Above The Pants Cute Cthulhu Women’s and Kid’s Shirt

This is another Above the Pants first! Actually it’s two firsts! One of which is it’s our first shirt available for only women and children (sorry fellow guys this one was just a bit too cute for us to put out for men.) The second first is that it’s available in either pink or green for the style!

Who says Cthulhu can’t be cute? If he would look like this everyone would answer the call of Cthulhu

Available in a variety of shirt styles for women as well as a few shirt styles AND a bib for kids!

Back In My Day…

I don’t mean to bash the homosexual population with this. I’m really just running with the idea that once upon a time vampires (even when sexual) were scary.

(Actually I guess if you are a homophobe the new vampires might be even scarier….)

Above The Pants Logo Shirt

So our plan for Above The Pants this week was to release 2 shirt. We wanted to do the Above the Pants logo for men and women. Hey look we did that! SWEET! Wait.. Waitasec. We actually had a plan to release a second shirt this week as well. One that was just a bit cuter for either the ladies or those with children out there. That one. Well that one didn’t work out too well for us.

Apparently our print on demand shirt printer can be a bit strict on submissions and we just weren’t able to fine tune the shirt enough to get it out today. Sadness. (I’d like to blame Byron for being Canadian for this but I don’t see how that could possibly apply in any way, shape, or form. Dammit.)

May December Publications Is Taking Submissions For Chivalry is Dead…

Attn gentlemen! Ok Guys, now it is your turn!

This anthology will be released in time for Fathers Day 2011

Looking for standard zombie fare, the biggest restriction is that you must be male to enter. Bonus if the story is for or about fathers, but not necessary. The story must be between 3000 and 10000 words and should be emailed to submissions@maydecemberpublications.com attached as a .doc (preferred) or .rtf Please send in your submissions using 12 font Times New Roman , double spaced, justified. The title page should contain your contact info and word count.

Deadline is February 2011

…yea

So it’s Friday night. I’ve just been chilling with James for a couple hours and literally as he is dropping me off Leah shoots me a text that she’s leaving her monthly book club and should be home soon. Excellent. In my mind I’ve got just enough time to use the washroom, check my e-mail, and get a game of Call of Duty in before she gets home. I get through all of that and am starting a match of Hardcore Headquarters when the phone rings. Jump out of the match, answer the phone and the first words out of her mouth are “Honey, before I say anything else I want you to know I’m all right.”

Oh Shit is the thought that goes through my mind at this point. At this point she tells me she’s been in a really bad accident about 5 minutes from home and needs me to come pick her up and bring her laptop which has a copy of her insurance card on it.

Immediately I’m out the door and when I get to where it happened, well you can see above, it wasn’t pretty. I of course freak out and rush to park and run out of the car to make sure she’s actually OK and see people being taken away from the other car on a stretcher. “shit” I see Leah and aside from being in shock and her leg hurting a little she’s fine. Thankfully. After taking a brief statement we had to goto the police station for the official statement where her parents meet us.

Now first off let me give you 2 scenarios.

Scenario 1: The Truth
Leah is sitting at a red light which turns into a green turn signal. Half way through the intersection a car full of white trash assholes blow the light at 40+ miles per hour and take off her front bumper as shown above.

Well that’s pretty straight forward. Cut and to the point right? Of course we all know things can never be that easy. Now let’s goto:

(Not the actual white trash responsible for this accident... but close enough.)

Scenario 2: The Lies Of White Trash
“We might not be the most edumacated of people but we bought our car and can drive it however we want. We were going straight and through an intersection that was green and someone cut us off. That’s what we’re all going to say even though it makes no sense that someone would be at a complete stop and turn in front of us on a green that we clearly had. Thank GOD there were no cameras so we can all say it was green. We’re also inbred.”

That’s pretty much what went down. So that’s going to be a fun mess for insurance to figure out but since Leah got the citation we’re going to probably get screwed on that. Karma is a bitch though so hopefully these assholes get what is coming to them. We have a couple ideas on getting that taken care of but it’s a headache I really don’t want to think about on a Monday while at work.

While Leah could use a new car we were kind of waiting for another 2 years until mine was paid off so we only have 1 car payment at a time. *sighs* Wonderful. The 3 grand or so the insurance will pay out for totally her old one is REALLY gonna go far on a down payment for something nicer. Yea. We did kind of enjoy actually having one of the cars paid off. What a shitty way to end last week. When all is said and done though it could have been worse. Leah is fine. Bitching about the assholes who hit her car aside that is all that really matters.

End Of The Week Roundup: 08/27/10

After the slew of projects that needed to get done for the housewarming party it has come and gone. Wow. 12 hours of friends and family where we had well over 60 attend throughout the day! Thank you one and all for coming and we hope you had as good of a time as we did. I’ve actually never hosted that big of a party before though as Leah has we weren’t ever really out of control or short on anything. Really was a lot of fun and entirely nuts at the same time.

After the party most of the week was spent in veg mode.

Life

• Housewarming Party Of Awesome-Sauce
• Took Thursday off to spend with Leah. Ahh day of relaxation
• Leah and I went for dinner and drinks followed by bowling with Margret and Jason
• Veg. Mode.

Projects

• A link to Buy Zombie was added on Zombie Ambience
• Released the Checkered Zombie shirt for Above the Pants

Media

• Watched Green Zone
• Caught up on True Blood

My Writing

• Wrote 2 Dead on Earth entries
• Review of Last of the Living on Buy Zombie

For this important announcement. I, Stuart Conover, have taken a day off of work.

“Why?” you might ask? Because I felt like it that’s why! Honestly it’s because Leah had the day off, I have nearly 2 weeks left of vacation for the year and really just wanted to be able veg. So my plans for the day are of course to sit around and do nothing. Right? Wrong! While I do plan on getting plenty of relax time in Leah has to finish up a book this morning for her monthly book club meeting tomorrow so while she is doing that I’m going to do a little of this:

I have blog posts to write, e-mails to respond to, Dead on Earth entries to write, and a short story I’d like to get the first draft of done by the end of the day. All of this in the next few hours while she finishes the book as after that we are hitting up a few stores and then tonight we are going out with Margret and Jason to go:

Since we randomly got passes for it and (at least Leah and I) haven’t gone in years. Should be a good time! Now… enough wasting time on the personal blog. Time to knock out a few entries for Buy Zombie and one for Horror Episodes and get onto the real writing!

Groanology 2 : A Horror Comedy Taking Submissions

Groanology 2 : Monsters, Madness, and Mayhem
Edited by Stephanie Kincaid & Bill Tucker
Seeking original previously unpublished stories.

Send us your neurotic nightmares, your Freudian fiends, your tortured soulless souls. We want to read about the heartache, the headache, and most of all that pain in your funny bone that occur when monsters are plagued with psychiatric illnesses
A list of psychiatric disorders to get you started can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders_as_defined_by_the_DSM_and_ICD

If it’s in the DSM IV, some monster, somewhere has suffered from it. (At least, that’s what we’d like to believe.) Don’t feel limited to depression and anxiety, though these are certainly valid choices. We’d like to see some submissions that really go whole-hog (like you’d expect from a zombie pig with delusions of grandeur…you know, just for example).

• Word Count is a strict 1,200 to 3,200
• RTF Attachment
• Courier font size 12
• Single-spaced
• Please include your name, address, phone number, email address, and word count on the title page.
• Payment is 1 cent per word and 1 contributor copy
• Last day to submit is September 30th, 2010

Please send submissions to: groanantho2@gmail.com

Above The Pants Releases Checkered Zombie Shirt

Byron told me something crazy last night. He said we should release a shirt that was only available in white. We shouldn’t give people the freedom to CHOOSE what color they want. I suppose being from Canada he’s not used to having the kind of freedoms we have in America.

Freedoms like picking the color of our shirts. He was adamant about it and after seeing the design I felt that I had to agree with him. We really did have to take away your ability to let you pick whatever you want.

How does that make you feel? Kind of makes you want to order a trendy zombie shirt on white doesn’t it?

If you’ve got an itch that can only be scratched with no shirts of the dead you can pick up this beauty in either men’s or women’s from Above The Pants

Rhonny Reaper’s Creature Features Anthology Is Taking Submissions

Working Title: Rhonny Reaper’s Creature Features Anthology
Publisher: Zilyon Publishing
Release Date: TBA
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Are you a horror writer interested in writing for a cause? Well then I would love to invite you to come up with a terrifying tale for the upcoming horror anthology “Rhonny Reaper’s Creature Features”! This anthology is being put together by both myself and fellow author Cal Miller (Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective and The Undead Nation Anthology) and $1 from every book sold will be donated to Diabetes Research!

What We Want

We are looking for horror stories of all kinds! Monsters, killers, cannibals, demons, zombies, whatever you can come up with! We want to create an anthology with a diverse selection of tales. Be as gory, spooky, violent, bloody, or strange as you want, just be original! Stories should be between 3,000 and 10,000 words. Reprints are fine as long as you have the rights to your story.

What rights do we want?

All we need is the right to use the story for as long as there is demand for the book and the right to use parts of the book and the author’s name for promotion. You will keep all other rights and can republish the story anytime you choose.

What you get:

All authors will receive a copy of the book as payment.

How your stories should be sent:

All entries MUST be a .doc file
Title, Author’s Name, Word Count, and Author’s Email must be on the first page
The story should be single-spaced.

Where to send it:

Send all submissions via email to RhonnyReaper@yahoo.com with the subject line “Story Submission: Title of story”

When to send it by:

Deadline for submission is Halloween (October 31st, 2010) We will take all entries and choose the best of the bunch for publication!

Submissions are open to EVERYONE and I hope that if you’ve always wanted to write a great horror story, you’ll take this opportunity to get your hands bloody and do it for a great cause! If you have ANY questions at all, Email me at RhonnyReaper@yahoo.com or head over to the projects official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhonny-Reapers-Creature-Features-Anthology/144019588963553

[via: Dollar Bin Horror.]