zombies
Was looking for the perfect image to celebrate New Years and found The Zombie's First Love by Justin Reed. I'd come across a few images that had potential, but they were all disqualified because the bloggers didn't post who the artist was. Not only were the images not sourced, but when I tried to track down a specific illustration that is common around the net, I saw that it was being sold on zazzle (or another made-on-demand site) on merchandise by someone who obviously wasn't the artist (there were a number of images, all different styles, being sold).
Fa la la la la, la la la brains.
I've just finished my first batch of Zombie Wreaths. I've never sculpted a zombie head before, and may I say it's very fun to do.
I'm still figuring out exactly how I'd like them painted, but I'm pleased with it. I had no idea what my style of zombie heads would look like. I was concerned they might be too cartoonish, and I didn't want them too gory either (though I couldn't resist making a few with their brains visible).
This set (pictured below) will be coming with me to the show tonight. I've also made some zombie severed hands and feet, but I haven't figured out exactly what I want to do with them yet.
Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for a day. Give a man a corpse, you can feed him and put some cash in his pocket.
I joke, but the following story is gruesome and unnerving. Yetch brought it to my attention this weekend, and I've been haunted by it ever since.
In the city of Perm outside of Moscow, three homeless men were arrested after dismembered parts of a 25-year-old man were found near a bus stop.
The men - all with criminal records - attacked the young man with a hammer and knives. How does this story get worse? Here's the statement from the prosecutor's main investigative unit for the Perm region:
After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies.
No one can confirm if the human flesh was actually served to customers.
Question: what kind of food establishment buys mystery meat from homeless men? In all the sources I've found about this story, not one mentions whether or not the kebab shop has been shut down or even fined.
I've been toying with Christmas project ideas. To get into the spirit, I decided to start with transforming some little wooden nutcracker soldiers to reflect a darker side.
Who knew the zombie apocalypse would spread via a pizza delivery guy?
This is just one of the thousands of factoids you'll find in Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead.
It's bad enough that you've been infected. Worse still is your lack of direction. You don't have any friends to turn to for an open, calm dialogue about what you can expect in the hours to come. Don't despair.
Zombies for Zombies is a motivational guide designed specifically to make a profound difference in your accidental, strange new life. You say you don't want to become another one of those ghastly creatures you see on the news out in the Tempe Containment Zone? You don't have to - if you follow the great advice inside...
Yetch and I headed down to the CBC building. One of the things I love about living in this city is one minute I'm at my desk, the next I'm in a studio audience waiting to see one of my favourite film makers.
There were a few undead mingling with the living (including the woman responsible for starting the Toronto Zombie Walk. She happened to be looking over as I snapped a picture of the sign). Dead or alive, everyone was excited.
I missed the big celebration on Saturday where Torontonians came out by the hundreds, dressed as zombies, to celebrate Romero's new film Survival of the Dead (see Fangoria's review) and his choice to become a Canadian citizen.
You can peruse some great photos of the event on torontoist.com. It looks like everyone had a good time, regardless of some of the more negative reviews of the movie itself (like this one from latimesblogs.latimes.com which is where I borrowed the image above from).
But don't cry for me, little Ghoulies. I have two tickets to be part of a studio audience and see Mr. Romero interviewed on CBC's The Hour today. Will report back with any goodies.
How can you resist Zombie a Go-GO? And please note the little shout out to all the zombies in Toronto on the tv screen at the 35 second point.
After my washing machine disaster, I've been left with fewer clothes. What better time to get some ZOMBIE! shirts?
The package arrived yesterday. I was expecting to open the box and find a hoodie. I was speechless at the surprises inside.
You may recall the post about Eric's battle against Rob Zombie's lawyers, and how Rob Zombie himself had kindly contacted Eric to say everything was cool. Well, Eric has shown overwhelming generosity in a gesture of thanks to me by including a truckload of ZOMBIE! merchandise in addition to the hoodie.
Four rockin' t-shirts, a baseball hat, cd of music, a rubber spider and candy in the shape of severed digits.
And yes, that's actually me in the hoodie. I don't post pictures of myself usually, even partial shots like this one. I like my anonymity but thought I should make an exception to say thanks to Eric.
We're always complaining that Christmas items are for sale before Halloween is even over. Perhaps we won't be so annoyed by the October book release of It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Zombies: the Book of Zombie Christmas Carols written by Michael P. Spradling and illustrated by Jeff Weigel.
With a reported 24 songs getting infected with a zombie spin, this could either be really amusing, or painstakingly lame:
Tiny tots' eyes are no longer aglow - they're in a bowl. And Mommy's not kissing Santa under the mistletoe - she's chewing his face. Nobody - not Rudolph, Old Saint Nick, or even those three Wise Guys who travelled afar - is spared when the undead come knocking.
What the minions say: