’re gonna do good, missing some crucial points due to incompetent planning and execution, destroying the thing you were sent to save, and killing a lot of innocents in the process, etc. I guess I could argue the case either way on that interpretation of subtext. I mean, if they didn’t mess up egregiously, what would be the movie, ya know.
On the Zombie Survival Guide, I couldn’t agree more. Should be taught in elementary schools, with refresher courses every few years.
Of course, if it’s fast zombies, we’re just screwed, I think. But Rach and I are not going down without a fight. If I can just acquire my motorcycle and get the mods done before the outbreak.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
28 Days or 28 Weeks? (Being the allegory for our occupation of Iraq.)
May 29th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Oops. Was on the run when I typed that comment. I meant ’28 Weeks After’, of course.
Do we want to try to make the case that the military in ’28 Days After’ was more about Abu Ghraib than Iraq in general?
May 30th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Have you ever watched Romero’s last installment of his “Dead” trilogy, “Land of the Dead”? If you want allegory, that’s one’s loaded with it.
In the extras on the DVD, Dennis Hopper claims he modeled his character after Donald Rumsfeld. It’s an entertaining movie.
Yeah, fast zombies will require more practice with my first person shooter games to hone my targeting skills…
Cheers!