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Voting is underway until tomorrow night at midnight for The 4th Annual Shorty Awards, which is “a worldwide effort to engage hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to identify the best people and organizations on social media.”

So I’m gonna pitch the case to y’all that in my opinion, Addy Miller deserves to win a Shorty. Because she’s an incredibly talented young actress who is also immensely sweet and nice in real life, and she always takes time to interact with her growing number of fans.

In case you forgot who Addy is, here’s a reminder…

Yup, she’s the “little girl zombie” that Rick Grimes shot down in the very first scene of the very first episode of AMC’s megahit series The Walking Dead. And word is that she’s gotten involved in a bunch more great projects since then!

Here’s a pic from a few months ago, when ...

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…’cuz I need to blog about something! 😛

It was an action-packed weekend for your intrepid blogger, dear readers. From the Valentine’s party at Kristen’s dance studio, then going to the Love For Life Conference at Thomas Road Baptist Church (we got to see Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, AKA the parents of those nineteen kids and counting!) and then yesterday culminating in the mid-season return of The Walking Dead on AMC, I’ve been a busy dude.

So about “Nebraska”, the first episode we got since November 27th’s chapter that ended in Barnmageddon…

“Nebraska” began moments after that hella shocker of the previous episode, and was for all intents and purposes a “cleanup operation” of its aftermath. To be honest, not much happened until the very tail end of this one, and I’m wondering if this episode would have been a better one to go into the hiatus with: ...

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I didn’t dare watch it until I went over to my girlfriend’s place, ‘cuz I’ve gotten her hooked onto this show and we’ve taken to enjoying it together. And since she was out of town when “Pretty Much Dead Already” – the last new episode until February – aired on Sunday night, we both held off on catching it until we could hook up again.

So now that I’ve finally seen it, let me reiterate what I’ve said all since last night about The Walking Dead‘s mid-season finale…

JEEBUS CRIPES CRISPIES WITH MILK!!!!!!

Awright, I’ll admit that I am not a routine television viewer but even so: if this episode didn’t firmly establish The Walking Dead as THE finest show currently being broadcast, then I can’t possibly imagine what could be.

The whole heapin’ episode was some of the finest television ever scripted and shot. Again, I have to ...

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Y’know, I grew up on a farm. Saw a lot of sicko stuff, like that time the vet came to work on one of Dad’s cows. He made an incision in its side and for some reason, Dad had to stick his arm into it, right up to his elbow, to do something with its stomach. One of its stomachs anyway, ‘cuz a cow has four, but anyhoo…

NOTHING I saw living and working on that farm however, compared to what the kindly good Christian veterinarian Hershel Green was found keeping in his barn on tonight’s The Walking Dead.

“Chupacabra” was one whacked episode, extra-trippy. We got a glimpse of the early days of the zombie apocalypse with that very cool shot of Shane and Lori watching from afar as the United States military opens fire with missiles and napalm on downtown Atlanta. Stuff like that just leaves me ...

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For the record, that was the MOST intense scene that I have personally witnessed from any television drama. If you saw it then you know what I’m talking about even if I don’t say it: the walker down the well at Hershel’s farm and how the gang uses Glenn as, ummm… bait.

No kidding: I was screaming HARD and grabbing the sides of my head during that part. Kristen was hollerin’ loud too! That was definitely one of the best filmed and edited sequences that I’ve seen in a very long time.

The Walking Dead has been consistently raising the bar with each passing week and tonight’s episode, “Cherokee Rose”, upped the ante across the board. Especially watching Shane wrestle with the internalized anguish of the choice he made at the high school in the previous episode. That and the interaction between Rick and Hershel: a character who I am ...

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Just over a year ago AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead premiered. And in its very first minutes it introduced us to what has since become one of television’s most iconic images of horror ever…

The “little girl zombie” that Rick Grimes comes across during his early traipsing across a post-apocalyptic Georgia. A few months ago when the Blu-ray set came out I wrote about how disturbing it was to see that this sweet innocent cherub-turned-flesheater had a mouthful of braces.

Well, this past weekend at Woods of Terror north of Greensboro, we got to meet this young actress! Her name is Addy Miller and in addition to The Walking Dead she’s already notched up quite an acting resume already. She’ll soon be appearing in Plan 9 (a remake of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space) and will also be in next year’s The Three Stooges biopic....

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AMC’s The Walking Dead has been firing on all cylinders from the first episode last year. This week’s installment finally brought the story to Hershel’s Farm: a place I’d been eager to see realized since I first began checking out the graphic novels.

Okay, watching it with the girlfriend last night, we had to shuffle the DVR back a couple o’ times: when Daryl nonchalantly tells the walker to “Shut up” before coolly putting a crossbow arrow through its brain, and then the scene where Hershel tells Lori that he’s a vet… as in, animal doctor and not a combat medic (the look in her eyes in that scene alone oughtta give Sarah Wayne Callies a best actress nomination at the Emmies).

Watching the episode again this afternoon, post the initial shock of yesterday evening’s viewing, I gotta say: anyone else seeing a definite “faith versus hopelessness” vibe already in ...

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When its first season aired this past fall I didn’t write anything about AMC’s mega-hit series The Walking Dead. Heck, I wasn’t writing about much of anything at the time. But I had heard only good things about the show (adapted from the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel series of the same name) and tuned in to watch the premiere episode.

And like so many others, I got hooked on The Walking Dead.

This is not a story about a zombie apocalypse. Personally, I’m sick and TIRED of the whole “zombie genre”. It’s been done too much in recent years. Now I loved the movie Zombieland, because in my mind that was more of a comedy with some legitimate undertones of human drama. I can watch that movie a dozen times and not get bored with it.

And that’s how I am with The Walking Dead. ...

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