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Vancouver’s Grey Days


Grey Days #1, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird.

I’m tired of pretty pictures of colourful falling leaves. This is what fall in Vancouver looks like to me. Dark and wet and cold and kind of beautiful.

brrrrrrraaaaaaainnnnnnnzzzzzzzzz!!!


they're coming...

Zombies of Davie Street, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird.

Despite a bit of makeup-melting rain, Vancouver Zombie Walk 2007 was a moaning, groaning, maggoty good time. Hundreds of zombies descended on the West End, trying to devour tourists’ brains, and swarming more than a few buses.

The first zombie walk will always hold a special place in my heart for its novelty and sheer random enthusiasm, but the walk seems to be growing every year, and the sight of an army of zombies lurching down Robson Street was truly a beautiful, wonderful thing to behold.

http://ifcus.org/author/admin/ update (aug27): I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures to Flickr. You can see my photoset, or everybody’s Zombie Walk 2007 pics!

Saturday of the Dead


zombiewalk2007-snip.jpgI posted about this before, but Vancouver Zombie Walk 2007 is now fast approaching! This Saturday, the 25th, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 3PM.

I’m on this like maggots on an low-budget Italian zombie. It may well be the most awesome thing to hit Vancouver since Zombie Walk 2006.

Damned. You are newly dead. Perhaps by my bite or by something more natural — maybe something airborne. The how is not so much as important as the why. What matters is that YOU have been chosen. You are one of ours. One of us. The awakening sleep. The living dead. Vancouver zombies, I call upon you to unite. And to walk.

Birthed from the underground, our movement is slowly stumbling forward. Each year our numbers double and hundreds more Vancouverites fall in our wake. They are paying attention now, and they fear us. Aberrations — they call us freaks. Famished, we seek not fame, just brains. We are oh so hungry.

Damned! We are unorganized. We are organic. And yet, this summer we stand as one. On August 25th we will limp forward, mobilized as a solid rambling mob. In our torn clothing and with blood spilling from our open wounds we will take Vancouver’s West End by surprise. From the Vancouver Art Gallery we will march.

Spread the word, however you like. Bring your zombie friends.

On Saturday, August 25th we feed.

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the trees of august



the trees of august, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird.

I walked past this scene on my way home from the lab last night. I really enjoy the Vancouver summer colours and the gradient of the sky.

Vancouver Zombie Walk 2007


windupzombie.jpgOh my, yes. Mark your calendars, boys and girls: August 25, 2007, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The original 2005 Zombie Walk was a blast: 200 zombies shuffling through Pacific Center mall and taking the Skytrain to Main Street. Last year, I skipped it to go the the Flugtag, which was kind of disappointing, especially when afterward, I could see zombies trickling home on the Skytrain. But this year, I’m back, and more putrefied than ever.

Spread the word. (Also, you can all stop emailing me about this now!)

Damned. You are newly dead. Perhaps by my bite or by something more natural — maybe something airborne. The how is not so much as important as the why. What matters is that YOU have been chosen. You are one of ours. One of us. The awakening sleep. The living dead. Vancouver zombies, I call upon you to unite. And to walk.

Birthed from the underground, our movement is slowly stumbling forward. Each year our numbers double and hundreds more Vancouverites fall in our wake. They are paying attention now, and they fear us. Aberrations — they call us freaks. Famished, we seek not fame, just brains. We are oh so hungry.

Damned! We are unorganized. We are organic. And yet, this summer we stand as one. On August 25th we will limp forward, mobilized as a solid rambling mob. In our torn clothing and with blood spilling from our open wounds we will take Vancouver’s West End by surprise. From the Vancouver Art Gallery we will march.

Spread the word, however you like. Bring your zombie friends.

On Saturday, August 25th we feed.

update: If anybody knows what time the walk starts, email me or leave a message and I’ll post it.