I'm sick, slept terribly and feel like crap. I'd better be feeling human by tomorrow, I'll be damned if I'm missing MacWorld.

Christina bought me "World War Z" for xmas, it's freaking amazing, best thing I've read in ages. Go get it and read it, if not for the subject matter (zombies) then for the way it's put together, A series of short interview style segments, it's amazingly built, each interview gives a glimpse on the reality of a zombie plague, really well done.

It reminded me of a project I started and never finished (yeah another one) that some of you may know of, "Redefining Southern California". I came up with the idea while trying to (and doing a pretty poor job I might add) analogize the situation in ireland with a hypothetical here in California. The premise was that a group of Mexican nationals, living in Mexico had decided to form a paramilitary group called the Frente de Liberacion Unidad (or something along those lines) and were demanding that southern California be returned to Mexico to become part of the nation it was stolen from. I was going to flesh the project out as an ongoing thing, updated with news articles, sound bites from construed radio shows and even constructed news segments, the idea being that it would be a multimedia news archive, chronicling what you might see if you gathered a few years worth of news clippings and stories about a series of events and tried to distill an entire movement and shift in social end cultural ideas into a single statment. I had intended to revisit the scenario from multiple angles, news storeis from north and south of the border, and I still have the original story plot outline somewhere, maybe I'll revisit it, I think the idea of a multimedia experience for it might not work, but reading "World War Z" makes me think it could be divided into three distinct segments, a written, and audio and a film element, each standing alone, but each offering a different view of the whole, with overlapping information and storylines but each with their own identity.

Maybe I'll do some more work on that, reading this book has certainly made me see how I might put it together.