Woo! Thanks for that link, sumi!

Upon re-read, and having read the sequel, Deadline, Feed by Mira Grant def stands up and rocks the house. I think it's my favorite new series. I like the October Daye series she write under her own name (Seanan McGuire) but the Newsflesh series really plays successfully with a tons of current ideas.

I really, really love it. Total recommend.

She gave a copy to James Gunn at Comic-Con. Let's hope he wants to turn it into a wildly successful movie franchise!

I gave Rosemary and Rue to Amy Acker last year at WonderCon. Maybe it will fall into Joss's hands.

I really like Deadline and Feed, but I'm having a hard time convincing some friends to try them. It's hard to explain that they're mostly political thrillers, only with zombies. Like others, I'm still irritated about the clones, particularly a clone with the memories of a dead person. That's partly a function of setting something in the near future. I can't imagine the science getting to that point in less than 30 years, particularly 30 years filled with death and destruction. It seems to me that the mass slaughter of researchers and the amount of resources it took to set up all the anti-zombie measures would tend to slow down scientific research.

I buy it. I think there's...those things you mentioned walking around today in labs, albeit maybe not with...the part you mentioned, Ginger.

Too hot to whitefont, that's me.

She gave a copy to James Gunn at Comic-Con. Let's hope he wants to turn it into a wildly successful movie franchise! That would be really awesome; I'm trying to cast it now in my mind.

Dan reads so slow (comparatively)-- he's on the latest Butcher now, and I'm all "Stop falling asleep reading! You need to read this next!"

Yes, but this is a full-grown thing.

That would be really awesome; I'm trying to cast it now in my mind.

Join the crowd! Haaaaa, one of them cast Feed with Muppets.

I forget who she said she'd cast most recently. I think they were people I didn't know from shows I don't watch.

I liked the suggestion about Mel Gibson as Tate, except that I wouldn't want to give the man more money.

But I would love to hate him.

George would be super-hard to cast, but ITA with Jensen Ackles as Shaun, and Fillion as Ryman. Although casting Fillion in something that doesn't use his quirky humor more is almost a waste. If he were 15 years younger, I'd say Shaun.

Damn, my livejournal account is SO OLD, but I might have to play. Because even though it would involve dyeing her blonde (anathema!), I love Felicia Day as Buffy.

Cornelia Funke's Top Ten Fairytales. A good selection.

I know JZ was fond of one (title escapes me) that had a very good, not-wicked-in-the-least step-sister.

Kate Crackernuts. Wicked stepmother ruins the princess and heir to the throne (turns her pretty face into a sheep's head), and ugly stepsister, instead of thanking her, says, "You know, Mom, I never asked you to do that for me, and frankly it was kind of shitty of you. I think we're done here. Come on, kid, let's go fix you up." She tosses a veil over her poor bleating stepsister's horrid head and off they go, until they find a castle with two convenient princes, one of whom is being seduced by fairies and on the point of death. Kate cheerfully takes over, is practical and clever all over the place, and breaks the enchantments on both the prince and her sister, and it all ends in a double wedding because the prince's brother has fallen in love with the formerly sheep-headed sister (while Kate was being clever, they were off wandering the palace grounds communicating with nods and notes and sign language) and the rescued prince has fallen in love with Kate, because even though she's an ugly stepsister she is obviously MADE OF AWESOME.

I really want this to be Disney's next princess movie.

Love the story ... but you know, if Disney gets hold of it, Kate would get prettied-up at the end.