Proof of Apocalypse: Excited Delirium

Wikipedia: "Excited delirium is a condition that manifests as a combination of delirium, psychomotor agitation, anxiety, hallucinations, speech disturbances, disorientation, violent and bizarre behavior, insensitivity to pain, elevated body temperature, and superhuman strength.[1][2] Excited delirium is sometimes called excited delirium syndrome if it results in sudden death (usually via cardiac or respiratory arrest), an outcome that is sometimes associated with the use of physical control measures, including police restraint and tasers.[1][2] Excited delirium arises most commonly in male subjects with a history of serious mental illness and/or acute or chronic drug abuse, particularly stimulant drugs such as cocaine.[1][3] Alcohol withdrawal or head trauma may also contribute to the condition."

Along with the street drug, "bath salts," it appears yet another avenue by which humans might take on a zombie apocalypse demeanor. We're not sure yet how the zombie apocalypse goes down, but we're getting closer to some damn close facsimiles....

Bridezillas!

It's that time of the year when certain overstressed and controlling brides lose it. The majority of brides appreciate every moment of the process, but a choice few become something distorted and perverse--bridezillas.



Katy Perry "Hot and Cold" Amazing video but best killer bridezilla music scene ever!


It begins with the quest for the dress -



The subject was worthy of a horrifying TV show -



Signs she might be a bridezilla:
She has lost her sense of humor
She is spending money her parents don't have
She is surrounded by magazines, notebooks, and samples every evening
She is becoming angry, snapping at everyone, including you
She is having arguments with her bridesmaids and maid of honor
She is not interested in sex, is too stressed
She is stuck on her dream and will not give up one image in her head

Proof of the Apocaypse: Body Parts

This is a new series that will have posts about things in the news that sound rather end-of-world'ish. I just reported on the man who ate another man's face and the one who threw his own intestines at the police. Today, we trek into yet another grisly proof of end of times -

In Maryland, a man confessed to killing his roommate and eating his brain and heart. This 21-year-old college student from Kenya supposedly cut off the victim's head and hands and stored them in the townhouse.


Police say the man's brother went down to the laundry room of the house and saw a blanket on a box.  He pulled off the blanket and saw two metal tins.  Police say he opened them and saw a head and two hands. When the killer's brother confronted him about this, police say the killer said they were animal remains and not human remains.

Believe it or not, the killer was out on a bond after he was charged May 20 with a random attack on another student, leaving that victim with a fractured skull, arm and shoulder, and blinded in the left eye. Out on bond after that, really???

Well, just another freaky incident that has to make you wonder--what is in the water?

New Zombie Book Must Read!

You might recall last October when Julie and I did the zombie walk in downtown Phoenix as our characters, Stella and Liz. The Department of Zombie Defense (DOZD) was there. These fantastic and fun guys show up at awesome events (saw them at ComicCon yesterday). In fact, I might have a wee crush on the whole lot of them! They do charity work, make events a helluva lot more fun, and they have talent too.

KE-12 by Shaun Hayes and Shane Painter is a fantastic fictional foray into a supposed zombie apocalypse that would involve their talented DOZD team in tactile maneuvers to deal with it. "When the deadly virus KE-12 outbreak starts at the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico, Mankind is faced with two chooses, extinction or survival. The only hope for mankind may be a new Government unit The Department of Zombie Defense. The Department of Zombie Defense (DOZD) is faced with the unparalleled task of saving the human race. The events that transpire may not bring the end, but the beginning of the end."

These guys are truly wonderful examples of fun with horror and also teaching some real life skills of survival while preparing to protect the public from a zombie attack, though the zombies, Liz and Stella, would agree that's really unnecessary -




Here they are shooting Liz and Stella at the 2011 Zombie Walk downtown.

Life is a Chain of Events

(This picture wouldn't have happened if I didn't get a divorce)

I'm very much into a universal picture of things. I try to pull back and see the bigger scene. Because of life experiences and past history counseling people with anxiety disorders, I've learned a lot about life; if it were on a scope, it'd look kind of like this -

Good things, bad things, mediocre things happen every day, every week, every month, every year, every decade in a fluctuating chaos. Still, people kick and scream against something that is part of nature, like the sun rising or rain falling.

Do you really want your life to be a flat line?

Bad things beget good things. Good things beget bad things.We never catapult into a chain of events without having something rather significant happen to us, usually something bad that spurs us on. We can actually give thanks to the fact that in our lifetimes, at some point we lose loved ones, we lose jobs, we get sick or divorced. As crazy as that sounds, they force us to live up to our potential by how we handle such things. Just look at the Biggest Losers--they had to get to a bad place to make a change that was so significant and 180 degrees. What about someone like John Walsh from America's Most Wanted? The loss of a son made him hunger for justice.

We generally do not turn 180 degrees away from "mediocre," but we do with "miserable." 

Next time something unbearable happens, remember that it will change you forever and it doesn't have to be a scar, it can be a catalyst to figure out what's important, where your priorities are, to get new skills or to focus on what you do have and what you can control.

What did my divorce have to do with the picture above? If I had stayed in my marriage, I never ever would have submitted manuscripts and gotten published. I wouldn't have had some of the best times of my entire life if I hadn't left that miserable situation. And, there would be no concept for "Zombie Housewives of the Apocalypse" if not inspired by my decades of lifeless numb living.