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Kalamazoo County Department of Zombie Removal
Emily Midling isn’t an ordinary woman. She owns a beat up ford explorer and she enjoys zombies movies so on a lark, she decided to detail her car, notifying all passerbys that she is an official member of the Kalamazoo Country Department of Zombie Removal. Now, whether this department survives the next round of budget cuts is yet to be determined, but one thing is for sure, it is pure awesome. The thing I did enjoy about reading this article was the picture. Looking at it from a distance, my first thought was that she is holding a break action double barreled shotgun. It was when I was resizing the photo did I notice she is actually pumping gas. Granted, I’m going on four hours sleep … Read entire article »
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You, Me & Zombies
Hello Zombie Fans, Ben here with my first post. Before I get into posting Zombie news I was interested in knowing what type of Zombie stuff you’re interested in. Are you more into Zombie movies, video games, comics, novels, etc? If I know what you’re interested in I might post more news about it. As Brian mentioned my preference is video games. Zombies Ate My Neighbors was probably my first experience with Zombies in video games. Not a scary game, but was fun back in the day. Below is a Wikipedia list of other Zombie games. I’ll be back later armed with Zombie video games news. Zombie games (Wikipedia.org <- new window) … Read entire article »
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Will Digg Soon Become a Zombie Website?
I don’t know if any of you are following the epic car crash currently in progress over at Digg, but I gotta say, it’s text book lesson on how to shoot yourself in the head. Web 2.0 style. If you are new to the entire disaster, let me give you a recap. Last week, Digg decided to roll out version 4 of their submission platform. From what I understand, the goal of the software was to even out the submission process since the old version tended to favor the hard core users. The update also changed the user interface, reworked the comment system, and it appears to have touched ever bit of the site. I don’t know too much of the specifics. I just know … Read entire article »
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Julia Child and the Zombie Apocalypse
Last night, my wife and I ended the evening watching the movie, Julie and Julia. If you haven’t seen it, give it a look over. It combines the story of a frustrated writer with the story of a frustrated housewife (soon to be cooking legend) and tells the story of how two women separated by half a century commune with one another. Well, sort of. It got me to thinking about zombies (what doesn’t get me thinking about zombies) for when the zombies do start to outnumber the living and our friends and neighbors start being consumed by the dozen, cooking, believe it or not, is going to be a very important part of life. Once the dead start accumulating in serious numbers, the whole … Read entire article »
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Step Right Up and Give a Zombie a Punch
Believe it or not, this seemingly alien autopsy giving device is actually a pretty common thing that can be found in houses everywhere. This thing is also a terror to the undead who roam our streets, looking for tasty brains although you won’t find it on our Weapons Madness bracket. I found this image over at Digg and I would have posted it to the front page, but it’s a little brutal. I’m not a big fan of heading over to zombie sites in walking into a wall of gore, so I like to extend the same courtesy to my readers. Check it out and enjoy! Picture of the Day (thechive.com … Read entire article »
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What Would You Do? – Day Eight: Shopping Spree
It’s been awhile since we’ve last seen this segment, but like our undead friends, it won’t stay down no matter how many bullets you shoot into it (headshots excluded). In our last episode, you raced into a pharmacy whose employees were somewhat aloof with the coming apocalypse. With zombies on your footsteps, that apathy was sure to change, here’s what a few people decided to do. … Read entire article »
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Cheerleading Zombies Invading the Stage This Weekend
If you happen to live in the Boston area and you feel like catching a musical featuring mutated zombie cheerleaders, toxic hot dogs, and all the pom-poms you can shake a stick at, the North Shore Players is preforming a musical titled, Pom-Pom Zombies this weekend. What’s it about? From the article: Storyline: It’s the 1960s and school is out for the summer. With the gang all beach-bound and gathering at popular hangout Barnacle Betty’s, head cheerleader, Cindy Sue eats a hot dog mistakenly slathered with nuclear slime resembling pickle relish. The toxic condiment, scooped from an unmarked bucket being stored in the back room, had been brought over from the evil Ivana Ratnik’s nuclear power plant next door. If not outlandish enough, anyone Cindy Sue touches turns into … Read entire article »
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Cuisine Week at The Zed Word
When popular zombie blog The Zed Week celebrates an event known as Cuisine Week, you can sure as hell bet that it is going to be interesting. I can tell you straight-out that your favorite foods will definitely not be on the menu. In fact, there is only one item to be served. And that’s you. Very rare and very bloody. Tartare to the extreme. So what is happening over at the Zed Word? Straight from the zombie’s mouth: … Read entire article »
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What Would You Do? – Day Seven: The Siege
Things are getting interesting with our little anecdote about the end of society. I’ve been enjoying the various different responses as I have appreciated how people have approached this little imaginative exercise with their real abilities in mind. The difference between a Hollywood zombie killer and a real one is the actual act in killing. Sure, the zombie is already dead, but the person before the pulled trigger could turn out very different from the person after the pulled trigger. Granted, in time, we all adapt. The real question is … could you look at yourself in the mirror after the fact? I remember a long time ago watching Lord of the Rings. I remember seeing Aaragorn dicing orcs left and right, chopping off arms … Read entire article »
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Nazi Zombies Must Die!!!
For those of you who just happen to love guns (and maybe own a couple) and feel the need to hone your skills before the upcoming zombie apocalypse, you might want to check out this out. In short, some enterprising company is cashing in on the current zombie craze and of course, the rise of the infamous nazi zombie. Here’s what we got: Thanks to the folks at Zombie Ammo, gun range enthusiasts and policemen can now empty the skulls of the walking dead wearing Nazi uniforms, as we’ve been doing in Call of Duty: World At War for close to a year now. Zombie Ammo and their distributor Law Enforcement Targets have been selling the “Hans” and “Frans” zombie target to the Nazi-killing crowd for a few months … Read entire article »
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Lifesize Michael Myers
Feed Me Brains posted a pretty wild article some time back, discussing a life sized Michael Myers that if you found in your house, you’d would probably stick your head in a garbage disposal and grind away. This is one tough looking hombre with bloody butcher’s knife held firm in a pasty white hand. While not sharing the same magnetism that makes Jason Vorhees the ladies man, Michael is more of the Energizer Bunny of serial killers. Plus, I enjoy his theme music. If I were on a babysitting gig and the music kicked into high gear, sure I’d be a little disappointed about leaving this world, but I wouldn’t have any complaints about the tune. About the prop itself: … Read entire article »
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What Would You Do? – Day Six: Escape
It’s been some time since we last visited our makeshift zombie apocalypse. Truthfully, I would have crafted more in the past week but a nasty cold (yes, another one) pretty much sucked all my creative juices out of me. But let us not think of snot rags and hacking coughs and return to our imaginary world where the dead has started to make an appearance. I loved Anna’s response to the question. She was straight to the point. … Read entire article »
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Night of the Livng Dead … On Stage
Here’s a older story that managed to slip through hyper sensitive zombie news net (by hyper sensitive, I should say, as thick as granite blocks). Back in 2008, a theater group decided to put on a rendition of our oldie but goodie Night of the Living Dead. From the description, it sounded like a real performance for the books. Here’s a quick snippet from the article: Is this live version of the cult-classic George Romero horror flick gory, grisly and ghoulish enough? Does it match the 1968 movie it’s based on as an “unrelieved orgy of sadism” (as one aghast critic put it)? Perhaps not, but as tongue-in-cheek romps about flesh-gobbling monsters go, “Night of the Living Dead” is plenty yucky. It’s also pure escapist fun — for any … Read entire article »
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What Would You Do? – Day Five: Are Those Dead People?
Wow. I must say I’m impressed by the depth of discussion that these questions have been creating. RyanWalk gave a great response for his preparations, making me wonder if he might have survived a few other zombie apocalypses. The big question … is bunkering down in your house a wise strategy to pursue in any apocalypse? Would it be safer to find fortifiable position in a rural area? In any case, here is what Ryan had to say: … Read entire article »
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What Would You Do? – Day Four: Out of the Frying Pan …
This is turning into a rather fun exercise. I must say, I’m enjoying the wide variety of answers, but the trophy must go to Nicole for her rather thoughtful albeit scary response to the question. Why scary? She mentioned watching her children while taking care of her husband. Outside of the excellent short film Chemical 12D, there hasn’t been a whole lot of thought about kids during a zombie apocalypse. Here’s what she had to say: … Read entire article »
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