.. to help me out this weekend.

The Vancouver Thrill the World dancers will be at the Zombie Walk this Saturday to dance and hopefully generate interest in the main Thrill the World event this October. I’m looking for photographers and video people to capture the group collectively shaking our undead asses so we can show everyone how incredibly awesome we are.

Thrill the World is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Shan and I did it last year, and this year I’m a volunteer assigned to wrangle up some pictures and videos of our dance. Last year we had 69 Vancouver zombies dancing, and we raised $1400 for the Vancouver Food Bank. This year we’re hoping for a LOT more zombies – Vancouver needs to represent – and as people around the world do the same dance at the same time, we’re hoping to set and break some World Records.

This weekend is the annual Vancouver Zombie Walk, in which people get dressed up as zombies and .. well, walk. Thrill the World Vancouver will be there doing the dance a couple times to generate interest, recruit zombies, and make spectacles of ourselves for fun.

If you can help me out by either photographing or videoing the event, here are some details:

• I’ll need you for an hour or so this Saturday afternoon (August 15th), from 2-3pm
• You’ll receive full credit for any picture of video we use
• It’ll be a great deal of fun
• I would be extremely grateful (not naked grateful though) (okay, maybe naked grateful)
• ZOMBIES!!!

Email me or leave a comment below if you want to help out!

Screw pictures, I want to DANCE

We need dancers, too. The official Thrill the World event is in October, and official rehearsals haven’t started yet (the two we’ve had were just for the Zombie Walk). If you want to dance, check out the Thrill the World Vancouver website, join us on Facebook, and come learn the moves when the rehearsal schedule is released (or start learning in advance via these videos!). You don’t need to be any sort of dancing professional to do it – the dance is very easy to learn and anyone can do it. Look at me! I’m the best example of someone who shouldn’t dance in public, yet I do anyway. If I – so painfully shy and terrified of social interaction – can do it, then you would completely rock the universe.

Come out and dance!

And if you don’t want to dance, come out and take pictures of dance!

nnnnnngh

I am fully expecting to come home to a river of salmon and ice cream.

I lost my remote connection to my home computer. I asked our network guy to see if he had blocked my IP from getting out because he hates me, and while he assured me that he does in fact hate me, he claims that he did nothing to any of my ports (and then started talking about pasta and godfathers and I am super confused). So, that leaves the power. The city IS in the middle of a thunderstorm, so even with all my paranoid conspiracy imaginings, the most likely scenario is that the power went out at my house and that is why I can’t connect.

That does little to rest my mind at ease, though. My home PC is actually a laptop, so when the power blows (once or twice a week) I do not shut down. I lose my internet connection, sure, but when the power comes back on I reconnect as soon as the modem and router come online. It is a good setup. I dislike being offline.

It’s been over ten minutes since I lost my connection and I still can’t seem to get online. This leads me to believe one of two things has happened:

• Our power is still off, putting the contents of my freezer at risk – and I just bought some of my favourite ice cream that I only get once every two years or so, and the thought of it melting all over my floor makes me sad
• I can’t connect to my laptop because the power surged and fried everything on my desk and I’ve lost everything and have no more laptop

Both of these scenarios are terrible. I’m not going to be able to get anything done today; I’m too worried about my ice cream and porn.