Welcome to lostinjersey

Longtime readers know that my old site didn’t look that great and suffered from a lot of bad links and broken photos. I have now moved my site here and it is now blog based to make for easier interaction. I have rewritten a lot of the material and updated it as warranted. I have made every effort to make sure that all links work and all photos appear. if any of them don’t, please contact me. I have posted all emails that I received previously as comments on the appropriate page, and appreciate all comments and feedback left by you, the reader. I have 3 years of updates to add to the site. I kind of fell off the map once I bought my house, but I will be back out exploring and posting new material as often as possible.

If you’d like, you can friend me on the following sites…

Facebook: under the name Lostin Jersey. Note that’s two seperate words
Livejournal: lostinjersey all one word
Myspace: lostinjersey all one word

need something notarized? I can help

More accurately, my wife can help. She is a licensed notary (and if you are in real estate, she’s a closer and a licensed title producer too). My wife primarily works in northern jersey, so if you need something notarized, check out her webpage, and you’ll find her contact info there.

I won 1st runner up in the Asbury park Halloween parade

My costume was homemade, I went as a suicidal president of the NY Mets fan club. I mean seriously, 2 last second scollapses and then this year we’re eliminated in early September? All that money for what? I’d kill myself if I were the president. I got a lot of thumbs up and smiles from folks. Wanna see? then go check out the
Flickr pix and step by step details of how I did the makeup and made noose.

See the low budget zombie movie Colin: its your last chance!

The low budget zombie flick Colin, reportedly made for less then $50 had a very limited release in the states earlier this year, and has come and gone. But there’s still one last chance to see it! it will be playing today at 6pm at the showroom in Asbury Park, which will be followed right afterwards by the Asbury park Halloween parade. naturally there will be a zombie contingent.

directions to the showroom can be found here.

My photographs are getting more exposure

I recently was contacted by Slam Magazine, a German music magazine. They want my pic of Joey Ramone’s grave. I also had a pic of the SOL used by Schmapp.com. In addition I was recently contacted by an art magazine to use a photo of the cars covered in concrete (now dismantled) for an article on the artist who created it.

I really need to get my photos out there in a way that interested parties can find them. So far I have not been paid, only given credit as the photographer. That’s fine for now, but it would be nice if I could actually get paid….

NJ Zombiewalk 10/09

1500 people?!?! Are you freaking kidding me? The ZW was 10x better then last year. You know you’re reaching critical mass with an event like this when you the costume get more inventive and more funny.

Here are a few of my favorite outfits.

zipper face

man and his pet zombie, Harry

I found Waldo…

Gold digger

scariest guy at the walk

Zom-bee

Phone guy

Best screamer there

not quite dead yet

The priest and the nun

ME!

You also know you’ve getting somewhere when the participants aren’t just the typical fans of the genre. We saw lots of kids and lots of families out there. Most of the kids were cute, and some were creepy (that’s a compliment).

There was rain threatening all day but it only sprinkled maybe 15 minutes mid day. otherwise the weather was overcast and cool, perfect fall weather. I decided I wanted a picture of zombies rushing the bloodmobile so in groups of 2s and 3s I invite everyone who was already made up. I went to the hotel across the street and they graciously let me thru one of the rooms to the 3rd floor balcony where I documented it. Then, unexpectedly the zombies saw us and rushed us, but we were safe on the 3rd floor. All we needed was “an alive inside” sign to hang off the balcony. (mental note, must do that next year)

All the photos are here

Feeding Harry

While at the NJ Zombiewalk 2 weeks ago I ran into a man with a zombie on a leash. Turns out they had made a short movie, which is on youtube in 3 parts. I discussed the movie w/them and had a nice conversation and he gave me a copy of the movie on dvd. Haven’t watched it yet but basically it’s about a man who has a pet zombie. Got a few pics of Harry before he broke free from his owner and attacked me.

All my photos of the ZW are up on flickr already, but here’s the shots I have of Harry.

I should also mention that there is is a screening of the film at the Loop Lounge in Passaic on 10/22 at 10pm. The movie will also be shown at the Village East Cinema at 10PM on 10/29, at the NY International Film Fest. http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/

6 mos, 62K visitors

Thanks to everyone for making this site so popular, I’m avg’g over 10,000 hits a month. For reference, Cheetos.com gets about 16,000 hits a month.

and to think I haven’t even finished moving over all the old material, or posting all the new material that I never had a chance to post to the old site!

jaguars just over the NY border?

Big cat sitings in Palisades NY? Really? And not cougar or bobcat, we’re talking Jaguar or black panther, those sleek sexy big black cats. Odds are it’s mis-identification since those cats do not live anywhere but south american and asia, still….

I found by watching this weeks episode of Monsterquest.

followup to the mathmaticians research on zombies

This article examines how different political viewpoints would affect a nations response to a zombie crisis. Short, but fascinating, and a reminder of how freaking good World War Z was. Can’t wait for the movie.

Basically we’re all screwed….

…. if a zombie outbreak ever does occur, we are all eventually screwed, according to an actual research paper done by Canadian mathemeticians…

Wow. If I were a mathmetician or an infectious disease researcher, this SO sounds like something I would try to calculate. In the soon to be published book called Infectious Disease Modeling Research progress, the spread of infectious diseases is examined mathmatically, and how dozens of factors (such as geography, the quality and availability of medicine, quarantine procedures, etc) will affect it’s spread and it’s severity.

As briefly sumamrized here there is a subsection of the book which examines what would happen if a zombie uprising occurred. And they treated it very seriously and examined it from a scientific POV. They were worried less with the reason why a zombie uprising would happen (or how the fuck zombies could even survive, since it goes against everything we know about biology and life) but merely says “If zombies were real, how would the disease (as it were) spread, and what steps would need to be taken to fight off such a “disease”

And the results… well they’re rather unsurpising. As anyone who’s ever seen a zombie movie knows, the heroes never really survive in the end. And if they do, they die in the sequel. “If the timescale of the outbreak increases, then the result is the doomsday scenario: an outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilization, with every human infected, or dead,” they wrote. “This is because human births and deaths will provide the undead with a limitless supply of new bodies to infect, resurrect and convert.”

If you want to read the entire zombie chapter, it can be found here, and it’s as fascinating as it sounds. I still can’t get over how freaking serious they take the subject matter. As if zombies could ever actually happen IRL…

…yeesh

As if…

//locks doors and reads article for advice

from the “why has no one ever done this before” folder….

Zombies and Star Wars together at last.