Today, Feb 4th, is the birthday of two of my favourite storytellers.
One is George Romero, creator of the original apocalyptic zombie movie masterpiece NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and undisputed father and ruler of the entire shambling brain-eating undead subgenre.
The other is Russell Hoban, author of all sorts of awesome books, including THE MOUSE AND HIS CHILD, TURTLE DIARY, RIDDLEY WALKER and his impressively mad 2006 vampire cowgirl/giant hallucinogenic toad novel (think I’m kidding? check it out!) LINGER AWHILE.
Hoban fans celebrate today with SA4QE, in which they choose quotes from his books, copy them out onto yellow paper, and leave them for passers-by to find at significant locations all over the world. In a quiet and very cool way it’s one of the highlights of my year, it’s happening right now, and you can find out all about it if you hit the link.
If Romero fans did something similar, what would they leave for people to find, do you suppose?
On second thoughts, No, monsters: don’t answer that.
No, no dismembering, please: I need to write with those limbs.
No, sigh, no, ow, don’t pull on that, ow, no, SNAP POP SNORT RIP CHEW YEAAARRRRGH!
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