Edited to add: I inadvertently lied; my ride won’t be ready until 2. So I’ve been running around taking care of lots of things. Packing, mostly. Printing out some things I need for Fiber-In. Uploading photos in case I have time to blog about them. Went to the post office… twice. Once for a sale to Canada, and while I was there I had a huge soap order (love!) and I wanted to get that to the PO before leaving, otherwise it wouldn’t go out until Monday. As it is they’ll probably get it Monday or Tuesday, and I would love to get a good rep for fast shipping.

If I don’t get back here… have a great weekend, everyone! Think good thoughts for Tim, who is staying home and watching all the dogs and cats!

2. Mugs are $1 (one! one whole dollar!) if you live in Gainesville and can pick up at Hanks Yarn and Fiber before June 27th. If you’re not local, drop me a line, we’ll discuss shipping prices.

3. Clicking the photo will take you to my flickr page, wherein you can click to embiggen.

4. I thought I had a second Swamp Thing mug, but I can’t find it.

5. Anything not sold by June 30 will be going to Hospice Attic.

2. Mugs are $1 (one! one whole dollar!) if you live in Gainesville and can pick up at Hanks Yarn and Fiber before June 27th. If you’re not local, drop me a line, we’ll discuss shipping prices.

3. Clicking the photo will take you to my flickr page, wherein you can click to embiggen.

4. I had massive fail with the chili pepper mugs – didn’t know that the red would flake off in the dishwasher. If you want these, I will continue the process of getting the red off before giving them to you.

5. As many mugs as this may seem to you, I’m almost done with what I’m willing to part with. The last will come tomorrow, and I think there’s only 5 or 6.

6. Anything not sold by June 30 will be going to Hospice Attic.

2. Mugs are $1 (one! one whole dollar!) if you live in Gainesville and can pick up at Hanks Yarn and Fiber before June 27th. If you’re not local, drop me a line, we’ll discuss shipping prices.

3. Clicking the photo will take you to my flickr page, wherein you can click to embiggen.

4. The mug shown backwards has a fourth saying on it; nothing against the saying, I just wanted to illustrate the McGuire’s logo on the back of all the mugs.

5. More coming later this week or early next! Really! I have more!

6. Anything not sold by June 30 will be going to Hospice Attic.

2. Mugs are $1 (one! one whole dollar!) if you live in Gainesville and can pick up at Hanks Yarn and Fiber before June 27th. If you’re not local, drop me a line, we’ll discuss shipping prices.

3. Clicking the photo will take you to my flickr page, wherein you can click to embiggen.

4. The green mug shown backwards is Beethoven; nothing against him, I just wanted to illustrate the B&N logo on the back of all the mugs.

5. More coming later this week or early next!

6. Anything not sold by June 30 will be going to Hospice Attic.

I have three more pictures here, here, and here. They’re so ugly! But so cute! But so ugly! So of course I had to share.

But some white noise I love. I love the sound of wind in trees, running water, the ocean, rain on the roof, and bird song. The ocean may be my favorite out of those, with rain on the roof a close second. I can tolerate air conditioners, but only if they’re at a steady pace. The kind that come on and shut off and come back on always startle me out of my reverie, or worse, out of my sleep. I prefer box fans, or ceiling fans as a steady noise that also brings coolness.

My friends Lauren and Arthur were really big into journaling. Arthur would always say that you should write at least three pages of thought a day, that getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper would clear your mind. And if your mind was ever so stuck that you couldn’t even write what you were thinking, that you should write what you hear. Sometimes, he’d say, he’d spend a week writing three pages a day only about what he heard at the moments he had pencil to paper.

What do I hear right now? The window unit air-conditioner. The dogs breathing, one of them snoring slightly. The bell on the cat’s collar as she scratches. Some sort of ticking-ish sound, like plastic hitting metal – I think it might be from the AC unit. Birds outside, but only the loudest. It’s hard to hear outside noises over the AC. Except for the garbage and recycling pick-up; that’s pretty easy to hear.

What noises do you hear, right now?

Do zombies poop?

Inquiring minds want to know. Or is that “enquiring”?

No, but really. Do you think zombies poop? Because, they seem to always be trying to eat you. So you think they’d always have something in their stomachs. Yet, they’re dead… so do their digestive systems function?

I tried to do a key-word search on Google, but I’m at work and the website I found that could answer my questions was blocked by our crazy internet blocking filter. So if any of you peeps out there could help us find out, we’d love to know!

Yes, these are the kinds of burning questions we come up with at work.

Posted by Lorena on 03/31 at 02:33 PM

Original comments after the cut… feel free to add new ones, this shit just never gets old.

Well, here’s a better one, are zombies ruled by science?

If so, then technically, zombies would have to be alive in some sense. The original host of the body is dead, but now it would technically be another type of organism. And it would follow that their digestive systems, while it may have changed, would have to work.

If not, then they are truly dead, or undead if you will, then whatever they eat would magically disappear, and would never have to digest it or poop.

Here’s another question for you. Why don’t zombies eat each other?

Posted by Robbie  on  03/31/04  at  02:56 PM

If they don’t digest – where does the mass go?

If they convert matter into mana, then fine.

..otherwise…zombies eat until they explode…

Do zombies with no lower jaw eat?

If they don’t eat, what happens?

How do they swallow without saliva?

What about those with damage to their neck muscles; throat?

Now…about their senses…

Posted by Rikk  on  03/31/04  at  04:53 PM

From my inbox this morning:

- “Zombies poop only if they have eaten. Their poop is just like ours; digested. Otherwise, where would they get the energy to chase us down and eat us? Zombies are mistaken to be dead. They aren’t dead… they just have no souls. I’ve heard that all you have to do is hold up the Handbook of Hydrology and a Zombie will run away. It’s kinda the same effect as the crucifix has on Vampires.” (- an engineer)

- Everybody poops, everyyyybodddeeee poooooopsss… (- in a singing voice)

- I do not have the technical knowledge to answer this… ( – an accountant)

Posted by Lorena  on  04/01/04  at  09:59 AM

There is a wonderful story by Joe Lansdale called something like “Stranded in the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks” that answers many of these questions– it’s found in an anthology edited by Skipp and Spector called Book of the Dead, from the late 80′s splatterpunk days. I’ll try to find it for you.

Posted by laura  on  04/01/04  at  10:45 AM

actually, i think that lansdale thinks zombies poop– because the mummy in bubba ho-tep scrawls graffitti on the bathroom wall while taking care of business.

Posted by laura  on  04/01/04  at  10:46 AM

What is the matter with you people? Zombies don’t poop! They spew!

They also don’t burn calories – they are driven by unseen evil forces, and the units of energy they expend are called FODs (Forces of Darkness). So what they are, in the great scheme of things, are mulching machines. They grind stuff up, then spew it back out, thus providing a slippery surface for you to fall down on, the occasional contagion, and a reek that reminds you that there is evil about. The mulching action doesn’t add to their FODs, however. Think of absolute evil as an awesome nuclear furnace with wireless capability – that’s what the band Soundgarden was on about in their sone Black Hole Sun. It’s also where we get the term “that sucks” used to describe something that’s bad – but then, I’m getting into advanced voodoo here, and I don’t want your heads to start spinning, so I’ll leave it at that.

-Dr. Bombay

Posted by Skipernicus  on  04/01/04  at  03:48 PM

Well, that was very … educational.

The phrase itself, “zombie poop thread,” conjures up a terrible image. “How do you find a lost zombie?” “Just follow the … ”

Posted by Unca Joe  on  04/02/04  at  08:20 AM

i had to come back and post this here…

I was at a party on Friday, and a bunch of deep thinker types (dope smoking poncho wearers, if you get my meaning) where sitting around a bonfire talking about the deeper meaning of, uh, everything and all… And I put for the eternal question “do Zombie’s poop?”. After a brief silence (in which i thought maybe I’d become a part of the bonfire), there was much discourse on the subject. So I made good my escape!

Turns out that 9 out of 10 deep thinkers believe that zombies poop, undead, dead, or alive.

Posted by Skipernicus  on  04/04/04  at  10:16 PM