ZOMBIES!!!

Okay, I'm back, and mostly recovered from yesterday's 5-hour marathon running battle with the zombie horde that stood between me and the escape helicopter.

I highly recommend Zombies!!!, the board game by Twilight Creations, Inc. It's a cutthroat survival game in which you readily sacrifice friends and family to flesh-starved zombies in order to save your own ass, and it was obviously created by designers and artists who share my deep abiding love for zombie movies. Check out cards like Why Won't You Die? and expansions like Zombie 4: The End.

A great way to round out an evening devoted to watching DVDs with the words "of the Dead" in the title, just herd your (un)deadbeat friends from the couch to the kitchen table and remind everyone to aim for the head.