After nearly 40 days on the road, we’re home, sick, and running on fumes, which makes this Halloween-week check-in feel more undead than usual. We start with the zombie updates: Resident Evil, an upcoming conversation about Black Zombie and the cultural history behind zombie myths, and a future look at Colony from the filmmakers who made Train to Busan. We talk about writing. Drafting Dan's first book was fast, but editing is the real monster. We talk about beta reader feedback, why we’d rather go slow than ship something half-cooked.

Then we answer the question nobody asked: could you survive a zombie apocalypse inside a Staples? We weigh the bathrooms, snacks, batteries, and comfy chairs against ring binders as forearm armor and that terrifying paper cutter thingy. Is this a bad idea, or did we just hit the easy button?

Relevant Links

• Resident Evil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_(2026_film)
• Dead of Winter (board game): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150376/dead-of-winter-a-crossroads-game

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