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I gotta get me one of these! A zombie that appears to be crawling out of your garden. I mean come on the neighbors think I’m weird anyway.

The Zombie of Montclaire Moors Sculpture

By artist Alan Dickinson. If this doesn’t scare your neighbors, nothing will!

We challenged noted British artist Alan Dickinson to create his most haunting image exclusively for Toscano—and he certainly delivered! Not for the faint of heart, Dickinson’s life-sized, gray-toned zombie will claw his way out of your garden plot or family room corner, pleading for assistance with the most lifelike eyes you’ve ever seen. His macabre expression is captured in such great detail in quality designer resin and finished so realistically that you’ll swear you can hear him breathing!

In Canada you can get KFC Chicken without the chicken.

The fake chicken, known as unchicken, has been around for years and is available in a handful of restaurants and stores in Canada. Most of the fake meats are soy-based and fair game for vegans. Some may contain eggs, but are meat-free.

Looks like a dangerous slippery slope, if we can have chicken-less chicken … what’s next?  A scifi-less Sci-fi channel … wait that’s happened with wrestling and ghost hunters.  A news-less news station … wait that’s happened with “fake but accurate” stories. Talent-less entertainers …. err.

Well, let them enjoy their chicken-less chicken. Just as long as nobody takes away my paper-less books!

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Its a fun read for those of us who miss Firefly/Serenity.  My Own Kind of Freedomby Steven Brust in PDF , html, palmpilot, Doc.

I like it when the authors do this. You can buy a copy of Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now or download a free version of the IDW comic collection , which collects the six-issue comic of adaptations from Doctorow’s award-winning science fiction stories.

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With jury duty and the holidays, I missed a few ebooks by Tor.

If you need a Battlestar Galactica fix try Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver. Its nicely written with good battle scenes. Carver does a better job with the old battlestar than the Sci-Fi Channel.

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Check out Flash by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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