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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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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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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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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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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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Creepy Dolls
Growing up, my mother loved to collect porcelain dolls. Our house was filled with them which made for a very obvious result during an epic pillow fight one Christmas morning. When I was a freshman in college, I managed to come into an unexpected landfall of money so I decided to buy my mother figurine for Christmas. I was naive in the world of porcelain so I made the mistake of asking a salesman. I should have just washed myself in blood and threw myself in the shark tank. A few hundred dollars shorter, I left with a small polar bear playing with a ball that in retrospect, looked like a twenty five dollar item with a hundred and seventy dollar dumb college student tax. … Read entire article »
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Werewolves Reloaded
If you’ve been paying attention to your movie monsters this past decade, you will have noticed that zombies won *big* in the last ten years while vampires took a hard nose dive. Why did zombies get the gold? Max Brooks argues that they returned to fashion because of national anxiety of two wars and terrorism. I respectfully disagree. I think the last ten years brought torture porn to the table with movies like Hostel and the like. I can’t really answer that question about the undead other than I like zombies and apocalyptic scenarios. So what about the werewolf genre? By all accounts it has been dead for years. We’ve seen twitches from the Underworld series, but I’d argue those movies were really about … Read entire article »
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Zombie Booger Gun
Conventional wisdom states that if a whole lot of zombies come shambling in your direction, you should take them out with a good old fashioned repeating rifle. Preferably one with a full automatic setting. Thankfully, living in an enlightened age, we have other options such as a booger gun. Posted on zombie weapon site ZPrepared, the booger gun shoots out a boatload of sticky foam which could be used to not only knock over the offending zed, but also stick him to the ground. Believe it or not, this an actual device that makes people look like they got mother of all breast implants or spent the day at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. … Read entire article »
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Zombie Coloring Book
Here’s a hot little item that has been floating around the zombie blog’osphere today. Have you ever wanted to introduce children to the flesh eating masses of zombies but didn’t want to fund the college education of some future psychiatrist’s children? Instead of plopping your nine year old in front of Dead Alive, you can just as easily purchase a zombie coloring book. That’s right. A zombie coloring book designed for ages 1 to 99. The pictures are well drawn and from the example on the site, they don’t appear to be too graphic. Sure, there’s one zombie relaxing while enjoying a good severed leg, but you can tell the kids that it is really just a big piece of tofu that happens to be leg … Read entire article »
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Rue Morgue Magazine’s Exclusive Snaps from Body World
In what has to be the most ironic blog posting of the new decade – a fact that seems to have whoosed over the heads of brave men and women at the Rue Morgue Magazine – an exclusive collection of images has been posted for the upcoming exhibition of Body World. Body World? What the hell is Body World? Believe it or not, but it was briefly shown in the movie Casino Royale. Here’s a description from Wikipedia: Body Worlds (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. … Read entire article »
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