Showing posts with label Zombies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zombies. Show all posts

Sunday, May 01, 2022

regarding the current zombie outbreak...

Badtux pointing out how he feels, another case of Affluenza, and in the "Filtration camp" department...

It was recently pointed out that it's been ages since I posted something about the coming zombie apocalypse. 

Well there's a good reason for that because way back in 2016 we actually entered into a state of zombie apocalypse so I felt it was no longer needful to write about something coming when it was happening and, sadly, still happening.

Obviously, the zombies in our particular apocalypse don't follow the George Romero model as they don't eat people but they are a whole lot scarier because it's harder to fight wholesale stupidity when it walks and talks like a real person.

Fact is, I sorta/kinda miss the whole flesh and brain eating zombies because they had a lot more going for them than the current crop.

Now, it's time to get on to those belaying pins...

Listening to a an excellent 70s playlist

So it goes...

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Lifeboat stations...

An astute observation regarding a movie, not exactly surprising, and in the "Democrats getting ready to turn a win into a loss" department...

On the subject of being prepared and, just maybe, keeping in mind that fecal matter is airborne and heading towards the proverbial fan. You might want to check out "How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse".


Of course, I'm being told that the powers that be who are led by a pathological liar have everything contained and under control. So everyone can give a huge sigh of relief and go back to the same old same knowing that they are in good hands.

Yeah, sure...

Back to "H" season mindset and getting prepared just in case. It's the prudent thing to do.

Listening to a plethora of Smokey Robinson covers

So it goes...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A book...

Krugman is on to something, taking care of the troops, and about that letter...

Today's a little busy here on the good ship "So It Goes". So much to do and so little time as the phrase goes. "H" season being just around the corner, I have projects that need doing that should have been done already.

Such is life!

In the meantime, you might want to check out a book I just read, "For Those In Peril On The Sea".  It's about boats, apocalypse, and no small shortage of mayhem... Oh yeah, I should mention there are z-o-m-b-i-e-s!

What's not to like?

Listening to the Talking Heads

So it goes...

Sunday, December 23, 2012

It's that time again...

You might say we have a trend, some interesting information, and a depressing story...

What's wrong with a little holidaze tradition?



Listening to Great Big Sea

So it goes...


Thursday, July 12, 2012

One reason some jobs take longer than expected...

Florida sets an altogether impossible to beat achievement in stupidity, if there was an Olympic medal for stupid loutish behavior my money would be on the guys/girls at the TSA every time, and, as long as we're on a roll, how about something about Paris Hilton's dogs...

In the seriously cool news department: I just discovered that "The Walking Dead" is now available for Kindle...


I'm pretty sure boat work can wait till tomorrow...

Listening to Old Crow Medicine Show

So it goes...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Well, it all depends on just how batshit crazy, batshit crazy is...

About that rule of law thang, C&L says something important, and a few words of advice...

Just asking, but does anyone else feel just that little frisson of unease after reading the current news story about the guy in Florida caught eating another guy's face?

I will admit that as it happened in Florida where cannibalism is a much more common occurrence than other places, it might just actually be a drug-addled guy freaking out. Face it, seriously batshit crazy tends to be the norm in a state that votes a guy like Rick Scott into office so, for all I know, eating a guy's face off might just be the normal thing to do in some neighborhoods in Miami.

But, then again, maybe it's not just the run-of-the-mill batshit crazy...

You may have forgotten how the whole zombie apocalypse thing tends to go, so if you need a quick recap you might want to reread this or re-watch the first season of "The Walking Dead", either of which will remind you of the needful details.

Personally I just find it prudent to be prepared and it's always good to know where your poleaxe happens to be just in case...

Of course, we'd all be a little better off if we could have a little bit clearer view of what the future holds but, so far, I'm still waiting for my deck of Zombie Tarot cards...


Here's hoping the next 28 days are rather boring!

Listening to Joan Osborne

So it goes...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Everybody knows there is no sanity clause...

Just imagine, worth a read, and how, sadly, good design reflects need...

Gink & Gasoline (one of our favorite fly fishing sites) has a thoughtful bit on the whole Z-Poc thing and it got me thinking how folks with different interests will fare when/if it all gets messy.

Cruising sailors have a great advantage in that they, by their very nature, can prepare to their hearts content while avoiding the social stigmata of being taken for a "prepper" sort. For instance, while survivalists and preppers stockpile and horde, we as cruising sailors provision.

Provisioning sounds sane, while on the other hand, stockpile and horde are words often used in sentences that include tin foil hats... See the difference?

Which is not to say cruising sailors are any more sane than any other group of people but our insanity is, for the moment at least, a lot more socially acceptable.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I want to go buy a t-shirt from the Path Less Pedaled folks...


Listening to Warren Zevon

So it goes...

Thursday, January 12, 2012

A trebuchet and a bucket of...

Krugman making a comment on a story you should read, how bankers make out in the "new" bank fraud deal, and yet more on the cupcake too far story...

"There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency."
Hunter S. Thomson

I'm really pissed off...

A while back I mentioned that we had bought a new dinghy. I was looking forward to testing it as it was sorta/kinda out of the box different and it would be an interesting set of posts as proof of concept on a better cruising dinghy idea and hopefully of no small interest to Boat Bits readers...

Apparently not to be, I'm afraid. We paid for the boat on Thanksgiving Day and you'd think it was more than enough time for me to write a review... But, there's a little problem...

I don't have the dinghy.

Yesterday the company we bought it from informed us that in point of fact they were unwilling to send us a replacement or even refund our money because it might actually show up in a couple of months or so... Considering we paid for the shipping and the insurance, this is not happy making at all.

So, you might see how today I'm not really in a very good mood but, my Mom taught her son one should not write too much while furious or before you have a cunning plan to make someone really, really sorry they ever messed with you... Not, I might add, unsurprising advice from a woman whose favorite reading material was Beowulf.

But, as it happens, a lot of folks actually read Boat Bits (368 people dropped by yesterday) and someone who screws with the cruising and river running communities should keep in mind that it is a very, very small world...

I'll be saying more as the story develops, but for the moment what better time to check out a Norwegian flick about zombie Nazis (I'm in that kind of mood).




Hmmm, anyone seen my trebuchet?

Listening to Warren Zevon

So it goes...

Oh, by the way, a boat company who won't screw you over...



Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Zombie anti-boarding tools...

Banks just can't help themselves, something about ALEC, and this morning zombies walk the green fields of Iowa...

I'll be the first to admit that keeping the boat zombie free is something of a chore and every once and awhile it is needful to rethink your various zombie defense tools and procedures...

The first line of defense is, of course, the required zombie anti-boarding placard...


...Which is about as effective as those other USCG placards we all use to cover holes in bulkheads. Readers may remember that my personal preference in anti-boarding tools is the Poleaxe (my trebuchet experiments not having been all that successful as of yet) and machete.

But don't you think it is about time that someone came up with a multi-tool for zombie defense?

Guess what?!



Listening to the Texas Tornados

So it goes...






Tuesday, December 27, 2011

apres Holidaze reading material...

Tenth amendment rights sure, just the facts ma'am, and if you were thinking of reading the latest Tom Clancy novel...

Speaking of reading...



My Holidaze are now complete!

Listening to The Band Perry

So it goes...





Sunday, December 18, 2011

Holidaze...

Just when victory is all but assured an idiot steps up to bat, lemmings go with climate change, and some seriously scary shit...

Speaking of brain eating bacteria and suchlike, what better time to dust off our favorite Holiday video?

Do I smell pie cooking?



Listening to David Bowie

So it goes...

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Nada...

Some cheery music for those who will be flying this holiday season, how justice works in the real world, and Reich gives a play by play...

Can't think of a thing to write about today, so...



Listening to the Alabama State Troupers

So it goes...

Friday, December 02, 2011

and the rants just keep on coming...

Actually, the question is... what would Zombie Attack Barbie do to the sports fisherman that just blasted through the anchorage TWICE in ten minutes pulling a six foot wave?

Monday, November 14, 2011

Just so we're all clear on a few things...

Common sense on Iran, legal insider trading, and since the mere mention of the word "waterboarding" made them cheer, I wonder what the combination of the words visegrips + testicles might accomplish...

"Toto?, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
                                                                                         Dorothy

I'm not sure about you but I don't actually recall a tornado whisking me into what can only be described as a seriously dark "Twilight Zone" landscape where, considering the other options, a zombie apocalypse is looking better all the time. Zombies you can deal with, it's simple, you just make dead things deader...

But hey, we're here to talk about boats... right?

In point of fact, we're going to talk about boats that will take you as far away as you can get from the sort of madness that has become common currency in our so-called civilization...

We're also talking about how real working people without trust funds can get on the water and sail off into the sunset on a blue collar salary in comfort and safety...

We'll continue to talk about improving sailing and DIY skills (Hey, it goes with the gig...)

We talk about things that affect folks on boats cruising (and if you don't think that the political situation in the world does not affect cruising may I interest you in a coastal cruising vacation in Somalia?).

We will not be talking about the "America's Cup", fashionable color coordinated foul-weather gear, or the new flavor-of-the-month-consumerist-wet-dream boat that the cruising press is in love with... That's just not who we are.

Listening to Crazy Horse

So it goes...

Monday, October 24, 2011

Much ado about very little...

Last time I checked the various forums were abuzz, online sailing rags were getting serious and not actually pimping something for a change... What, pray tell could be the cause?

Well, apparently, the south seas are rife with cannibals!

Now, as someone who grew up with "Tales of the South Pacific" and various pulp fueled dreams of the South Seas, I'll admit the idea of a scantily clad buxom blonde missionary in a big cooking pot was sometimes an idle daydream but the current manic reaction seems a bit over the top.

Yes, sadly, a cruiser was killed and his partner attacked but there is no real evidence that cannibalism was involved and that this was anything other than a simple botched murder and an attempt to hide the evidence. The cannibalism angle was introduced by a German tabloid (not unlike our own National Enquirer who, as everyone knows, is not the sort of rag to find news in...(unless you consider dog faced boys and aliens mating with Sarah Palin news...).

Yet everywhere I turn I hear questions and pronouncements such as this one from NAS...

"The possibility of cannibalism has shocked citizens of French Polynesia, who believed that such practices were long past.

Our thoughts are with Ramin’s family. And it looks as if another location needs to be added to the “do not cruise” list."



Latitude 38 on the other hand (always the best place in my opinion to get close to the truth on sailing related news and mayhem) looks past the lurid headlines and simply deals with the facts available with a researched and well done article. In other words, they cover the news...

L38 ends their coverage with this paragraph...

"If you were planning on doing the Pacific Puddle Jump and are now worried about personal safety in Nuku Hiva, our opinion is that this murder falls in the ranks of incredible aberrations. In fact, it reminds us of the case earlier this year when a young French woman on ultra-safe St. Barth inexplicably stabbed a harmless 57-year-old Haitian housekeeper to death on the main road into town on a Sunday evening. Apparently even the most serene and peaceful places are not immune to occasional mayhem."

Off hand, I don't think they were suggesting that St Barths should become part of the mythical "Do not cruise" list... Do you?

All that being as it is, I really do wish at least some of those pulp dreams might actually exist. You know the sort...


 Of course, with my luck, this would be a lot more likely...


Listening to Spirit

So it goes...


Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Some zombie goodness...

Chris Hedges says “non-hierarchical structure”, a good read on climate change, and something about folks making climate change disparu (and they wonder why some folks don't trust government these days).

It's been far too long since I've had some time to sit down and talk about the zombie apocalypse which, judging by last night's debates, is already here in all its putrescent glory. Talk about some seriously scary shit...


On the positive side, there is the promise of the second season of "Walking Dead" coming to DVD land, several "Walking Dead" comics I have not read yet, and a real live "Walking Dead" novel so in one sense life is good.

In the ZA "tools" department a little boat-friendly something that would be handy for keeping zombies at a distance as well as useful for some bow-fishing if the urge strikes.

Listening to Blind Faith

So it goes...



Thursday, September 22, 2011

Scary times...

Elizabeth Warren makes an excellent point, L,G,&M touches on the machinery of death, and someone building a Badger...

You know, the prospect of a zombie apocalypse keeps looking better all the time...


ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (teaser) from Nick Lyon on Vimeo.

Listening to Crooked Fingers

So it goes...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Was it something I said?

Some soft-shackle discussion, more on Wisconsin vote culling, and a whiffle bat to hold off the sharks.

Reading what passes for news these days is something of a distressing pursuit... Most folks I know simply don't do it anymore preferring to read about Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse (sad that) or other non-news news instead of dealing with things that might actually affect their lives. Not unlike doing the ostrich thing (if I don't see it or know about it, it can't hurt me).

So it does go...

A couple of people took exception to my discourse yesterday regarding folks with 5/10/15-year plans to go cruising and those unlucky souls who happen to work in cubicles...

That they missed the point is unfortunate... After all, I have nothing against folks with detailed plans for their lives. The fact I have never actually met someone cruising who got there by having a long term plan to go cruising, leads me to believe that long term plans have a way of changing and just maybe what seems like a good idea when you are forty when you set down your 15-year plan to go cruising is somehow maybe not doable when you are 55... Things change, as do plans, and you never know when the zombie apocalypse is going to happen.

The thought that I have something akin to malice where cubicle workers are concerned is simply not true (well actually there are those who work in customer service that come close...) but malice is certainly not the right word anymore than it would be for folks that work in sewers... It's simply that I have no desire to work in a cubicle or sewer (though sewer before cubicle as I don't see a sewer job being outsourced to Mumbai anytime soon) and it is not a job I'd ever consider in place of being a boat bum.

The whole point is simply if you want to go sailing go sailing... Life is simply too damn short to put off the good stuff.

Listening to John Fogerty

So it goes...




Saturday, July 23, 2011

On being frazzled...

1001 Boats tells us about a VERY important plywood boat, fools, incompetents, and people of limited vision continue to discuss electric propulsion, and the world is still getting scarier...

A friend of mine had a near knockdown the other day and he is a bit frazzled.

Like most of us he felt that a squall, zephyr or microburst big enough to knock down his boat would be visible from a distance and he'd have some time to sort stuff out, reduce sail or somesuch. The realization that when shit happens it can happen fast with no warning, like I said, has him a bit frazzled...

A few years ago when we were leaving Antigua all sail up, in all of three knots of wind in the harbor, we got hit by a microburst that (measured at the airport there at 11:00 @ 92MPH/148KMH) putting us on our ear and putting us in serious FUBAR land... So you might say I have a basic understanding of my friend's bit of frazzlement.

Not that there is a lot you can do to avoid stuff like this... though, having your sheets set up so you can throw them off pronto (one reason we do not have self-tailing winches) is no bad thing... as you simply have to consider the chances of being hit by such a microburst are pretty iffy and you simply rely on luck.

That said, shit does happen...

On the other hand, the things to be really scared of are those very obvious and slow moving issues/dangers we tend to ignore in spite of being right there in front of us full of menace and intent... You may scoff at those worrying about an economic meltdown, peak oil, global warming or (dare I say it) zombie apocalypse but being forewarned and forearmed is no bad thing.

By the way, is this tomahawk the perfect anti-zombie boarding tool or what?

Listening to Great Big Sea

So it goes...



Thursday, July 21, 2011

Looking forward to this...

Pretty sure that this is going to be a must read here at Boat Bits Central...