Zombie Crawl

Because sometimes in Atlanta is just a Saturday afternoon and there are dozens of zombies on a pub crawl in Virginia Highlands.

I was not a zombie on this particular occasion. And indeed we did get attacked by zombies several times. But hey you can't get angry: for them, humans are for eating. 

I did however get recruited to be a zombie on The Walking Dead. twice. Because I don't need make up and a funny walk to look like the living dead. Back up career plan! 

Terrified

You wake up on a Friday thinking everything is well with the world, and then you realise dinosaurs still exist

This is underwater and is freaking me out in ways I can't explain

Celebrating women in science

Rosalind Franklin on what would have been her 93rd birthday.

This

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Thank you for the food

I must thank everybody who fed me this weekend. Continuously. That is: continuously fed me, not that I must continuously thank them for ever and ever.

Cesar et al. at another great barbecue at the Paramount, wonderful tapas dinner in the Highlands chez friends, the drawer-full of herbs donated by said friends from their herb garden, and Giuseppe, for cooking for me all day Sunday.

You are all marvelous people and you can consider keeping me fed for 2 days straight your good deed for the week.

Suburbs

Life in the suburbs is routine, repetitive and monotonous. Adolescents feel the need to rebel and act out, in predictable ways.

Or something to that effect. From Bones. It's fiction but about scientists so I'll take it. The suburbs are scary. 

Eternal Spotless

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - both beautiful and sad. A rare comment from me: I tend not to associate beauty to sadness, or vice versa. I find sadness rather ugly most of the time.

Spoiler Alert

But this film was both these things, with portrayals bordering on perfection, in particular Jim Carrey. I can't find enough praise for his character portrayal, thoroughly believable.

There were moments of beauty in the script, the visuals and the character expressions.

There was sadness in the story and the aftermath. I came away with this feeling that they will simply relive the same love story over and over, doomed to repetition of failure, over and over, for life.