I'm afraid that I'm the one who feels like a zombie as I sit here doing the prep work to finish off this blog post and publish to the greater World Wide Web. I could say it has something to do with the book being reviewed below, but to be honest, I wrote this review nearly a month ago, and was simply waiting to post until I was off the holiday break in December. No, the problem is more localized than just a rather... ahem...
obtuse book. More like my battery is run low right now.
Still looking for either part-time day work to supplement my night job, or in lieu of that, full-time daytime work that pays well enough to replace what I have now. Money is still incredibly tight, but we're hanging in there.
Played checkers with my six-year old for the first time on Thursday afternoon. She won the first game by a close margin, but I mauled her for the second. And then she wanted to play a
Barbie matching game. Good fun, overall.
And hey - now it's Friday! That's always a good thing. Hope your day is going well.
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Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, by Alan Goldsher
From the book’s cover:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S TIME TO REALLY MEET THE BEATLES.
For John Lennon, a young, idealistic zombie guitarist with dreams of global domination, Liverpool seems the ideal place to form a band that could take over the world. In an inspired act, Lennon kills and reanimates local rocker Paul McCartney, kicking off an unstoppable partnership. With the addition of newly zombified guitarist George Harrison and drummer/Seventh Level Ninja Lord Ringo Starr, the Beatles soon cut a swath of bloody good music and bloody violent mayhem across Europe, America, and the entire planet.
In this searing oral history, discover how the Fab Four climbed to the Toppermost of the Poppermost while stealing the hearts, ears, and brains of smitten teenage girls. Learn the tale behind a spiritual journey that resulted in the dismemberment of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Marvel at the seemingly indestructible quartet’s survival of a fierce attack by Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono. And find out how the boys escaped eternal death at the hands of England’s greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger.
Through all this, one mystery remains: Can the Beatles sublimate their hunger for gray matter, remain on top of the charts, and stay together for all eternity? After all, three of the Fab Four are zombies, and zombies live forever. . .