It's been an interesting month here at Girls and Corpses Magazine. I was invited to speak at Mensa and appear on the Jerry Springer show in the same week. I chose the former and not the latter. My reason I gave the Jerry Springer Show (for gracefully declining) is –- I have all my teeth.

But I figured Mensa was worth doing. I mean Girls and Corpses and Mensa – who could pass that up? So, I took the drive to Orange County and met up with G&C staff writer Hollie Stevens (star of Clown Porn). I figured that would shake up the Mensa cerebellums.

When I first entered and saw the "geniuses" sitting at card tables at The Holiday Inn, I asked one jokingly if they arranged the card tables by I.Q. The Mensuariun stared back and said, "We don't talk about our I.Q's here." That pretty much summed up the weekend.

We were slotted to speak in the "adult hour," following a Greek Orthodox Priest. No joke. Then, to make the evening even more surreal, Hollie screened her hardcore comedy "Clown Porn." For MENSA! The room was packed as they watched Hollie suck and screw clowns -- as a rubber chicken occasionally popped up in frame.

The following morning, as we sat listening to Sheriff Carona speak to Mensa, he referenced Clown Porn several times, so much so that Hollie and I presented the Sheriff with his very own copy of Clown Porn and a lifetime subscription to Girl and Corpses Magazine. Well, he is also the Coroner of Orange County.

Anyhow, corpse fans, this is our 11th reeking issue of G&C. This month we head outdoors for some hiking, mountain climbing and of corpse, camping. I never camped much as a kid. My father was not the 'outdoorsy type.' Camping pretty much meant lying in our backyard with a beer. I went camping once with my girlfriend and when we got lost in the mountains, in the snow. Then, I realized I had left the tent stakes at home, so wound up hanging the tent from a tree and shivering all night. So, I'm not much of an outdoorsman, either.

But what really is camping nowadays? All we do is drive a RV up to some campground, drag out some bags of Cheetos, a portable TV's and inflatable sleeping cushions? Where the adventure in that? Whatever happened to fried baloney, baked beans and farting around the campfire?

Recently, I suffered a power outage for three days at my masoleum... on the same day it was 120 degrees. It was of the hottest days on record in L.A. and the tree in front of my pad split in half. It was miserable, Africa, monkey hot. I started to realize what life would be like without the conveniences of say... electricity, as I chased a power company truck down the street waving a fifty-dollar bill. It made me reconsider those poor New Orleans and Mississippi folks after Katrina hit, who lost their power not just for days but months! Now that's camping. Instantaneous, insurmountable, no time for packing the essentials... survival camping.

You won't find much to help you survive the wilderness in this issue of Girls and Corpses Magazine. But we do feature the lovely Tiffany Shepis, no stranger to horror with over fifty films under her belt. Tiffany stars in Abominable, out this month on DVD. We also interviewed the director, Ryan Schifrin, who was kind enough to bring the actual monster from Abomidible to our corpse shoot. Sasquatch got a bit frisky, as you will see in Tiffany's sizzling pictorial.

Also, gracing this issue is writer/director/actor/producer Mick Garris, Executive Producer of Master of Horror series. And we have legendary Chinese director Po-Chi Leong, who reviews five extreme Asian horror films from Tartan Video. Plus star Hollie Stevens also show us how to pitch a tent and you'll meet the biggest Dicks in Hollywood.

So, cuddle up with your corpse... and your laptop... by the campfire. Roast a couple eyeballs on the end of a hangar... and enjoy this issue of Girls and Corpses magazine.

We've only just begun to summit the Mountain of Corpses.

RIP,

The Grin Creeper

R.S. Rhine

Robert Steven Rhine

Publisher / Deaditor-in-Chief
Girls and Corpses Magazine

www.robertrhine.com

©2006 (reprinted only with permission of author)