So me and the 'Delete' button got all cosy today. The most recent addition to the Hurst Mystery was pulled in part because I really didn't think it was up to scratch. It might reappear in another shape or form in the near future, I haven't decided yet.In other news, y'know what's weird?
I do.
It's waking up on a Saturday morning and going for a pleasant, seaside bike ride, then discovering all of a sudden that you're cycling among the living dead... yeah. Today in Vancouver was the third annual zombie walk, (also known as the zombie-shuffle, or as I like to call it, the politician's-parade). It's so darned cool I just have to take part in the next one, but seeing as it's an annual thing, I might be waiting a while. Basically, for those that aren't familiar with politician-parades, a bunch of people gather at one place, moan and groan, then shuffle quietly off to somewhere else (still moaning and groaning mind you), ending up at a cemetery or some other place of undead significance, getting very little accomplished but managing to garner the attention of many an unprepared citizen.
I'm still seeing people splattered with blood, limbs hanging limp at sides and brains half-showing through severed scalps now as I sit in the 'Moderne Burger', a diner on Broadway. I ended up here after my bike ride because, well after seeing flesh-wounds and all that jazz, who wouldn't feel like a nice juicy burger?
I didn't think things could get any more fun today either, but apparently it's Hippie Daze here in Kitsilano as well. Songs from The Beatles and Mack Rice (Oh Mustang Sally, when are you going to slow your mustang down?) are wafting through the air as I write, luring me towards the slew of vintage cars, tie-dyed t-shirts and a hate-free spirit. Yes, we'll see about that.
What else is new? Last night a friend and I attended One Cool Word Magazine's Summer release party! Great fun, except for the hippie band that performed which I don't think would even fit in with the aforementioned festival's line-up. They were... different, in that way that makes you stand, head cocked and eyebrows raised thinking: "I didn't think four people on eclectic instruments playing a bizarre cacophony of discord could be this different.".
Anyway, I have to finish this burger and get out of here, four hungry undead have just walked in... - oh wait, no they're just hippies.
Until next we meet, dear reader!
Jimzip :D
4 thoughts are now mine:
Hey I did read this on Sunday - but it was when I was in my low energy rut so am only just getting around to comment now! I love the zombie thing - reminds of a similar thing I saw on a japanese candid camera type show where they had 100s of people run down a laneway screaming 'run for life!' (as if Godzilla or a tidal wave was approaching) scaring someone walking the other way up the alley.
Oh and I think you're being far too hard on the deleted entry of Hurst! But I'll trust you know what you're doing boss.
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Luke answers... to you? Wow, it's all starting to make sense. Almost as much sense as that statement made!
That undead thing sounds really cool. I wonder why we don't have something similar here in Aus? Can't say I've had the desire to dress up like a zombie. Though I did Dracula once. Only that was at a dress up party and I don't think I was very convincing because I kept swooshing my cloak/cape thing. :)
Belated congrats also for the Web Design accomplishment. Long overdue I felt. Have been visually pleased by your site for a while now. Will let you know if that changes...
Dale
If an entry falls from Hurst Mystery with no one around to witness it--did it actually ever exist? Well, I'm here to say that I DID read it before it was shot up into the stratoshpere in a fantastic pyrotechnic explosion...and it actually wasn't that bad. The imagry didn't completely match the previous entries, but it was a good read, nonetheless. :)
I wonder if zombies like their hamburgers cooked rare...?
Luke: Excellent! Yeah the post will be back sooner or later... (probably sooner). As for the godzilla prank, that's excellent! In high school the year above us let three pigs loose on the grounds for muckup day. They were labelled 1, 3, and 4. That makes for goooood entertainin! I love a good prank... preferably when I'm not in the middle of it though. ;p
Dale: Yeah I don't understand your first sentence, but the undead thing was cool, you should totally start it up in Aus!
Patrick: Ah... philosophising - I guess in the digital world things never really exist... *twilight zone theme plays* o_O
But thanks for the kind words, and I think zombies prefer burgers medium-rare... hey they may be undead, but they can still have class!
Jimzip :D
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