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Choose Your Own Adventure Book, I Mean Movie

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Choose Your Own Adventure Book, I Mean Movie

Posted on 11 August 2010 by Jason Bayless

Remember the choose your own adventure books we used to read when we were kids? choose

Remember how much fun they were and how you tried to collect them all when the book fair came to your school?

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children’s gamebooks first published by Bantam Books from 1979-1998 and currently being re-published by Chooseco. Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions in response to the plot and its outcome.

Ok, now that I have taken you down memory lane what would you say if I say there is a Choose Your Own Adventure that involved zombies?  and what would you say if I told you it was not a book but a ‘movie’.

You would say AWESOME, where can I watch this?   – Right?

So here it is the Choose Your Own Adventure Zombie movie.

(more after the video.)

As you saw in the video  there is pizza company called, Hell Pizza.  Yes, this is a real pizza company and this is their commercial.  Their flagship store is headquartered in New Zealand and has locations in Ireland, Australia, UK  and apparently coming soon to Canada.

Don’t get your hopes up yet for the United States, I don’t see how a place like this would ever fly well in the states but if they ever arrive here – they will be my one and only pizza place.

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Zombie Popcorn Radio: The Gail Carriger Show

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Zombie Popcorn Radio: The Gail Carriger Show

Posted on 02 August 2010 by Jason Bayless

In this episode of Zombie Popcorn Radio we look into the mind that created a new vision of vampires, werewolves, parasols and tea – the wonderful and talented, Gail Carriger.   gailtea

New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She now resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported directly from London. She is fond of teeny tiny hats and tropical fruit. The Parasol Protectorate books are: Soulless (Oct. 2009), Changeless (March 2010),Blameless (Sept. 2010), Heartless(2011), and Timeless (2012). Soulless won the ALA’s Alex Award.

Gail is the author of the The Parasol Protectorate Series. The books are comedies of manners set in Victorian London: full of vampires, dirigibles, and tea. They are either Jane Austen doing urban fantasy, or PG Wodehouse doing steampunk. Soulless, Book the First, came out October 2009 and the ‘Soulless’ audiobook was named one of Audible‘s top 20 sleeper hits. Changeless, Book the Second, in March 2010 and is a New York Times Bestseller. Blameless will be released September 1, 2010 from Orbit US. Heartless is due out Spring of 2011, and Timeless in the Spring of 2012.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Gail, her work, her strong dislike of sweet tea, steampunk, food and other things you would never think would come up in an interview is revealed here on Zombie Popcorn Radio.

So, put the tea pot on because for the next 2 hours sweet iced tea is not welcomed here, and enjoy this wonderful evening with Gail Carriger.

 

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If you want to learn more about Gail’s work you can visit her site, Gail Carriger. com

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We all will become ‘Soulless’ soon.

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We all will become ‘Soulless’ soon.

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Jason Bayless

A couple weeks back, Paul recommended the book ‘Soulless‘ for his pick with the Zombie Popcorn Book Club.  If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should head over to the Zombie Popcorn Book Club and pick up a copy – you won’t be disappointed.

‘Soulless’ is the first book in the Parasol Protectorate Series. The series is best described as a comedies of manners set in Victorian London: full of vampires, dirigibles, and tea. They are either Jane Austen doing urban fantasy, or PG Wodehouse doing steampunk.

The ‘Soulless’ audiobook was named one of Audible‘s top 20 sleeper hits and ‘Changeless’ (the second book in the series) is a New York Times BESTSELLER.  The third book, ‘Blameless’ will hit the streets on September 1, 2010. 3gailcarrigerblack

So, why am I telling you all of this?   Because Gail Carriger the wonderful author of these books will be on Zombie Popcorn Radio this Saturday,  July 31, 2010.

So in the meantime, everyone should pick up Gail’s books (at least one of them) and then join us this Saturday on Zombie Popcorn Radio. If you want to email or call in with questions you are welcome to join us.

New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. Ms. Carriger then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She now resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported directly from London. She is fond of teeny tiny hats and tropical fruit. The Parasol Protectorate books are: Soulless (Oct. 2009), Changeless (March 2010),Blameless (Sept. 2010), Heartless(2011), and Timeless (2012). Soulless won the ALA’s Alex Award.



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Zombie Popcorn’s Audio Book Club

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Zombie Popcorn’s Audio Book Club

Posted on 10 April 2010 by Jason Bayless

Starting tonight on Zombie Popcorn Radio we are launching something new for the site.

Tonight, we start the Zombie Popcorn Audio Book Club!  We can totally one-up Oprah with our book club.  What makes this book club better than any other book club in the world is we will offer the best books you can find about horror, movies, music,  and not just any book, but audio books. Yes, audio books – you will be able to listen to them on in your iTunes, on your ipod, iphone, ipad or anything other i-mp3 player.

There are two ways to keep track of our weekly book announcements;

  1. Listen to Zombie Popcorn Radio every Saturday Night at 7-9pm Eastern – this is where we will announce the new book of the week. We will also talk about the previous book of the week.
  2. Or you can just check out the Zombie Popcorn’s Audio Book Club page after the broadcast on Saturday for the newest book of the week.

That is it – so tune in to Zombie Popcorn Radio to find out what the Zombie Popcorn  Book of the week will be….so Join in on the pseudo-reading today only at Zombie-Popcorn.com

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Bring the Horror to Work…

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Bring the Horror to Work…

Posted on 04 July 2009 by Jason Bayless

Keeping in the theme of July’s Horror Book Month I am going to bring you some audio books from H.P. Lovecraft and Poe.

It has been brought to my attention that people like to listen to books / stories while at work so to make sure everyone can enjoy Horror Book Month – I am adding a special edition that we can call ‘Horror Story Month’

The first is an audio reading of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Edgar Allan Poe.

and now for a collection of H.P Lovecraft.  Please note, that there is a small ad for LibriVox before each story.  LibriVox provides free audiobooks – so check them out when you get a chance.

Now enjoy the words of H.P. Lovecraft…

The Tree by H.P Lovecraft

The Terrible Old Man by H.P. Lovecraft

The Street by H.P. Lovecraft

The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft

A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson by H.P. Lovecraft

Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft

Nyarlathotep by H.P. Lovecraft

Memory by H.P. Lovecraft

Ex Oblivione by H.P. Lovecraft

Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

The Crawling Chaos by H.P. Lovecraft

The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft

The Beast In The Cave by H.P. Lovecraft

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Horror Book Month

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Horror Book Month

Posted on 30 June 2009 by Jason Bayless

I am always talking about horror films or at least 3D films.  I love watching movies, I could watch them all the time – but I don’t.

So what do I do when I can’t get my horror movie fix?

I read.

Ok, normally, I don’t read horror books – I mean don’t get me wrong – I still remember when I read ‘The Hellbound Heart’ by Clive Barker back in ’89.  But the books I  normally read, were books like, “Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action)” by  Gene Sharp.    – I should add, that if you want to include the ‘underground’ comics I collected as a kid then I could say I read a ton of horror books. Dead World was one of my fav. comics – outside of all the Clive Barker comics. deadworld-3

Anyway, the point is my horror movie obsession and my books never saw eye-to-eye.  So to pay tribute to all the great horror writers out there (they did write the story to all the great films we watch) I am going to make July Horror Book Month.

So here is my reading list for the month of July.  If you want to read along and share your thoughts.   I have included links where you can pick up your copy.

I am starting off with,

  • Necronomicon The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft’s astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft’s harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were first released. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft’s fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.



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  • Major Tales and Poems by Edar Allan Poe  is the book I will be reading but I can not find it on Amazon or any other online book store so I have found a book that is the same but just different cover and publisher. The book is called, Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe


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  • Zombie CSU: The Forensics by Jonathan Maberry

When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth… And law enforcement is ready to take them down! Since Night of the Living Dead, zombies have been a frightening fixture on the pop culture landscape, lumbering after hapless humans, slurping up brains and veins and whatever warm, fleshy matter they can clench in their rotting limbs. But what if they were real? What would happen if, tomorrow, corpses across the nation began springing up out of their graves and terrorizing the living?

Employing hard science and solid police work not—to mention jaw-dropping (literally!) humor—Zombie CSU is the only guide you need to make it through alive—not undead. At last you can:

Investigate zombie crime scenes, collecting and analyzing evidence of zombie attacks, and create a “murder book”

Examine the psychology of the zombie and develop a perp profile.

Observe medical science pros as they probe felled zombies for forensic clues.

Devise a zombie apocalypse survival scorecard and more!

Complete with lists of must-see zombie flicks from around the globe and tons of tips for kicking undead butt, Zombie CSU features hundreds of interviews with real zombie experts, forensics experts, detectives, filmmakers, and more.



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  • World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

“The Crisis” nearly wiped out humanity. Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and author of The Zombie Survival Guide, 2003) has taken it upon himself to document the “first hand” experiences and testimonies of those lucky to survive 10 years after the fictitious zombie war. Like a horror fan’s version of Studs Terkel’s The Good War (1984), the “historical account” format gives Brooks room to explore the zombie plague from numerous different views and characters. In a deadpan voice, Brooks exhaustively details zombie incidents from isolated attacks to full-scale military combat: “what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t!” With the exception of a weak BAT-21 story in the second act, the “interviews” and personal accounts capture the universal fear of the collapse of society–a living nightmare in which anyone can become a mindless, insatiable predator at a moment’s notice. Alas, Brad Pitt’s production company has purchased the film rights to the book–while it does have a chronological element, it’s more similar to a collection of short stories: it would make for an excellent 24-style TV series or an animated serial. Regardless, horror fans won’t be disappointed: like George Romero’s Dead trilogy, World War Z is another milestone in the zombie mythos.



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  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.



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Days of War, Nights of Love

Posted on 13 October 2008 by

It has been a busy couple of days.  I have started to put together the beginnings of a book that I want to write.  Nothing too fancy but I think most people will find this book very uncharacteristic of me. – I will fill you in on the details once I get this book project underway a little more.

I also started filming a small documentary with my friend Paul. He works on the soundtracks for films and videos. In fact, he just finished writing the soundtrack to a new documentary about the history of horror films.  Once that is released to the public I will let you know so you can pick up a copy of the film.

The short film we are working on will be posted here before Halloween, so keep your eyes open for that.

The other items that I have been working on is this site.  As you can see, if you look to your right a little,  I now have random images added to the side bar.  A new photo will appear every time you refresh the page or visit another post within this site.  Fun – Fun!  :) Also, if you look below those random images you will find a new archive system, this should make it easier for you to find anything you are looking for, as long as it is on Zombie Popcorn/ Psychosomatic Rants

Also, at the bottom of every post you will find a rating system. Well, its not really a system it is just 5 stars.  Click on the stars and let me know how much you like what you just read.  It is easier than leaving a comment – I mean, I still love getting your comments but I know sometimes you are in a hurry or at work and don’t want your boss to know, so you can rate it quickly and then back to work.

You can test it out by rating this post now…

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The One and Only Cracked Out Top 5 List

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The One and Only Cracked Out Top 5 List

Posted on 21 September 2008 by

This morning I spent updating my movie list, we now have
over 380 movies listed, so check it out.

To celebrate the update of the Jason and Mylie T’s Movie
list, I have created the Top 5-glossary list of Crack-House lingo.

I will pick the Top 5 from each category from the glossary
of Crack-House lingo, taken from the book, ‘Women and Crack-Cocaine’ (Macmillan Criminal Justice) (The definitions are as it is in the book.)

A

Apparently, there is no Crack-House lingo that begins with
the letter ‘A’

B

5. Base, butter, cents, or head – A soliciting
slogan used in the crack house to negotiate the sex-for-crack exchange.
Translation: ‘for some crack, cocaine, or money, I will give oral sex.”

4. Base heads – People who exchange sex for crack
in crack houses.

3. Booting
- A process involving the use of a syringe to draw blood from the user’s arm,
mixing the drawn blood with the drug already taken into the syringe, and then
injecting it back into the vein.

2. Beam
- A single ‘hit’ of crack, as in “Beam me up Scotty,” taken from TV’s Star Trek.

1. Blowing
bubbles – Blowing crack smoke into the vagina.

C

5. Creeping
- Stealing pocketbooks from cars in gas stations while the customer is inside
paying for gas.

4. Cookie
- A large quantity of crack,, approximately 90 rocks

3. Change
purse – A vagina.

2. Chickenhead
- A woman in a crack house who will do anything, usually sexual in nature, for
a ‘hit’or piece of crack.

1. Crack
for Crack – Exchanging sex for crack. “Let me give you some brains, or some
crack for crack” (brains means oral sex)

D.

5.
Drug Hounds – Regulars in a crack
house.

4. Doctor
- A person who injects drugs into someone else’s arm for a small fee. “I can
never hit the vein, so I get a doctor to hit it for me.”

3. Doorman
- The person at the door of a crack house who lets people in, checks for weapons, and watches for police.

2. Doo-doo
- The residue left in a pipe after the crack has been smoked.

1. Devil’s
Dick – A crack pipe. “It seems like all
I do is suck men’s dick so I can suck the devil’s dick.”

E.

5. Eightball
- A large quantity of crack, generally an eighth of an ounce. And sold in block
form. ( This only ‘E’ listed in the
book.)

F.

5.
Flavor – Crack

4. Fire
- A lighter, match, or torch used to vaporize crack.

3.
Freebase – Smoking any form of cocaine base.

2. Fuck
the dog – To waste time. “When he’s all done [climaxing] I don’t fuck the dog,
I get rid of it quick. Spit it out.”

1. Freak
Room – A separate room in a crack house where sexual activity occurs. ” I would
lock people up in the freak room so they were alone. I would give them a key for the inside to let
themselves out, but I would lock them up so no one could get into where they
were at. I’d give them thirty minutes for $10 in the freak room, it was nice.”

G.

5. Geek Cigarette – A marijuana or tobacco cigarette
laced with crack.

4.
Girl – Cocaine

3. Girls – Prostitutes

2. guts,
gut – A vagina

1. Gorilla
pimp – Crack or Cocaine.

H.

5. Hole
- 1) a bad neighborhood; 2) a vagina; 3) a prostitute

4.
Hard white – crack

3.
Hit House – crack house

2. Head
Hunter – A woman who trades sex for crack in a crack house.

1. Half
House – Oral and vaginal sex sold as a package deal. “How ’bout half house for that rock there?”

I.

There are
no “I” in crack-house lingo.

J.

5.
Jizz – Semen

4.
Joint - A crack or marijuana cigarette.

3. Jingle – A crack house (puts a new meaning to the x-mas song.)

2. John
- The male customer of prostitute, or a person who purchases sex in a crack
house.

1. Juggling
- Selling crack, or any drug, for double what its worth.

K.

There are
only two ‘K’ words in crack-house lingo.

2. Kingrat – A crack-house owner

1. Kibble
and bits – Small pieces of crack.

L.

There are
only two ‘L’ words in crack-house lingo.

2. Lace
joint – A marijuana cigarette laced with crack.

1. Look-out
man – A man, woman, or child working in or for a crack house who watches for
the police.

M.

5.
Mission – A crack smoking binge,
lasting several days during which users do not eat or sleep.

4. Mainlining – Injecting drugs into the vein.

3. Mr. Windows – A crack user who
has become so paranoid from smoking cocaine that he or she thinks the police
are everywhere.

2. Mastercharge – A crack pipe. “Don’t leave home without your   mastercharge.”

1. Miami
device – A crack smoking device, usually made from a small liquor bottle, pill
bottle, soda can, or baby food jar.

N.

There are
only four “N” words in crack-house lingo.

4.
Nickel – A $5 piece of crack

3. Nine! – A warning that police are in the
area.

2. Natures
- Male or Female genitals

1. Nut – An orgasm, usually from
oral sex. “Stoney was real happy, because he was just a green kid and was happy
to have me get off his nut”

O.

There are
only four “O” words in crack-house lingo.

4. Outlaw – A prostitute who works without a
pimp

3.
Ouzie – A crack smoking device, usually made from a small liquor bottle,
pill bottle, soda can, or baby food jar

2. On the stem – Smoking Crack

1. Off the stroll – Having retired from
prostitution

P.

5.
Pussy Power – Using sexual leverage to obtain crack. “If I want to use
my pussy I can always get as much as I want. The pussy works. It’s called pussy
power.”

4. Pin Baby
- A woman who provides sex for small
amounts of crack.

3. Pee -
Pure cocaine

2. Puff -
Bogus or imitation crack.

1. Peter
- A penis, but sometimes used to
reference a vagina. (side note: I would hate,
if I hung out in a crack house, for some crack head to get this term confused.)

Q.

No “Q”
words in crack-house lingo

R.

5.
Resort – A crack house in which crack is prepared, bought, sold and smoked,
and in which sex is traded for crack.

4. Rubber Man – A person who either
sells condoms to prostitutes or distributes them free as part of an AIDS
prevention project.

3. Running
Buddy – A street companion

2. Rock
star – A woman who trades sex for crack in a crack house

1.
Raspberry – A male who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.

S.

5. Skeezer – A woman who trade sex for crack in
a crack house

4. Stroll – The major streets where prostitutes
solicit customers

3.
Strawberry – A young girl who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.

2.
Splitting – Rolling marijuana and crack into a single joint

1. Slobbing on Bob – Providing oral sex

T.

5.
Trick – The male customer of a prostitute, or a person who purchases sex
in a crack house.

4. Trick
baby – A prostitute’s baby fathered by a trick.

3. Tweaking – While high on crack,
imagining that everyt speck of dirt on the floor is a piece of crack, and
hence, picking up and examining these specks. ‘They was all tweaking, down on
their hands and knees on the floors, crawling around, picking up every little
thing they saw.’

2. Turn Out
- Someone who recently became a prostitute.

1. Toss-up -
A woman who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.

U

Only one “U”
in crack-house lingo

1. Uppers
- Stimulant drugs, such as amphetamines.

V.

Only one “V’
in crack-house ling.

1. V-up – A term used by
crack-house owners to tell customers that they must either buy more crack or
leave the house.

W

5. Wax -
Bogus or imitation crack.

4. White
Cloud – Crack

3.
Watch back – A man, woman, or child working in or for a crack house who watches
for police.

2. White – Crack

1. Works – Drug paraphernalia, usually drug
injectors.

No “X, Y, or Z” words in crack-house lingo

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Psychosomatic Rants is one years old!! -

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Psychosomatic Rants is one years old!! -

Posted on 29 March 2008 by

Happy Anniversary!

Zombie Popcorn has gone through several changes over the years. Zombie Popcorn TV, Zombie Popcorn Radio, and what you know now – Psychosomatic Rants – The Text Side of Jason Bayless and Mylie T.

So to celebrate the anniversary of Psychosomatic Rants – We present you with Psychosomatic Rants. Volume One: March 28, 2007- March 19, 2008 (The Anniversary Edition)

Now you can get all the wonderful stories from the blog plus additional photos to add to your collection.

Volume One: March …
By Jason Bayless and …

(just click on the box above to order the book)

Thanks to everyone of our readers and the people who helped make Zombie Popcorn/Psychosomatic Rants what it is today!!

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