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Read Like a Zombie
The living dead will rise tonight at 6 p.m. at the South Branch Library to put on their faces (zombie makeup), practice their pageant walk (walk and dance like zombies), and throw brains around (zombies obviously don’t have very good manners).
If you really want to join the ranks of the reanimated, here are some last-minute reads to help you become the best zombie you can be:
Fiction:
Zombie Queen of Newbury High – Amanda Ashby
Zombies vs. Unicorns - Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks - Max Brooks
Play Dead - Ryan Brown
The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses - Ty Drago
Zombies Don’t Cry - Rusty Fischer
The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology - Christopher Golden
The Smoky Corridor - Chris Grabenstein
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Zombies - Brent Hartinger
Dawn of the Dreadfuls - Steve Hockensmith
You are So Undead to Me - Stacy Jay
Undead Much - Stacy Jay
Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead - Scott Kenemore
Infinity – Sherrilyn Kenyon
Gil’s All Fright Diner - A. Lee Martinez
Strange Angels - Lili St. Crow
Zombies: The Recent Dead - edited by Paula Guran
Non-Fiction:
Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse - Brad Steiger
How to be a Zombie: The essential guide for anyone who craves brains - Serena Valentino
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime - Michael Spradlin
It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Zombies - Michael Spradlin
Halloween at the South Branch
Join us for some Halloween fun at the South Branch Library, 3228 Teasley Lane. Program dates, times, and details are as follows:
Night of the Living Zombie
Step into the undead life of a zombie. Learn how to become a zombie by applying gruesome makeup, and dancing and acting like the walking dead. We will create our own edible graves and play ghastly games. Best for ages 11-18.
10/26/10 South Branch Library 6:00 pm
Alien Grossology
Make fake alien snot, vomit, and perform an alien autopsy. But beware…you may learn some science in the process! For ages 8-12. Space is limited so call 349-8752 to register.
10/28/11 South Branch Library 4:00 pm
For more information, contact Rebecca Ivey at 940-349-8724, or rebecca.ivey@cityofdenton.com, or visit .
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Halloween Grossology
Come to the North Branch Library and make fake blood, vomit and other disgusting things just in time for Halloween. But beware…you may learn some science in the process! Join us on Thursday, October 27 at 4 p.m. for Halloween Grossology and take part in some educational, hands-on experiments to learn more about the grossness that exists in the world around us. This program is for children ages 8-12. Seating for this program is limited and pre-registration is required. Please call 940.349.8752 or stop by the library to register.
For more information, contact Dana Tucker, Public Services Librarian at 940.349.8715 or at dana.tucker@cityofdenton.com, or visit www.dentonlibrary.com.
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Day of the Jack O’ Lanterns
Join us for Day of the Jack O’ Lanterns at the North Branch Library, 3020 N. Locust St. On Wednesday, October 26 at 4:30 p.m., we will read jack o’ lantern stories and do jack o’ lantern activities and crafts. This program is for children in grades K-3. Seating for this program is limited. Please call 940-349-8752 to register.
For more information, contact Dana Tucker, Public Services Librarian at 940.349.8715 or at dana.tucker@cityofdenton.com, or visit www.dentonlibrary.com.
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Miss Emily’s JukeJoint, 10.19.10. In the graveyard.
Its the time of year when folks like to do a little dance with death or play at horror. I’ve never been attracted to scary movies, stories or even Hallow’s Eve for that matter. However, when it comes to music, I have found a couple artists and performances that chill me. To. The. Bone.
In 1927, Moran Lee “Dock” Boggs recorded a couple songs that creep me out in a big way. “Pretty Polly” is his version of an old murder ballad sung in the British Isles and Appalacia . Listen to it here.
Something about how he twists the syllables around, the intensity of the rhythm and the just plain wierdness of his voice make it hard to listen to. But, the twisting sounds comical in an eerie way, the rhythm seems too fast and the timbre of voice is too high in a way for the seriousness of the lyrics. So, what reads in print like it wouldn’t work, worked too well on shellac. Like, that’s what a demented murderer with a banjo would sound like. We have a later recording of it available at Fowler.
Dock in 1927.
In the late 1920′s a Delta bluesman by the name of Skip James perfected his style of fingerpicked acoustic guitar matched with an eerie falsetto and gloomy lyrics. We have his original sides recorded for Paramount Records in the early ’30s at the DPL. Check out “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” here. The aural equivalent to the Dust Bowl-era photography of Dorothea Lange.
Skip in the '60s.
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