I Have a Heart, I Swear I Do.

So, Here she comes. The Most notable Holiday recognized by the general populace. The one that comes after New Years (which was awesome, by the by),but before Easter and, if you're Ontarian, Family Day. We don't even get a day off to celebrate and make love to one another.

That's Right. Valentine's Day is the day of which I speak.

I, for one, will spend the day listening to slutty music that I don't even like (Ke - cha ching - ha, for example. Her name does not employ the English language properly. Therefore, I do not recognize it as being legitimate. Just saying). Nevertheless, I shall be listening to both her and Christina Aguillera's "Dirty," all the while pretending that I do, in fact, have a significant other to share the day with.

But not really... Because that would be kind of pathetic.

I don't know when this became a tradition. I think it just happened. There just always happens to be a profound lack of a significant other around that particular time of the year/ It gives me an excuse to listen to "Dirty," I'm not gonna lie.

All of my hipster friends (which make up about 85 - 90% of my peeps) are going to hate me. After V-day, they are likely going to hot-glue ear-buds into my ears and force me to listen to gratuitous amounts of Lily Allen, Mumford and Sons, Modest mouse, Stars, Mother Mother, The Maccabees, Stroke 9, Beirut, Jenny and Johnny, and Florence and the Machine.

I can't say I'd complain about any of the above. Other than the hot-glue part. But I'd get over that, I guess.

Anyhow, I'd recommend this to anybody for V-day. Of course, this is just me assuming that everybody is always single on V-day. Which might defeat the purpose of the day. It would be a mass Oxymoron. Oh dear...

Anyhow. Moral of the story: Valentines day is stupid. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm being realistic.

All We Wanna Do Is Eat Your Brains

We're not unreasonable, I mean no ones gonna eat your eyes.

Zombies, zombies everywhere!

So -- on the coat-tails of the recent popularity of our favorite apocalypse inducing, flesh-eating, and alltogether frightening, friendly neighborhood zombies -- comes the television show to beat all television shows (for the vast majority of halloween night primetime T.V., anyhow). "The Walking Dead" is the newest installment in the world of the zombocalyptic franchise. Long story short (courtesy of http://splashpage.mtv.com/tag/the-walking-dead/):

Some time after suffering an injury during an intense shootout, police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) awakens from a coma only to find himself trapped in a new nightmare. The world he remembers is gone, replaced by a bleak wasteland filled to the brim with a flesh-eating horde of undead monsters.

The shell-shocked Rick forces himself to pull it together as he searches for his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son Carl (Chandler Riggs), but as he soon realizes, hope is a rare commodity in this post-apocalyptic landscape.

Sounds good, huh? Possibly a metaphor for modern society? Naah. I watched this marvel of a show, chock full of "oh shit, zombie horde!" moments, and, somewhow, wasn't in a state of perpetual deja vu. Maybe it was the black guy living next door, mowing down zombies from his bedroom with a scoped hunting rifle. That, or the zombie in a tank. Either way, it's a pretty cool show.

On another zombie related note: I was a zombie for halloween and scared a gaggle of infant trick-or-treaters. Just saying.